[Ouchthatonehurt]

As usual she is involved with a hit and run with the truth.
The etymology of the word is from the Latin for root, but in no way relating to “getting to the root of a problem.”
In her use of the word it is more “pulling it out, roots and all.”

[RummyChick]

Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec · 1h I can’t tell if this is real or satire about CapHill https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1272241492795383810

[scrabblehack]

At the same time, square roots, cube roots, indeed anything under a radical - tend to be irrational.

[jmacusa]

Miss Zanti Misfit here recently had a problem with the expression “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps’’. She she failed to understand the expression refers to girding ones self to commit to doing hard work, soul searching or a personal inventory of one’s abilities and applying them and that fact that boots, at one time and still do have two small straps sown inside to put them on she felt the whole expression and it’s concept was utterly bogus.

[xkaydet65]

In 1964 myself and two other HS classmates were taken by our senior English teacher to meet William F Buckley. Our teacher was an official in the NYS Conservative Party. Goldwater’s was running that year and was accused of being a radical conservative. Buckley told us he did not reject the term as conservatism was a return to the roots of the Republic.