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)

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:

Not sure what's funnier:

>AOC taking metaphors literally

>AOC, a former bartender who is now a congressman, dismissing the idea of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps https://t.co/VuMYnlEmtR

— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) February 6, 2020

When you speak positively about hard work and the idea of self, you empower people.

@AOC wants you to think that the only way success is via the government handouts. "They" will lift you up by your bootstraps. Entitlements = government servitude. Socialism kills. #walkaway

— 2A_Patriot (@2APatriot3) February 7, 2020

I'm beginning to suspect that @AOC may not be the brightest light on the tree.

— Ron Jones (@JonesRE) February 6, 2020

Does she know how to logically think through anything? I’ve only seen her emotionally driven pontifications. Her stupidity is embarrassing.

— Ann Hahn (@annhahn14592507) February 7, 2020

"Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps." Oh wait. This is a quote from Vladimir Lenin. Isn't it freaky #AOC is using talking points from a communist that instituted the #RedTerror upon gaining power. pic.twitter.com/RmEMZnqPH1

— adziebart (@adziebart1) February 10, 2020

She’s also never heard a diamond ring or seen a house fly… You can tune a piano but you can’t tuna fish… I’m amazed she felt compelled to say this like it was a real point. https://t.co/MEWEiZeQF8

— Chris Loesch (@ChrisLoesch) February 6, 2020

@AOC Was surprised it’s not made out of actual waffles.

— Ryan (@islandjumby) February 7, 2020

Besides lifting yourself up by your bootstraps, what else is @AOC going to teach us is literally impossible?

— Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) February 9, 2020

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.”

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 attn to the actual hearing. https://t.co/4YCypOfxpB

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 9, 2020

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:

Ah yes, of course, it’s classic Republican “bootstrap” meritocracy: where the smartest, hardest-working, most fitting person for the job just so happens to be your son-in-law. https://t.co/u6mqhrJlGS

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 14, 2018

And here’s what she dropped last week:

I see that the right is worked up that we pointed out the myth of bootstrapping when 60% of the wealth in this country is *inherited.*

But hey, if you think I’m hopelessly dumb, try listening to MLK talk about “bootstrapping” & the racial wealth gap, too: pic.twitter.com/RHdSfzaJzH

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 6, 2020

I worked my butt off to get elected against all odds, without any special connections or money. I worked double shifts and wore through my shoes, outspent 10:1 to get elected.

Even w/ all that hard work, it would be narcissistic to pretend I “bootstrapped” it alone & w/o others.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 6, 2020

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.