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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by MicroWave@lemm.ee to c/politics@lemmy.world

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Amid rising early voting numbers from women in battleground states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—where they make up 55% of ballots cast—some conservative voices are panicking. Right-wing commentators are sounding the alarm, fearing that even MAGA-supporting husbands’ wives might be casting secret ballots for Kamala Harris.

Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, has put it starkly: “If men stay at home, Kamala is president. It’s that simple.” Jesse Watters of Fox News has even equated a wife secretly voting for Harris to “having an affair.”

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[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 167 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Jesse Watters of Fox News has even equated a wife secretly voting for Harris to “having an affair.”

something that this article didn't mention is that jesse walters' current marriage started as an affair: he started dating his current wife while he was married to his previous wife. (source)

yet another example of every accusation being a confession.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 48 points 3 weeks ago

he started dating his current wife while he was married to his previous wife

Traditional Republican values today.

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

You could say he’s a tradhusband.

[-] Timmy_Jizz_Tits@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago

Missing little nugget on this. His current wife, ex mistress, was a producer in his show. Copy/pasted from Wikipedia: "Noelle filed for divorce in 2018 after Watters admitted to an affair with a producer on his show, Emma DiGiovine. Watters claimed to have begun dating DiGiovine by letting the air out of her vehicle's tires so she would ask him for a ride."

Funking all caps CREEP.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

it's (somehow) even creepier when you hear how he describes it:

"When I was trying to get [my wife Emma] to date me, first thing I did, uh, I let the air out of her tires," Watters claimed, pleased with himself. "She couldn't go anywhere, she needed a lift. I said, 'Hey, you need a lift?' She hopped right in the car." (source)

[-] Marthirial@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Accufessions should be a term.

[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 111 points 3 weeks ago

How dare they have opinions of their own.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 3 weeks ago
[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

Which book is their book? Obviously not the one they wave around as a magic talisman but never read more than a few carefully selected sentences out of at a time….

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

That's generous. Statistically speaking, fewer can read than will.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 85 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I wonder if divorce rates will go up.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 56 points 3 weeks ago

As long as No Fault Divorce is still legal in their areas.

[-] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 weeks ago

Will a republican judge see a fault in a married woman voting against her ~~owners~~ husbands wishes?

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly. Depends on who wins the election!

[-] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 53 points 3 weeks ago

No, most likely just spousal abuse. The right is well known for not having to need proof to believe something as fact. All they need is a passing thought that it could be possible, or worse the orange tells them "your wives are traitors that voted for Kam-ela"

[-] Gorfram@beige.party 73 points 3 weeks ago

@MicroWave Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA: “If men stay at home, Kamala is president. It’s that simple.”

🥳 YASS, king!!! 🥳 🥳 🥳

...Wait, what? That's not how he meant it?

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 60 points 3 weeks ago

So those MAGA women actually have two jobs: Vote early for Harris, and keep their husbands occupied on voting day...

[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Sneak in a good laxative!!! 😁

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 52 points 3 weeks ago

My wife just read to me a tweet (or whatever) where a husband was making his wife vote by mail so he could guarantee she voted for Trump.

I feel like he should be charged for voting twice. If she doesn't get to pick who to vote for, she's not voting, he is. Send him to jail for 15 years (or for whatever they sent that woman who cast the provisional ballot because she was told she could and then she wasn't eligible to vote in the end).

The irony of these guys complaining about vote manipulation conspiracies while manipulating votes.

[-] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

They think this is what everyone does. They publicly virtue signal that they oppose whichever bad thing so they can condemn others for doing it while secretly doing it themselves. It's ok when they do it themselves anyway, because they are good people doing a necessary thing for good reasons. When others find out about their behavior, their reaction is to accuse harder, because they assume we are all doing that too and they are angry that we didn't get caught yet.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That's actually the one coherent argument I've seen against voting by mail. But if someone is that closely dominated, voting is only one of their problems. I don't think depriving everybody else of voting by mail is the right way to handle it.

[-] itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

The solution I've heard is you're able to go to the elections office after mailing your ballot and void the mailed one and vote in person. Depending on the level of control/oversight may be not realistic for everyone, but again, at that point I'm more concerned about the human than the vote and were talking a whole other problem to solve.

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, I agree. I think the solution for these case is to crack down on illegally voting this way.

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[-] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 3 weeks ago

Treat women like objects and strip their rights.... fuck around and find out.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 49 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, many of them are. They are right to be afraid. Everything makes these gamma males afraid, though. Climate change, the empowerment of women, people who disagree with them.

They are gentler than snowflakes, they are cold breezes in a world that's steadily warming. And they know it. They fear the future, no matter what happens. They fear change.

[-] pigup@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

It's as if they want to conserve the status quo. We should call them "conservationists"!

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 43 points 3 weeks ago

Smash the patriarchy.

[-] dirthawker0@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"Voting for Harris is like having an affair"? That extrapolates into some pretty creepy implications about how they see their and their wife's relationship with Trump.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Also, Jesse Watters has had documented affairs. Is Jesse secretly voting Harris?

[-] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago

Next they'll be wanting jobs, to own property and to wear trousers too!

Yeah, and we can't give them that because trousers are a zero-sum game and if women wear trousers, then there won't be enough trousers to go around!

/s

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 weeks ago

worst thing about the Julia Roberts ad (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaCPck2qDhk, if you must) is they someone not completely filling in the scantron bubble on the ballot

also Charlie "master debater" Kirk and Jesse "yelling on TV is my memorable trait" Watters are desperate tools, SO ANXIOUS to control women

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 14 points 3 weeks ago

Lol. This is awesome. What a bunch of douchebag losers.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

When you're so surrounded by enemies you aren't even safe in your own bunker!

[-] ReiRose@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

It's still an affair if it's not secret. Fucking (over) every single woman in the country is still an affair, even if you proudly declare it to your wife and everyone you know.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago

If they didn't let people take their phone with them while they fill the slip I guarantee there would be even more.

[-] Today@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

They don't let you use your phone.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You're hidden while filling the ballot aren't you? Not hard to take it out and take a picture because your crazy spouse wants to make sure you vote "for the right person"

[-] Today@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No. Mine looks like this but more spaced out. They have signs up about phones and the room is very well monitored. I tried to use my phone last time because i had screenshotted my vote411. They gave me a pen and a paper to go outside and write them down instead.

Edit-forgot the pic.

[-] DBT@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

That’s weird. I saw no such signs and had my phone out when I voted. It was in my hand plain as day when I walked from the ballot table to the booth.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Guess it varies from places to places... Which is always weird from a Canadian point of view considering federal elections are handled by the federal government so the norms are the same cross country.

[-] Today@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ah. Yep. Phones are okay in Illinois. Phones are not okay in Texas. Those are the only two I checked.

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 8 points 3 weeks ago

It is a crime in Texas to take photograph s within 100ft of a voting machine

It was annoying too, because Texas has huge ballots, and I took notes on my phone to help me.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago
[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

LOL you had me there for a sec.

[-] CaptMorgan@freeradical.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

@MicroWave News flash MAGAtards, your wives are not your property

I have to wonder how good political polls are at detecting this type of thing, also motivation to actually go vote on the day.

What I mean is, before and after the floating garbage joke, responses to polls might have been the same, but some responders might have become much more motivated to actually vote.

Most commentators and pollsters are saying the polling is very thorough and accurate but resolving these types of issues doesn't really seem possible to me.

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