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On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > Date: 1/21/17 17:23 (GMT+01:00) > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > > 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.” > > > > > ----------- > Eric P. Charles, Ph.D. > Supervisory Survey Statistician > U.S. Marine Corps > <[email protected]> > > On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 4:57 AM, Jochen Fromm <[email protected]> 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. >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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