This is a somewhat trivial observation, so if that bothers you, don't read more.

[Blue_true]

I saw a good photo of Matt Gaetz and noticed some things that caused me to blow up the photo and closely examine his hair. I believe that Gaetz is significantly bald and that his pompadour is a hairpiece.

If you blow up a picture that clearly shows his hair, you should see a couple of things. First, you should see two very distinct hair textures the side hair and the pompadour. I am considerably older than him and have pretty much all of my hair. If you look at my hair, the texture is the same all over my head (I can feel the texture all over my head). Second, if you look at the hair on the side of his head, which typically is the last hair to start balding, you should notice that his side hair has clear flecks of grey and his temple hair on both sides is close to all grey. The pompadour doesn’t have a single grey hair, that I could discern in a good closeup photo of his head.

Why does this matters to me? I have always viewed people that try to hide an unimportant natural blemish with suspicion - I have been the type that believes that we should work with what nature gives us. Serious balding is natural for most men, there are some exceptions. All of us lose hair as we get older and that hair doesn’t come back, the lifelong hair loss starts as soon as we have gotten a full head of baby hair.

On the large scale, Gaetz hiding balding is secondary to what he is, a total asshole. But him apparently (to me, at least) making a clownish effort to hide his baldness, I believe, is a visible indicator of the type of mindset that causes him to be a total asshole.

[USALiberal]

1. ???

[Blue_true]

6. Why bother to post? I thought that I pointed that out. nt

[Croney]

2. Yes, most of us are vain about one thing or another.

It's foolish to think we can, or should, be someone we are not.

He's just a worthless jackass though.

[Blue_true]

7. Hair loss and aging skin are sensitive subjects.

It is just his image was just so over the top, even clownish.

[multigraincracker]

3. Google his name plus "image".

His hair length changes a lot. I like the old mug shot.

[3Hotdogs]

4. I'm jealous.

Not everyone can afford a good tooop.

[Blue_true]

9. How much do they cost? I have been lucky enough not to need one

and my skin is also still youthful. Maybe that has produced a type of arrogance where I don’t fully understand people that have to deal with issues that I haven’t. But Gaetz is just such a totally unrecoverable prick (second only to Trump), so he makes an inviting target.

[rsdsharp]

20. In broadcasting, there's something called the trade out.

That’s where the station trades advertising for something of value other than cash. It might be food and drink, a station car, office supplies, or virtually anything else. It’s supposed to benefit the station as a whole.

I knew an owner who traded out his toupee. I asked him once if I could use it on Tuesdays and Fridays. He wasn’t amused.

[jmbar2]

5. Maybe that's the link to needing to buy sex

A lot of real women would be turned off by someone with such complicated hair. It would certainly redefine, "bed hair". Easier for the rich to buy someone who would pretend not to notice, won't expect you to stay the night, or spend much time together.

I'm not sure how hairpieces work in the dating world, but they would seem to make it harder to relate on a deeply honest level.

[Blue_true]

10. You touched on a point that I either missed entirely or badly jumbled.

It is about honesty. I would want a woman to see the person, physically and otherwise, that she will see in intimate settings, otherwise the whole effort of pursuing her is pointless.

[jmbar2]

14. agree

It's like the Emperor's new clothes.

[niyad]

8. Congratulations on having a much stronger stomach than I. Even with strong drink, there is no way

that I could look that closely at that disgusting perv. Thank you for the confirmation that that ridiculous thing on his head is a toupee. Which makes me wonder about other "enhancements".

And no, I have not yet started on the sacramental wine.

[Blue_true]

12. Lots of men wear hairpieces and women wear wigs.

But in the good, best and very best cases, those people try to buy stuff that match their real hair, Gaetz either didn’t bother to try, or was a cludge at it.

[Treefrog]

16. Cludge. I've never heard that word, but I like it!

[niyad]

17. Many years ago, a friend, an English professor at my college, wore a VERY bad toupee. He had

very serious identity issues after his wife left him for a woman. It took time, but I finally persuaded him to ditch the cheap rug. Had to do the same years later with the guy who owned the Houston Oilers (???) when I was there. Only in his case, it was bare chest, gold chains, and polyester leisure suits.@

[left-of-center2012]

11. I knew a guy who wore 'hair pieces'

He was an accountant, a friend of a friend. Guess you'd call him an 'acquaintance'.

Anyway, he thought his clients would trust him more if he weren't balding.
So he wore a toupee, but you could always see a thin line of skin where it didn't quite reach his real hairline.

Maybe he was too cheap (frugal ?) to buy a good one.

I saw him a few times when he wasn't wearing it and thought he looked fine, even better.

[Blue_true]

13. That is weird of him. His baldness would have been the last thing that

I would have been concerned about, given that he is an accounted. Honestly, I believe that I would have serious doubts about a guy that didn’t take the effort to match the hairpiece to his hair, I would much rather deal with a balding person, or much, much, much further down the line, a trained monkey.

[jmbar2]

15. I had a coworker with a bad toupee

It was too narrow for the top of his head, so it sort of looked like roadkill. Plus the color - brown - didn't match the sides. Whenever I looked at him, my eyes were totally on the hairpiece. He was married, so I guess some women do adapt to it. It would bother me a lot.

[Carlitos Brigante]

18. This is completely superficial....... and I'm all for it. If true. That'd be a good spot to hide the

little packets of blow and X.

[Blue_true]

23. Yes, the pompadour can hide a lot of stuff.

I haven’t seen anything like that pompadour since looking at Rhett Butler photos.

[Arazi]

19. On the serious side tho, his weight loss screams junkie to me

I wonder if he's got a serious habit along with the recreational use we now know about

[Blue_true]

24. Some republicans in Congress appear to be saying that Gaetz has an

alcohol and “illegal” drug problem. Of course, those cowards would never say that with a news crew doing video and sound.

[IcyPeas]

27. He apparently did or does ecstasy

[Blue_true]

29. No wonder Trump loved his so much. They likely shared "cutting" techniques. nt

[stopdiggin]

21. disagree (in a mild sense)

I think any sort of 'aid' or enhancement is perfectly all right. Some of it is definitely not for me. Some of it is distinctly off-putting to my tastes. Is there a psychological component in almost all of it? Sure -- but the same can be said for a snazzy pair of shoes, or a new 'do' with highlights. (or a tattoo saying Mom, or Trixie) Somebody else is trying to live in that skin and inhabit that character. Let them work it out as they see fit.
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[Blue_true]

25. Good viewpoint. I just have had "issues" with people that wore

really bad hairpieces or had the “cornrow” hair implants. They just came off as looking silly for doing that instead of simply shaving and polishing their heads like the Rock and other people like Bezos do.

[IcyPeas]

22. pre-pompadour picture: it looks like he has enough hair.

[Blue_true]

26. How long ago was that picture taken?

He doesn’t have the grey temple hair in it. Also notice how far forward the hair at the front of his head is combed out over his hairline.

[LAS14]

28. I'm all for this sort of trivia. I Google/imaged Gaetz and I pretty much can see individual hairs...

...coming out of his forhead. You can do that in the movies with a cap that looks like your skin coming down over your forehead, but not in regular life.

[Cha]

30. I hadn't even seen

Gaetz until this underage girls' scandal broke out.. and when I did look at his pic on DU I noticed what a big crop of hair he has.

Not thinking about it being a toupee, of course.

[Blue_true]

31. If you look at the sides and the pompadour, the texture and colors don't match.

If you want to look at an example of either good hair or a very good hairpiece, look at republican Senator Roy Blunt’s hair, everything matches.

[Cha]

33. One would think

he'd have the money to do better.. but I guess the way is perverted life is unraveling.. doing better is not not what he does.. ever.

[Wounded Bear]

32. I have come to expect this kind of trivial vanity from most politicians...

of all stripes. Any more, it's just part of the noise. Although, when it gets really blatant, like the former guy did, it gets pretty clownish and laughable.

[Cha]

34. FYI.. here's a Mug Shot of the Gaetz

in 2008.. scroll down to the bottom of the Message..

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215294138

Course anything can happen in 12 years.