Is this important journalism? No way. Is it funny as shit? I think so.
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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!
The scandal is actually called the watergategate scandal.
Frankenstein’s monstergate
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Because that is how language works. This is not hard.
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.
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.
I disagree. It’s stupid.
Oceangate as well.
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.
This.
This.
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”.
getting wrecked by who? you think cryposting on lemmy is doing anything?
Won’t call myself an expert but as my username suggests I’m also in the industry. If nothing else just looking at how he walks and stands is enough to tell he is lifting his shoes.
This being said I really hate that the media is fixating on the turds height insecurity and not the fact he is a mask-off authoritarian fascist that is trying to become president. It’s like making fun of Hitler for his mustache, I mean it’s kinda humorous but let’s not let that distract from all the other more important shit
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 love that I can find a expert who can jump on with their professional views on a random topic here haha. Cool!
Thank you for your in-depth analysis!
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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 guess this is true… Sadly
Because he’s fully shameless about his moral bankruptcy and authoritarian tendencies, but apparently full of shame of about his height.
Yeah, we as citizens should care more about the former, but there is some catharsis to be had knowing how much he seems to care about the latter.
Taking the high road isn’t working.
We can point out he is a authoritarian nazi chomo until we’re blue in the face and it won’t matter, because the people voting for him don’t care, or don’t believe.
But these people put a lot of effort into their Big Strong And Definitely Not Gay political fursona. So we make fun of how short they are, and how weak they are that they have to hide it, and we suggewt that maybe they’d like a nice strong bear of a man to cuddle them. That’s not weird or wrong to me, and it isn’t weird or wrong to most people, but it is weird and wrong to people who are trying to say he’s a Big Strong Authoritarian Who Definitely Isn’t Short And Gay.
Heels. He’s wearing high heels. Remember, it’s projection.
Not just heels though, that’s the point of the article
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 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.
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!!!)
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!
Man, a barefoot style boot. I had toe shoes for years and only recently discovered this style. They’re a lot more discreet, but now that it’s getting colder out I’m looking for something warmer.
Please no. I’m already short enough.
Sounds like you need some high heels…
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.)
Oh, people analyzed all of that for Trump while he was president, don’t worry!
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.
He has nothing but my disgust, but his poor toes have my pity.
Enough fucking desantis spam. This cunt is of no consequence outside of FL.
I’m fine with it so long as it’s not something that they’re putting out themselves like an inflammatory comment to gather support or if it tarnishes their reputation. This just makes him look insecure and the butt of the joke.
The guy is literally a Guantanamo Bay torturer - I’d say the MAGA crowd is going to go nuts for him.
Say that in 4 or 8 years when he’s a presidential frontrunner
[x] doubt
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
Here’s where he bought those boots: https://donsfootwear.com/en/agusta
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.
