Avengers stars assemble to endorse Kamala Harris - by brainstorming an election catchphrase
Source: The Guardian
Thu 31 Oct 2024 20.56 EDT
Last modified on Thu 31 Oct 2024 20.59 EDT
The cast of Marvel’s Avengers movies have come out in support of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris less than a week before the US election.
In a video posted first on Vanity Fair on Thursday evening, actors Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Don Cheadle, Chris Evans, Danai Gurira and Paul Bettany playfully riffed on their respective characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe while encouraging viewers to vote for Harris.
The video, which runs for just over 90 seconds, opens with the actors taking an incoming video call from Johansson. On screen, they brainstorm ideas for a catchphrase for Harris, landing on the dubious “Down with Democracy”, which they spin into a brief Marvel-style Harris/Walz campaign video with dramatic music and comic-style graphics. The final frame of the video encourages viewers to vote on November 5.
Sharing the video on X, Ruffalo, a vocal Democrat supporter who is best known for his role as the Hulk, wrote: “Don’t sit this one out. It’s the one where we will lose big: Project 2025, women’s reproductive rights, climate change, LGBTQIA+ rights, public education, student debt relief, Affordable Care Act, Social Security, and as of today, life saving vaccines. This shit is real and it’s going to come for you.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/01/us-election-avengers-cast-kamala-harris-endorsement
(all the videos of this were either on X or Instagram, etc. but found the above on youtube)
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We're back. Let's #AssembleForDemocracy. In the #ElectionEndgame, every vote counts 🗳️ #VoteBlue! Vote @KamalaHarris @Tim_Walz
4:33 PM · Oct 31, 2024
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It's just like when I had a news OP where the headline was something like "The Harris campaign 'drops a new ad'" and DU freaked out thinking the ad was "removed" because they have been obsoleted by the more recent slang... I.e., it would be similar to - "So and so "dropped a new single", meaning "released".
"Down with" is actually old slang for "approve of" or "agree with".
I wish this had come out about a month ago. It would have had more impact.
OTOH, the early voters and mail-in voters are mainly us olds. We're not as likely to be Avengers fans, am I right? Maybe 18-to-30 generation and first-time voters are going to get this humor in a good way.
I still think they should have done this a month ago. Taylor Swift was getting the message out to her fans back in the spring and summer months.
is slang for "approve of" / "agree with".
SLANG!!! 
I don't think he will notice this!
