Bradley Whitford slammed Cheryl Hines for remaining silent after her husband, RFK Jr., endorsed Donald Trump for president.

Bradley Whitford slammed Cheryl Hines for remaining silent after her husband, RFK Jr., endorsed Donald Trump for president.

  • Cadeillac@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

    • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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.

      • Cadeillac@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        This is very fair. I’ll give her until election day. No waiting for the outcome to decide where her loyalties lie

            • ripcord@lemmy.world
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              10 months ago

              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.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    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

  • Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    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.

  • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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 they don’t want to share their opinions with total strangers, that’s their business.

    Plenty of us have crazy relatives who support Trump, doesn’t mean we are obligated to announce our disappointment to the world.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      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.

  • ALQ@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    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.

    • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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.

    • Cadeillac@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Yeah, I had to remind myself she isn’t the character she plays on Curb Your Enthusiasm

      • ALQ@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        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 :)

  • AmidFuror@fedia.io
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    10 months ago

    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?