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AOC Attacks American Ideal of Lifting Oneself Up ‘By Your Bootstraps’ as a ‘Joke’
citizenfreepress.com ^ | 2/9/20 | Kane

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
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To: pepsionice

It sounds like Mr. Chakrabarti is a classic example of pulling oneself up by their bootstraps.
He went from a child of an immigrant, to getting into Harvard. To working in Silicon Valley which I would perceive meant his income was over $500K/year minimum.

I doubt that his opportunities would have been anywhere near this potential if his parents had remained in Bangladesh.

God Bless America.


61 posted on 02/10/2020 6:32:27 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: BTerclinger

“Think” and know based on evidence are two very different propositions.


62 posted on 02/10/2020 6:44:29 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: UCANSEE2

Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.

Don’t bother with ever trusting a socialist.


63 posted on 02/10/2020 6:46:37 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: a little elbow grease

“Doctor, I can’t be pregnant because I identify as a man.” Is funny as well.


64 posted on 02/10/2020 6:48:46 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: a little elbow grease

Doesn’t stop her from opening her mouth completely.


65 posted on 02/10/2020 6:50:07 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: cymbeline

Re TV series.

I don’t know how old you are but they’ve rebooted the Thundercats. The promos alone show it to be badly drawn with infantile stories ... and promos typically have tried to put the best foot forward on new shows.

Frankly, when they were making cartoons just to sell crap the cartoons at least looked as good or better than the crap they were selling.


66 posted on 02/10/2020 6:55:48 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: a little elbow grease

She is Kelly Bundy, from Married with Children, dumb.


67 posted on 02/10/2020 6:59:11 AM PST by Ez2BRepub
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To: woodbutcher1963

Remember, we’re talking about a gal who has joined the DNC, where success and wealth comes from legal insider trading and growing government power so people will need them and therefore vote for them.

Lots of us built that, but they largely have only ever sponged on that that.


68 posted on 02/10/2020 7:00:01 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: a little elbow grease

This from a retarded girl who was a bartender one day, and a Congressman the next day. It’s like Moochelle implying America was terrible until the day she became FLOTUS.


69 posted on 02/10/2020 7:05:07 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Pulling yourself up by the bootstraps refers to the Prusik Ascent taught in military training where a soldier literally pulls themselves up a rope using only their boot laces. What at first seemed impossible became possible through the correct training and determination. Which is a great metalhor for the American dream. You arent guaranteed success, but if you prepare train and give it your all you just might make it big... and there is t some big government standing on your neck while you try...


70 posted on 02/10/2020 7:12:44 AM PST by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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To: a little elbow grease

She was absent the day they taught metaphors


71 posted on 02/10/2020 7:16:11 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
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To: a little elbow grease

The beaver toothed bar maid speaks...


72 posted on 02/10/2020 7:27:55 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I think she looks like a blow up doll, and so does Gal Queda and Linda Sarsour..


73 posted on 02/10/2020 7:47:27 AM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: BTerclinger

Watch out, Alexandra! Here comes a Doberman, teeth first!


74 posted on 02/10/2020 8:19:41 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
This from a retarded girl who was a bartender one day, and a Congressman the next day. It’s like Moochelle implying America was terrible until the day she became FLOTUS.

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LOL ..... I wonder how those two strange birds would/could get along.

;-)

75 posted on 02/10/2020 8:49:41 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: Rurudyne
“Doctor, I can’t be pregnant because I identify as a man.” Is funny as well.

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LOL

76 posted on 02/10/2020 8:51:05 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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To: a little elbow grease

Spot on how their logic works.


77 posted on 02/10/2020 9:15:57 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: a little elbow grease
Wonder what she thinks of the phrase "keep your nose to the grindstone"? Betchya that's gotta leave a mark!😜😝
78 posted on 02/10/2020 2:04:30 PM PST by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: a little elbow grease

Dumb... as... a... rock.


79 posted on 02/10/2020 3:58:53 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (Socialism requires slavery.)
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