Trump thought that he’d appeal to hillbillies and poor Midwesterners. Clearly he didn’t read Hilbilly Elegy beyond the title.
If he did, he would have learned that, much like Clarence Thomas with black people, Vance paints all poor people in Ohio and Kentucky as lazy welfare recipients who should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps* and work harder 🙄
*which was originally an expression for doing something literally impossible, as pulling on your own bootstraps would make you fall down.
It’s not that it makes you fall, it’s just a non-lever. If you sit on your ass plant your feet flat, then try and pull on your ankles to help yourself up, you’ll get the same effect where it’s actively a hindrance to getting up.
Trump thought that he’d appeal to hillbillies and poor Midwesterners. Clearly he didn’t read Hilbilly Elegy beyond the title.
If he did, he would have learned that, much like Clarence Thomas with black people, Vance paints all poor people in Ohio and Kentucky as lazy welfare recipients who should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps* and work harder 🙄
*which was originally an expression for doing something literally impossible, as pulling on your own bootstraps would make you fall down.
It’s not that it makes you fall, it’s just a non-lever. If you sit on your ass plant your feet flat, then try and pull on your ankles to help yourself up, you’ll get the same effect where it’s actively a hindrance to getting up.