Trump is working with advisers on a plan to curtail the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which is in charge of coordinating the 16-agency U.S. intelligence community, as well as make cutbacks at the CIA headquarters in Virginia...

.....What I understand is that rural Christian white Americans are entrenched in fundamentalist belief systems; don’t trust people outside their tribe; have been force-fed a diet of misinformation and lies for decades; are unwilling to understand their own situations; and truly believe whites are superior to all races. No amount of understanding is going to change these things or what they believe.... No economic policy put forth by someone outside their tribe is going to be listened to no matter how beneficial it would be for them....

.the 6.4 million signing up on HealthCare.gov through Monday could undermine the argument that the law is in free fall. The five states with the most people enrolling for coverage on the site through Monday were Florida, with 1.3 million plan selections, Texas (776,000), North Carolina (369,000), Georgia (352,000) and Pennsylvania (291,000). Mr. Trump carried all those states..the 6.4 million figure does not include data from states like New York and California that use their own digital marketplaces.

Critics like Bernie  Sanders say Trump’s choices fly in the face of his populist campaign message. “You don’t appoint a Cabinet of billionaires to be taking on the establishment,” he said on Sunday’s “Face The Nation.

At Mar-a-Lago. Networking to bring high paying jobs to the Ohio rust belt? A mission dear to Trump's gathering horde of profit seeking greedy oligarchs?

You see, in order to sell the legitimacy of Il Douche and his entourage of madmen, Russian dupes and plutocrats, it has now become necessary for the American Fascist Party to pivot 180 degrees, completely unremember the last eight years, and roll out a new and wholly false narrative about the Obama Administration....

A key House Republican on the issue of Social Security introduced a bill Thursday that would impose major cuts to the program. The bill, the Social Security Reform Act of 2016, was introduced by Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX), the chair of the House Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security.

Why make speeches to them, let them make speeches to you as head of the presidents economic council...!! A real champion of the working class!

... authorities say there has been a spate of hate crimes targeting libraries, their books or patrons — offenses officials said they had rarely seen before. These crimes coincide with a recent report by the F.B.I. that attacks against American Muslims surged last year.

Two Ku Klux Klan leaders charged with attacking another KKK member at what should have been a happy occasion for white supremacists - a North Carolina parade celebrating Donald Trump's election. Perhaps the thrill of voting for the Great Narcissist Groper in Chief is already wearing off?

"The Americans loved our stories and we make money from them," he boasts, making sure I see the designer watch he's fiddling with. "Who cares if they are true or false? Goran...is one of scores, or probably hundreds of Macedonian teenagers...in the small city of Veles which churned out fake pro-Trump news during the US election campaign."  If Trump can scam them, why not Macedonians?

And NYT: Trump Speaks with Taiwan's Leader in Affront to China. Taking care of business folks. Trump's money and Trump's personal business.

CNN: President-elect Donald Trump criticized this weekend's "Saturday Night Live" as "biased" and asked for "equal time" to respond. How was this suit balloon elected President? Oh, cuz Hillary emails. He's an idiot. He could make some psychiatrist great if he sought help.

Both Sides the same?..Wash. Post - Donald Trump could achieve some of the white nationalist movement’s goals by making Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) his attorney general.....White Supremacist Richard Spencer: “The fact that he is going to be at such a high level is a wonderful thing. What Jeff Sessions is not going to do, in terms of not prosecuting federal diversity and fair housing, I think is just as powerful as what he might do.”

Ms Trump landed in hot water after sending out a "style alert" to journalists around the world. The problem? The alert focused on a $10,000 bracelet from her own range which she had worn during Donald Trump's 60 Minutes interview.

Critics saw the email as blurring the lines between business and politics.

IT'S ALL ABOUT THEM AND MONEY TRUMPKINS..!

I've been saying the GOP is as ideologically rigid as Stalinists, now the Stalin word is coming out on MSM: NBC News quoted a source as saying Rogers was the victim of a “Stalinesque purge” of people close to Christie. “Two sources close to the situation described an atmosphere of sniping and backbiting as Trump loyalists position themselves for key jobs,” the network reported.