Ron DeSantis appears to be wearing extreme heel lifts and is having trouble walking in them

Don’t legitimize their garbage talking points, he’s just trying to emulate his orange idol

Very on brand

Came here to type those exact words 💀 what an absolute dork

This is what Putin does too.

The state of US politics, with the GOP in particular, has devolved into a clown show of 3rd world proportions.

Thank you.

That would make them an abomination against Christendom, as it's provable from Einstein's field equations that men wear these clothes and women wear those clothes.

Ironically you could make a valid argument he is crossdressing which might actually be enough to turn his shitty fucking base on him. Start a rumor his name is Rachel Santiago an illegal Colombian immigrant who went transgender drug mule to escape prosecution for homosexual prostitution only to enter the us setup a fake name he took from a gold star family and made his fortune providing backalley abortions but only for whites.

That sounds like some Hunter S Thompson shenanigans

That sounds like something the FL DNC would spend money on.

Would it be okay if we put your hands on top of mine? Like they're my hands? Yes, that looks like my hands. For the website! We're lawyers!

Not quite comparable. Trans girls are cuter and rock heels waaay better! But perhaps it's also the non-genocidal vibes that i love.

I personally don't because i never took the time to get used to heels. That and Chelseas are also cute :3

Forbidden fruit🤤

The taller candidate wins most presidential elections...

Uneducated people that don't know that whole causation/correlation thing thinks that means using tricks to look taller helps their chances.

It probably has more to do with being taller as a kid too where other kids looked to you as a leader and you dominated sports/games. That stuff snowballs into lifelong confidence and advantages in k-12 means advantages in college, and a springboard into a career.

DeSantis thinks it's the same as wearing high heels in public without practicing first.

Now now. No need to call the legendary Marquis names by tainting his last name. He would not have enjoyed being in any way associated with DeSantis.

I think the insecurity is what is being made fun of here. Bald people shaving their head generally don't get made fun of but, weird comb overs do because one is clearly insecure about it while the other is confidently bald.

In this case he is clearly insecure about his height and is wearing silly shoes to hide it. Or rather his reptilian handlers told him that being taller would improve his approval rating slightly.

Just be bald, just be short, just be fat, have a weak chin or a weird nose. Do things to complement your appearance but be confident about it.

I also think it's fine to make fun of a fascist torturer for things that it would be wrong to make fun of normal people for.

As a woman with a high hairline, I embraced having nice hats ... seriously, I love my hats and there's no reason dudes can't as well :-)

I also rock lots of headscarves, but that's a bit more gendered :-/

You can always claim to support SHARP

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinheads_Against_Racial_Prejudice

Or, ya know, actually support/join them. I don't, but I don't join groups. Too many people in groups.

Bruh! Same boat. In 2019 I had a receding hairline and the same cut as that Charlottesville douchebag that was plastered everywhere.

Now I just gotta shave it. Pretty pissed at the alt-right for ruining the one of the very few haircuts I could pull off (amongst MANY other things).

Plot twist: Its not about the height, its about the bootylicious popping.

Next he will be reading to children in those!

Thanks.. needed that laugh.

Nothing in them and leather has a memory.

They look like cowboy boots to me. Which usually have a pretty good sized heel on them. The ones I've had tend to curl up some although his may be poorly maintained too.

https://cowboyhardware.com/cdn/shop/articles/how-not-to-wear-cowboy-boots-7-western-fashion-mistakes_1618x1079.jpg

Also, fuck that psychopathic fascist.

Why are the toes so curled up?

Maybe he's an elf.

The anal fissure is what causes that pain. The lifts are merely just an inconvenience.

Its about the hypocrisy and his insecurities. This is drag, this is gender affirming for him. He has toxic ideals about masculinity and has to change his appearance to conform to the social construct of the gender he wants to appear as. Same reason trump did it.

It is ok when he does it, but not when a trans man does it? When a cis man ages and has lower levels of testosterone and needs monthly injections that is ok. When a trans man wants the same injections for the same reason, lower natural levels of testosterone, then there is an issue. When a cis man is overweight and does not like the appearance of fat on his chest, and wears tight undershirts to hide breasts, that is ok. But when a trans man wears a binder for similar reasons there is an issue. When a cis woman gets breast augmentation because of whatever reason, unfortunately many times due to a toxic ideal of femininity and beauty standards that society pushes on them (not saying that breast augmentation is a bad thing, it may empower some women and make them feel more confident, and that is tangible and valid) then it is ok for that cis woman to get gender affirming care. But when a trans woman wants the same surgey, for the same reasons, to empower themselves and make them feel more confident in the gender constructs and ideals of feminity of our society, then there is an issue and they have to jump through hoops to get the exact same surgery.

This isn't about the shoes. It is about the hypocrisy of the right. It is about the cognitive dissonance and the fact that the anti-trans agenda is not about "rEaSOn" or "nATurAL oRdER" or whatever, it is about hurting people they deem different while enjoying the comforts they deny to others because of whatever antiquated religious ideas they were indoctrinated into.

I guess we've found the new home of /r/Politics. Good to know which communities we should block.

Yes.

I didn't understand the drama myself, until I realized the toes of the boots are empty- just looking at them, you can see they're essentially deflated.

Click on the link, it illustrates. But yes, the heel inside is higher than on the outside, that's why they're boots.

I would normally agree with you, but in this case I think making fun of DeSantises high heels is warranted, because of all the hate he has helped to project against trans people and drag queens for wearing high heels. It's just calling him out for being a hypocrite.

I’m petty as shit. It’s time to bully these shitheads. Going high got us jack.

No one cares if he's short. Literally, no one but him.

The part that makes this somewhat interesting is the shear amount of insecurity that would lead a man to wear heels in attempted incognito.

That's a fairly alarming amount of insecurity for someone holding a large amount of power, and seeking more.

Can’t we just let people wear whatever shoes they want?

We can if he can. But since he's an asshole about it, anything said against him is fair game. As they say, don't start nothin, won't be nothin

It's funny because he's clearly insecure about his height. No one would even care if he was short. (At least on the logical, reasonable side of the isle). I wonder if Republicans would give a shit or if this shit the typical F-550 with a lift kit mentality they all have.

No, he’s an asshole. If he’s insecure about his height then hammer him on it. Call out his weird shit, ol Pudding Three Fingers deserves it in spades.

I think the problem goes way deeper. Just like Donald Trumps lifts and Vladimir Putin's lift. These people rule the world and that's what they are concerned about.

THIS

Yea, they are, but where they're bending seems to indicate that either his feet curl upward like crazy, or that his heel is higher than the rest of his foot by a pretty big margin.

I've never seen boots curl up at the toe like that...