[FRIAM] And so it begins: the dark times

[Jochen Fromm]

Yes I've heard of it. The wife is different from a son-in-law, though. Maybe he depends on him because he fears he is not adequate for the job and knows that his grandiosity is just an illusion. http://psychcentral.com/lib/donald-trump-and-the-narcissistic-illusion-of-grandiosity/
Although you never can be sure what goes on in a mind unless the person tells youhttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/
By the way what's interesting is how badly the whole election system failed. Both candidates were disliked. Ironically the most disliked candidate by the population at large and also the candidate most disliked within his own party won the election.

-J.


-------- Original message --------From: Eric Charles <eric.phillip.charles at gmail.com> Date: 1/21/17  17:23  (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] And so it begins: the dark times 
Actually Jochen, this one is squarely on the Clintons. When Bill appointed Hillary to a White House task force back in the early 1990s, this went through the court system. The judges in that case ruled that the law applied to Cabinet appointments and paid positions within the larger government, but not to White House staff. Kushner will similarly be in a unpaid position. 

“We doubt that Congress intended to include the White House or the 
Executive Office of the President” D.C. Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman
 wrote in the 1993 decision,
 “So, for example, a President would be barred from appointing his 
brother as Attorney General, but perhaps not as a White House special 
assistant.”




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Eric P. Charles, Ph.D.
Supervisory Survey Statistician
U.S. Marine Corps


On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 4:57 AM, Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:
First it was not clear what *-ism mix it will be - authoritarianism, nepotism, cronyism, nationalism or a mixture of it. Sarah Kendzior and Paul Krugman predict we will end up in an authoritarian dictatorship. What do you think, which *-ism will it be?
Maybe you could say the new minority president teaches nationalism, practices nepotism and cronyism and leads inevitably to authoritarianism. Will he be allowed to break the law? Isn't hiring of Jared Kushner already illegal?
The law clearly says: "A public official may not appoint, employ, promote [..] in or to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or over which he exercises jurisdiction or control any individual who is a relative of the public official."https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3110
-J.


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