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[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

his gf goes to a different country

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Spoiler: His GF is Ben Shapiro's Canadian doctor wife who is also from Canada.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My gf goes to another school.

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

You wouldn't know her.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is the guy who claimed to be a virgin until very recently:

“At the end of the day, the Bible is very clear: abstinence until marriage. Not to do so is a sin,” Scott told the National Journal in 2012.

The politician’s public claims of virginity date to the early and mid-’90s, when he was running for city council in Charleston, South Carolina. Often described in more recent coverage as a “proud” 30-year-old virgin, Scott earned the support of the National Abstinence Education Association and later went on to co-sponsor the Abstinence Education Reallocation Act, which would have funded abstinence education and called for teaching the “skills needed to resist the negative influences of the pervasive sex-saturated culture.” (The bill went nowhere.)

But Scott can no longer claim to be a virgin, it seems. After he was appointed to the Senate in 2012, the National Journal asked him if he was sticking to his pledge of abstinence.

“Not as well as I did then,” Scott said. He was 46 at the time.

https://archive.ph/EnEow

Edit - upon archiving the WaPo article in this post, I learned that the author of this piece is also the author of the National Journal article. So this reporter has been covering the Tim Scott virginity beat for more than a decade.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

"Mr. Senator, polling shows voters are 'very uneasy' with the idea of voting for a 57 year old virgin who is not in a relationship."

"I can fix that because I have a girlfriend."

"You do? Why didn't you say anything? And why doesn't anybody know?"

"She's Canadian."

[–] Florist@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Smh, he should have leaned into it and angled for the incel vote