Many of you know about an insidious new voting law Republicans are trying to foist upon the public. Naturally, it employs DoubleSpeak in its naming: The SAVE Act. It is designed to reduce voter participation by requiring a REAL ID or other national identification to vote.
Unsurprisingly, it’s aimed at women and minorities (women because they are more frequently faced with name change issues, and minorities because they more frequently don’t have the REAL IDs needed to vote).
I have a better idea: The Aurora Metz SAVE Act, named after three-time Trump voter Aurora Metz, a self-proclaimed three-time Trump voter who apparently still has no regrets.
Aurora enjoyed the State of the Union Speech and told the New York Times in a focus group that she voted for him three times.
My proposed new law is simple. If you voted for him three times, you’re out unless you renounce your vote in public. It’s like the old three-strike statutes in criminal law, only better. If you voted three times for this predatory simpleton, your voting privileges are revoked for life.
Harsh? Hell yeah. Fascist-almost? Oh, well. They deserve it.
Background
Today, during what I thought was a harmless perusal of the New York Times, I encountered one of their classic sanewashing stories. They published the results from a focus group of seven people who exposed their brains to Trump’s painful speaking mannerisms for nearly two hours.
For one thing, why would anyone do that unless they’re writing a post telling other people about it?
Note: I skipped the speech entirely, even though I was excited about seeing The Cannibal. If I had watched it, my brain would have exploded. Again. Have you ever experienced an exploding brain? I have, as some of you know. It ain’t fun.
Sanewashing and pyramids
Here’s how sanewashing works. It goes to the heart of what is wrong with the New York Times in the era of Trump. The comments by Metz were the first. Check out the screenshot of the story to see the placement:
The full article is here as a Ruminato Gift link:
Ruminato Gift Link 🎁 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/voters-trump-state-of-union-speech-reaction.html 🎁
Placing her comments first was an insidious decision, and there’s no way you can convince me that editors at the newspaper didn’t directly intervene so they could promote Trump. This, despite all we know about him. Despite the fact that the right wing has taken over much of mainstream media.
Since the election, there have been a lot of good articles in the Times, but it’s clear that there’s conflict at the newspaper that nobody has really come forth to tell us about yet. But it’s there, and, sadly, the editors with the real power are the ones who support Trump.
There’s no rational explanation for showing this voter first, so my response is to call her out by name and then propose a national voting act in her honor.
For those of you not familiar with how journalism news stories have traditionally worked, which is understandably most of you, I would think, news stories typically employ something called a “pyramid” style of article writing.
This refers to the process by which a writer lays out the story such that the most important elements come first, so that by the time they lose their reader to something else, at least that most important element is read. It’s really almost the first thing you learn in journalism school.
The idea originated during the print days before computers, when a layout editor working late at night on deadline could cut the article with a razor blade at any spot without consulting anyone, so that they could fit it into the layout.
Someone at the Times thought Metz’s was the most important opinion. It doesn’t matter if there are other views listed. Hers is most prominently displayed. It’s first.
Time for a new law
Sorry, Aurora, but you’re an idiot. You are supporting a child predator whose name appeared in the unredacted Epstein files a million times (according to Democratic congress critters who saw them) and whose personal attorney, “Attorney General” Pam Bondi, covered up a 50-page accusation from someone who was abused as a child by Trump when he was most active in the child trafficking ring.1
We keep trying to tell you all that this is not about policy. Or the price of things. Speaking of, here’s a gem from Ms. Metz:
“I went online after and learned about it and the prices are great,” she said. “As a nursing student I thought that was great.”
What does that even mean, Aurora? Honestly, that comment alone should cost you your right to vote, but I’ll let it pass.
You and other three-time Trump voters lose your right to vote unless you renounce your three-time choice because your response to the most disgusting scandal in modern political history is this:
“I wanted him to address it,” she said, adding, “It was definitely the elephant in the room.”
But not enough to renounce your vote and demand accountability for his horrific crimes.
Yell at me all you want, my lovely readers, for my new interest in fascism. I’m not changing my mind.
I ask that you support The Aurora Metz SAVE Act.
Save America. Save the world.
Notes
Am I kidding about this? Have I lost my mind? Eh, kind of to both questions. These goons are driving me crazy. No doubt about that.
Footnotes
NPR. “Justice Department Withheld and Removed Some Epstein Files Related to Trump,” February 24, 2026. https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-trump-accusation-maxwell.
That image of her looks to be AI generated according to what Trump would find attractive.
Just saying.
Her name is Aurora. That right there should disqualify her. 😂😂 Just kidding.
But seriously...I need to find out where she lands a job as a nurse so I can find another health source. 🤦♀️ WTH is actually wrong with these people??????