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BumRushDaShow

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Fri Nov 1, 2024, 07:03 AM Nov 2024

Avengers stars assemble to endorse Kamala Harris - by brainstorming an election catchphrase [View all]

Source: The Guardian

Thu 31 Oct 2024 20.56 EDT
Last modified on Thu 31 Oct 2024 20.59 EDT


The cast of Marvel’s Avengers movies have come out in support of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris less than a week before the US election.

In a video posted first on Vanity Fair on Thursday evening, actors Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Don Cheadle, Chris Evans, Danai Gurira and Paul Bettany playfully riffed on their respective characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe while encouraging viewers to vote for Harris.

The video, which runs for just over 90 seconds, opens with the actors taking an incoming video call from Johansson. On screen, they brainstorm ideas for a catchphrase for Harris, landing on the dubious “Down with Democracy”, which they spin into a brief Marvel-style Harris/Walz campaign video with dramatic music and comic-style graphics. The final frame of the video encourages viewers to vote on November 5.

Sharing the video on X, Ruffalo, a vocal Democrat supporter who is best known for his role as the Hulk, wrote: “Don’t sit this one out. It’s the one where we will lose big: Project 2025, women’s reproductive rights, climate change, LGBTQIA+ rights, public education, student debt relief, Affordable Care Act, Social Security, and as of today, life saving vaccines. This shit is real and it’s going to come for you.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/01/us-election-avengers-cast-kamala-harris-endorsement





(all the videos of this were either on X or Instagram, etc. but found the above on youtube)



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4:33 PM · Oct 31, 2024
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Reassuring to see samsingh Nov 2024 #1
Is it me? Or is that just awful? johnnyplankton Nov 2024 #2
There are A LOT of people who are fans of the Marvel Universe (and the Comic genre in general) BumRushDaShow Nov 2024 #3
As a huge MCU fan radicalleft Nov 2024 #4
It almost makes it seem like Kamala is AGAINST democracy. Frank D. Lincoln Nov 2024 #7
Ya'll are showing your age! BumRushDaShow Nov 2024 #12
I'm well familiar with the slang. Frank D. Lincoln Nov 2024 #15
I agree. Sarcastic and flip. Not a clear, positive message. nt pnwmom Nov 2024 #17
It's not you Randomthought Nov 2024 #21
Up with Democracy! Clouds Passing Nov 2024 #5
It's hip, goofy and camp humor FakeNoose Nov 2024 #6
"We're not as likely to be Avengers fans, am I right?" BumRushDaShow Nov 2024 #11
Down with democracy..... Bayard Nov 2024 #8
"Down with" BumRushDaShow Nov 2024 #13
I know that dear, Bayard Nov 2024 #18
He's busy talking about sticking gunz in someone's face BumRushDaShow Nov 2024 #19
Whut? Bayard Nov 2024 #20
Don't like it DownriverDem Nov 2024 #9
I guess you have to be a fan... Hekate Nov 2024 #10
Guardians, BaronChocula Nov 2024 #14
Meh. A commercial that relies on the intelligence of its listeners pnwmom Nov 2024 #16
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