Stora tråden om Donald Trump [mod]

President-elect Donald Trump accepts the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia engaged in cyber attacks affecting the U.S. presidential election and may take actions in response, his incoming chief of staff said on Sunday.

Reince Priebus said Trump believes Russia was behind the intrusions into the Democratic Party organizations, though he did not clarify whether the president-elect agreed that the hacks were directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"He accepts the fact that this particular case was entities in Russia so that's not the issue," Priebus said on "Fox News Sunday."

McConnell: We won't delay hearings
"All of these little procedural complaints are related to their frustrations,” McConnell says of Democrats complaining about incomplete ethics reviews.

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 6 sep. 2013
I wonder how much our "leaders" have promised, or given, Russia in order for them to behave and not make the U.S. look even worse?

Meanwhile, a change in the global auto supply chain as a result of Trump's policy could push China and Mexico closer together. Chinese investors have been eager to extend into Mexico. Last year, a senior executive from China's BAIC Motor Corp said that the company was mulling a plant in Mexico.

It is only a matter of time before Chinese automakers flock to Mexico as they seek to optimize their production costs and tap into the potential of gaining greater access in the North and Latin American markets. Ford's withdrawal will serve as a great opportunity for Chinese investors in those markets.

China prepares for trade spats with US under Trump
China might target well-known US firms for higher tax or antitrust investigations, launch anti-dumping probes into US products, and cut back government purchases of US goods, according to Bloomberg.

In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. President-elect Donald Trump’s every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world.

Trump set up a single phone call with Taiwan’s president, and suddenly TDS patients were insisting that our “One China” policy was no more. But the reality is that telephonic communication isn’t the same thing as official diplomatic recognition.

The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim’s vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting solely of hyperbole... Politico recently ran a piece that noted Trump’s supposedly unprecedented decision to continue using his private security force, which provoked former independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin to tweet: “A predictable move for a kleptocratic authoritarian who wants to operate outside the bounds of law and basic ethical standards. Even more troubling, he may use the force’s lack of government oversight & presidential veneer to carry-out extralegal acts of force.”

As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality. Despite Trump’s expressed desire to “work something out” for the so-called Dreamers — those brought here as very young children — Trump’s critics continue to harp on this issue. Immigration advocate Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, who has a very bad case of TDS, inadvertently revealed this mindset when he said: “Before anyone falls into the trap of believing that Trump is ‘softening’ on immigration, they should remember that we’ve seen this movie before.”

In the advanced stages of the disease, the afflicted lose touch with reality. Opinion is unmoored from fact. Life resembles a dark fairy tale in which the villain — Trump — is an amalgam of all the worst tyrants in history, past and present, while the heroes — Trump’s critics — are akin to the resistance fighters of World War II. "He is literally Hitler"

If he’s another Hitler, if he’s in league with Putin, then why is assassination out of the question? Poke a TDS victim and you’ll find they don’t think that “solution” is out of the question at all.

This is the final stage of the TDS epidemic: violence against a democratically elected leader. Unless a cure for TDS is found, this is where we are headed.