Conservatives in furor over Julia Roberts ad

[BumRushDaShow]

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, 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.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4964265-kamala-harris-ad-julia-roberts/

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(I had posted that ad earlier in the week - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143330414)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. A furor because control of women is showing signs of slipping away. . . . . . nt

[johnp3907]

2. Snowflakes.

They’re triggered by everything!

[Montauk6]

21. The SAME snowflakes who think Puerto Ricans need a sense of humor

Malloy 3:16, y'all... smh

[Pachamama]

3. So the truth is revealed- they don't want to just control our Uteruses & reproductive choices...

…they want to control our minds and actions - period.

[NH Ethylene]

4. Those reactions only reinforce how sinister and controlling those men are.

And in such an overt way!

[bahboo]

5. wow...Kirk's reply is rather revealing....

this should make women want to vote for Harris even more.....

[durablend]

6. When are conservatives not in furor over something?

[wryter2000]

7. Afford her lifestyle?

What planet does he live on ?

[txwhitedove]

15. That hit me hard. I've always had to work, and no husband ever provided a great "lifestyle".

Clueless idiots.

[mpcamb]

42. SHE"S got the college degree! Not him!

She probably HAS to work to cover his truck payments!

[ananda]

8. Thinking for herself isn't Stepford enough for them...

or enough of a Handmaiden.

[slightlv]

9. I lived for years with a "controlling" husband...

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]

13. Your situation was a lot tougher than mine when I ran away. I admire your courage as I have some idea

Of what it took to make that decision. 🌺

[MyOwnPeace]

19. Good for you for......

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]

39. There are brave women like you who've gotten out of bad situations...

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]

41. That took tremendous courage

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]

10. Always bad form when they expect Republican Women to be obedient and thinking for themselves is forbidden.

And broadcast it.

[Clouds Passing]

11. Or they're in a fuhrer

[area51]

12. Pretty rich of Watters

considering he had an affair which led to the destruction of his previous marriage.

[sl8]

14. Of course, a husband voting for the rapist that his wife despises is just peachy keen. nt

[calimary]

16. They're pissed cuz their cover's been blown.

[pat_k]

17. Nicole W: " I can't believe there are men that think...

" 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]

26. You insecure, Bro? You look insecure.

[NBachers]

18. Why a free-choice wife who votes like that would make her husband a . . a . . . Cuck! . . . a Simp! . . . a Beta Male!

[SunSeeker]

20. They can go fuck themselves. nt

[MustLoveBeagles]

23. Well said

[niyad]

24. Sideways, with a rusty chainsaw.

[bobalew]

25. Well the truth is..

They have already been doing ThAT for a very long time…..

[niyad]

22. Having just read the whining from these two misogynistic, woman-hating,

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]

40. I hears Jesse waters is gay

[niyad]

46. His sexual orientation, or whatever, is not relevant to the discussion

about his fear and hatred for women.

[The Roux Comes First]

27. More From Their Default Handwringing, Histrionics, and Hissy-fit Playbook!

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]

28. I don't suppose it ever occurs to those RW snowflakes.....

....that maybe THEIR vote is undermining their wives??!? No, it wouldn't. Sheesh. Entitled a**holes...Eff 'em.

[BaronChocula]

29. The plan is working

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]

33. "We're gonna need a bigger boat"

[BaronChocula]

38. That is QUINTessential humor

(Even tho Brody said it)

[no_hypocrisy]

30. I'm surprised more MAGA husbands aren't in favor of mail-in ballots.

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]

31. "some people need to calm down"

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]

32. "So, you thought that women never fake anything?" one woman on cable news responded!

Heh heh. Those poor magat brides probably have to fake a lot of things....

[sinkingfeeling]

34. Oh, boo-hoo. Poor lil men.

[ck4829]

35. "Conservatives in furor" --- They're only in furor about something on days that end in 'y'

[JohnnyRingo]

36. After voting Jesse Waters told his wife "Emma" he wanted her to f*ck him...

...when they got home from the polls. She looked over from the passenger seat and said "Again?".

[Blasphemer]

37. I make about 6x my male fiance's income...

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]

43. Gee, guys, why would your wife have to LIE to you about her vote in the first place?

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]

44. Aint that a shame...

my tears fell like rain...

[tonekat]

45. I saw that last night!

It was beautiful.

[DFW]

47. By Republican reasoning, therefore....

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?