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What a fragile human being. I have nothing more to add.
I will add that the whole thing makes me think of this now whenever I see him:
Far-right-quaad
Now do Trump. (He's gone from 5 feet 10 decades ago to "6 feet 3 inches" now, and that's not all his bouffant.)
Love the double standard
Women = heels Men = height boosters
It would be one thing if it were just the heel
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.
Am I missing something? I don’t see the negative side of heels? They’re just called by different names.
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.
Tangentially related, but more men should be openly rocking some heels. Make heeled boots fashionable again.
Then there's me, drooling over the pair of zero-drop Jim Green African Ranger boot. We each got our thing, I guess. Free the men from footwear oppression!
Can we be certain that it's for boosting height and not the perkiness of his buttocks?
So high heels. Gateway fashion to trans.
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.
Dolly is a gigantic supporter of libraries and books in general. She couldn’t get 60% of the vote because Republicans hate her.
Everyone likes Dolly. There's no religious or political indoctrination strong enough to break that.
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!!!)
Trust me, no one will notice
Another example of how the cons are the biggest snowflakes - this headline in addition to the one about donnie's small "hands", again.
Enough fucking desantis spam. This cunt is of no consequence outside of FL.
Also, this article claims little donnie is 6'3". Hm.
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?
We care because he clearly cares so much.
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.
Because even though it shouldn't matter, it's subliminally important to Americans that our leaders be tall.
He has nothing but my disgust, but his poor toes have my pity.
The only person denying this is the short man himself right?
If he wants to get taller he can just pop a Viagra.
Are you implying his cock is so big it would prop him up or am I missing the joke?
I'm saying he's a dick.
I wish I was a dick
Not to mention the size 14s on a size 8 foot.
I get why this is news, but who the fuck cares? I wanna stand over him and look down into his beady little eyes and call him, "Little Man." But I'll never get to so why do I see this on Lemmy? I'll think about Ronnie when I'm taking a shit.
I mean at this point its either wedged heels or he's a lizard because no normal person's feet just look like that. His toes are just so floppy, it's unnerving.
When I read things like this I have to think about Randy Newman's Short People. Ben Shapino also comes to mind...
Short people got no reason Short people got no reason Short people got no reason to liiiiive
They got little hands, little eyes They walk around tellin' great big lies They got little noses and tiny little teeth They wear platform shoes on their nasty little feet
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Every time I see this stuff about ronnie's high heels situation, Cheech & Chong's Earache My Eye pops into mind (since he's so anti-trans, I guess?)
My basketball coach He just kicked me off the team For wearing high heeled sneakers And acting like a queeeeeeeeeeeen...