Posted on 02/10/2020 2:46:12 AM PST by a little elbow grease
Deep thoughts with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez…
AOC speaks to Congress: “Ms. Hutchinson, I also want to thank you about bringing up the poverty draft and this idea of a bootstrap. You know, this idea and this metaphor of a bootstrap started off as a joke because 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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'It's a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argues everyone needs help to succeed
The progressive lawmaker argued nobody succeeds alone, and some people have advantages over others.
Ocasio-Cortez said it would be "narcissistic" to claim she bootstrapped her way into office.
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After conservatives slammed her comments, the progressive firebrand tweeted a NBC News video of Martin Luther King criticizing the concept of bootstrapping for African-Americans. The civil rights leader argued slavery, segregation, and stigmatization left many of them "bootless."
"I believe we ought to do all we can and seek to lift ourselves by our own bootstrap," King said in the clip. However, he added, "It's a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself up by his own bootstraps."
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She touts her Puerto Rican heritage, but her comment illustrates her complete ignorance of basic Puerto Rican history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bootstrap
Luis Muñoz Marín is spinning in his grave and crying.
Yes to the extent that almost everyone has been helped by somebody. However the federal government has oppressed and kept many millions of people down and dependent with its welfare-for- the -able and racism and over- regulation and taxation. In short, the core of the DNC/socialist/communistic program
Pull up Bootstraps? I’d be happy and they would go far if they would just keep their pants up.
The silly Marxist disinfo and propaganda is everywhere...
This is true, but by frequenting selected trustworthy sites, like Free Republic, a beneficial filtering effect occurs where the bullschitt is screened and subjected to critical scrutiny that never occurs on any mainstream media outlet.
I find that I usually have a greater grasp of details about the stories that are irculating than people I talk to because the websites I visit are more reliable information sources than the MSM.
Harry Truman was a small shop keeper!!
Abe Lincoln taught himself ‘lawyering’.
Davy Crockett was a woodsman.
Kit Carson needed no government assistance.
My father entered this country legally, spoke very little English. First night in NYC after traveling across the country from entry port of Seattle, Washington slept on a piece of cardboard on the floor of a Chinese restaurant. Went on to serve in the US Army during WWII, fathered three sons, later all university graduates, and at the age of 87, died a multi-millionaire. Don’t tell me about bootstraps.
Sort of contradicts her own personal saga of a little bartender who gets elected to Congress and immediately deludes herself into thinking she can ride herd on the entire society.
It functions in jigger sizes. Anything more than that and she is lost.
You can draw a 90-percent line on her ‘luck’ and attach it to Saikat Chakrabarti. This guy’s family came from Bangladesh and he was born in the heart of Texas (Ft Worth). Attended college at Harvard, and has a degree software development. He did some time on Wall Street (year or two), and then got a software developer job in Silicon Valley (6 years there). In 2015, he got a significant position in the Bernie Sanders campaign, and picked up a lot of experience.
After Trump’s victory in 2016....Chakrabarti goes and gets partnered up with two other far-left big-names (young guys), and they decide that they have unique talents in bringing people to the winner’s circle. After careful review, all their data said that Joe Crowley of New York fame....was too old for the district. So they went and recruited AOC to run.
Very quickly, AOC got $30k in campaign funds (almost overnight), got into social media use around the District, and was recognized by youthful Democrats in the District. Crowley had never campaigned in the primary period, and felt she was a joke. Had Crowley grasped the social media affect, and organizing capability of Charkrabarti, he would have done more to show her naive nature and dimwittedness.
Charkrabarti goes on to be her Chief of Staff, and was there until August of last year (some social media comments got him in the spotlight). He’s moved on and appears to be aiming at some major agenda work for the Green Deal. I think he’s aiming to either re-use AOC in the future to front this agenda, or find another unicorn-creature like AOC to front some presidency effort in 2024 or 2028.
In simple terms, he’s not finished and with social media efforts and the right messaging....he’s going to be in the future of some candidate again.
Why is she wearing glasses that have zero optical power? Does she think it makes her look intelligent?
Ocasio-Cortez said it would be “narcissistic” to claim she bootstrapped her way into office.
To be fair, she and her comrades are on the lower end of the IQ scale and probably not very capable.
Oh, AOC would manage to find some reason that is what’s wrong with America.....
I have a very, bad feeling this woman is our next Nancy Pelosi and has a lifetime career tormenting us with her plans for this country.
Because she’s not as unfortunate-looking as Maxine Waters, or Elizabeth Warren she gets visual attention and not much for what she’s actually saying. Then again, liberals do not care much for facts. So she’s in for the long haul. Makes me shudder....
“Pull up Bootstraps?”
Who here knows where and why the term “bootstrap” was first used to mean the starting up of something?
Answer is printed upside down in the sport section.
Some of the comments after the article are great:
She said, The reason she refuses to have children is because she heard that one out of three children born are Chinese.
When the doctor told her that she was pregnant, she asked, “Are you sure that it’s mine?”
Being as she is ‘from’ Queens, I still contend that she is a bought and paid for gift from PDJT.
She is one of the better spokespeople the Rs have.
As to her ‘bootstrap’ remark, AOC is living proof that some peoples couldn’t pour Peee out of a boot if the instructions were written on the sole with arrows pointing to the directions.
I saw a ‘cute’ one the other day...
The day of absolute fear is when you wake up one morning and find out your ‘classmates’ are running the country.
“I believe we ought to do all we can and seek to lift ourselves by our own bootstrap,” King said in the clip. However, he added, “It’s a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself up by his own bootstraps.”
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Somewhat Plagiaristic? (though a good point)
I cried that I had no shoes until one day I met a man with no feet.
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