Trump disavows 'alt-right' supporters

[ABX]

Finally, a good solid statement. Freepers won't be happy.

Donald Trump has repudiated the fringe "alt-right" group that celebrated his election win with Nazi salutes.

In a far-ranging interview with the New York Times, the US president-elect was quoted as saying: "I condemn them. I disavow, and I condemn."

He said he did not want to "energise" the group, which includes neo-Nazis, white nationalists and anti-Semites......

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38069469

[geronl]

They know he doesn't mean it.

[Oceander]

Has TOS started to rationalize the interview?

[ABX]

Has TOS started to rationalize the interview?

They are having a predictable reaction. Everything from:
"the great cave-in has begun" to "the alt-right is a fabricated term of the left" to "they are Soros plants anyway" to "White people can organize just like the Black Panthers".

[chae]

The threads over there about Trump not pursuing charges against Hilary are pretty entertaining.  They're spinning so much it's delightful! 

[truth_seeker]

Which site got this election right?

[ABX]

Which site got this election right?

If you are looking at the technicalities of the EV versus popular, none really. FR was, for the most part, saying it was going to be a landslide in Trump's favor.

[truth_seeker]

If you are looking at the technicalities of the EV versus popular, none really. FR was, for the most part, saying it was going to be a landslide in Trump's favor.

I am talking about which site had the sentiment of the country right.

[ABX]

Which site got this election right?

At that, just to add to my last comment, if you look at our Election Prediction Thread- http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,229283.225.html
Versus FR's - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3459302/posts?page=1

Not only did we have a lot more diversity of opinion, we had a lot more come close to predicting the results here versus FR was over the top in their predictions.

[ABX]

I am talking about which site had the sentiment of the country right.

See my comment right above this, we were making a comment at almost the exact same time. But based on prediction threads, it seems even though we had a diversity of opinion on what would happen, we had it a lot closer here.

[Night Hides Not]

I am talking about which site had the sentiment of the country right.

I think it's played out more along what's been posted on TBR. TOS is just an echo chamber for Trump supporters. Threads on TBR have elicited a wider variety of sentiments.

[EasyAce]

I am talking about which site had the sentiment of the country right.

If you factor how close the popular vote was (and probably would have been either way, considering),
I'm not entirely sure TOS had the whole sentiment of the country right. Donaldus Minimus is not exactly
a president-elect with overwhelmingly popular acclaim, and neither would Hilarious Rodent Clinton have
been if she had won the electoral votes. That, I suspect, is what becomes of a presidential election in
which, for whatever perverse reasons, the two worst-qualified candidates in my lifetime were the major
parties' choices.

[ABX]

I am talking about which site had the sentiment of the country right.

Also, just because it is an interesting discussion, if you want to frame the question around sentiment of the country versus results, the sentiment of the country right now is very divided with a wide diversity of opinion, much like here. That would be another bonus prop to this site.

[EasyAce]

Donald Trump has repudiated the fringe "alt-right" group that celebrated his election win with Nazi salutes.

In a far-ranging interview with the New York Times, the US president-elect was quoted as saying: "I condemn them. I disavow, and I condemn."

He said he did not want to "energise" the group, which includes neo-Nazis, white nationalists and anti-Semites......

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38069469

If this is true, it's fair to say it's about damn time, and better late than never.

[EasyAce]

Also, just because it is an interesting discussion, if you want to frame the question around sentiment of the country versus results, the sentiment of the country right now is very divided with a wide diversity of opinion, much like here. That would be another bonus prop to this site.

The only echo chambers I ever liked were the ones used at Gold Star Studios (for the Phil Spector
Wall of Sound and for Brian Wilson's seminal mid-1960s recordings for the Beach Boys) and
at Chess in Chicago. ;)

[truth_seeker]

If you factor how close the popular vote was (and probably would have been either way, considering),
I'm not entirely sure TOS had the whole sentiment of the country right. Donaldus Minimus is not exactly
a president-elect with overwhelmingly popular acclaim, and neither would Hilarious Rodent Clinton have
been if she had won the electoral votes. That, I suspect, is what becomes of a presidential election in
which, for whatever perverse reasons, the two worst-qualified candidates in my lifetime were the major
parties' choices.

Trump won 30 states, 306 electoral votes, and the net difference in popular vote comes from California.

Be defensive about the laughingly wrong sentiment on this site. I get that. The Deacon's home for the election cycle.

Own it.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

I am talking about which site had the sentiment of the country right.

Based on what I saw on the Pro Trump section of this site and a few predictions from Anti-Trump folks such as myself that said the hatred of Hillary would carry Trump through I'd say we weren't too far off here on TBR.

[EasyAce]

Be defensive about the laughingly wrong sentiment on this site. I get that. The Deacon's home for the election cycle.

Own it.

I didn't predict the outcome one way or the other. I learned a long time ago that predictions are
futile for a) baseball games, and b) elections. And I don't deny that I despised both Donaldus
Minimus and Hilarious Rodent Clinton, and for one reason above and beyond any of the other
factors that made them barf bag worthy candidates---their inclination toward the State as the
alpha and omega of all human problem solving and the individual citizen as nothing.

Wherever the ultimate margin arose, we're talking about two candidates who were, neither one of
them, overwhelming popular favourites. Donaldus Minimus won the electoral vote fair and square,
under the rules. But to say he's the overwhelming popular national favourite is nonsense.