I had to look that up. Inferred that it meant "thanks" from your usage elsewhere, but discovered there's a whole bucketful of meanings depending on context, especially with other words that I also don't know. 
Add to the list: in spite of Charlie Rose and Matt Lauer.
My daughter was originally going to vote for Jill Stein because "where there's smoke, there's fire" about Hillary. One of her twenty-something friends actually believed Hillary is a war-monger. Those beliefs didn't come from "a bad campaign".
My response, in part:
Sometimes where there's a lot of smoke it's because of a smokescreen somebody puts up because they don't want you to get a clear view of reality. They wouldn't invest that much time, effort and vile unless they were scared to death of what Hillary could accomplish. A war-monger Secretary of State couldn't put out so many little wildfires as she did around the world.
They both voted for Hillary Clinton.
I thought her campaign was brilliant. My son asked me about when she started going into states the pundits thought were out of reach. I told him my best guess was that she was trying to widen her coattails so there'd be some more friendly faces in Congress. If she won but still had the same Congress, she'd face the same obstacles thrown against Obama all those years.
Take away the illegal meddling and possibly illegal voter suppression, but leave in the legitimate propaganda machine, and she would have won by a landslide.
Sorry for the long-windedness but I still get fired up over the President we *should* have right now. Been waiting over 40 years, so the theft stings, as I'm sure it does for, oh, maybe a -few- million others. Too many kids don't even know what a good politician is because they've seen so many bad ones in action.
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