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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Nov 10, 2016 -> 12:15 PM) I just watched the post-meeting comments from Trump and Obama. Trump seemed slightly overwhelmed and seemed to come away with a want to have Obama's "counsel". He's in over his head, perhaps by having his ass kissed with an olive branch from the respected leader of the free world he'll turn to him for guidance through his presidency. I can only hope. Considering he called Obama the worst President ever, I tend to doubt he really wants his help. I really feel sorry for Barry for having to play nice at this meeting. I can only hope in 4 years Trump has to give the lay of the land to Elizabeth Warren. That would be a classic. I think the meeting did last for 10 or 15 minutes. The rest of the time was coming up with what they were going to say.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Nov 10, 2016 -> 11:52 AM) No I said that all these people calling half of our country racist need to get off their high horse. It's like when you tell a four year old they can't have something and they call you mean. Calling half of our country racist is just as bad as being racist. Maybe not half, but a good portion of the country is racist. That would have been true if Hillary won. What this election does is empower some of them, at least in their minds.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 10, 2016 -> 10:09 AM) So am I supposed to feel reassured that we're hearing rumblings of folks like Palin, Arpaio, Giuliani, and a climate change denier for EPA, as part of Trump's cabinet? Is it possible to find a group of more divisive and incompetent people? That's the thing. It just keeps getting worse. When Florida goes underwater, the only good thing will be Mara logo goes under with it. But we won't even be able to enjoy that. Trump is using global warming as an excuse to get a sea wall built at one of his golf courses in Ireland.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Nov 10, 2016 -> 08:22 AM) That game should have been played the Saturday after Thanksgiving when the NIU students are home. Northwestern should play there. No one should play there. It wasn't built for football. Why bother?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 10, 2016 -> 06:35 AM) Talk now of Sarah Palin becoming head of the Interior Department. Once the mines are in the Grand Canyon we'll just get used to it. Yep, he's draining the swamp, and what's coming up is swamp things. Guiliani, Gingrich, Christie, now the meth head Sarah Palin. I just wonder how many years it will take cleaning up their 4 years of damage.

QUOTE (fathom @ Nov 9, 2016 -> 05:43 PM) Soler is type of guy in a rebuild you take a chance on and give him 1000 at bats. Contreras would be the key piece and the Sox catcher for the next half decade And when he is the second coming of Avi Garcia, you call for the GMs head for picking him up.

Kaplan isn't on his show today, but the panel is still drunk on Cubs kool aide. They said the Cubs wouldn't trade Schwarber straight up for Sale.

They switch off songs at the beginning. Thunderstruck is still in the rotation. And they do have an organist. She isn't as good as Nancy Faust, but no one is or was.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Nov 9, 2016 -> 02:56 PM) Free or super cheap BC wasn't enough at Planned Parenthood? Don't know. There were a bunch of us at dinner and I don't think she wanted it to get political, she just said, whether you want to believe it or not, it's true, since it's been enacted, that has been one of the results.

2 days before the election, Trump called the electoral college "a disaster for democracy". Turns out he was correct, as always, as it appears Hillary will win the popular vote.

A friend of mine works for a large adoption agency. She said business is getting really slow. There now is so much red tape with foreign adoptions, many countries won't go through it with the US. But what I found interesting is she said since the ACA, there are far less unplanned pregnancies in the US, as women are getting more birth control.

The White Sox were 45-36 at home. It actually wasn't a bad year to attend games.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Nov 9, 2016 -> 01:15 PM) Sick people with individual insurance through Obamacare. Once it's gone, and they're never going to get any decent coverage due to pre-existing conditions. C'mon, man. Trump already said it will be replaced by something terrific.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Nov 9, 2016 -> 12:58 PM) They are called "politicians." And there are still 538 of them in Washington that will be making the laws. If they really wanted to "Drain the Swamp," people like McCain wouldn't be reelected. Not because he's a bad representative, but because he is a lifetime politician. That didn't happen. Yes, draining the swamp and bringing in Guilianni, and Gingrich, and Christie into the cabinet doesn't exactly jive.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 9, 2016 -> 11:17 AM) Is Omarrossa gonna hold a Cabinet position? It just keeps becoming more and more surreal I doubt it. I think she is his black "beard". He's not racist. He talks to Omarrossa.

Obama ruined everyone's lives. Trump even said voting for Hillary is like voting for 4 more years of Obama. The weird part....Obama's approval rating is higher than Reagan's on election day 1988. The only 2 modern Presidents with a higher approval rating on election day were Reagan in 1984, and Bill Clinton in 2000.

I think any hope of Trump actually being about the country and not about Donald Trump is out the window. His surrogate, the great Omarrossa, said they are keeping track of their "enemies", those who didn't vote for him, and will even up the score.

There are about 400 people in my office. I don't know of any huge Hillary fans, but it is like someone died in the office today. So quiet and dour.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Nov 9, 2016 -> 10:38 AM) I'm sure that'll rattle the fanbase a little bit. Honestly, if there's one positive I see in defeat it's the hilarious reaction from Hollywood celebrities who have bombarded everyone with their political thoughts. Just the arrogance of these people to threaten leaving the country if Hillary lost, probably thinking to themselves "well, all these polls show Clinton ahead so I probably won't have to keep my word." My wife told me she was moving if Hillary lost. Do I have to go with her?

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 9, 2016 -> 10:31 AM) Well said. This entire campaign was an ego trip. He doesn't care about MAGA or any of that bulls***, he just wanted to become President for his own arrogance. Now that he actually won, who knows how seriously he will take it, if he will try to do it himself, or let his "CEOs" make all the decisions. I think initially, it would have been someone else, but his ego is doing nothing but growing. At least someone told him what a Gold Star family was.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 9, 2016 -> 10:30 AM) KKK members openly celebrating on a bridge in NC today. Welcome to Trump's America! Reminiscent of the NJ 9/11 celebrations Trump witnessed. Trump would be running into the back room a lot if he was on a lie detector Maury show.

And on top of everything else, there is the Russian influence angle. US intelligence said they were trying to interfere, and it appears they have their candidate now in place.

The election was rigged. Hillary should sue.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Nov 9, 2016 -> 09:59 AM) Jake ArrietaVerified account ‏@JArrieta34 35m35 minutes ago Time for Hollywood to pony up and head for the border #illhelpyoupack #beatit He's practicing to become the next Curt Schilling.

If most if not all of Trump's promises like a wall, throwing 11 million illegals out, high paying jobs for uneducated people with no skills, while paying little taxes, don't come to fruition, and just turn into the lies he's been spewing for ironically 30 years about himself, how long before the natives turn on him? Another scary thing, Rudy Guilianni as Attorney General. He's as nuts as Trump. I just wonder what the deal is with Pence. Didn't the Trump campaign basically offer Kasich the Presidency without the title if he joined the ticket? Pence may have received the same deal, and he's scary too.