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Michael Knowles: Bernie Sanders finally learns the cost of socialism – And now he's paying the price
Fox News ^ | 23 July 2019 | Michael Knowles

Posted on 07/23/2019 9:57:08 AM PDT by Steely Tom

It is a testament to Sen. Bernie Sanders’s political impotence that he managed to perdure nearly four decades in office before experiencing the costly consequences of his own inchoate ideology. But Bernie’s blissful ignorance faded in May when the campaign staffers who peddle his proposal for a $15 minimum wage asked the socialist millionaire to put his money where his mouth is.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: sanders; sandersaides; sandersstaffers; socialism
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Fox must be excerpted.

Good column, worth reading. Not sure what "perdure" means.

1 posted on 07/23/2019 9:57:08 AM PDT by Steely Tom
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To: Steely Tom
per·dure /pərˈd(y)o͝or/ Learn to pronounce verbFORMAL•US remain in existence throughout a substantial period of time; endure. "bell music has perdured in Venice throughout five centuries"
2 posted on 07/23/2019 9:59:26 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: Unassuaged

Thanks. I thought it was some sort of typo for “endure,” and I guess I was accidentally close.


3 posted on 07/23/2019 10:01:18 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Unassuaged

Why not say “endure”?


4 posted on 07/23/2019 10:01:52 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: Steely Tom

So reduced hours to start and when will the cut backs begin? Don’t you love when their plans fall apart?


5 posted on 07/23/2019 10:02:04 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Steely Tom

Poor Bernie, he is finally figuring out how much socialism costs.


6 posted on 07/23/2019 10:02:15 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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To: Steely Tom

All the other Democrat clowns believe in the same things he does. He still has a sizable following so I won’t count him out just yet.


7 posted on 07/23/2019 10:06:11 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Steely Tom

I was going to make a chicken joke, but thought I better look it up first.


8 posted on 07/23/2019 10:07:03 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
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To: Steely Tom

I think the Post had an article on the subject too.

His staffers are unionized and complain about not being able to live on a full-time job paying $15/hour.

The staffers are also complaining about uncompensated overtime.

Brian Griffin is very happy about all the kvetching.

Leftists should have learned that having constant complaints from the workforce kills the incentive for job creation about 80 years ago.

Every politician that advocates for unionism should pay a through visit Detroit and look at the streets where the houses and factories once were.


9 posted on 07/23/2019 10:08:07 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Steely Tom

Biden, toast, Sanders, Burnt toast, Harris, toast, Buttigieg, Toast, Booker, Burnt toast, O’Rourke, Total ZERO, Gillibrand, Empty Suit, De Blasio, Scum & Verimin human being need to go on!!! Debate this week...nothing but a big joke, hardly anyone will be watching this boring crew of twisted sisters and America Haters!!!

The Democrats better hope and pray that theie their team of pure scum & vermin humanity, Nadler & Schiff come up with a Mueller gem...otherwise...no one will give one hoot relative the upcoming Democrat POTUS candidates debate!!!


10 posted on 07/23/2019 10:09:28 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Steely Tom

Bernie hasn’t learned a damn thing.

Perdure? Inchoate?

I like $5 words just as well as the next snob but if you can’t write at an 8th grade level you aren’t a journalist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d8h1lbzoHY

Couldn’t have said it better.


11 posted on 07/23/2019 10:10:09 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: Steely Tom

He might have to put more of “other people’s money” where his mouth is.

Bernie will remain a millionaire.


12 posted on 07/23/2019 10:10:53 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

“Biden, toast....”

The verbal trash of leading leftists is lapped up by their base, which is the majority in America.

Only incessant media attacks on Trump ensured his victory in 2016 by keeping many lazy leftists at home.

Ballot issues have been crafted by the left to bring out leftist voters in 2020, including a $15/hour minimum wage proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution.


13 posted on 07/23/2019 10:17:13 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: yldstrk

“Why not say “endure”?”

“Endure” hints at hardship, whereas the article was pointing out the lack of it in Sanders’ case. More importantly, obscure words like “perdure” makes some people feel superior when they use them.


14 posted on 07/23/2019 10:17:38 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-)
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To: Brian Griffin

There is no real Democrat base...period. You will all be stunned when you see how many women, Blacks, Hispanics, young folks vote for POTUS, Trump to be re-elected. Not to mention that Trump will have Billions, not Millions of dollars on hand to use effectively to slaughter the Dying, failing Democrat Party & their darling Media goons, politically...period!!!


15 posted on 07/23/2019 10:28:14 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Sequoyah101

This is weird, I looked up “inchoate” not more than a week ago from another article. Do journalists get some kind of “assigned word list” for the week?


16 posted on 07/23/2019 10:29:14 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: yldstrk

Because Bernie did not “endure”... he STAYED there with dogged resilience. Wanted to be there, as it is a power sinceure of a lifetime socialist clown, who had zero talent for anything more. Honeymoon with his partner in crime— in Moscow! Communist Moscow. Agent in place, in clear view.

Faked out a lot of people who’d like the same kind of sinecure— on steroids-— imposition of the paid Soviet State style of economy, or, more like Romania under the Ceaucescu’s.


17 posted on 07/23/2019 10:36:36 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Steely Tom

Bernie is NOT a socialist. He is a born again communist but doesn’t have the Cajones to admit it.


18 posted on 07/23/2019 10:46:06 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: Steely Tom

Not to worry. When Bernie gets elected, he will soon teach those revanchist blood-sucking wreckers of his a lesson in “people’s justice”!


19 posted on 07/23/2019 11:06:33 AM PDT by Gritty (Liberalism is the belief everyone else should be in treatment for your disorder - Glenn Reynolds)
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To: Steely Tom

Not at all; he will always extol failed socialist governments.


20 posted on 07/23/2019 12:04:47 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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