Things got wild when the woke and Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep spoke with Stephen Colbert about the SAVE America Act on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday, April 1, during which she spread total lies about how the act will work and what its intended purpose really is.
That began with the actress essentially insisting that the point of the act is to stop women from voting and that the effect of the proof of citizenship laws will be to require that married women will need to prove that they are who they say they are, and that requiring people show they are American citizens is somehow unfair.
Such came at the end of the interview, which was otherwise not about the SAVE America Act, at which point Colbert asked her if there was anything else going on that she wanted to bring up. It was in response to that broad question that the woke actress responded by pushing her radical and incorrect message about how the law will function.
Beginning, she said that the act, if it passes, will place an undue burden on married women. Making that claim, she said, “I hope that the Save America Act, if that passes, all the married women that have changed their names are going to have to go to the registrar and prove that they are who they are. In other words, to your voting registrar.”
Continuing on that point, she argued that if married women don’t figure that out they won’t be able to vote, saying, “This is what I understand. Otherwise, when you get to the voting booth in November, you might be disqualified because your name doesn’t, on your birth certificate, doesn’t match your name on the voting rolls.”
Concluding her angry point about the SAVE America Act and what is going on with it, she then said, “So, everybody has to get – and this is such a pain in the neck because you have to go but do it because, otherwise you’ll be turned away.”
For reference, that “understanding” that Streep expressed is incorrect. In reality, the SAVE America Act does not actually require that married women go to the voter registrar to reconcile their birth names and married names if they want to be allowed to vote, as it does not require such reconciliation. Further, under the act, if a married woman is already registered ot vote under her married name, then she has nothing to worry about with potential confusion, as her registration is already confirmed.
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Nevertheless, Democrats have kept pushing the same sorts of lies over and over again. For example, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), said, “Each state can have its own voter ID laws, and some do and some don’t. But, secondly, what they are proposing in this so-called SAVE Act is like Jim Crow 2.0.”
He added, “They make it so hard to get any kind of voter ID that more than 20 million legitimate people, mainly poorer people and people of color, will not be able to vote under this law. We will not let it pass in the Senate. We are fighting it tooth and nail.”