Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Schools the Right on Metaphor, Martin Luther King, and Damn Bootstraps

Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., addresses The Road to the Green New Deal Tour final event at Howard University in Washington, Monday, May 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

AOC Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., addresses The Road to the Green New Deal Tour final event at Howard University in Washington, Monday, May 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Damn democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a damn message for her damn critics.

She made that clear on damn Sunday.

In case you missed it, during a congressional hearing last Thursday — in which she tried to destroy the myth of the American dream — AOC schooled the world on shoes and metaphor.

Here’s what she let us all know, related to a famous phrase:

“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.”

It resulted in a giant wave of commentary:

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On Sunday, the former bartender stirred the damn nest:

“For GOPers who spent this week mocking the poor w/“bootstrap” jokes, why don’t you listen to Ms. Hutchinson’s testimony & give one damn reason why we shouldn’t have an accurate poverty line in this country. Unless of course you were talking w/o paying attention to the actual hearing.”

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As observed by the Washington Examiner, it’s not Alexandria’s first time to bash the idea that you can succeed in America through your own hard work:

And here’s what she dropped last week:

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Well there ya go. If there’s one thing she’s absolutely against, it’s narcissism.

Apropos, If you’d like to learn more from a humble New York representative and her boyfriend, you’re in luck: Find out how white people can combat racism right here.

And maybe the next time you wanna lift yourself up, do it with an elevator.

In flip flops.

-ALEX

 

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