“Whatever her reasons for staying with that weird, imbecilic husband and whether or not she subscribes to his inane positions is of no real consequence,” [an unnamed "Hollywood heavyweight"] says disdainfully. "It isn’t as though we’re talking about Zendaya, whom one would desperately want to get into their movie.'...
One of the few close pals to publicly speak up about Hines in the Trump 2.0 era is Tig Notaro, who once cohosted a podcast with Hines called Tig and Cheryl: True Story.... “My friendship with Cheryl predated her marriage to Bobby.... And then he endorsed Trump, and then it just got hard.... It’s really sad, because Cheryl did bring me so much joy.”..
Sometimes it seems like Hines is living out some dementedly cringed-out Curb episode, where ordinary events spiral out of control. As Notaro pointed out, it was one thing when RFK Jr. was a free-floating conspiracy theorist (“a gnat on the arm,” as she put it); it’s quite another now that he wields so much power over the health of the American populace.
Remember how sometimes the rule is you never — ever — liken a person to an insect? That rule comes and goes, but I will deal with my dismay by savoring the small pleasure of using the "insect politics" tag one more time.
Try this AI prompt (I did): Tell me about the idea that it is very wrong to compare a human being to an insect, that once you start saying people are gnats or flies or something in need of swatting, you're going down a slippery slope to Auschwitz... or something like that.
पोस्ट्स
६५ टिप्पण्या:
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."
All of those parasites loved RFK Jr. and Cheryl Hines when they were donating to Democrat causes for values that RFK Jr. and Cheryl Hines still hold.
Bobby’s positions are insane? He’s just not in agreement with Hollywood; the people who think sex changes for kids is okay.
As the ‘I Lost My Leftie Friend’ stories become more frequent the story becomes ‘Everyone Is Leaving’…
Bobby's the slap in the face that America needed after 4 years of COVID insanity. "Come on America, snap out of it - SLAP! Wake up..."
When I was in high school I had no idea about the inner dynamics of the varsity cheerleading squad, although I was vaguely aware that some of them had boyfriends on the football team.
It's discouraging to think my youthful interest in Greek mythology was some sort of functional equivalent.
In all fairness to myself, that episode of Star Trek where Apollo is a real live spaceman was pretty awesome.
The class politics interests me more than their continual violations of alleged norms that they selectively apply as needed. The enforcers of class and status really want to other Hines, taken at face value because she will not divorce at their command.
This bullying is so typical of the left it is reported without comment here. Telling. And if accuracy means anything then MAHA is the subject, not MAGA, and the term is specifically misused so as to inflame their leftist readers even more.
I am reminded of the reaction of former friends when someone leaves one religious community for another. Yesterday they sang his praises; today no accusation is too vile to make. They are willing to believe the worst of their former friend. It's cult-like behavior.
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The democrats do resemble a cult. With excommunications and shunning a big part of their power.
And of course the progressives loved RFK Jr. when he was a gadfly bugging the Establishment and encouraging lefty proto-hippies to be skeptical of vaccines. My lefty nieces loved him “speaking truth to power.”
But now he is in power and the same truth is not so palatable anymore. He must be smeared, tagged with the hated MAGA red letter and now no democrat anywhere in America is saying “follow the science.”
it must be frustrating, for their bubble to keep getting smaller and smaller.
Next thing you know, Bill Gates will abandon Global Warming..
oh wait
Is it okay to say gadfly?
I think botfly is more appropriate.
So many people claim to be free and independent (“I don’t live by other’s rules”) but they are clearly in bondage to what other people think and say, because they don’t want to, themselves, be cast out of the crowd. They do what they want when it comes to living God‘s laws and their status as his friend, but they certainly don’t do what they want when it comes to losing their status or membership in the local “in group”. They’ve build their house on the sand of shifting popular opinion and the fleeting whims of others around them.
“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.“
— Henrik Ibsen
These make believe people annoy me
Tig notaro (too, thsts not a real name)
"...now that he wields so much power over the health of the American populace."
Haven't his main efforts been to give people more choice about things like vaccines? It's telling that they see that as "wielding more power."
Herd mentality with a dose of middle school mean girl.
Vanity fair is full of prog fan fic
RFK Jr is trying to get poisons out of our food supply. What a monster.
These are awful people. I can't imagine alienating a friend for a political belief. I have friends and neighbors on all parts of the spectrum. I associate with them for reasons other than political fealty.
They had the full set of fauci candles
..."It’s like you lock eyes and you shake heads and you move on....
Said unnamed acquaintances of Cheryl Hines..."
Remaining safely anonymous in the safety of the hive. A coward is never a friend.
She is better off without them. They were never friends, only acquaintances.
Sometimes you're the windshield
Sometimes you're the bug
Althouse said...
Remember how sometimes the rule is you never — ever — liken a person to an insect?
I only insect metaphor I took away from that VF article was the "hive mind" exemplified and extolled by its author.
How dare you walk off the Vanity Fair shitty Tranny hive plantation of leftist cult-whores, leftist group think, Democratic rage addiction and forced Soviet covid jabs.
Peter bart who has turned variety into prog trash
Cheryl was a card carrying Hollywood liberal who got mugged by the Trump Deranged leftists who have made her life a living hell.
"Remember how sometimes the rule is you never — ever — liken a person to an insect?" Nicely put: for progs, "sometimes" the rule is to do the right thing, i.e., only when convenient. For progs, rules are handy suggestions, to be used at will.
As the post implies and other comments have already noted, the Hines treatment also nicely illustrates politics-ueber-alles Trump-allergic prog intolerance. Can't speak for Hines, but it's just possible that she loves her husband more than the former friends who so eagerly denounce her and him.
Are ALL leftists shitty cowards like Cheryl's friends, or just the Lefties that make it into print, appear in public and chant nonsense?
Their only currency is their product and the audience had become more selective
“While his cousins chase headlines, RFK Jr. has spent 25 years in the trenches, building Riverkeeper into a national model and proving that idealism isn’t dead in American politics.
- Vanity Fair, “The Last True Kennedy,” May 2010
“ that weird, imbecilic husband . . .”
- quoted in Vanity Fair Oct 2025
Haven't his main efforts been to give people more choice about things like vaccines?
Yes. RFK Jr. still holds the values of freedom and liberty that his critics, and those of his wife, claimed to once hold.
’They had the full set of fauci candles’
The older Beastette and her husband stayed at the Hay-Adams a few years ago and they had Fauci caricature coasters in the bar. Thankfully she grabbed a few.
With "friends" who disapprove of your marital bliss, who needs enemies?
She's getting a new group of friends. She spoke highly of the Cabinet Spouses with whom she is hanging out now. Probably a much better class of America at large than the Hollywood ghetto,
I don't know about the "insects" thing, Althouse. It's not dehumanizing to call someone a "pest," or to say they're "busy as a bee." Or to say to an adversary, "I'll squish you like a bug!" Or to describe someone as "bug-eyed." None of that is beyond the pale.
It's really the cockroach slur that gets you on the downward slope to Auschwitz.
ell me about the idea that it is very wrong to compare a human being to an insect, that once you start saying people are gnats or flies or something in need of swatting, you're going down a slippery slope to Auschwitz... or something like that.
I asked that and then asked a follow-up: Now do "clump of cells" "parasite", etc. for the unborn.
Summary from Grok:
Final Answer
Yes — calling the unborn “clump of cells,” “parasite,” or “tissue” is a textbook form of dehumanization.
It’s not “just science.”
It’s moral disengagement.
It enables the largest-scale termination of human life in history (~1.5 billion abortions globally since 1980).
The same warning applies:
Once you stop calling a human a human, anything becomes permissible.
Boldbegone
Bold be gone!
Rats! lol
Trump, speaking to the NRA in May 2024, compared the "radical left" RFK Jr. to a fly that was buzzing him during the speech. A couple of months later, after the failed assassination attempt in Butler, Trump spoke to RFK Jr. on the phone and said that the bullet whizzing by his head sounded like the biggest mosquito.
The Democrats would rather spit you off from your friends than lose an election. This is the party that you guys love.
I am beginning to think that 1984 was actually a best case scenario, "the best of all *possible* worlds."
Diversity (i.e. color judgment, class bigotry) is bloc ideologies, class-disordered ideologies with flies on a Democratic dung heap. Abort. Sequester for a clean environment and hospitable climate.
"wields so much power over the health of the American populace."
Well, well. Look there. The consequences of increasing Federal power. Whoever could have forseen that?
Of course, there were no complaints when that power was held by the Right People.
TDS is not governed by rules, civility or reason. Hence “derangement.”
Whatever's wrong with Bobby Jr., he's not imbecilic, and what does the producer's quote even mean: that Cheryl is still part of the Hollywood "family" or that she and her opinions have been exiled to the outer darkness?
Hollywood is a place where staying with your spouse requires an explanation.
I use the phrase "like a gnat on a cow's behind" fairly often. Well...not that often, but enough. I used it today to describe my own impact on social media.
So it can be illustrative.
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Do these people realize how sadly shallow they are? Before RK became head of HHS, they knew and loved Cheryl as a friend. Reportedly, Cheryl hasn't changed, nor has her husband. Still believes the same "crazy" shit he has all along that they were well aware of. The only thing that has changed is his job. Sick.
Most of my friends vote for insane liberal asshole Democrats.
They are still my friends.
Please keep working on finding the causes and cure for autism.
I remember how nasty Caroline was to her cousin RFK Jr a few months ago, in public. All three of my siblings, and cousins as well, are leftist, but I get along with them, as I did with my leftist parents when they were alive. But we avoid politics, at least in my presence.
I've seen a few bits of Cheryl Hines on podcasts, recently. The latest was on Tucker Carlson. She seems to be doing well, if a little weary of the inquiries about her old "friends." I note that she will not say anything bad about those who have abandoned her and RFK Jr. She is more magnanimous than I could ever be.
When a Dem POTUS returns to power she'll get kicked out of the banking system. She has that to look forward to.
All of non LA based MAGA should be rooting for the Toronto Blue Jays to beat the LA Dodgers tonight. Let's call it 'Night of Tears for Hollyweird'. And if they don't do it tonight, we can move it to Saturday as they have two chances to win one.
What he said.
Fly like a butterfly; sting like a bee.
It's true that people shouldn't be called insects, but I wonder if that's what Ms. Notaro's family were doing when they called her "Tig" for years. Tick+Bug=Tig?
We are not the same.
I could never talk about a friend on the other side of politics like that. Even if one did the despicable mocking of Charlie Kirk's murder, which I really find to be the pinnacle of grossness, I would look it like someone who got too drunk and shit themselves. They don't realize what they are doing. They have lost their bearings, and I expect them to recover at some point. They are not less than human, they are just a broken one.
The people she maybe thought were 'allies" are nothing but self serving cultists.
SO TIRED of those people. This is what cultists sound like.
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