Hodgetwins - AOC uses her genius thinking to debunk metaphors!
Aired: 2020-02-08
Duration: 05:30


=== The Bootstrap Myth Debunked (04:49) ===

[00:00:00]  Ms. Hutchinson, I also want to thank you about bringing up the poverty draft and this idea of a bootstrap.
[00:00:06]  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.
[00:00:17]  It's physically impossible.
[00:00:19]  The whole thing is a joke.
[00:00:22]  ALC.
[00:00:23]  Hey man.
[00:00:23]  Hey, get off me.
[00:00:25]  ALC is the direct opposite of Socrates.
[00:00:30]  ALC, you said yourself.
[00:00:32]  Yeah.
[00:00:32]  It's a metaphor.
[00:00:33]  It's not a joke.
[00:00:36]  A metaphor means a figure of speech.
[00:00:38]  Yeah.
[00:00:39]  It's not a joke.
[00:00:40]  A joke is like me saying Epstein didn't kill himself.
[00:00:44]  Everybody knows he didn't kill himself.
[00:00:45]  It's sarcasm.
[00:00:46]  Yeah.
[00:00:47]  Bill Clinton had that man killed.
[00:00:49]  Allegedly.
[00:00:50]  Yeah.
[00:00:50]  And it's funny because liberals actually think he killed himself.
[00:00:54]  That's why it's a joke.
[00:00:55]  Okay, let me break it down for you, you'll see.
[00:00:58]  Yeah, it's a figure of speech.
[00:01:00]  It's an idiom.
[00:01:01]  Right?
[00:01:02]  Pull yourself up by your bootstraps does not literally mean it doesn't mean that.
[00:01:10]  It's impossible.
[00:01:11]  Right?
[00:01:12]  What that figure of speech means is to improve one's life or circumstances through his or her own efforts.
[00:01:20]  I love that idiom, man.
[00:01:21]  That's the conservative way.
[00:01:23]  It's the American dream way.
[00:01:25]  All them immigrants that came to this country were just a shirt on the back, not a penny in their pocket, and they worked hard for that American dream.
[00:01:32]  Yeah.
[00:01:32]  Right?
[00:01:33]  Like, I'll give you an example of me pulling myself up by my bootstraps.
[00:01:39]  Oh, man, I like stories, man.
[00:01:41]  Motivational story?
[00:01:42]  Yeah.
[00:01:43]  I'm going to hear this, man.
[00:01:45]  When I was in my early 20s, I filed for bankruptcy.
[00:01:51]  Didn't pay my bills on time.
[00:01:53]  Matter of fact, I didn't pay them at all.
[00:01:57]  It wasn't the evil white man holding me down and forcing me to do that.
[00:02:01]  Yeah.
[00:02:02]  I didn't pay my damn bills.
[00:02:03]  I made horrible choices in my life.
[00:02:05]  Yeah.
[00:02:05]  Overspend.
[00:02:06]  Yeah.
[00:02:07]  No evil white man in a damn hood forced him to do that.
[00:02:12]  So you know what I decide to do, ALC?
[00:02:15]  What you do, man?
[00:02:16]  I pull myself up by my damn bootstraps.
[00:02:19]  Oh, man.
[00:02:20]  So this is what I did.
[00:02:22]  Made better choices.
[00:02:23]  Went out and got me a secured credit card with a $200 limit.
[00:02:28]  Had to give him, had to give him $500 to give me the damn car.
[00:02:33]  You had to give him $500.
[00:02:34]  I had to give them $500.
[00:02:36]  To give me $200 in credit?
[00:02:38]  Yeah.
[00:02:39]  Right?
[00:02:39]  But I paid them bills on time.
[00:02:42]  Right?
[00:02:42]  Couldn't buy much.
[00:02:43]  It was $200.
[00:02:45]  Right?
[00:02:45]  But you know what?
[00:02:46]  After a while, white man said, hey, that's a good man.
[00:02:52]  I'm going to go ahead and raise your limit up to $300.
[00:02:56]  But I'm keeping this $5 because I don't trust your ass yet.
[00:03:01]  Long story short, ALC, over time.
[00:03:05]  What that white man do?
[00:03:06]  That white man?
[00:03:07]  Yeah.
[00:03:10]  $10,000 credit line.
[00:03:15]  $10,000.
[00:03:16]  That's a lot of money, man.
[00:03:18]  He said, that white man says a good man.
[00:03:20]  I said, thank you, sir.
[00:03:22]  I tries real hard, sir.
[00:03:27]  But he's stupid, man.
[00:03:29]  Hey, I give you another...
[00:03:32]  What do you call them?
[00:03:34]  Figure speech idiom.
[00:03:36]  Beating that dead horse.
[00:03:37]  That's a good one.
[00:03:38]  Beat that dead horse.
[00:03:39]  Stop beating that dead horse.
[00:03:41]  That's a damn good one.
[00:03:42]  I like that one, man.
[00:03:43]  Yeah.
[00:03:43]  Stop beating that dead horse.
[00:03:44]  That means like, stop.
[00:03:46]  Hold on, hold on, huh.
[00:03:46]  You're going too fast.
[00:03:48]  You got to break it down for ALC.
[00:03:49]  She's watching.
[00:03:50]  It doesn't literally mean, ALC, quite that and beat a dead horse.
[00:03:57]  All that idiom means is, why are you beating a dead horse?
[00:04:00]  The horse dead.
[00:04:01]  The horse is dead.
[00:04:02]  Tongue hang out of his mouth.
[00:04:03]  It's got maggots on it.
[00:04:04]  And you kicking the shit out of him.
[00:04:06]  It's dead.
[00:04:07]  Why are you doing this?
[00:04:08]  All it means is waste of time.
[00:04:11]  You wasting time like perfect example.
[00:04:13]  Talking to a liberal.
[00:04:15]  Waste of time.
[00:04:17]  You beat that dead horse joke of these liberals.
[00:04:19]  These damn snowflakes.
[00:04:21]  It's a waste of time.
[00:04:23]  It's not a joke.
[00:04:24]  It's not a joke.
[00:04:25]  It's a figure speech, man.
[00:04:26]  You know what you are?
[00:04:27]  You just too.
[00:04:29]  I mean, you're a go-getter, but man, you just...
[00:04:32]  You think...
[00:04:33]  Hey, hey.
[00:04:35]  You know what's a...
[00:04:36]  Who's a perfect example of pulling themselves up by that bootstraps, AOC?
[00:04:41]  Who, man?
[00:04:43]  You.
[00:04:45]  Yeah, man, it's true.
[00:04:46]  You were actually at one point in time a bartender.

=== AOC's Rise From Bartender (00:41) ===

[00:04:49]  Yeah.
[00:04:49]  Now you're a member of Congress.
[00:04:52]  A horrible one.
[00:04:54]  But you know what?
[00:04:55]  You pulled yourself up by your bootstraps.
[00:04:58]  Man, you in such a position, man.
[00:05:00]  If you could just alter your thinking a little bit, you could help so many people in your community.
[00:05:05]  But too bad, you just...
[00:05:06]  You're a damn socialist.
[00:05:08]  Yeah.
[00:05:09]  You want your constituents dependent on the government like a bunch of damn leeches.
[00:05:14]  Yeah, teach your constituents how to fish.
[00:05:16]  Don't fish for them and dangle the damn fish in front of them.
[00:05:19]  And you get the fish if you vote for me.
[00:05:22]  Show them how to tell these people to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
[00:05:26]  Yes, again, it's not a joke.
[00:05:29]  Figure speech.