[FRIAM] And so it begins: the dark times

[Gillian Densmore]

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On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:

> 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 you
> https://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,
> <http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/09/hillary-clinton-helped-pave-way-for-jared-kushner-in-the-white-house.html>
> “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
> <echarles at american.edu>
>
> 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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