Thursday, March 05, 2020

Some Tweets from David Sirota

David Sirota is the speechwriter for candidate Bernie Sanders.



  •  26 minutes ago
    While you were on this website pretending that Bernie people are mean and "toxic" for tweeting C-Span videos, this was happening out in the actual world:
    Reporters at Bernie Sanders’s rally tonight in Phoenix witnessed multiple incidents involving protesters, including one who waved a large flag with a swastika on it. The man was immediately removed. Disturbing and scary.…
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  •  1 hour ago
    NEWS: Statement from Bernie 2020 campaign manager on Trump's comments tonight & Biden's general election vulnerabilities
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  •   Retweeted
     3 hours ago
    "Trump tonight sent a warning shot to our party: if we nominate a candidate like who's tried to cut Social Security & pushed disastrous trade deals, Trump will exploit that vulnerability to obscure his own record & win battleground states" - Bernie 2020 manager
    NEWS: Bernie 2020 campaign responds to Trump tonight spotlighting major Biden general-election vulnerabilities on Social Security and NAFTA -- vulnerabilities that Bernie does not have
    36 replies189 retweets635 likes
     
     
  •  1 hour ago
    The Washington Post reports that Joe Biden's 40-year record trying to freeze/cut Social Security is taking center stage in the final phase of the Democratic primary.
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  •  1 hour ago
    Genuinely cannot believe there are people on this website who pretend Joe Biden never suggested cutting Social Security. One of a zillion examples: "Biden suggested a gradual increase in the retirement age would help improve the Social Security system.”
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  •   Retweeted
     2 hours ago
    Seriously, someone tried to wave a fucking swastika flag at the Sanders rally tonight in Phoenix. Can we please stop talking about mean tweets? There is so much at stake at some much that matters more than our mentions.
    “The senator is aware of the flag with the swastika on it and is disturbed by it,” Sanders spokesman says. The protester was behind Sanders while he was speaking, but aides told him about it afterward.
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  •   Retweeted
     2 hours ago
    Bernie Sanders is subjected to constant anti semitism, both by Nazis who have left death threats at his campaign offices and waved swastikas at his rallies, and by pundits who compare him to a virus and to Hitler Whatever one feels about Bernie, this racist shit needs condemned
    Reporters at Bernie Sanders’s rally tonight in Phoenix witnessed multiple incidents involving protesters, including one who waved a large flag with a swastika on it. The man was immediately removed. Disturbing and scary.…
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  •   Retweeted
     3 hours ago
    Reporters at Bernie Sanders’s rally tonight in Phoenix witnessed multiple incidents involving protesters, including one who waved a large flag with a swastika on it. The man was immediately removed. Disturbing and scary. Unclear if Sen. Sanders saw the flag.
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  •   Retweeted
     4 hours ago
    Hashtag it and retweet:
    1:57
    Here's the deal, folks: is deliberately trying to erase his record from your memory. He wants you to forget about his repeated efforts to freeze/cut Social Security. Don't let him get away with it.…
    78 replies702 retweets1,385 likes
     
     
  •  3 hours ago
    He's right. Our email newsletter is never a dull moment. Subscribe at the following link -- and please retweet:
    Replying to @SethHanlon
    no way, Sirota's emails are never a dull moment
    7 replies45 retweets155 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     3 hours ago
    Sanders made a longer critique of Biden than usual at his Phoenix rally, and rolled out some new criticisms in addition to his usual comments about Biden's record on IraqWar/trade/Social Security: He went after his past support for "don't ask, don't tell" & the Hyde Amendment.
    19 replies139 retweets819 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     6 hours ago
    On the Democratic side, there's one candidate who has historically been open to Trump's line of thinking and then there's Bernie.
    0:19
    🚨 Trump says “we’ll be cutting” entitlements like Medicare and Social Security 🚨
    135 replies2,016 retweets11,750 likes
     
     
  •  3 hours ago
    Damn right
    Replying to @SethHanlon
    no way, Sirota's emails are never a dull moment
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  •   Retweeted
     3 hours ago
    If elected, what are the chances that Biden signs a bill cutting Social Security benefits for anyone?
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  •  3 hours ago
    NEWS: Bernie 2020 campaign responds to Trump tonight spotlighting major Biden general-election vulnerabilities on Social Security and NAFTA -- vulnerabilities that Bernie does not have
    65 replies631 retweets2,024 likes
     
     
  •  3 hours ago
    Quick reminder: no matter how many times you say and tweet the word "toxic," C-Span videos are not toxic.
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  •  3 hours ago
    If we're talking about "unity" let's remember: Biden undermined Democratic unity by breaking with Dems to support the GOP's Iraq War resolution, pass the GOP's bankruptcy bill, kill Dems' anti-pharma price gouging bill, pass GOP legislation to let states repeal Roe & pass NAFTA
    We need a president who will choose unity over division.
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  •   Retweeted
     4 hours ago
    Oh boy, it’s happening again
     
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  •  4 hours ago
    Here's the deal, folks: is deliberately trying to erase his record from your memory. He wants you to forget about his repeated efforts to freeze/cut Social Security. Don't let him get away with it. Take 2 minutes to watch this -- and retweet:
    692 replies7,351 retweets12,803 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     5 hours ago
    Get real, Joe. One of us has a history of not only fighting cuts to Social Security but working to expand benefits. And that’s why we are the campaign best positioned to defeat Donald Trump.
    Get real, Bernie. The only person who's going to cut Social Security if he's elected is Donald Trump. Maybe you should spend your time attacking him.
    4,008 replies17,431 retweets109,274 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     5 hours ago
    Here's the deal: Joe Biden has repeatedly advocated for cuts to Social Security. I've fought my whole career to protect and expand it.
    Here's the deal, folks: social security is on the ballot this year, and the choice couldn't be clearer: I'll protect and expand it. Donald Trump will cut it and take it away. …
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  •  5 hours ago
    Bernie Sanders has been warning of this for months — the best chance to win back Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and defeat Trump is with a nominee like Bernie who opposed NAFTA, not a nominee like Biden who backed NAFTA and to this day says he doesn’t regret it.
    As expected, Trump hits Biden on trade at the FOX town hall in Scranton, PA: “Joe Biden made a deal, NAFTA. He approved it, he was pushing it. It’s the worst trade deal ever made.”…
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  •  5 hours ago
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  •   Retweeted
     5 hours ago
    “When I argued that we should freeze federal spending, I meant Social Security as well. I meant Medicare and Medicaid. I meant veterans’ benefits. I meant every single solitary thing in the government.” -
    Here's the deal, folks: social security is on the ballot this year, and the choice couldn't be clearer: I'll protect and expand it. Donald Trump will cut it and take it away. …
    11 replies203 retweets677 likes
     
     
  •  6 hours ago
    I actually cannot believe there are accounts on this website insisting that Joe Biden never tried to freeze or cut Social Security. We really are in a post-truth world.
    106 replies1,365 retweets3,517 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     6 hours ago
    There are powerful forces trying to stop Bernie’s movement. We call on our union sisters & brothers across the country to stand up and fight. Post a video supporting Bernie w/hashtag
    23 replies327 retweets969 likes
     
     
  •  6 hours ago
    A fact you don’t like is not “toxic.” Thanks so much for attending my TED talk.
    48 replies528 retweets2,986 likes
     
     
  •  7 hours ago
    Here is Elizabeth Warren helping me launch my first book, which was about corruption
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  •   Retweeted
     7 hours ago
    I'm genuinely saddened to see dropping out. She's been an amazing candidate, and would've been a great president. At this point our choice is stark. There's only one candidate left who believes in big, structural change. I'm all in for .
    303 replies1,088 retweets7,050 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     7 hours ago
    The question in this election is simple: which side are you on? The side of Wall Street or working people?
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  •  7 hours ago
    I was working in Washington at the time. Warren was a heroic force helping lawmakers like Bernie and Paul Wellstone, who were doing everything they could to try to stop Biden’s bill.
    Biden split with Obama & other Dems to help the GOP pass a bankruptcy bill that empowered the finance industry to fleece people Bernie & tried to stop the bill. Warren called Biden a “zealous…
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  •  7 hours ago
    Biden split with Obama & other Dems to help the GOP pass a bankruptcy bill that empowered the finance industry to fleece people Bernie & tried to stop the bill. Warren called Biden a “zealous advocate on behalf of one of his biggest contributors”
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  •   Retweeted
     Mar 3
    Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Joe Biden: "No matter how many Washington insiders tell you to support him, nominating their fellow Washington insider will not meet this moment. Nominating a man who says we do not need any fundamental change in this country will not meet this moment."
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  •  8 hours ago
    If we're talking about "toxicity" on Twitter, this tweet is a perfect example of true toxicity -- indeed, denigrating and insulting a multiracial working class movement as "grievance progressivism" mimics the sneering toxicity we so often see from the right.
    The only way grievance progressivism could have prevailed was against a fractured field. And the field has unfractured with incredible speed 5/
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  •  9 hours ago
    Other than in VT, received his biggest statewide primary vote margin in Colorado, where turnout was the strongest in the nation Proud of my state & proud of Pilar Chapa, & so many others who made this happen against the odds.
    Colorado set a state record in primary turnout and leads the nation in primary turnout participation, even before our results are final. That should make every Coloradan extremely proud! …
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  •  9 hours ago
    The term “grievance progressivism” is a genuinely grotesque term to slander a multiracial, working-class movement. Truly, truly hideous on every single level.
    The only way grievance progressivism could have prevailed was against a fractured field. And the field has unfractured with incredible speed 5/
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  •   Retweeted
     12 hours ago
    There is such genuine gratitude and respect being expressed for from Sanders, his staff and his most prominent surrogates. This has been consistent through the campaign. Rail against emojis and combative supporters all you want, but pls don't erase these basic facts.
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  •  10 hours ago
    Personal note: Ive never said a critical word about Elizabeth Warren, who I’ve respected since I first got to know her when she helped launch my first book. She is an important progressive voice. If you’re mad at her critics, I havent been one, so direct your rage at someone else
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  •  10 hours ago
    We are fighting for Medicare for All, tuition free public college, an expansion of Social Security and a $15 minimum wage — an economic justice agenda supported by most Democratic Party voters. And this person is berating the agenda as “grievance progressivism.”
    The only way grievance progressivism could have prevailed was against a fractured field. And the field has unfractured with incredible speed 5/
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  •   Retweeted
     11 hours ago
    There's a whole lot to mourn with Elizabeth Warren leaving the race. In particular, Joe Biden has lost one of his fiercest, most incisive critics — her battle against his ghastly Bankruptcy Bill is and will ever be legend.
    54 replies292 retweets1,595 likes
     
     
  •   Retweeted
     12 hours ago
    You know who's just absolutely super excited about Biden now? Rich Democratic donors. They will give him "whatever it necessary" to win. Read this by and me (but honestly Bill did most of the work)
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  •  13 hours ago
    Sure, go ahead and tell me again with a straight face that there is no such thing as “the establishment”
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  •  13 hours ago
    Something to consider: has been winning younger demographics. When pundits, Dem politicos & politicians denigrate, insult & vilify our movement, they are effectively telling those young people that they are not welcome in the Democratic Party. That’s not cool.
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  •  14 hours ago
    On CNN last night, I was asked about , who I have known for many years. Here's what I said.
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  •   Retweeted
     Mar 4
    For those following 's lead and pretending that there's no such thing as "the establishment" - heres a good snapshot of what "the establishment" is, so that you can stop playacting & start being honest about the industries that are trying to buy the Democratic primary 👇
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