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

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I never noticed that Ron DeSantis is short until footage emerged of his weird shoes and the even-weirder gait he has wearing them. The shoes look like medieval poulaines and his gait resembles that…

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Arrest desantis for doing a drag performance in public. Kids watch these debates too you know
Fucking clown shoes.
Isn't a man wearing pumps illegal in his state?
Can we just start calling them what they are? High heels.
Why call them heel lifts? Just call them high heels.
Wearing heals ain't easy. He should just embrace it and get some 6" platform kinky boots.
They're not heels, They're gender affirming shoes.
What an odd little man. Democrats should hire Oompa Loompas to follow him around and sing songs about this sad clown.
You’re short. Nobody cares. You’re making it a big deal with these silly shoes.
Anti-trans and yet..
Odd.
That's what happens when you have hooves instead of feet.
What a sad world we live in where a man's height is a selection criteria for office. So dumb.

Seeing DeSADIST hobble around on these things...my word.
They should make a reality TV show of his campaign and call it The Weakest Loser and should showcase how small and pathetic he and his party is.

We have broken the bottom of the barrel and are now digging deep into sludge when it comes to political candidates here.
Pathetic. It's like a combover. Everyone can tell and owning it would be much cooler.
I can’t imagine giving a fuck, let alone wearing corrective shoes.

Hell I’m balding, so I must shave my head. I like it, other than the possible implications of my support for shitbsgs
Oh so he and Putin use the same cobbler! Tracks.
Nothing wrong with wanting to make that booty pop
So in a way he is weari g high heels making him a drag queen for his shows,
Just like his idol, Putin.
Yep. You can see the arch of his foot going up at like a30 degree slope and his toes are where the ball of his foot should be in the boot.
They really bring out his ass ok y'all just don't know what sexy means
These boots aren't made for walkin'

What he will try to do.

One of these days these boots are gonna

Ruin his campaign too.
Why are the toes so curled up?
Cargo cult politics. Looking for how they can be as popular as Trump. Maybe they just need to say horrible things. Perhaps the heel lifts and lean unnaturally forwards. Surely they can get the votes without actually needing Trump! Quick do that to your hair, put on weight, get on TV, blame Mexicans, time's a tickin'!
Just like his inspiration hamburder little hands
Same fucking thing Putin does. Be confident AND kind -- it's beyond these pricks....
Maybe that's why he always looks like he's about to cry. That's gotta hurt after a while.
Ronny's Horror Picture Show
Just looks like black KKKowboy boots to me.
Gender affirming care you say?
ever seen the white boots he wears?
putler, trump, kim, desantis. All in lifts.
Gosh can we focus on the important stuff? No one should care about the shoes he's wearing, he's a politician not a fashion model Focus on the crooked politician stuff
Manlets never learn.
Looks like the second and third layers of lift have shifted under his toes.
Truly newsworthy
Oh so he and Putin use the same cobbler! Tracks.
Very fitting, at least thematically. The most perfect shoe for him in particular is definitely clown shoes like these.
Was this in FL? There’s laws against performance done in drag.
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!
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.
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.
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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