Rising GOP Star Lied About His Age on Dating Profile: Report (www.thedailybeast.com)

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[-] Thalion@lemmy.ca 29 points 4 months ago

There are plenty of GOP members doing truly horrific shit to not have to scrape the bottom of the barrel like this

[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago

GOP senator lies about how much he enjoys hiking and exploring on his dating profile

😱

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, but highlighting the horrific shit doesn't seem to stop them. Maybe highlighting the embarrassing will get them to at least feel shame for once in their lives.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

Gaslight, Obstruct, Project.

Nope, I don’t see anything about shame in there. Also those assholes just double down when embarrassing or worse news comes out about them.

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

That's not something we need to be bothered by.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

It’s pretty creepy actually

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

A little, but both sexes do it, and often. It's really scraping the barrel.

[-] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I'm not saying it's completely okay, but I do think that's one of those lies that is kinda almost expected now.

I might tease a bit, but no matter what age a girl tells me she is, I'm going to go with it. I'm not really expecting the real number there and that's totally fine for me at least.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, particularly because he's clearly doing it to try and prey on 20 somethings but you've fed us on PREMIUM corruption.

This amateur hour shit doesn't cut it anymore, we NEED our FIX

[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 months ago

People lie on the internet?

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

For those wondering, he’s 37, and he said 29.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 14 points 4 months ago

That's probably the least worst thing any member of the GOP has ever done.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Meh, as long as he's only dating adults and not abusing anyone, i didn't care. People lie on those stupid things all the time, and age is at the top of the list along with height & weight.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I don't do dating apps, but I've heard that men will tend to put down at least 6' for height since there is such a preference for height.

[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Kinda weird but really nominal considering what the rest of the party is being forgiven of by their base.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

For real, this shit's weak, they're the American Fascist Party.

[-] buttfarts@lemy.lol 2 points 4 months ago

Does anyone else think he looks creepily like a ventriloquist dummy?

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Or just a regular dummy

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

So? Lying isn't against the Bible!

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