Friday, November 01, 2024

Conservative Furor over Julia Roberts Voting Autonomy Ad

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. Republicans have responded to the video with outrage, with some claiming that a wife lying about her vote is as bad as an affair.

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"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."

"If I found out Emma was going to the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that's 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 wife's lifestyle, and then said a wife who lied to her husband about whom she backed would amount to undermining her husband.

"Kamala Harris and her team believe that there will be millions of women that undermine their husbands and do so in a way that it's not detectable in the polling," he added.

In response to his statements, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) called Kirk a "twit."

White male privilege personified. Can Trumphumping men be any more snowflake? Do these troglodytes actually think that they're entitled to know how their wives vote, and if she deceives them it's the same as having an affair?

There's gonna be a lot of divorces started around next weekend if that's how the majority of GOP husbands think. Women are outvoting men so far by up to 13 points in the swing states and the majority aren't turning out because they want Trump to grab their privates. Just the opposite. They don't want to let Trump make them second class citizens and have the states dictate how, when, and where they can receive healthcare services that might just save their lives.

The ides of Roevember are upon us.

#1 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-31 08:51 PM

"In criticizing the ad, he discussed a husband working hard to afford his wife's lifestyle"

So, a women can only vote for Harris if she's the breadwinner?!?

#2 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-10-31 08:57 PM

"Do these troglodytes actually think that they're entitled to know how their wives vote, and if she deceives them it's the same as having an affair?"

They do.

The absurdity is mind boggling.

#3 | Posted by Angrydad at 2024-10-31 10:51 PM

Didn't Jesse Watters say that if his wife (2nd wife who he introduced himself to by slashing her tires while he was still married (family values)) voted for anyone other than sh*tler it would be as if she cheated on him?

Magidiots are some of the biggest misogynist spousal abusers on the planet who routinely denigrate women saying they are servile to men.

So if they are upset over being called out for being the ------ that they are....

via GIPHY

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-11-01 08:32 AM

So, a women can only vote for Harris if she's the breadwinner?!?

#2 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-10-31 08:57 PM | Reply | Flag:

These are the type of ------ that will tell their wives to leave their jobs if they pay more than the husbands...if they're allowed to have a job in the first place.

They are that fragile in their masculinity.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-11-01 08:35 AM

Here's Mike Luckovich's cartoon version of the Julia Roberts ad:

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#6 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-11-01 10:43 AM

Sam Stein
@samstein
Trump tonight says he is going to have RFK Jr. working on "women's health

Just what every woman wants: a guy who had 37 affairs in one year when he was married to his first wife being in charge of women's reproductive health:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Allegedly Had Affairs With 37 Women in 2001
nymag.com

I get that this was over 20 years ago and he was probably a sex addict, but still. . . .

#7 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-11-01 10:50 AM

Here's the link to the Stein tweet, the rest was me:

Sam Stein
@samstein
Trump tonight says he is going to have RFK Jr. working on "women's health

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#8 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-11-01 10:53 AM

My parents argued during the Kennedy v Nixon campaign. Dad was a career Naval officer conservative but my Mother, who was a "proud native born Florida Cracker" who supported Kennedy while Dad supported Nixon zshe told him to vote for who he wanted but that her vote would basically cancel out his vote and I don't think I ever heard them discuss it again. Watching The View right now and Chris Christie is their guest, he just said his psrents had the exact same conversation about Kennedy vs Nixon as mine did way back in 1960.

#9 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-01 11:28 AM

9

And the union survived regardless.

It will again......

#10 | Posted by eberly at 2024-11-01 11:43 AM

And the union survived regardless.

It will again......

#10 | POSTED BY EBERLY AT 2024-11-01 11:43 AM | FLAG:

As long as neither work at the Nations Capitol.

And the wife doesn't accidentally get pregnant in Texas.

Yeah. Odds are good.

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-11-01 12:00 PM

That ad was stupid. Lack of values and Democrats allegiance not to America but to lying war hawks like Liz Cheney that they hated until she hated Trump and allegiance to corrupt politicians is a serious problem. I will likely never ever vote for a Democrat again. They have only deceit and a lying media to help them manipulate us. There is no good serious worthwhile policy. For Dems policy is never in their equation as leaders. Unions are Ok but only if membership runs the union and not omnipotent embedded leadership.

#12 | Posted by Robson at 2024-11-01 12:09 PM

Apparently the Democrat's plan is to insult voters over and over again.

It's a bold strategy, Cotton.

#13 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-11-01 12:18 PM

Apparently the Democrat's plan is to insult voters over and over again.

It's a bold strategy, Cotton.

#13 | Posted by BellRinger

How dare they copy trump's genius strategy.

#14 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-11-01 12:23 PM

That ad was stupid. Lack of values and Democrats allegiance not to America but to lying war hawks like Liz Cheney that they hated until she hated Trump and allegiance to corrupt politicians is a serious problem. I will likely never ever vote for a Democrat again. They have only deceit and a lying media to help them manipulate us. There is no good serious worthwhile policy. For Dems policy is never in their equation as leaders. Unions are Ok but only if membership runs the union and not omnipotent embedded leadership.

#12 | Posted by Robson

Where was your allegiance when trump lost the election and attempted a coup?

#15 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-11-01 12:24 PM

" I will likely never ever vote for a Democrat again."

Hilarious! Like you ever voted for anyone who wasn't a Fascist! And how dare Julia Roberts remind wives that this is 2024 and women do not need to obey their husbands and may, if they choose, keep their voting choice secret or even lie about it if she is unfortunately married to a misogynist man, who thinks wives should be subsevient their paternalistic authority.

#16 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-01 12:30 PM

-Apparently the Democrat's plan is to insult voters over and over again.

It's not a 2 way street. This is something that democratic party voters aren't comfortable with while republican party voters actually embrace.

Trump can be a deplorable....no problem.

Hillary can use the word deplorable.....huge problem.

#17 | Posted by eberly at 2024-11-01 12:45 PM

Eberly,

This ad isn't about Trump. It's an ad stereotyping husbands (pretty much all of them) of treating their wives as property that they get to boss around and control.

#18 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-11-01 01:11 PM

Re 18

That does make what he said any less true.

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-11-01 01:14 PM

This ad isn't about Trump. It's an ad stereotyping husbands (pretty much all of them) of treating their wives as property that they get to boss around and control.

#18 | Posted by BellRinger

Judging by how many trump cult men are furious about it, it must be accurate.

#20 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-11-01 01:25 PM

Even if the conservative husbands don't know who their wives vote for, if Harris wins there will probably be quite a few wife beatings over it.

#21 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-11-01 01:52 PM

If Trump wins a lot of Harris supporting wives are going to beat their beta cuck husbands.

#22 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-11-01 02:06 PM

It's an ad stereotyping husbands (pretty much all of them) of treating their wives as property that they get to boss around and control.

Isn't that PRECISELY what Jesse Watters and Charlie Kirk implied with their whining responses demanding their rights to "treat their wives as property that they get to boss around and control"?

Judging by how many trump cult men are furious about it, it must be accurate.

Bingo! How can you be so blind at times? - all of you Bellringers

#23 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-11-01 02:27 PM

If Trump wins a lot of Harris supporting wives are going to beat their beta cuck husbands.

#22 | Posted by BellRinger

The cult that always calls everyone beta cucks worships a man who wears makeup, high heels, a girdle, a diaper, takes 2 hours to put on his hair in the morning, and has never had a callous on his hands except from groping unwilling women.

#24 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-11-01 02:38 PM

I know several married women who support Harris even though their husbands are rabid Trumpets. When it comes to the issue of women having control of their own bodies, most Republican men do not seem to get it. And worse, they are not open-minded enough to respect their wives own decisions. So what choice do all these women have?

#25 | Posted by moder8 at 2024-11-01 02:53 PM

I know several married women who support Harris even though their husbands are rabid Trumpets. When it comes to the issue of women having control of their own bodies, most Republican men do not seem to get it. And worse, they are not open-minded enough to respect their wives own decisions. So what choice do all these women have?

#26 | Posted by moder8 at 2024-11-01 02:54 PM

Eberly,
This ad isn't about Trump. It's an ad stereotyping husbands (pretty much all of them) of treating their wives as property that they get to boss around and control.
#18 | Posted by BellRinger

All of them don't think that way but some do, especially those who follow what they think is the Christian concept that men are the head of their households and wives must obey their husbands. "Don't worry your pretty little head, dear. Let me do all the thinking around here.":

Charlie Kirk is upset that Republican women may "undermine their husbands" and secretly vote for Harris while telling their husbands they voted for Trump, even though the husband "works his tail off to make sure that she can have a nice life."

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#27 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-11-01 03:23 PM

-It's an ad stereotyping husbands (pretty much all of them) of treating their wives as property that they get to boss around and control.

They're hoping there are a lot just like you've described. That their wife owes them the vote they want.

I don't think that's as big of a population as we think....and if it's the case then it's already the case. The abortion thing probably doesn't change it much for such authoritarian households.

But this is why we have elections.

My point is that democrats don't have the stomach for such behavior. Republicans do.

That can be taken as an insult or a compliment. I don't mean it to be either....just a statement of fact.

Look at what happened to Al Franken. Or Weiner? Those guys are NOTHING compared to Trump.

#28 | Posted by eberly at 2024-11-01 03:35 PM

Look at what happened to Al Franken. Or Weiner? Those guys are NOTHING compared to Trump.

#28 | Posted by eberly

Or robert menendez.

Dems have ethics.

REpublicans have the opposite, where the more crimes and rapes trump (or one of his sycophants) commits, the more they love him.

#29 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-11-01 03:51 PM

If Trump wins a lot of Harris supporting wives are going to beat their beta cuck husbands.

#22 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER AT 2024-11-01 02:06 PM | FLAG:

This post says a lot about you, and none of it good.

#30 | Posted by cbob at 2024-11-02 06:40 AM

You can spot some clear storylines that say a lot about how the two presidential campaigns have unfolded so far, and that might even help explain the outcome after the fact. One of those storylines is the determination and enthusiasm of women who back Democrat Kamala Harris, including women who might be afraid to say so publicly because their husbands support Republican Donald Trump.

I first heard about this last week, in Michigan, while covering a campaign event for Democratic Senate candidate Elissa Slotkin. Slotkin said canvassers were reporting stops at houses with large Trump signs, where women would answer and - when asked which candidate they were supporting - would quietly point to a photo of Harris on the canvassers' campaign literature.

Slotkin went on to say she'd been hearing of an organic campaign to put notes in bathroom stalls, reminding women that their votes are confidential and that they should vote like their daughters' lives depend on it.

www.huffpost.com

#31 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-11-02 09:57 AM

#TrumpIsGoingDown

#32 | Posted by Hans at 2024-11-02 10:10 AM

The reaction by the Beta males on the Reich is hilarious, they are all a bunch of philanderers and incels. Jessica Watters, did you tell your last wife that you were cheating with your current wife? Newt Gingrich (where did they dig his rotting corpse up from?) famously cheated on his wife who was stricken with cancer with his current wife who worked in His office at the time. Dotard is a famous cheater, cheated on Ivana with Marla, cheated on Marla with Melanie, cheated on Melanie with Stormy and McDougall, and there were plenty of whores. hookers, and sexual assault victims in between. Then there's Pumpkinhead Charlie Kirk, an incel who's never seen a woman in the flesh that he hasn't had to pay for. Yup, they are proof positive of the message in that ad, ladies, do you want these Garbage POS to determine your bodily autonomy? If not, vote like your freedom depends on it, because it does!

#33 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2024-11-02 11:01 AM

So women can not vote for who they want? Lol, says who? The Toxic Bro crowd? It's not 1945 anymore, lol. This is yet another way (or many) that Sir Cheeto has tanked his campaign. It's 2024, he is stuck in the past and those days are long gone. I tell my wife she can vote for who she wants, I will vote for who I want. We are all individuals, so yes, women have a say and believe this..their voices will be heard this Tuesday. "I am Woman hear me ROAR".... get ready!!!

#34 | Posted by NOTGOINGBACK at 2024-11-02 05:57 PM

@#34 ... So women can not vote for who they want? Lol, says who? The Toxic Bro crowd? ...

OpEd: Why are so many women hiding their voting plans from their husbands?
www.theguardian.com

... A lot of households are not democracies; they're dictatorships. This may mean voter intimidation and suppression ...

One Pennsylvania man who has been canvassing for several weeks told me: "So many times we ... have knocked on doors and when both husband and wife or boyfriend and girlfriend have come to the door together, after hearing what we were there for so often the man stayed and the woman walked away to do other things', or the man came out to talk to us. Often the woman would come out by herself and say or whisper: I'm with her and he doesn't know it.'"

Another friend reached a voter by phone, who told her that because her husband wasn't in the car, she could admit she was voting Democratic.

Coercive control is an issue in households of all races and political orientations, but only this configuration -- Maga man, Democratic-leaning woman -- seems to impact the right to vote in such a visible and potentially impactful way.

Fox News host Jesse Watters asserted that his wife "secretly voting for Harris" was like having an affair and it would be "D day," the d presumably standing for divorce. ...


#35 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-02 06:30 PM

Conservatives can go suck off a microphone.

#36 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-11-02 10:57 PM

More than a little disgusting that so many far right Republican households are about, not companionship, but domination, of the women and girls involved.

#37 | Posted by Hughmass at 2024-11-03 06:42 AM

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