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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |
Of course, now with her new attack on idioms, she can claim that she is not a "cookie."
Recently, she attacked the phrase, "to lift yourself up by a bootstrap."
Puh-leeze, AOC is that your best game?Important point by @AOC: "It’s a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap."— Robert Reich (@RBReich) February 5, 2020
She's right. 60% of all wealth in America is inherited.
“Pull yourself up by the bootstraps” is a cruel joke. pic.twitter.com/UNmo0ttHwu
And, yes you can attack me for using the word "game."
Bottom line: AOC is attempting to ignore the part of language whereby idioms exist that are not to be taken literally.
To make her distorted case, she even goes so far as to raise from the dead and use the term, "pulling one's bootstraps," the way it was used centuries ago rather than going with the way it is used now. Thus, ignoring that words and phrases evolve over time. Maybe she doesn't believe in evolution?
And, by the way, someone who might actually be AOC's equal when it comes to using the English language demonstrated how the phrase is currently used.
The Oxford English Dictionary cites James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) as its earliest example of the phrase in a way that illustrates the contemporary meaning: “There were ... others who had forced their way to the top from the lowest rung by the aid of their bootstraps.”
-RW
She is just another poster child for the Idiocracy with no clue. Her new tagline is Stupidity Kills.
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