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.
If she has 12 credits in economics she has a minor in economics (at best), not a double major.
She has a B.A. in International Relations. Period.
“a B.A. in International Relations”
That actually makes sense. That $240K education qualifies you to be exactly what she was: A BARTENDER.
I call BS - I'd love to see an example of this alleged "brilliant propaganda," having heard nothing from her but shopworn leftist bromides (and that's when she's at her peak).
she understands her core audience and how utterly malleable it is. [...] is certainly a clever manipulator.
None of that requires more than minimal intelligence - sociopathy is the key ingredient.
Despite having somehow obtained a degree in economics from an accredited university
Meaningless - as a woman and a person of color, she was never going to be given a poor grade nor denied a degree at a modern progressive university.
her magnificent, uncorrupted level of abject ignorance.
With that I agree.
dumb as a post... I should not say that because the post actually does something.
Where do you get that figure?
She’s dumb.
Wonder how she would handle ESAD or FU?
She is ignorant, and she DOES NOT have a degree in economics. Her degree is International Relations with 12 hours of economics classes. She has somewhere on the order of 2 to 4 economics classes to her name.
What a lying horse-faced sack of s^^t!
Look it up! It isn’t really difficult.
When she was accused of laboring under an illusion, she responded that her boss was an Italian.
“..she understands her core audience and how utterly malleable it is. [...] is certainly a clever manipulator..,”
Onkel Addie was an Einstein with this skill.
:)
The first time I heard “pull yourself up by your boot straps” I actually gave it a try. I also figured out it was impossible, but I was five years old.
also, ignorance about American culture.
And not just select representation of culture that get all the attention.
Once upon a time Polish, German, Irish had very distinct cultures. I’m certain she has no interest in those cultures.
Much less any kind of connection to all the various cultures that made America.
She has the same tunnel vision and skewed views of your typical no nothing leftard.
The past is gone..it’s good because to her it was all racist and bad ..all that is ..in her pea brain..is NOW.
She took 12 credit hours in economics, in classes like "Economics of Less-Developed Regions," as part of her international relations degree.
Ah, but now you will see her REAL worth.
According to a tweet by "Donny Ferguson" who did not appear to source his claim.
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