Whether they like it or not
You may have seen this clever ad narrated by Julia Roberts:
In the voting booth, women still have the right to choose. New and important ad from @VoteCommon featuring Julia Roberts reminds women that no one will know who they voted for. Pass it on. pic.twitter.com/XALnryVPNm— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) October 28, 2024
This is causing various MAGA meatheads to lose their shit:
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.
“I think it’s so gross. I think it’s so nauseating where this wife is wearing the American hat, she’s coming in with her sweet husband who probably works his tail off to make sure that she can go you know and have a nice life and provide to the family, and then she lies to him saying, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m gonna vote for Trump,’ and then she votes for Kamala Harris as her little secret in the voting booth,” Kirk fumed to radio host Megyn Kelly.
Is there a fancy German term for “proving the point you are purportedly trying to refute?”
Speaking of Jesse Watters:
Jesse Watters recently remembered a very unconventional tactic that, he cracked, he once used to try and win his now-wife’s favor.
On an episode of his panel series The Five last week, the Fox News host, 43, said he once “let the air out of” now-wife Emma’s tires when he “was trying to get [her] to date” him.
“She couldn’t go anywhere. She needed a lift, I said, ‘Hey, you need a lift?’ She hopped right in the car,” said Watters in his story about how they got acquainted, drawing laughter and questions from the rest of the group.
The moment subsequently went viral on social media, drawing a range of reactions and criticism.
And while Emma, 29 — who worked with Watters at the time — didn’t know the story before her husband told it on air, “Now she does!” he told his colleagues on The Five.
Wow, amazing that he sees his wife’s vote as his personal property.