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He’s bad enough as he is- do we really need to stoop to their level of pettiness? This is the type of shit that conservatives get a boner for.

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

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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.

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Seriously? Of all the things to take this… person, to task for, people are bringing up his shoes?

Can’t we just let people wear whatever shoes they want? I know DeSantis is fully the type to try and arrest somebody for wearing the wrong shoes. Which is my point.

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THIS

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Disclaimer: I’m not a fan of Ron DeSantis.

This is stupid. Those are black cowboy boots. I work near a lot of construction guys (in the Midwest especially) and a lot of them wear very similar boots.

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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…

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True… And also, in general, I don’t care what a politician looks like. But I do care that he cares this much.

Just like how I don’t care if a politician wears bronzer, but I do care if he’s the president and he defied expert recommendations and stopped wearing masks during a pandemic because they got his bronzer on them.

These are evidence of politicians making poor decisions due to their vanity, and that worries me.

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Nothing wrong with wanting to make that booty pop

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

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is there supposed to be a lift inside the shoe? because the height of the visible heel just looks normal to me. dressy boots often have a pretty noticeable stacked heel.

disclaimer - i’m no fan of DeSantis

edit - okay, video at the link has made it all abundantly clear!

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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.

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

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