Boostraps for YOU, Bailouts for them
December 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Boostraps for YOU, Bailouts for them
You pull yourself up by your boostraps. Me? I DESERVE free money from the government, and so do my rich friends bsky.app/profile/cwar...
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
You pull yourself up by your boostraps. Me? I DESERVE free money from the government, and so do my rich friends bsky.app/profile/cwar...
THEY TARIFFED MY BOOSTRAPS
March 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
THEY TARIFFED MY BOOSTRAPS
Just like "pull one up from their boostraps" was meant to illustrate an impossible task but has come to mean the opposite.
"make the trains run on time" was a *joke* about how worthless fascism actually was at getting stuff done. It became an entrenched myth because of the media/hobbyist/festishist attachment to nazis as supervillains.
March 25, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Just like "pull one up from their boostraps" was meant to illustrate an impossible task but has come to mean the opposite.
Maybe Indiana will finally pull itself up by it's own boostraps and dig their way out of the 1950's that they've been stuck in forever.
December 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Maybe Indiana will finally pull itself up by it's own boostraps and dig their way out of the 1950's that they've been stuck in forever.
If you pull yourself up by your boostraps you too can be a successful socialist like me
March 14, 2026 at 1:31 PM
If you pull yourself up by your boostraps you too can be a successful socialist like me
boostraps unless it's legacy admissions or Daddy peeling me out of jail or that nepo hookup to the firm job. Or etc.
Teargas for your peaceful protest, temper tantrum when someone criticizes me online because MY RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH
Teargas for your peaceful protest, temper tantrum when someone criticizes me online because MY RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH
October 5, 2023 at 8:33 PM
boostraps unless it's legacy admissions or Daddy peeling me out of jail or that nepo hookup to the firm job. Or etc.
Teargas for your peaceful protest, temper tantrum when someone criticizes me online because MY RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH
Teargas for your peaceful protest, temper tantrum when someone criticizes me online because MY RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH
The meme don't lie
June 9, 2025 at 6:23 AM
The meme don't lie
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July 29, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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it puts hair on the chest of those boostraps we lifted ourselves up by!!
January 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
it puts hair on the chest of those boostraps we lifted ourselves up by!!
its a deeply deeply fucking poisonous mindset and its fucked the world hard and destroyed class solidarity honestly
boostraps bullshit killing us
boostraps bullshit killing us
July 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
its a deeply deeply fucking poisonous mindset and its fucked the world hard and destroyed class solidarity honestly
boostraps bullshit killing us
boostraps bullshit killing us
Conservatives: "Pull yourself up by your own boostraps."
Me: "Why don't you pull yourself up by your own jockstrap?"
Me: "Why don't you pull yourself up by your own jockstrap?"
January 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Conservatives: "Pull yourself up by your own boostraps."
Me: "Why don't you pull yourself up by your own jockstrap?"
Me: "Why don't you pull yourself up by your own jockstrap?"
Seems like Dr. Oz has this pull yourself up by your own boostraps mentality about chronic illness that refuses to accept the reality of disability. Some can't survive without support, ever. Society really has a hard time with that. Some honestly won't make it unless a community wants them to.
May 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Seems like Dr. Oz has this pull yourself up by your own boostraps mentality about chronic illness that refuses to accept the reality of disability. Some can't survive without support, ever. Society really has a hard time with that. Some honestly won't make it unless a community wants them to.
Oh yeah maybe you should try pulling yourself up by your bootstraps
*skinamarink noise*
Haha Kevin where are your boostraps now Kevin
*skinamarink noise*
Haha Kevin where are your boostraps now Kevin
August 11, 2023 at 2:11 AM
Oh yeah maybe you should try pulling yourself up by your bootstraps
*skinamarink noise*
Haha Kevin where are your boostraps now Kevin
*skinamarink noise*
Haha Kevin where are your boostraps now Kevin
But tell me why I always have robo calls, emails, and texts from the democratic party begging me for money but they refuse to invest in my state? And then blame us when we don't pull ourselves from our boostraps and vote for leftist polices and politicians?
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
But tell me why I always have robo calls, emails, and texts from the democratic party begging me for money but they refuse to invest in my state? And then blame us when we don't pull ourselves from our boostraps and vote for leftist polices and politicians?
Telling our most vulnerable members to pull themselves up by their boostraps is the part I won’t forgive—that was heinous
August 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Telling our most vulnerable members to pull themselves up by their boostraps is the part I won’t forgive—that was heinous
Oh boo hoo, pull yourselves up by your boostraps.
Young women are now consistently earning more than their male counterparts for the first time, according to a report that warns of a social “crisis” gripping young men
The lost boys: how a generation of young men fell behind women on pay
www.thetimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Oh boo hoo, pull yourselves up by your boostraps.
"Boostraps" is an old-timey word for "shoelaces."
Picture a person picking themselves up by bending over and grabbing their own shoelaces. Absurd, right? Can't work? Defies the laws of physics?
That impossibility is what the phrase was meant to illustrate.
Picture a person picking themselves up by bending over and grabbing their own shoelaces. Absurd, right? Can't work? Defies the laws of physics?
That impossibility is what the phrase was meant to illustrate.
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"Boostraps" is an old-timey word for "shoelaces."
Picture a person picking themselves up by bending over and grabbing their own shoelaces. Absurd, right? Can't work? Defies the laws of physics?
That impossibility is what the phrase was meant to illustrate.
Picture a person picking themselves up by bending over and grabbing their own shoelaces. Absurd, right? Can't work? Defies the laws of physics?
That impossibility is what the phrase was meant to illustrate.
Exactly. Amazing how it's all 'boostraps' until it's THEM.
August 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Exactly. Amazing how it's all 'boostraps' until it's THEM.
Oh well!! Good luck to all the red states in the path of hurricanes that voted for this. Without FEMA, I'm sure you can find a bathtub to float on or whatever. You'll be fine! American boostraps!!
The National Weather Service was working on streamlining itself for the modern era when DOGE reduced the agency’s workforce. Days away from hurricane season, it’s now struggling to keep offices open.
The Weather Service Had a Plan to Reinvent Itself. Did DOGE Stop It?
www.nytimes.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Oh well!! Good luck to all the red states in the path of hurricanes that voted for this. Without FEMA, I'm sure you can find a bathtub to float on or whatever. You'll be fine! American boostraps!!
I dunno, I'm just fascinated by both the like "selfish/boostraps" wing of the "anti empire" mentality and the "Hard Empire Only" types. The kind of people who don't even think they benefit from empire even slightly, and the people who want on-the-map big name.
August 16, 2026 at 12:48 PM
I dunno, I'm just fascinated by both the like "selfish/boostraps" wing of the "anti empire" mentality and the "Hard Empire Only" types. The kind of people who don't even think they benefit from empire even slightly, and the people who want on-the-map big name.
All those in line with magat hats or other magat paraphernalia should be turned away. FAFO. Pull your stupid asses up by your boostraps.
October 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
All those in line with magat hats or other magat paraphernalia should be turned away. FAFO. Pull your stupid asses up by your boostraps.
They should all have to pull themselves off by their boostraps.
August 21, 2026 at 4:30 PM
They should all have to pull themselves off by their boostraps.
Right? Maybe the buillet will pull itself up by its boostraps.
A late entry for post of the day:
You know the body has a way of rejecting a bullet if it doesn't really want to be shot.
September 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Right? Maybe the buillet will pull itself up by its boostraps.