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on America’s rags-to-riches ideal: “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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Semi-Fascist *cuz I can’t commit

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Maybe she should talk to Ben Carson.

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Ben Carson had all types of help. He even benefited from affirmative action, an became one of the worlds most renown surgeons. Which is AOC point.

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Sound the Dread Alarm

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Yikes

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i wonder if she knows what a metaphor is.

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I was thinking the same thing.

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Now do “jumbo shrimp”!

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My favorite oxymoron is "Government Worker"

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I always took it as meaning to put on your boots and get up and start taking those steps to just do it, instead of sitting around waiting for something to happen. But that idea apparently goes over her head.

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To 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' is to improve your situation by your own efforts.