Americans should absolutely be concerned that 1 in 8 people rely on SNAP
It’s not a matter of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps
It’s corporate greed. It’s companies refusing to pay a living wage. It’s a high cost of living in a stagnant economy
stop blaming poor people
It’s not a matter of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps
It’s corporate greed. It’s companies refusing to pay a living wage. It’s a high cost of living in a stagnant economy
stop blaming poor people
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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These shitbags were absolutely fine with OTHER people being hurt, but now they're all WAH because it's impacting them as well.
Thoughts 'n' prayers, bootstraps etc.
Thoughts 'n' prayers, bootstraps etc.
October 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Why doesn't she just pull herself up by her own bootstraps???
November 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Eat their bootstraps, Goddammit
November 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I would simply pull my health up by my bootstraps.
If I didn't have insurance I would simply not be unhealthy.
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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This is for your maga moron "by their bootstraps" uncle in Pennsylvania.
October 30, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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love hearing "pull yourself up by your bootstraps and starve" from a bunch of dipshits who have never gone hungry a day in their lives
November 1, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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MAGA screams: “Get a job.” “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” “Welfare queen.”
But these folks have jobs. They’re federal workers and not getting paid — and now SNAP benefits run out in days. There’s no reason this should be happening.
Testify 📢
But these folks have jobs. They’re federal workers and not getting paid — and now SNAP benefits run out in days. There’s no reason this should be happening.
Testify 📢
October 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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The United States: demanding that every worker pull themselves up by their bootstraps, then making bootstraps only available to legacy citizens.
The United States: demanding that every worker pull themselves up by their bootstraps, then making bootstraps an unavoidable, unaffordable weekly subscription with zero ownership benefit and a usage tax.
November 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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If conservatives believe that welfare and social assistance makes people lazy then why must states like California send assistance to conservative states? It's not like they help their people with it ,so let's start by just sending them some bootstraps?
November 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Bootstraps?! In THIS economy!?
October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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So have the bootstraps decayed enough that we can finally break out of that stupid myth?
October 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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The narrative suited that she was left-wing. A Blairite success story of 'rags* to riches' who pulled herself up from her bootstraps*. All she needed was a little support.(not much, just a little)
*rags and bootstraps optional
*rags and bootstraps optional
November 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Stuck in between “bootstraps” and “6,7” please help
October 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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DEPROGRAMMING
In the sweet land of liberty only wealthy are free
There’s no bootstraps to pull you out of poverty
Hard work has nothing to do with success
In fact the hardest workers get FAR less
You can’t “be anything” sorry to say
Your lot in life is here to stay
THIS is “the American way”
In the sweet land of liberty only wealthy are free
There’s no bootstraps to pull you out of poverty
Hard work has nothing to do with success
In fact the hardest workers get FAR less
You can’t “be anything” sorry to say
Your lot in life is here to stay
THIS is “the American way”
November 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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And he's running against Andrew Cuomo, who famously pulled himself up by the bootstraps from hard scrabble beginnings
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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White bigots: white people don't owe Black people anything, you people are just lazy and looking for free handouts, pull up your bootstraps and work hard like our parents did. 👇🏾
October 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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“And then Jesus said, ‘let the children starve, let the poors lift themselves up by the bootstraps, let the sick die, and let the rich off the hook because the economics will trickle down.’”
Matthew 34:12
Matthew 34:12
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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So bootstraps for normal old people, and 5-star luxury care for all the ones who didn’t see ruling over the rest of us for 50+ years as sufficient enough payment?
October 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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That's the thing:
White America: Blacks you need to pick yourselves up by the bootstraps and stop depending on us!
Black America: Ok *creates businesses, schools etc. Stops depending on White America*
White America: Now hold on wait a minute! Not like that! *proceeds to burn down Black America*
White America: Blacks you need to pick yourselves up by the bootstraps and stop depending on us!
Black America: Ok *creates businesses, schools etc. Stops depending on White America*
White America: Now hold on wait a minute! Not like that! *proceeds to burn down Black America*
& when we start our own the white man finds a way to destroy it’s success…from lynchings to private equity buyouts disguised as “help”
October 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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What, the spirit of libertarianism doesn't cause them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and become millionaires? /sarcasm
October 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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THERE'S NO WHERE FOR PEOPLE TO PULL UP THEIR BOOTSTRAPS SUSAN
October 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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My mom shared one of those “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” posts re: Appalachians being resilient instead of having to rely on government assistance and how they never went hungry like ma’am your mother is a food hoarder bc of the crushing poverty she grew up in, be serious 😭
October 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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A super Catholic MAGA aunt who thinks felon47 is THE BEST pres EVER, was constantly bitching about how people shouldn't be on welfare/SSDI/Medicaid, except for one of my cousins who's got bad arthritis, my uncle who has Parkinson's, & of course herself because she's old. Everyone else, bootstraps 😡
November 1, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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I wonder how many people pushing bootstraps rhetoric about SNAP recipients would also consider themselves fans of Les Misérables
October 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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