Is this important journalism? No way. Is it funny as shit? I think so.

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          I’ll disagree with you there. Wearing heels isn’t drag. Banning drag shows is bigotry and ignorance, and there’s plenty of hypocritical men who dress like women for fun while latheting up their voters and owners by targeting drag performers.

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        Exactly. If he weren’t drawing so much attention to it, nobody would care. He’s not even that short.

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          Also, the argument that taller people get elected is a post hoc fallacy. Taller people live entirely different lives from short people. They grow up with simultaneously additional expectations and confidence. Tall children are treated as if they are more mature, more advanced, and more athletic. They’re more likely to be eating well at home, getting exercise, and come from taller parents. The perception of maturity creates pressure to take advanced education classes, act as leaders among peers, and make decisions requiring authority, all advantages that compound across generations.

          That doesn’t mean a short person couldn’t also experience the same advantageous upbringing due to the circumstances of their birth. It just means that, on average, society has a bias towards taller (but not too tall) people. Voters also have a slight bias towards taller candidates, but putting lifts in your shoes doesn’t give you a lifetime of easy confidence and increased expectations. If anything, it reveals a sense of insecurity and inadequacy, not to mention brazen dishonesty.

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        where did he lie? are you suggesting that using aids to alter someones appearance is somehow lying?

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        Almost all the big politicians have PR consultants construct an image and brand for them. Clothing, makeup, cosmetic surgery (like Biden’s recent lifts and fillers). The lying DeSantis is doing with his image is no different than the playbook of any public figure. It’s like the diaper Donnie thing or whatever people come up with. These people can literally shit themselves in front of a live press conference and it doesn’t make a single difference.

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      Yeah. It’s slightly amusing to see his insecurity laid bare, but really idgaf how tall he is. But I will say this is someone else who lies about pointless things so he will definitely lie about important things.

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        No one gives a shit that he’s short. We give a shit that someone that already has massive power, and is clutching for much more, is so ridiculously insecure and projects on people he should be responsible for, but instead targets them for harassment and worse. Insecurities play a big roll in bullying.

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      I agree, but also this will effect a different group of voters. I wish all voters were educated and used logic, but many will just vote for the strong man. This guy who’s insecure about his height and needs to wear heels to appear taller next to other people might lose some of those voters when they’re made aware of it. Anyone who cares he’s a fascist has already made up their mind.

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      I agree, though sometimes (sadly) these kind of tactics prove more effective than attacking on issues. They were having trouble pinning down Howard Dean on issues, so they went after his scream. Image matters.

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      Why do people keep adding “-gate” to end of words to signal a scandal?? Can we please stop. The only scandal that that fits is Watergate, because that was the name of the fucking hotel!

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          I disagree. There is no such thing as a bootgate. Or the bootgate hotel. It is a silly made up word that is poor writing and journalism. The English language has plenty of descriptive words.

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            You don’t get to disagree. You don’t have to like it but the formulation is used because it is succinct and immediately understood. And that is how language works, whether you like it or not.

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        I remember in the 90s, when the compliant media was going along with a lot of hate radio, the snake handlers, and the black helicopter/Alex Jones/Bircher types that were all still hopping mad (and still are, if they are still kicking around) about not only Watergate (*), but also that Iran/Contra was getting a bit of coverage, too, and virtually everything, ever, was spun into a failed attempt to make a new scandal out of…Fostergate, Whitewatergate, Filegate, Travelgate, ChristmasOrnamentGate, ChinaGate, BrownGate, etc…

        (*) - Being discovered, that is.

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        Oh, in addition, the radicalized right wing - and some of the left that likes to pretend they are so “principled”, or that liberals are just showing “Russophobia” - kept calling the coverage of donnie’s collusion with Russia, “Russiagate”. Of course, they call all of it a “hoax”.

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    Trump has started a cargo cult.

    They’re all trying to replace him now, using stupid things that they think worked for Trump. Making themselves look taller while leaning forward at an unnatural angle, saying horrendous shit, being generally despicable and having no filter required for the top job.

    Trump got popular because people knew him. He was a celebrity. TV shows and shit. People are dumb as fuck and vote for people they’ve heard of. You could put Dolly Parton up there right now and get 60% of the popular vote.

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      Dolly is a gigantic supporter of libraries and books in general. She couldn’t get 60% of the vote because Republicans hate her.

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        Everyone likes Dolly. There’s no religious or political indoctrination strong enough to break that.

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          Unfortunately, I’m not sure about that. Years ago, FOX News called Mr. Rogers an evil man for telling kids that they are special. And that was before the right got as rabid as it is today. If Dolly became a political candidate, I don’t doubt that the right would find something to hate her for. (Likely the fact that she gets kids to read. How horrible!!!)

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        Its a shoe with heels higher than the toes, regardless of the purpose or visibility, hence the name high heels. “height booster” applies to both as well. The only difference here is the gender of the wearer; women wear platform heels and boots all the time, with the sole intention of boosting their height, that don’t call attention to their being high heels. Yet we still call them that.

        I don’t see the point in delineating in this special case other than that to call them high heels might be even more emasculating (at least to a conservative base) than the writer probably intended. Just as we don’t generally use the term ‘men’s purse’, but ‘satchel’ or simply, ‘bag’.

        It doesn’t have to be a “conspiracy” to be a double standard, and it clearly is one, so why are you so intent on denying it? I just want to know- nay, I am demanding to know!! Why isn’t Ronnie here leading the charge in normalizing high heels for strong, conservative men!?

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          If a high heel is any shoe with a raised heel, would that make a low heel a shoe with the heel under the toes, and a mid heel a flat?

          As I understand it, a heel is a shoe with an obviously raised heel, and high, mid and low are modifiers on the height of the heel - a 1" heel is a low heel, while a 5" heel is a high heel.

          Shoes styled to look like a flat but with a hidden internal raised heel are called lifts.

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            a shoe with the heel under the toes

            Doesn’t exist. If it were to, it would be so wildly impractical that I doubt the name would follow normal convention. But, sure. Low heel or high toe. Next question.

            a mid heel a flat

            Yes, where the heel and toe are on more or less equal footing (hah), we call those flats. If the entire foot is on a raised platform, we call those platforms. If it’s a platform with a raised heel, we call those platform heels.

            Lots of heels are styled so that most of the heel blends in with the shoe. It has nothing to do with the style. Pumps, stillettos, boots, wedges, kittens. Hell, I’ve seen high heeled converse. If it is women’s footwear with a raised heel, the blanket term is heels. High heels if they are especially high, as Ron’s are. But not for men. So why, I ask, are we sticking our necks out to deny this double standard?

            Now, let’s stop pretending we are members of an alien lizard species that do not understand human language conventions. We’re talking about a man that took a normal pair of boots that are 5 sizes too big, shoved a couple fancy doorstoppers in them to make himself appear taller, and is now parading around and playing pretend with his floppy toes and comically large kankles like a little boy that got into his mother’s shoe closet. And somehow instead of pointing and laughing we’re managing to have an even sillier argument about what to call the ill-fitting homebrew contraptions.

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      What’s hilarious is that heels started as a military thing- men who were cavalry would wear them so their feet wouldn’t slip through stirrups as easily.

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      I first saw them called heels a while ago. However, it’s specifically because he’s insecure about his height, so they’re height boosters in particular. They aren’t for style like heels typically are.

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    Another example of how the cons are the biggest snowflakes - this headline in addition to the one about donnie’s small “hands”, again.

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    I can’t believe people care about dumb shit like someone’s height in fields where it doesn’t actually matter. That 5’1" little brown woman in office with her finger on the big red button is always going to be much more of an actual objective threat than some 6’11" massive chungus of a dude with no real charisma to speak of and without any actual political power.

    Hell, just give the little brown woman a gun and pit her against Big Chungus on the street and see who comes out on top.

    People who analyze each other’s body condition and size and prioritize it in their judgement of everything other people do are such worthless fucking knuckledraggers.

    I despise Ron DeSantis and even I can see this is an obviously petty cheap shot. Why not complain about him trying to drive Disney out of Florida? Or his fascist book censoring? Or his anti-trans garbage?

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        To add. We’ve already done all the complaining. The whole world knows he’s a piece of shit.

        But he cares about being seen as tall and I want him to feel no joy in his life.

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      Because even though it shouldn’t matter, it’s subliminally important to Americans that our leaders be tall.