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New Anti-Trump Ad Has MAGA World FUMING – Because It’s Voiced by Someone They’ve Been Using in Memes For Years

This is hilarious!

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Have you ever seen those Sam Elliott memes on social media, where he’s leaning on something in a cowboy hat with his eye brow raised? He’s invariably being quoted as saying something typically conservative, like “Careful Boy, Obamacare Don’t Cover No Ass-Whoopin'” or something like that.

In reality, that’s far from who Sam Elliott is. The fact that he portrays a cowboy or a biker or some other “tough guy” role is no different than Tom Cruise playing a contract killer in Collateral, or Bryan Cranston playing a high school chemistry teacher who becomes a drug kingpin in Breaking Bad.

They’re actors.

In fact, it could be said that the ONLY time we actually know how some actors really feel is when they break character. Once in a while, a celebrity decides to show the world how they really feel, not by saying something at a Hollywood premiere or on a talk show, but by committing to a statement.

Now you can count Sam Elliott among them.

The Lincoln Project has been making anti-Trump ads for years. They are, of course, a group of staunch Republicans who just can’t stand Trump. That already makes them a target for the MAGA crowd, but they still deliver powerful messages that can be proven true.

Their latest one improbably has the voice of Sam Elliott in a rousing endorsement of Kamala Harris, and MAGA voters couldn’t be going more crazy.

Read it first, so you can see how strong the message is, and then listen to it in Sam’s voice. This hits hard:

I can’t believe we’re having this conversation again. So here we go. You know who the candidates are. You know what’s at stake. One candidate promises a divided America, filled with lies and hate.

And one stands for change.

Kamala Harris has more courage, more honor, more guts, than this guy ever had. So you decide. Are we really going down that same f*cking broken road, or are we moving forward, towards hope? Towards freedom. Towards change.

There’s promise that lies in change, and the time for change is now. So what the hell are you waiting for? Because if it’s the woman thing, it’s time to get over that. It’s time for hope, for change.

It’s time to be a man, and vote for a woman.

I don’t care which side you’re on, that tagline will go down in history.

Throughout the video, there are images of rallies and farmland and veterans, and real America. It’s set to a rousing orchestral score. And this ad cuts deep.

But rather than MAGA voters thinking to themselves, “Man, if this guy I thought was a right-winger is endorsing Kamala Harris, what am I missing?” they’re instead freaking out and saying he’s gone “woke.”

You’re almost there, Richard. Keep thinking and you’ll get it.

Some folks on social media straight up confessed that they LOVED him, and immediately changed their minds once they realized he wasn’t a Trump supporter.

But the thing is, Sam’s not even claiming to be a Democrat. That’s important, because it fits right in with the whole theme of the Lincoln Project from the start: You don’t have to be a Democrat to be sane enough not to want Trump for president. It helps, but it’s not required.

But it all flew over MAGA world’s heads.

The thing is, the reason the spot is so powerful is because Kamala already leads in almost every demographic except white men, and this guy is one of their heroes.

To your or I, this ad might just sound like a bunch of common sense, narrated by a tough guy with a sexy voice. But for millions of white men who grew up on Road House and Tombstone, this has to be pretty jarring.

Anyway, enjoy the ad. This will absolutely make your day.

Andrew Simpson
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Andrew is a dark blue speck in deep red Central Washington, writing with the conviction of 18 years at the keyboard and too much politics to even stand. When not furiously stabbing the keys on breaking news stories, he writes poetry, prose, essays, haiku, lectures, stories for grief therapy, wedding ceremonies, detailed instructions on making doughnuts from canned biscuit dough (more sugar than cinnamon — duh), and equations to determine the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. A girlfriend, a dog, two cats, and two birds round out the equation, and in his spare time, Drewbear likes to imagine what it must be like to have spare time.

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