Yes true, I saw the actual pics after. It looks less like a real crossdresser to me and rather like a sophomoric joke that leaked.

I made that point elsewhere in the thread but I hadn’t seen the pic when I made the above comment.

No that’s clear. Most of us on lemmy.world don’t, that’s why I hang out here and not on X or Gab

Ah ok the whole Lewandowski thing was news to me so I understand yeah. Maybe she’s trying to make a case for a favourable divorce settlement also.

Background checks are more to find actual wrongdoing like criminal activity.

It’s more a problem of current American society that this is considered blackmail material at all.

That’s true, there are several reasons for men to crossdress. There’s the people who genuinely like to look female (like trans people and drag queens), there’s also those who feel it is ‘dirty’ or degrading and view it as a kink (sissification as it’s usually called). There’s also some who do it for other reasons without much gender/kink connotations (like for stag parties, initiation rites, carnival etc).

Not all of these imply LGBTQ, only the first one really.

In fact most of the people from the first group tend to be really elaborate about it and make themselves pretty, and not do a half-assed job like he did in that pic. So I would think he is probably not part of the LGBTQ community, at least not based on that pic (not that that would be a bad thing of course!). This looks more like a drunk weekend joke thing got out of hand.

He might not share his wife’s values though.

Why would she do that I wonder?

No not really. They’re two separate issues.

This is the problem with conservatives, they’re all about loyalty so you must follow the company line or you’re out. If someone is marked bad there can’t be anything not bad about them. We progressives don’t have that.

I can totally accept this kink and still hate Noem. I just can’t use it as mud to sling at her but I don’t have to because there’s plenty of much more relevant wrongdoing she’s guilty of. This doesn’t even have much to do with her at all.

Nothing wrong with crossdressing. Though it sounds like he sent some of the pictures to others without consent which is much more of a problem of course (harassment)

But if he wants to dress up as a girl, why not.

Do military women really wear that kind of uniform with fragile pantyhose? And high heels aboard a warship? That alone would make me call BS.

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