Apparently Republicans are losing their minds today about the fact that women have the right to vote for whomever they choose.
They are freaking out about this video ad featuring the voice of Julia Roberts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9UYGyZBNoQ
It would be a shame if all the commotion just made the video go hugely viral.
Pass it on.
@mastodonmigration @KamalaHarrisWin
That’s a great ad: the prominent flag imagery without trumps name
Makes everybody think twice about each person they see at his rallies now, and who they’re actually going to vote for
Beautiful
In many places, yes.
Also our trains are shit, but our coffee is much better. 😆
Oh yes. Just got back from France and Spain, and the one thing that you folks need to figure out is how to make a good cup of coffee. Not an espresso, or Americano mind you, a proper cup of Java. But otherwise, you rock!
See now, that's what is so wrong about the European coffee experience. All you've got is espresso or espresso with water. Espresso is fine if you're in the mood for espresso, but Americanos are never OK, and a proper cup of coffee is something entirely different.
@elduvelle @mastodonmigration @KamalaHarrisWin
This is not how any voting booth I've used was set up, but the more recent version - using paper ballots like in the ad - has featured those little cardboard privacy fences arrayed on folding tables. It's somewhat more private than in the ad, but not as private as a booth. More and more people vote with a mail-in ballot, so that actually afford domestic partners less privacy and even allow one spouse to vote both ballots.
@mastodonmigration @KamalaHarrisWin Further on MAGA men losing their shit over the implication that they don't own their wives' votes:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4964265-kamala-harris-ad-julia-roberts/
'“If I found out [my wife was] pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair,” Fox News host Jesse Watters said on air Wednesday'
Yeah, well, if I were married to someone who thought he got to dictate how I should vote, I'd consider that an act of domestic abuse, so how about you sit with that a moment.
@mastodonmigration Were they not aware of this fact until this ad was released?
I'm guessing some R men are going to be having some interesting conversations with their wives over the next few days.
@mastodonmigration @KamalaHarrisWin
> It would be a shame if all the commotion just made the video go hugely viral.
Nice thought, but no: a billionaire(s) owns Google which owns YouTube which utterly controls the virality of everything, so with one word from a billionaire it can sink to the middle of rankings (not the bottom, lest that raise suspicions)
@VulcanTourist @KamalaHarrisWin
Probably you are right. Just googled Julia Roberts and top video is a Washington Examiner story about how awful the ad is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5i6ZuHZfRY
But, as they say, no publicity is bad publicity.
@VulcanTourist @KamalaHarrisWin
So, just watched this and trying to figure out what they are saying. Apparently in backward MAGA land, reminding women that they have agency of their own, and can make their own choices is degrading to women. So, it seems making it clear you expect them to vote how you tell them to is respectful. 🤔
@mastodonmigration @KamalaHarrisWin
I grew up in a Christian household (albeit one of the better ones but still fundamentally flawed). I've been aware of the Biblical justifications for patriarchy and more since I was a child. Why do you suppose that I'm an atheist?
@VulcanTourist @KamalaHarrisWin
This issue is fascinating because it drives right to the heart of core conflict in this election. White men are terrified that their patriarchal privileges are being taken away from them, and they are 100% right, they are, because they are illegitimate and unfair. Women making their own choice of who to vote for precisely targets that angst, and threatens to further hasten the demise of male privilege writ large. It drives them crazy.
@mastodonmigration @KamalaHarrisWin
Well... now the ranking results have flipped, apparently. So my observation here filtered up to the top and made them change it to avoid criticism, right? 😇
@VulcanTourist @KamalaHarrisWin
Probably their AI sucked up your comment here on Mastodon and consumed 100,000 gallons of water to make the decision to promote the video.
@mastodonmigration @KamalaHarrisWin
It's a bit weird, though, because they customize search results and Google knows that I'm a man (and probably that I'm married), so it's weird that they put the opposite POV in front of me versus you. AI isn't so brilliant after all....
@mastodonmigration I love how all the comments are, how dare you imply Republicans are like that, while all the notable Republicans speaking out are proving that they are exactly like that.
Right?! They are twisting themselves into pretzels. That's what happens when you basically live a dishonest disingenuous existence. Reality trips you up.
@mastodonmigration @KamalaHarrisWin
It probably doesn't help that I haven't finished my first morning coffee, but I was just so confused as my brain tried to connect Julia's voice to the lady in the ad, and my brain wasn't having it.. "That's not Julia Roberts, is it??".. I'll go finish my coffee right after I boost this post. 😆
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