politics

We can walk and chew gum at the same time!

It's not that he's short. It's that he's so obviously lying and expecting to be believed.

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.

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.

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!

I work for and teach for a University hospital located in the south, specializing in orthotics and prosthetics. I have built dozens of lifts for cowboy boots, mainly for people with severe limb length discrepancies.

He is 100 percent wearing a boot with around 3-4 inches of heel to ball internal lifts. The biggest giveaway in my opinion is that the boots are probably 2-3 sizes too big. The toe break in a normal shoe happens at the widest part of the shoe, you can tell his big toe is currently right where the first methead should be. This is why it looks like he's wearing genie shoes, the shoe is breaking closer to the toe box because there's nothing in them to prevent them bending backwards. .

Now if he wasn't wearing lifts he wouldn't be able to keep them on, as cowboy boots require a tight fitting vamp to stay attached. The lift raises the heels and thus the dorsum of the foot to press tightly against the vamp of an oversized boot.

The biggest thing I see that the article missed is that you can tell he is in hindfoot varus. Which is generally what happens when you do a sustained heel raise, enable to occasionally offload the posterior tibial tendon, moving some of the load to the peroneal tendon. This is why his foot is rolling over the lateral aspect of the boot.

This could occur naturally, but it's pretty rare outside of people who were born with clubbing in their feet. So I looked for other pictures of him walking in different shoes and found a pair of him walking in rain boots. In that picture he was over pronating and running over the medial side. So it's safe to assume that the supination in the boots are not a naturally acquired deformity.

If it makes anyone feel better, this guy is in some serious pain anytime he wears his lift. If he hasn't already done so, he looks like he's not to far away from a Jones fracture in his left foot. The left side looks like he's about 5-7 degrees of extra hindfoot varus than his right, which usually means he's damaged his peroneal tendon, or where it attaches to at the base of the fifth tarsal bone.

I think having a laugh at him hurts him more with his base because that is something republican voters care about, the authoritarian facisism is a plus to republican voters so media focusing on his book banning or taking on Disney for LGBT stuff only shows things Republicans like and want more of but a short loser who needs heels to just make it to 5 11 is a big no vote. And the 24 hour news cycle has covered his fascist shit pretty well.

I will add that the whole thing makes me think of this now whenever I see him:

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.

They're gender-affirming appliances when they're not for looks.

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.

Dolly Parton is a decent human being so there's no chance she'd make it that far in politics.

She would actually give a crap about children's literacy so let's do that.

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

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!