Current Events > AOC: It's physically impossible to lift yourself up by a bootstrap

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https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen/status/1225109462815559683?s=19

rekt

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When you're right, you're right

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Maybe you're just not trying hard enough!

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The way she says joke is so hot

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"Only lazy people say that!"

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PatrickMahomes posted...

When you're right, you're right

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Oh pleeeeeeaze AOCEEEEEE.

Next you'll be telling me money doesn't trickle down from tax cuts on the rich.
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"we used a bad metaphor so all comments that say people could work harder to better their lives are invalid".

When did internet gotcha arguments become real politics?

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Well i mean she is right. The whole bootstrap thing did started off as a joke that eventually became politicized to mean working hard from the bottom up.

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She's such a moron. She'll be president one day.

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Trying to pull my bootstraps and falling over and hitting my head on the coffee table getting brain damage to own the libs.

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She's even hotter when she's shitting on other politicians

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lightwarrior78 posted...

"we used a bad metaphor so all comments that say people could work harder to better their lives are invalid".

When did internet gotcha arguments become real politics?

The irony.

"She mentionedpulling yourself by bootstraps are impossible so she must means everyone who says this is invalid"

Hairistotle posted...

were there words before and after her bootstrap statement or did she just shout "BOOTSTRAP METAPHOR IS DUMB" and sit back and cross her arms all smug

Please don't pretend you don't know why people make these kind of arguments. Unless she's purely arguing the stupidity of an idiom in which case, she should have real work to do.

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Sounds like a job for Mythbusters. After "hit the ground running", and "teaching an old dog new tricks", Wouldn't be the first time they disproved an idiom
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Then why can computers do it if it is impossible? Checkmate, AOC.
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AOC is being a mushbrain as usual.
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wait... someone actually takes "bootstraps!" seriously?

lightwarrior78 posted...

"we used a bad metaphor so all comments that say people could work harder to better their lives are invalid".

When did internet gotcha arguments become real politics?

She didn't say that at all, though. Are you being so disingenuous, or are you just incapable of basic reading comprehension?

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Who tf was confused by this?

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TIL: CE thinks "Bootstraps" is meant to be taken literally instead of meaning work hard.

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Literally the perfect woman.

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i dont even have boots

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dolomedes posted...

that's... why it's a thing.

Tbf, I've never heard it not being used as a derogatory phrase for frameworks that put the cause of poverty to the individual.

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It's amusing right wingers use it seriously. You hear it on AM radio often enough.
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Its a joke but Republicans eat that shit up its a reflection on their whole demo, theyre the states with the most food stamps, the most disability payments, the most subsidized farming and subsided small business Democrat states pay the most taxes and drive technology in the world but bootstraps and do it your self !!!!!!!

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I saw on Fox & Friends that she was getting shredded on Twitter for her comments.