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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (view source)
Revision as of 21:11, February 14, 2020
, 21:11, February 14, 2020→In popular culture
*[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/10/03/woman_at_alexandria_ocasio-cortez_townhall_weve_got_to_start_eating_babies_due_to_climate_crisis.html Eating Babies]
*[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/10/03/woman_at_alexandria_ocasio-cortez_townhall_weve_got_to_start_eating_babies_due_to_climate_crisis.html Eating Babies]
*AOC's habit of failing to engage her brain prior to opening her mouth extends to a difficultly with English language idioms. A "bootstrap" refers to mounting a horse without assistance. Prior to the invention of metal stirrups, "bootstraps" were made of leather, hence the name "bootstrap". Mounting a horse unassisted is problematic, hence the popular phrase, "pull yourself of by the bootsraps" came into usage centuries ago. Receiving assistance to mount a horse is refereed to as "a leg up". In the late 20th century the "bootstrap" idiom, shortened to "boot", was borrowed by computer engineers to describe the process of a computer operating system starting by input command without a "jump start" from another computer.
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==Further reading==