David Sirota: This talking point about it being OK because everyone was doing it has been repeated ad nauseum throughout the week — it’s almost as if it is being directly coordinated and liberal pundits and groups are just parroting it to suck up to power...
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2020/12/05 13:58 UTC
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David Sirota: “If you pushed for Social Security cuts the last time Congress debated the issue, it doesnt counts because Obama did too” is the most pathetic form of apologism & yet this is the talking point from liberals seeking to kiss the ass of the new administration https://t.co/xCPlqvV0e7
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2020/12/05 13:58 UTC
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David Sirota: Nobody in the political class is allowed to be held accountable for anything ever, sorry I don’t make the rules
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2020/12/05 13:57 UTC
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David Sirota: Professional liberal advocacy groups, pundits & elites in Washington are selling you out to get themselves access and fancy White House titles from the next president. It’s a pathetic display, but at least it is so blatant that there’s no denying it. https://t.co/pBY6lH7jnm
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2020/12/05 13:32 UTC
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David Sirota: Class solidarity among elites transcends party, ideology and principles — these people will stick together and sell out their own missions in order to maintain their social status. Sad but true — and it will have long term consequences.
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2020/12/05 13:32 UTC
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David Sirota: The thing we really need are union leaders defending union busters, climate groups defending fossil fuel proponents and Social Security advocacy groups defending people who pushed Social Security cuts. That’s just what we need right now to make sure nothing fundamentally changes!
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2020/12/05 13:32 UTC
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David Sirota: Things you can do and still remain in Good Standing for a Cabinet job among Beltway liberal groups: - Back the Iraq War - Bail out and not prosecute Wall St after the financial crisis - Push Social Security cuts - Push fracking amid a climate crisis https://t.co/pBY6lH7jnm
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2020/12/05 13:07 UTC
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David Sirota: Things you cannot do and remain in Good Standing among Beltway liberals: - try to stop Joe Biden from helping his credit card industry donors financially pulverize millions of working class people https://t.co/3XTstt7yfn
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2020/12/05 13:06 UTC
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David Sirota: Might be cool if Beltway liberal elites circled the wagons and defended, say, union rights or Medicare for All with the same determination and vigor as they cheerily defend a Wall Street funded think tank and its leader who pushed Social Security cuts https://t.co/pBY6lH7jnm
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2020/12/05 13:06 UTC
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David Sirota: The last promise of the neoliberal-Wall Street agenda is to privatize retirement. Now seems like a good time to remind corporatists to #PassTheBaton to the left: https://t.co/WjyY4y5n1W https://t.co/hWVOTm8zGL
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2020/12/05 12:41 UTC
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David Sirota: RT @KateAronoff: Wild how loyal some Democratic establishment types are to a losing strategy IMO
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2020/12/05 12:41 UTC
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David Sirota: Access To Means-Tested Targeted French Laundry Tax Credits For All Who Want Them
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2020/12/05 12:40 UTC
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David Sirota: Bonuses For All Bank Executives Who Want Them
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2020/12/05 12:16 UTC
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David Sirota: A Federal Jobs Guarantee For All Think Tankers
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2020/12/05 12:15 UTC
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: My comments were directed at Republicans who mock my history in service work. That includes President Trump, who you’ve stood by and defended through such attacks, by the way. But if that boorishness doesn’t apply to you, then why feel the rush to defend yourself?
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2020/12/05 12:15 UTC
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Forever telling on yourselves.
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2020/12/05 11:50 UTC
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: These Republicans who are defensively rage-tweeting “But you’re wrong! I worked my way to pay through college!!” don’t realize they sound like folks who speak of the days when Hershey bars were 5¢ at the general store.
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2020/12/05 11:49 UTC
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: College costs have exploded over the last 10-20 years & wages have not kept up. It’s a totally different landscape and the fact they’re using anecdotal experience from 20+ years ago to reinforce their opinions instead of looking at current cost/wage data is disturbing.
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2020/12/05 11:49 UTC
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: (Frankly they’ve exploded for far longer than that too)
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2020/12/05 11:25 UTC
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David Sirota: It's taken next to no time for the rationale for voting Biden - "we'll push him left" - to be completely abandoned as progressive groups, pundits & lawmakers sign off on his terrible picks. To push him left you have to, you know, actually push. https://t.co/zTGYp898dW
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2020/12/05 11:24 UTC
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David Sirota: We don't care if we are on Washington careerists' shit list. We do this reporting because it is important & needs to be done. Click here to become a supporting subscriber to help us hire more reporters: https://t.co/DtEtBDOpLf https://t.co/pBY6lH7jnm
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2020/12/05 11:24 UTC
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David Sirota: RT @pblest: The Democratic left is getting rolled by the Biden transition https://t.co/0ZghwUnxHI
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2020/12/05 10:59 UTC
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David Sirota: Trying to cut Social Security is now a prerequisite for advancement in the Democratic Party, prove me wrong
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2020/12/05 10:58 UTC
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David Sirota: Things you can do and still remain in Good Standing for a Cabinet job among Beltway liberal groups: - Back the Iraq War - Bail out and not prosecute Wall St after the financial crisis - Push Social Security cuts - Push fracking amid a climate crisis https://t.co/pBY6lH7jnm
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2020/12/05 10:58 UTC
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David Sirota: if you wrote this storyline into a movie screenplay, it would get rejected because it seems so cartoonishly corrupt — only it’s actually real https://t.co/sONN6PiXsr
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2020/12/05 10:33 UTC
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David Sirota: thinking about starting a Substack called The Shitlib where all we do is run hot takes headlined “How Dare You, Sir” that slam leftists for being mad about corporate stooges getting White House jobs
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2020/12/05 10:33 UTC
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David Sirota: It’s weird how the Vietnam War haunted American culture for 40 years and many of its proponents were shamed out of public life, while the Iraq War is treated as if it didn’t even happen and most of its proponents saw their careers advance
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2020/12/05 10:32 UTC
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David Sirota: Best part of my week was this moment when I had the vague feeling that something might actually matter after all👇
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2020/12/05 10:07 UTC
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David Sirota: RT @TracyAbell: This is huge! Please subscribe to @DailyPoster bc this reporting makes a difference!