Posted on 02/07/2020 6:30:45 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not a stupid woman, despite all appearances to the contrary. She is a brilliant propagandist, for example, one of the most effective our country has seen in recent decades. She understands the importance of optics, for the most part, and she understands her core audience and how utterly malleable it is. So, she is not unintelligent, and is certainly a clever manipulator.
But what so often gets her into trouble and gives her an image of stupidity is her magnificent, uncorrupted level of abject ignorance. Despite having somehow obtained a degree in economics from an accredited university, AOC is one of the most uneducated people ever to be elected to the United States Congress. Her utter lack of anything resembling a real and useful education was on stark display yet again on Thursday, when she clearly demonstrated she has no understanding of what a metaphors other forms of figures of speech actually are. Watch this clip and be amazed:
Tom Elliott @tomselliott .@AOC on America’s rags-to-riches ideal: “It’s a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap, by your shoelaces? It’s physically impossible. The whole thing is a joke.”
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Yes, friends and neighbors, AOC really, truly believes that, when someone advocates that folks “pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” they literally mean that folks need to bend over, grab their bootstraps and try to pull themselves up off the floor.
You seriously could never make this stuff up.
Given yesterday’s revelation in a live congressional hearing, we here at the Campaign Update did a little research and discovered myriad other instances of OAC’s run-ins with figures of speech and the confusion they have caused in her life:
– She’s been looking around for that “ladder to success” for years now. She is sure Home Depot is just hiding it from her.
– She’s pissed as hell that none of those people who say they have “a chip on their shoulder” actually have, like, a chip on their shoulder.
– She has spent her entire adult life trying to find “a stitch in time” so she can “make nine.” But she’s been wondering, “nine what?”
– She once put her shoulder to a grindstone and skinned it all up. Then she tried it with her nose and had to get surgery.
– She thinks “beating a dead horse” amounts to, like, animal cruelty and stuff, or something.
– Someone once told her that it “costs and arm and a leg,” and she asked if she could just use a credit card instead?
– She just cannot believe that teeth have skin, and spends hours each day looking in the mirror to make sure hers don’t.
– She once tried the whole “rags to riches” thing, and just ended up with a bedroom filled with rags.
– She is STILL looking for that gift horse so she can look it in the mouth. I mean, like, what’s that all about anyway?
– She heard that cats had nine lives, but when she killed her own cat just to see, it stayed dead. That made her sad.
– But then someone told her it was “raining cats and dogs,” so she ran outside and got soaked desperately searching for another kitten.
This could go on and on, but you hopefully get the point by now. She doesn’t, though. That is all.
Edit: A couple more, inspired by readers:
– She has a step-ladder. She never knew who her real ladder is.
– Don’t ever say “bottoms up!” to her in a bar, unless you want things to get real.
I can accept that AOC’s problem is not lack of intelligence.
Her actual problem is ignorance. Ignorance about economics, ignorance about the Constitution, ignorance about International Relations, and ignorance about garbage disposals.
I should have read the whole article before I posted the above reply.
My bad.
Nope is actually just dumb.
AOC does NOT have a degree in economics.
Also the problem is that the doofuses who follow this moron are some of the dumbest people alive.
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not a stupid woman”
Au contraire Pierre!
“...she has no understanding of what a metaphors other forms of figures of speech actually are.”
Wut?
She is shut off from real life and truth by her dogma.
Ahh, yes she is.
Fake news.
She really is as stupid as she sounds when she opens her mouth.
The writer goes on to say:
...what so often gets her into trouble and gives her an image of stupidity is her magnificent, uncorrupted level of abject ignorance
Summary: she IS stupid and, for an econ major, if I were Boston University, I would ask for my diploma back. She's an economic idiot.
“Cortez is what happens when universities convince simple-minded fools that they’re intellectuals by giving them good grades for carrying the Marxist water:”
https://twitter.com/Elijah_Is_John/status/1225771052497805347?s=20
This is the first time I’ve heard that. I poked around and found this article to be the most informative:
https://www.redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2019/04/02/aoc-really-economics-degree-boston-university/
Looks like she double-majored at Boston University, in International Relations and Economics.
Do you have a more definitive source?
AOC on America’s rags-to-riches ideal: “It’s a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap, by your shoelaces? It’s physically impossible. The whole thing is a joke.”
Anyone who would make a statement like this, believing it literally is just not very intelligent.
We have something at our office that we call “THE BOOK” of famous company sayings. If someone makes a stupid statement on the trading floor, we will say, there’s one for the book.
For example, here are a few direct quotes:
“Don’t bark up a tree that won’t let you climb it”
“Don’t beat a dead bush”
“I got one thing to say, JUST SELL”
“Who do you call to fill up your well?”
“John: Its my night to bring beer, I will bring two 12 packs.
Ed: Why don’t you case bring a case?”
John: “No, we can hardly even drink two 12 packs”
“Jen: Wow, you sold a railcar to Hawaii. How did you get it there?”
“Sean: “Over the bridge”
“ Jen, wow, I did not know there was a bridge to Hawaii”
Yet, all these people are very successful commodity traders.
After Joe Biden said he received a gut punch in Iowa, AOC demanded that whoever did it be prosecuted.
I thought that was against FR rules.
True Dat.
There is a Millennial woman(26) who sits nest to me at work.
She follows AOC on Instagram. She thinks she is awesome.
This is the same person who loves Taylor Swift and watches the Grammys, loved JLo’s Super Bowl halftime performance.
She is not very smart. She is what we call here in NH a typical annoying Masshole.
She is a Democrat voter.
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