Conservatives in furor over Julia Roberts ad
Source: The Hill
10/31/24 2:28 PM ET
A new Harris-Walz campaign ad voiced by actor Julia Roberts encourages women to vote for Vice President Harris in the presidential election, even if their husbands are backing former President Trump. The Roberts ad, put out by Vote Common Good, also alludes to abortion rights, which is seen as a pivotal issue in a race that has seen Trump with big polling leads among male voters and Harris with a large lead among female voters.
In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want. And no one will ever know, Roberts says in the ad as a woman on screen meets up with her husband after casting her ballot for Harris. The voter winks at a fellow female voter as her husband asks if she made the right choice.
Republicans have responded to the video with outrage, with some claiming that a wife lying about her vote is as bad as an affair. If I found out Emma was going to the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, thats the same thing as having an affair, Fox News host Jesse Watters said on air Wednesday in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.
Other GOP members including Charlie Kirk said the thought was nauseating. In criticizing the ad, he discussed a husband working hard to afford his wifes lifestyle, and then said a wife who lied to her husband about whom she backed would amount to undermining her husband.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4964265-kamala-harris-ad-julia-roberts/
(I had posted that ad earlier in the week - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143330414)
Bernardo de La Paz
(51,071 posts)johnp3907
(3,902 posts)Theyre triggered by everything!
Montauk6
(8,729 posts)Malloy 3:16, y'all... smh
Pachamama
(17,018 posts)they want to control our minds and actions - period.
NH Ethylene
(31,004 posts)And in such an overt way!
bahboo
(16,953 posts)this should make women want to vote for Harris even more.....
durablend
(8,004 posts)wryter2000
(47,540 posts)What planet does he live on ?
txwhitedove
(4,015 posts)Clueless idiots.
mpcamb
(2,975 posts)She probably HAS to work to cover his truck payments!
ananda
(30,862 posts)or enough of a Handmaiden.
slightlv
(4,391 posts)the straw that broke the camel's back was when I bought a $10 dress from WalMart, and he threw a hissy fit. Such a lavish lifestyle I lived... NOT! It wasn't long after that when I screwed up my courage and willpower, put on a black T-shirt with two heads in profile (one man, one female) and the caption: Behind every great woman stands a man who tried to stop her," and told my husband I had filed for divorce.
I had a four-year-old, no job, and was in college. To say I was terrified is an understatement. But I knew I couldn't live any longer with someone who tried to control every aspect of my life... he even tried to stop me from going to college! I knew that whatever waited for me after the divorce would be of my own making, and I knew I could do better than what I was living at time time!
Deuxcents
(19,935 posts)Of what it took to make that decision. 🌺
MyOwnPeace
(17,280 posts)KNOWING what YOU wanted - and having the courage and determination to do it - no matter what! And to do all of that while raising a young child - WOW!
I hope you are in a position to help others that need to see what you saw - and know that they, too, can do what is BEST FOR THEM!
(I'm also thinking that many will get such inspiration from President Kamala! )
electric_blue68
(18,383 posts)As for college...
I remember like 30+ yrs back at one of our in general wonderful extended family Holiday get together our host cousin's second husband's mother saying something about women either shouldn't go, or not needing to go bc they're women.
Well...my dad hit the ceiling. How proud he was that both his 2 daughters went to college!
Sundance1220
(150 posts)Your child is lucky to see his/her mom stand up when it was such a hard thing to do. An important lesson.
flying_wahini
(8,039 posts)And broadcast it.
Clouds Passing
(2,467 posts)area51
(12,161 posts)considering he had an affair which led to the destruction of his previous marriage.
sl8
(16,252 posts)calimary
(84,482 posts)pat_k
(10,879 posts)" I can't believe there are men that think women never faked anything"
Nicole Wallace
With thanks to tulipsandroses for highlighting this!
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219635399
Drum
(9,856 posts)NBachers
(18,163 posts)SunSeeker
(53,904 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(12,674 posts)niyad
(120,370 posts)bobalew
(361 posts)They have already been doing ThAT for a very long time ..
niyad
(120,370 posts)woman-fearing, wannabe-taliban lords and masters, I am rather sorry that I did not go to kirk's little "freedom fest" here two weeks ago, and hit him where he might pay attention. But then I remind myself that I had not yet turned in my ballot, and my kitty would be very upset.
WTAF??? "the same as cheating"????? Nice tell, you two. You are openly stating that a woman having a mind of her own is a threat to you insecure, terrified, jackwads. Thank you for stating it out loud.
May you, and your supporters and enablers, receive everything you deserve.
Trueblue1968
(18,213 posts)niyad
(120,370 posts)about his fear and hatred for women.
The Roux Comes First
(1,578 posts)Just how narrow do you suppose that communications bandwidth is with these hyper-right-male couples? Is she expected to fess up whenever she happens to tune out Fox or tune in MSNBC? Document whenever she doesn't condescend to people of lower means?
Go to confessional if she ever signed on to Democratic Underground?!!
lastlib
(24,958 posts)....that maybe THEIR vote is undermining their wives??!? No, it wouldn't. Sheesh. Entitled a**holes...Eff 'em.
BaronChocula
(2,519 posts)The backlash gives the ad more attention than it would have had initially. These fools will jump on the boat to get to the bait.
Jack Valentino
(1,439 posts)BaronChocula
(2,519 posts)(Even tho Brody said it)
no_hypocrisy
(49,013 posts)I've imagined them filling out their wives' ballots according to their whims and either having their wives sign where they point or just all-out forge their wives' signatures. After all, they can't follow their wives into the voting booth.
Jack Valentino
(1,439 posts)Their reaction to the ad is almost worse for them, than the ad. lol
And Jesse Watters had an affair-- that's why his last wife divorced him.
Jack Valentino
(1,439 posts)Heh heh. Those poor magat brides probably have to fake a lot of things....
sinkingfeeling
(53,115 posts)ck4829
(36,085 posts)JohnnyRingo
(19,350 posts)...when they got home from the polls. She looked over from the passenger seat and said "Again?".
Blasphemer
(3,291 posts)Guess I need to start telling him who to vote for given the lifestyle he will be able to afford.
BTW Kirk - no biological kids on our horizon!
Beartracks
(13,606 posts)First of all, her vote is HER vote and she's under no obligation to share her choice if she doesn't want to.
And second -- Really, guys, you think your wife OWES you her vote/obedience/supplication(/sex) if you "work hard to afford her lifestyle"? That's not in the Constitution.
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CTyankee
(65,161 posts)my tears fell like rain...
tonekat
(2,029 posts)It was beautiful.
DFW
(56,725 posts)Republican propagandist and strategist Mary Matalin must leave the Republican Party immediately, and from now onwards, advocate only what her husband, Democratic strategist Jim Carville, wants.
Good luck with that. Double standard, anyone?