'John Barron' Calls In to CSPAN to Rage About Supreme Court Tariff Ruling - Gets Cut Off Soon After

[cmmngrnd]

26. C-SPAN Verifies it was not Trump - and I'm proud of this community!

First things first: C-Span posted this Link to tweet
" target="_blank">message: "Because so many of you are talking about Friday’s C-SPAN caller who identified himself as “John Barron,” we want to put this to rest: it was not the president. The call came from a central Virginia phone number and came while the president was in a widely covered, in-person White-House meeting with the governors. Tune into C-SPAN for the actual president at the State of the Union Address on Tuesday night."

But beyond that I'm always proud to see this community debating what is and isn't real with the goal of getting at ground truth of a situation. I don't see that kind of commitment to reality when I hold my nose and visit MAGA sites -- in fact, quite the opposite. For the most part the members of this site value accuracy over protecting their feelings, and that is a commendable trait. There are members who regularly set a high bar, asking for citations and checking for corroboration of a story. It's good to see.

But perhaps you are asking "Cmmngrnd, why are you visiting MAGA sites?" Good question, whether you asked it or not. I don't go often. When I do it's primarily to see how they are reacting to one of those Trump outrages that make us say "Surely they'll break with him now." Of course they don't and they have the flimsiest defense mechanisms to protect their world view. Then sometimes I go to see how they are reacting to less outrageous news, and lastly I'll go from every now and then to get an alternative point of view to see if it makes sense. Spoiler alert - it never does.

But my visits to MAGA sites make me appreciate this community, with its commitment to accuracy, all the more.