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AOC: Figures of Speech are Not her Friends
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

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.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Humor; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: aoc; fakenews; mediabias; trump; trumpwinsagain
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To: GreenHornet

She’s ripe to be the butt of a mew light bulb changing joke.


41 posted on 02/07/2020 7:28:02 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Alberta's Child; NobleFree

That article starts with the 12 credit premise and digs deeper. He shows screenshots of AOC’s listing in the Boston University Alumni Directory.

The author says:

“this author is also a graduate of Boston University who initially majored in International Relations and has familiarity with how the school is structured”

Personally, I don’t know the facts, but this seems pretty credible.


42 posted on 02/07/2020 7:30:49 AM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: EyesOfTX

AOC is dangerous, very much a future threat and anyone who discounts her and her followers is a fool.


43 posted on 02/07/2020 7:31:58 AM PST by setter
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To: Bonemaker

Not understanding metaphors or sayings and taking them literally is a symptom of mental illness.


44 posted on 02/07/2020 7:34:22 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: EyesOfTX

NOT an economics degree! She lies. Her degree is in International Relations with an emphasis in economics. Sort of like “Economics For Poets”.

And we all know what “relations” means...


45 posted on 02/07/2020 7:34:42 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: NobleFree; Alberta's Child; Agatsu77; MV=PY
She took 12 credit hours in economics

According to a tweet by "Donny Ferguson" who did not appear to source his claim.

And the article's link to Donny's tweet yields this:

"Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!"

46 posted on 02/07/2020 7:35:33 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: EyesOfTX

Boston University should be so embarrassed they give her money back.


47 posted on 02/07/2020 7:36:51 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: EyesOfTX

She’s suffering from Formal Thought Disorder.

See

Metaphor Comprehension in Schizophrenic Patients

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5954116/


48 posted on 02/07/2020 7:37:43 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: woodbutcher1963
That actually makes sense. That $240K education qualifies you to be exactly what she was: A BARTENDER.

Truth in what you say. Once, in NYC, I was served by a English bartender whom claimed a degree from the London School of Economics...and it wasn't in .a posh joint

49 posted on 02/07/2020 7:37:59 AM PST by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: EyesOfTX

She once hand carried a bird into a pawn shop and negotiated with the dealer that it was worth twice as much as any two that were outside.


50 posted on 02/07/2020 7:41:12 AM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: EyesOfTX

Brain-dead voters on the loose.
“Where’s my beer?”


51 posted on 02/07/2020 7:43:02 AM PST by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: ifinnegan
Not understanding metaphors or sayings and taking them literally is a symptom of mental illness.

It's common in autism. And bear in mind that not all autistics are savants.

52 posted on 02/07/2020 7:52:29 AM PST by IronJack
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To: setter

While it’s easy to mock her..i think many are aware she is not to be dismissed.
She has the qualifications to be a leader in the dim party.
She is unbelievable stupid and at the same time bold.
A big plus in the democrat party.

She is dangerous because she appeals to the dim populous base of millions of other arrogant ignoramuses.
And she is “cute”


53 posted on 02/07/2020 7:52:47 AM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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Dumb and ignorant are not mutually exclusive...she is both...


54 posted on 02/07/2020 7:57:44 AM PST by TnTnTn
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To: EyesOfTX

Some people are born stupid while others work at it every day of their life.


55 posted on 02/07/2020 7:59:13 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not a stupid woman,

Yeah, sorry. Not buying that.

Despite having somehow obtained a degree in economics from an accredited university

Based on most crap coming from universities, this means nothing

56 posted on 02/07/2020 8:35:03 AM PST by mykroar (Congratulations President Trump)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

By chance was it a Norwegian Blue, pining for the fjords?


57 posted on 02/07/2020 8:36:53 AM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Nuke From Orbit
dumb as a post... I should not say that because the post actually does something.

Yup. It holds up the turtle.

58 posted on 02/07/2020 9:31:30 AM PST by zeugma (I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

My dentist went to BU. It is one of the best dental schools in the world.
Every time I go in for an appointment I raze him about AOC graduated from the same college as him. He said to me one time: she is crazy. He is Chinese(from Taiwan)The good China.


59 posted on 02/07/2020 10:41:55 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: EyesOfTX

AOC asks the question: “If money doesn’t grow on trees how come banks have branches?’’


60 posted on 02/07/2020 11:30:07 AM PST by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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