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Deb's sister is married to a Black man played by Damon Gupton, not the John Legend character.

Born in '92 means she's 24 years old, and she's a 2nd year? Aren't most people 21 or 22 when they graduate from college? Was she a child prodigy who breezed through the lower grades and went to med school as a teenager?

I really liked this movie as well. I especially liked the fact that there were no "bad guys"; everyone had good intentions and sincerely wanted what was best for the kids. I don't generally like sequels and wouldn't suggest one here, but I can't help thinking about how the kids would adapt to being among other students, and whether they would be skipped a number of grades given how academically advanced they were compared to the average American student (unfortunately).

I don't know if this is consistent with the rest of this season, but last night's ep drew 6.7 million viewers as compared to Designated Survivors' 5.1 million (both had 1.1 in the 18-49 demographic). I really enjoy this show but Luis Guzman was, I feel, an essential component. If he's really gone for good, it will definitely screw up the ER team's chemistry.

Or ever saw The Manchurian Candidate: "Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."

And working in an over-taxed ER is her regular job! Seriously, I didn't get what was going on with this character (I admit she's not my favorite anyway).

I'm still waiting for an explanation of how a man who never in his 70 years had his name associated with any cause, issue, political policy or charity, but rather has spent his life promoting only himself and his brand--and apparently instilled the same (lack of) values in his children--all of a sudden realized that his true purpose in life was to help those who are struggling in our society.

Some people on this board have mocked those of us who have been going through a rough time since the election. I wonder if they will show the same lack of compassion for Trump supporters when they exhibit signs of depression and despondency after being betrayed by the fraud on whom they've placed their hopes. No thousands of manufacturing jobs; no thousands of coal mining jobs; no wall; no mass deportations of over 10,000,000 people; tax cuts that benefit only people in Trump's socioeconomic class. And God helps us if we end up in more military conflicts because of his lack of self-control, because it's always the children of the poor and working class who end up fighting our battles (don't expect to see Eric and Don Jr. in uniform).

It was not unusual--indeed, commonplace-- for his rallies to have people waving confederate flags, signs with swastikas, shirts with disgusting words to describe his opponent, cries of "lock her up," people physically assaulting protesters and the press being escorted out of venues by the Secret Service who feared for their safety. So please spare me the "you guys are being unkind" rhetoric.

Many of people on this thread probably already know about this, but wearing safety pins has caught on as a way to show you are a "safe place" for the marginalized or those among us who feel threatened. The link below (a quick read) explains the genesis of the idea. It's easy and cheap and a tangible way to show we care for each other. http://gothamist.com/2016/11/11/inclusion_tolerance_america.php

That works for now but we've got to get back on our feet and get to work. Protests going on all over the country, and the off-year elections in 2018 are more important than we could have imagined a week ago.

Which is why they voted for someone who claimed "I alone can fix this."

I stayed in bed all day Wednesday and when I went out Thursday I found myself in tears at the supermarket. This really isn't going well. I wish I had some words of wisdom but right now nothing seems to be helping.

Of course--this is what we expect from Fox. What about MSNBC, CNN, The NYTimes, WaPo, HuffPo, and all the others?

And he still insists on the guilt of the Central Park Five EVEN THOUGH THEY'VE BEEN EXONERATED BY DNA EVIDENCE and another man has confessed to the crime. BTW, just a couple of weeks ago 2 cops were shot in cold blood. When the murderer turned out to be a white male, Trump supporter, who carried a confederate flag when he went to football games so that he could wave it in front of black people media coverage pretty much evaporated. Wonder why.

As Rachel Maddow said on election night about people who voted for third party candidates: if you vote for someone you know can't win, then you don't care who wins. Four years of Giuliani, Gingrich, Jeff Sessions, Rob Corker, Tom Cotton. This will be an epic nightmare brought to us by the people who give us nightmares.

The jokes practically write themselves.

My impression was that the lines were longer because many polling places in certain districts had been eliminated (by guess which party), resulting in longer lines at the few remaining sites. Good to see that Lawrence is still calling Trump a liar.

And there has been no rioting, although there have been some arrests.

More protests across the country tonight [split screen on All In w/Chris Hayes on MSNBC right now].

This makes 2 out of the past 5 Presidential elections in which the Rep candidate took the White House despite the Dem candidate winning the popular vote.

I felt the same way Tuesday night but after spending most of Wednesday in bed with the covers over my head (not joking), I watched Chris and Rachel. Chris was dead serious throughout his show; no laughter from him or any of his guests. Rachel was clearly fighting back tears through much of her show. But seeing all the spontaneous protests all over the country was kind of uplifting--thousands of people taking to the streets. Rachel showed the view from her office window and said that the protest seemed to grow organically, i.e., people on the street who saw what was happening just joined in the march.

I know that we will among them, I just didn't think there were so many of them.

How has he managed to do this with a disorganized campaign, amateurish ads and no ground game?

And Rudy Giuliani Attorney General