u/havenoparty

Let’s do an experiment.

In that ONE line, what do you see / hear?

Readyyyyyyyyyyyy GO.

I’ll get nailed with accusations of woke purity tests. But as a quick audit, I wanted to nail down a few “acceptable” purity tests that the editors of the Bulwark and their audiences (it seems) are comfortable with.

FWIW I have been a listener for 5-6 years and have been a huge supporter (and former subscriber) so please don’t assume I’m some purity test woke lib wine mom.

I’m a top 25 college graduate business & gun owning parent of two boys married to a non college but highly skilled / non union tradesman. I prefer gummies to wine, and potlucks to fundraising galas. I bought a rifle for my husband while I was 6 mo pregnant and have run a biz for a decade (in real estate & strategy fwiw, not a hobby).

Nevertheless, asking this isn’t about creating arbitrary semantic jargon wars. It’s curious (if not troubling) to me that apparently certain things are facts and not semantic, while certain pretty fundamental things aren’t. And it’s curious to me why those things, the ones that are the scary “progressive purity tests” that aren’t mostly relate to non white folks. It feels like some of the purity tests people hate are ones any libertarian or small C conservative should be for. Wild.

The following is an appraisal of non-debatables the Bulwark has made, either stated or implied:

1. Jan 6 was a coup attempt
2. This coups objective was to overturn an election
3. They tried to / discussed killing the VP
4. The President did nothing to stop it & helped it
5. Joe Biden won the 2020 election
6. Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a Tyler Robinson
7. Alex Pretti & Renee Good’s deaths were murders
8. The US is a constitutional democratic republic
9. There was little-to-none 2020 election fraud
10. COVID was real, and deadly

But here we are in 2026, and we’re not allowed to call deeply red states removing the tiny single Black majority districts & house seats Jim Crow 2.0 or blatant White Supremacy or Neo-Confederate behavior. We are talking about it like mere “voter suppression” with no deeply systemic root cause or origin point.

There are real, spoken, and in motion efforts to undermine key Voting Rights via Birthright Citizenship, the 14th, 15 and 19th Amendments and the ADA (fact check me and google the Section 504 lawsuit).

So is the Bulwarks main conceit that the U.S. was founded as a truly equal country that DIDNT have a supremacist system built into it that it had to fix?

Are they really going to say the only Big Lie was Jan6 and not the Lost Cause?

Bc if that’s true then the Bulwark supports the overturning of Voting Rights, the 14,15, and 19th Amendment & ADA going away and is fine with whoever creative the White House wants to be on Birthright Citizenship bc apparently it’s constitutional.

As if that stops MAGA. This guy’s trying to be Robert E Lee and Huey Long with a dash of Jimmy Swaggart & Billy Graham and we’re still treating him like some mutant from another planet. Really?

I truly am not here to troll. Or be hyperbolic or semantic. I’m asking what counts as facts and using deductive logic to ask serious questions about what’s real for the editors of this platform and their audiences who have a very acute allergy about some pretty serious shit.

Do we want race and culture to perpetually dominate every conversation? No. But how are we supposed to beat MAGA when we can’t even agree on the machine it’s built to be….or the gas reserve it has in White Nationalism, Supremacy and Power. MAGA is a machine built to go after disengaged / lapsed voters, and his bet is that if you feed them more White Power they’ll get over being screwed over. Is that truly still unclear?

A few questions:

Did we fight the Civil War over slavery?* Was Jim Crow real? And a negative thing?* Were our founders White Supremacists?* Were they White Nationalists?*

Why aren’t these questions worth exploring? Why is it ok to say “Jan6 was a Coup” but saying these red states are pulling Confederate / KKK / White Power shit so alarming, “progressive” and woke?

It should be conservatives calling it Confederate & White Supremacy most of all given their historic roots. But instead if it’s even uttered here it’s treated like a turd in the orange wine.

It strikes me as really odd, slightly pathetic, and it should be easy to say what this so clearly is for people here. But the second it’s mentioned, you’re labeled and disregarded as some annoying academic control freak. It’s pretty snowflake behavior.

In case anyone needs to share with a loved one. Courtesy of Samantha Page on Substack.

Thought her first one could / should be rephrased.

My family’s been there 200 years. Might want to contextualize this “racially gerrymandered” district against a few other maps. The goal was to give Black voters ANY VOICE AT ALL in Louisiana.

And I’ll let yall figure out why it’s shaped like a “snake.”

Has a little to do with food, farms, transit, trade, and yes, race.

It’s the Klan. It’s always been the Klan. And it will always be the Klan. It’s not about the price of eggs. It’s about making sure certain folks DONT. EXIST.

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.