Fox News’s host of “The Five,” Jesse Watters responded to one of the best new Kamala Harris ads by saying that if his wife, Emma, secretly voted for Harris it would so disturb domestic tranquility such that he would divorce her. The fact that we have no trouble whatsoever believing him doesn’t make the claim any less laughable. He is certainly entitled to his belief and no one would force him to stay married, perhaps his mother, but he could do what he wants. It is just a little weird that the scenario came up and he felt the need to express it as such.
As noted, all of this relates to an ad beautifully voiced over by the irreplaceable Julia Roberts, an ad that reinforces the privacy of the vote while encouraging women to use it by unexpectedly casting a vote for Harris.
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
Yes, so that happened – the ad happened, not the divorce – not yet, and it likely has already happened in early voting booths to be repeated around the country on election day. There is no way for the nation to be so hyper-partisan without it slipping down into the household, especially with the gender animosity imbued into this race.
Anyway, it was definitely more than Watters could handle and he let it all out on his show. One wonders why this hit such a nerve. Nah, Jesse is likely safe… Likely. Still, he was quite passionate about it. Mediaite brings us the transcripts:
“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.”
“Oh, my god,” Harold Ford Jr. responded.
Time out, time out. It is one thing to assert that a divorce is in order after such a vote. It remains, however, in a different league than an affair. At least the vote begins and ends in one day which… never mind. To each his own. But if one polled American men giving them the choice of enduring an surprise vote or the ultimate surprise and well – let’s just say that Harris would surely benefit. He went on:
“That violates the sanctity of our marriage. What else is she keeping from me? What is she lying about?
Assumes facts not in evidence!! Who said that she would necessarily lie about it? What if – upon being asked, she breezily said, “Well, I did vote for Kalmala… ” And then, like many spouses, promptly got back to business, “And if you don’t like it, there’s a couch with your name on it downstairs. Meanwhile, someone has to do a Costco run and Margo has boxing. I need you to…”
What about that? Okay, let’s momentarily assume that Watters’s wife would lie to him if for no better reason than to avoid all the histrionics on coming home.
Jeanine Pirro asked: “Why would she lie to you?”
Oh, but Watters was on now:
“Why would she do that and vote Harris? Why would she say she was voting… If I caught her and she said ‘I lied to you for the last four years’
Yeah, so? What if she did that? Again, what if she told him on the way to the vote? Okay – we’re assuming, as the ad does, that this is done in secret. Is he planning on inspecting her ballot? Who knows what scenario might be playing through Watters’s head. Jeanine, however, may have sensed a problem:
“So, you’d admit you’d intimidate…” Pirro began.
Wait here, briefly. Is Jeanine Pirro expressing her disgust over a husband intimidating his wife over a vote? Pirro did make her name prosecuting domestic abusers – she was, at one time, a damn good prosecutor – a defender of women. Does she smell something funny? No, not as applied to Watters, that wouldn’t be fair. Without any evidence at all it’s best to assume that Jesse is not that guy. But it’s possible that Pirro’s instincts flared as to not liking pressure from men generally. She didn’t deter Jesse, no:
“It’s over, Emma!” Watters declared mockingly. “That would be D-Day!”
Divorce day! Kind of funny, all too many Americans feel the same way about their country no matter who wins. “You voted him in? I’m out of here!” It is a bit weird that it has come to this. It is bad enough that we’re at each other’s throats to such a degree, very bad. But as applied to spouses?
Don’t say it. Don’t just… just ask. Will this now tempt Emma Watters? Will she pull that tab? IF for no other reason than to establish her independence and not be intimidated on this? And here is a better question. What if Emma said to Watters on the way to vote, “I know this is your thing and all, but you vote for Trump and so help me mother of God there is a couch downstairs with your name on it… ”
Ruminate. Because it could happen in the Watters household. After all, that – too, will go down plenty next Tuesday.
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Well, last I’d read, voting is afforded privacy: one’s ballot is secret until or unless you wish someone else to know. Is this watters person so insecure he has to know that which is none of his f*cking business? Even something like one vote? And yes, I know the answer to that one–it truly is ALL about control and women are the last piece of property some idiots think they own. Apparently this yahoo is one of those. Honestly, I’d be sitting down with a divorce attorney in a pico. Over the control issue sure but also because the guy is a moron.
It would serve him JUST RIGHT if SHE divorced HIM over his controlling attitude.
I think getting a surprise divorce from Jesse Waters would be incentive for poor Emma to cast her vote for Harris. What a boon for bemoaned Emma!
Can we get the TV show Divorce Court back just for them?
Just getting this information about her husbands thoughts and beliefs should be enough for a divorce. You are not someone’s property when you become a wife.
And if his mother voted Harris/Walz?…..
Psychological studies have shown that divorced men are the unhappiest group. But divorced women? They do much better. Emma, do your own thing!
I’d far prefer to be single than married to Jesse Watters.
The arrogance of these guys is astounding. I mean, how dare a mere woman betray him by voting according to her own decision? He’s already made his political stance clear to her, so all she needs to do is copy his wisdom, right? What does she know after all?
I suspect she knows he’s a egocentric moron with barely any functioning brain and she’s kept that knowledge to herself all those years, for a myriad of reasons. I suspect she’s far smarter and always was. I suspect this won’t be the first time she’s voted against his orders, nor the last.
which is assuming that she is not, in fact, as brainwashed a Trumper as he is. We don’t actually know her views.
So…beeker…what you’re saying is if she votes for Kamala you’d divorce her? As Eastwood used to say…make my day!
First of all, I wouldn’t date Jesse.more than once– less if he had expressed his political beliefs to me. But frankly, those beliefs would instantly make him.ruled out because our values are far too.different. And if he had a brain fart during male menopause (it happens) and told me he’d divorce if I didn’t vote for Fat Donnie, he’d never get the chance because the next.day I’d be in a lawyer’,s office and his clothing and golf clubs would be in the hallway awaiting his arrival.