What is this weirdness?

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Rob Flaherty? @Rob_Flaherty
This is wild -- Career diplomats have been instructed not to make eye contact with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/secretary-of-state-rex-tillerson-spends-his-first-weeks-isolated-from-an-anxious-bureaucracy/2017/03/30/bdf8ec86-155f-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.56ff0f4a0aaa …

[Leghorn21]

1. I've heard of hot-shot actors and way-famous musicians doing this - creepy AF. eom

[dawg]

2. These assholes think they're masters of the damn universe.

Malice, tempered by incompetence.

[GReedDiamond]

3. Tillerson isn't working for the State Dept...

...or the People of the U.S.

He's working for Tillerson/ExxonMobil, Trump and Putin.

[Whiskeytide]

9. I suspect Trump is...

...working for Tillerson.

[GReedDiamond]

10. I hear what you're saying, that's a good point...nt

[marybourg]

4. Sounds like great Sec. of State material.

About as qualified as our so-called president.

[MBS]

5. wow, not even meeting embassy employees.

When Kerry was Secretary of State, his calendar, and photo and video logs, were jam-packed with those visits. He met employees' kids . As the article said, those visits are important morale-boosters.
(I'm sure it was the same with HRC, too - I just happen to have followed Kerry's State Dept. blogs, etc, more closely.)

This new regime is pathological in every way.
It's hard to believe that this is the same country.

[furtheradu]

6. tillerson is unqualified & unworthy

to hold that position. Seems to me he is ashamed, HE is the one who can't look honorable, patriotic career state dept.people in the eye.

[babylonsister]

7. I wonder who gave those instructions?

The eye contact is very strange, but talking to him? He has no good answers that would satisfy any American, and he's not cut out for this job and didn't want it.

[Tanuki]

8. Even a cat may look at a king.