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 Americas rags-to-riches ideal: Its a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap, by your shoelaces? Its 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 yesterdays revelation in a live congressional hearing, we here at the Campaign Update did a little research and discovered myriad other instances of OACs run-ins with figures of speech and the confusion they have caused in her life:
Shes been looking around for that ladder to success for years now. She is sure Home Depot is just hiding it from her.
Shes 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 shes 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 dont.
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, whats 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 doesnt, though. That is all.
Edit: A couple more, inspired by readers:
She has a step-ladder. She never knew who her real ladder is.
Dont ever say bottoms up! to her in a bar, unless you want things to get real.
She’s ripe to be the butt of a mew light bulb changing joke.
That article starts with the 12 credit premise and digs deeper. He shows screenshots of AOCs 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.
AOC is dangerous, very much a future threat and anyone who discounts her and her followers is a fool.
Not understanding metaphors or sayings and taking them literally is a symptom of mental illness.
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...
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 doesnt exist!"
Boston University should be so embarrassed they give her money back.
She’s suffering from Formal Thought Disorder.
See
Metaphor Comprehension in Schizophrenic Patients
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5954116/
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
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.
Brain-dead voters on the loose.
“Where’s my beer?”
It's common in autism. And bear in mind that not all autistics are savants.
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”
Dumb and ignorant are not mutually exclusive...she is both...
Some people are born stupid while others work at it every day of their life.
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
By chance was it a Norwegian Blue, pining for the fjords?
Yup. It holds up the turtle.
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.
AOC asks the question: “If money doesn’t grow on trees how come banks have branches?’’
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