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My mom was saying the other day that she couldn't believe how someone so "liberal" would be married to RFK Jr. When I suggested Hines must not be as liberal as she thought, my mom tried to argue.
I reminded her that, if you sit at a table with 11 nazis, there are 12 nazis at the table; that got her to stop.
Yeah, I had to remind myself she isn't the character she plays on Curb Your Enthusiasm
The saying is that if there’s one Nazi at a table and ten others, there are eleven Nazis.
You're right. In the context of my conversation with my mom, it made more sense the other way, but I should've explained. Thank you for clarifying :)
Then again, couples like James Carvill and Mary Matalin do exist in the world. My in-laws are like that too. Totally opposite ends of the political spectrum.
I imagine when politics is your job, you might try even harder to leave it at the office. Oftentimes people will drift politically but still continue to like one another for the same reasons they did when they first met, and keep the politics out of the house for the sake of harmony. Of course, there's a line in any arrangement.
A few interesting bits from wiki. Larry David introduced Cheryl and Worm for Brains. Worm for Brains stated she would divorce him should he endorse Trump. That is why this silence means something
In December 2011, Hines began dating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. They were introduced by Hines's co-star Larry David, from the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm. They announced their engagement in April 2014, and were married on August 2, 2014, at the Kennedy Compound on Cape Cod. Robert Kennedy Jr. announced in April 2023 that he was running as an independent for president of the United States in 2024. Hines said in an interview: "I support Bobby and I want to be there for him, and I want him to feel loved and supported by me." Amid news of Kennedy's impending suspension of his presidential campaign and plans to endorse Donald Trump, Hines reportedly expressed displeasure with the decision. Kennedy had previously stated in interviews that Hines would divorce him should he accept a role with the Trump administration. On August 23, 2024, Kennedy announced the suspension of his presidential campaign and his endorsement of Trump.
If that's true and she really means to follow through on that, then her current silence might well be on the advice of her divorce lawyer.
This is very fair. I'll give her until election day. No waiting for the outcome to decide where her loyalties lie
And then if she doesn't denounce him, then BOOM, CANCELED, amirite?
Meh. I gave up investing emotionally in the opinions of celebrities a long time ago. I'll still continue watching and enjoying Curb regardless.
from wiki
Which one?
The same one that everybody uses, Wikipedia
Cheryl's
There's thousands of wikis, figured I'd ask :)
I thought you meant which person, I was just being an ass at first. Sorry
Oh, no worries.
For, uh, "fun" I went to see if there was a "Cheryl's Wiki" which would have been funny to me, because of the way I be.
Lots of Cheryl articles on a buttload of different wikis, but no Cheryl's Wiki.
Hines took to social media herself after RFK Jr. dropped out of the race to praise his campaign team, writing “they have accomplished feats that were said to be impossible. They have gathered over a million signatures, more than any candidate in history,
I can't find the exact numbers for either campaign, but Ross Perot back in 1992 also had "over a million signatures" as a third party candidate. source
I mean she married a roadkill-collecting, brain-worm-eaten, anti-vax, anti-Semitic, conspiracy theorizing, generally bigoted lunatic. Like the type of person "lunatic" was coined for. I have a feeling that thoughtfulness and true romance were not at the heart of that decision, as a failing actress now tethered to someone with the last name "Kennedy." Either conniving and uncaring or a top-tier loon herself.
I mean maybe? Or maybe it's also true that people have lives apart from their public personas, and qualities that only their loved ones get to see.
Having private, nice qualities in addition to those above in no way minimizes any of those above. "That's a deal breaker" -Liz Lemon
I never meant to imply that it did. But humans are complex creatures, and our relationships doubly so.
You don’t have a brain worm, collect road kill and fuck your tonsils up to be or remotely even sound normal. I mean it’s a marriage. You marry that shit??? red flag.
Your version of normal???
Edit to add: I have no idea why he sounds as fucked up as he does. I only mention his tonsils because he sounds like a 100 year old smoker who still doesn’t see the error of their ways.
Nobody ever said he was normal. Shit, he's a fucking Kennedy. Could there be a bigger red flag than that?
I'm just beyond throwing everyone connected to him into the same category. People marry and stay married for lots of reasons. It's gotten so fucking tedious the way we try to put everyone and everything in one box or another, without any way of actually knowing what's really inside of them.
RFK Jr has six children. Why haven't they spoken out against their father? I should slam them on their social media accounts, as soon as I learn their names.
Just kidding. I don't like RFK but his family doesn't owe anyone an explanation. If "right to privacy" means anything, it means you don't have to share your innermost feelings about your own spouse with total strangers.
In fact plenty of us have crazy relatives who support Trump. Doesn't mean we are obligated to announce our disappointment to the world.
There was a post I scrolled past with one of his kids complaining about wearing a plastic bag with a mouth hole over their head driving in a car getting splashed with whale juice after their dad took a chainsaw to claim the whales head and take it home. Said people were flicking them off and it was a "normal" day living with him.
shes clearly as insane as he is. kinda disappointing
Maybe she shared his roadkill barbecue that fateful night and also got herself a brain-worm.
What if she's the brain worm!
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No wonder Larry and her broke up
I feel bad for Ted Danson.
When did it become clear RFK Jr. went nuts? He was pretty revered among the left for his environmental stances, but then he started to apply the same fear-mongering to vaccines that he had been for chemical pollutants.
He and Hines married in 2014. Was he already pretty far gone in the public's perception or was he getting a pass?
Behind the bastards did a 4 parter on him last month. IIRC he had a kind of fucked up childhood and he was heavily into environmental causes for awhile but then fell into vax skepticism and sort of spiraled from there.
https://player.fm/series/behind-the-bastards/part-one-the-rfk-jr-episodes