In the world at large we know what incompetence looks like, but can you quantitatively measure run-blocking incompetence?
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But the true genius at incompetence like our president flails and founders and is too incompetent to recognize his own incompetence.
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When it's time to choose between admitting maliciousness or incompetence, teams will always choose incompetence (and pass the blame on to the independent doctors).
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But as German Lopez wrote on Florida's election woes, voter fraud and pure incompetence are two separate problems: There is a difference, though, between fraud and incompetence.
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Appearance of impropriety, malfeasance, or incompetence is often as important to the people who cover politics as is the substantive question of whether impropriety, malfeasance, or incompetence is actually at hand.
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The emails make Trump Jr.—and by extension the effort to collude with Russia—look like sheer incompetence, and incompetence is much better than malevolence when you start talking about treason.
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I also talk about Secretary of State Brian Kemp in Georgia, a Republican who engaged in this kind of incompetence, although in that case it was more a combination of incompetence and malfeasance.
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"Incompetence" is the legislative branch's problem and "secrecy" the executive's.
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We must now face arbitrariness and incompetence at all levels.
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This isn't a story of public or private sector incompetence.
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In smaller cities such as Voronezh, residents complain about incompetence.
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There was also mundane incompetence that tamped down voter turnout.
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Yet Mr Johnson's incompetence is balanced by his perceived electability.
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Trump campaign's incompetence, even this basic task is beyond them.
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At best, this counts as utter incompetence by NCAA enforcement.
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That kind of incompetence alone can easily get people fired.
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This was a week of incompetence and of cruise missiles.
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You accused him of "incompetence" in handling Egypt's economic policies.
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There's no other way to justify their incompetence and failure.
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This dynamic isn't happening because of industry or management incompetence.
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It can show gentleness and compassion or carelessness and incompetence.
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This kind of incompetence eventually catches up with an administration.
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He will have demonstrated once again his incompetence and unfitness.
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The guesses ranged from a foreign invasion to worker incompetence.
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He called out what he perceived as the administration's incompetence.
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Ultimately, investigators concluded that incompetence, not corruption, was to blame.
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His narcissism, incompetence, and dithering have gravely endangered the nation.
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Incompetence and public opposition have limited their success so far.
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I think so, but it's not incompetence in a vacuum.
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Should we be more concerned about incompetence than foreign encroachments?
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Are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence?
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But PTSD and the government's incompetence make his mission tricky.
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The revelations have laid bare the government's incompetence and cruelty.
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First, the administration is confounded by inexperience, incompetence and infighting.
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Whether Cipollone's assertion comes from deception or incompetence is unclear.
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Can pure incompetence plunge the world into a catastrophic war?
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Could all the spy losses be blamed on C.I.A. incompetence?
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Incompetence because all of this could have been planned for.
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Based on past experience, I'm expecting complete incompetence and corruption.
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Together, though, they tell a damning story of organizational incompetence.
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What is the exact mix of incompetence and ill intent?
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Their incompetence leaves them stranded along a remote stretch of highway; the incompetence of the movie around them, however, has the unfortunate effect of leaving the audience even more helpless than the film's protagonists.
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The crisis is at best a tale of neglect and incompetence.
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It is not the first display of the public protector's incompetence.
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But incompetence, we were assured, was the likelier explanation than conspiracy.
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"That was when it went from incompetence to malice," she says.
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These incidents demonstrate Sheriff's Israel's repeated incompetence and neglect of duty.
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Officials and residents in Gillette lament "horrible" incompetence by its boss.
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Yet the consensus is being redefined, regardless of Mr Corbyn's incompetence.
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The technocratic elite compounded the problem of over-reach with incompetence.
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There have been protests by Ukrainians who accuse her of incompetence.
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If killing someone will stop this incompetence, I will do it.
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Its corruption and incompetence have inflicted years of hardship on Venezuelans.
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People are tired of the corruption, injustice & incompetence of their leaders.
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Corruption, racism, thuggery, incompetence—it's Trump in a big ugly nutshell.
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We know his administration is a web of incompetence and corruption.
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These embarrassing incidents are, however, more than isolated moments of incompetence.
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It seems to me that there has been incompetence all round.
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Some of that is because of incompetence and lack of resources.
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His old-guard opponents accuse him of incompetence born from inexperience.
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We love real-guy, ordinary incompetence in a heightened genre situation.
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Their timidity, incompetence and lack of accountability can have calamitous impacts.
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Through incompetence or indifference, McConnell has proven himself incapable of both.
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And it's fed by more than just Corbyn's alleged incompetence and
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Not only does incompetence equal innocence, but also paranoia is exculpatory.
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Bringing attention to a mistake feels like highlighting one's own incompetence.
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Why ascribe malice to the president when incompetence alone explains everything?
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Now, we would like to put this down to technological incompetence.
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Maybe the only accurate part of these stories is police incompetence?
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These incidents demonstrate Sheriff Israel's repeated incompetence and neglect of duty.
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"This is not a Democratic hoax, this is incompetence ..." https://t.
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The finding revealed a "staggering amount of incompetence," Mr. Higgins said.
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But I would expect more complications and incompetence down the road.
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They must defend his incessant lying, clear incompetence and dubious dealings.
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He escaped, he told the Stasi, because of further British incompetence.
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The main things mitigating the danger are his incompetence and cowardice.
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Whether through complacency, miscommunication, or incompetence, that has not always happened.
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Yes, the reporting of votes was a perfect storm of incompetence.
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Based on that, he would have been fired for gross incompetence.
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They are fed up with the government's perceived incompetence and corruption.
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He is singularly, historically, epically awful — scary in his willful incompetence.
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One was the perceived dither and incompetence of the outgoing government.
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But mandatory term limits are a recipe for corruption and incompetence.
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Investigations have highlighted police incompetence as one cause of the chaos.
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"The incompetence, the sloppiness and the leaking is unprecedented," he said.
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When in doubt it is wisest to bank on inexplicable incompetence.
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But I managed to beat them all in the incompetence stakes.
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"The travel ban was a case of bureaucratic incompetence," she said.
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It is likely that some referees will be accused of incompetence.
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Iran, Saudi Arabia's main regional rival, blamed the disaster on organizers' incompetence.
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Not because of any technological incompetence, but because of incredibly small batches.
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On top of that, the drivers berated my incompetence over the radio.
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So a single episode of medical incompetence saved her life twice over.
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It's a doozy of a tale, a steeplechase of woe and incompetence.
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Mr Maduro's incompetence is costing lives and undoing decades of hard work.
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At work, he is on the verge of being sacked for incompetence.
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Republican elected officials seem fed up with Trump's incompetence and name-calling.
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It's about Facebook's incompetence when it comes to following its own rules.
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Taxpayers are paying a big price for the incompetence of city officials.
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This probably was just incompetence, but there's no way to be certain.
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Iran blamed the disaster on organizers' incompetence, and boycotted last year's haj.
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The results of this shortsightedness, incompetence, or both became clear breathtakingly soon.
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Iran blamed the disaster on organizers' incompetence and boycotted last year's haj.
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No one is sure whether it was hackers or just incompetence. 6.
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Jacob Zuma's government in South Africa is riven by graft and incompetence.
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Is the White House's cyber security weakness due to malfeasance or incompetence?
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This shield protects public employees who are cited for malfeasance or incompetence.
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Thousands took to the streets to protest the government's corruption and incompetence.
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"The company will be fined for its incompetence and irresponsibility," Moraes said.
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Editorial Congress seems determined to set a new standard for craven incompetence.
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"This look to me like a case of regulatory incompetence," said Rep.
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In fact, the industry wants to shield itself from its own incompetence.
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By the end, Margaery is a victim of the High Sparrow's incompetence.
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It was an administration built upon a combination of ideology and incompetence.
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Since then it has been an onslaught of indecency, corruption, and incompetence.
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And so grows the spiral of corruption and incompetence and ethical shadiness.
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His incompetence, his hair, his lack of regard for pomp and manners.
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Mr. Trump dismissed it as a byproduct of the Bush administration's incompetence.
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The only energy around Trump is a vortex of complicity and incompetence.
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Venezuelans cannot stand for six more years of hunger, corruption and incompetence.
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Their labor provides an insurance policy for Henry's bad luck and incompetence.
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They can lead to steady, effective government or to incompetence and corruption.
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He was frustrated with our technological incompetence, but nevertheless we remained friends.
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But his small-mindedness and incompetence grow more evident with every boast.
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They must demand references who can recount specific instances of demonstrated incompetence.
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One of these is the sheer incompetence that this president has displayed.
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Adding insult to injury is the gross incompetence of these nudist emperors.
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It has turned out to be a display of incompetence and cruelty.
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And incompetence, even if it's not fully known, is no excuse anyway.
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Chaos envelops his White House, disarray is the norm and incompetence reigns.
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The only solace is that, with Trump, it's accompanied by paralyzing incompetence.
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Chaos for sure, as well as the possible appearance of rampant incompetence.
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"I don't know if it's incompetence or intentional deception," Mr. Cole said.
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The incompetence extends from the initial crime to the subsequent cover-up.
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But, not for the first time, UKIP's organisational incompetence may prove its downfall.
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If faced with a national security crisis, Trump's incompetence could pose serious problems.
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Votel indicated that the investigations yielded no signs of incompetence or bad judgment.
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That they haven't done this yet is a testament to their absolute incompetence.
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The constant difficulties are the result of a combination of incompetence and corruption.
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Trump's first statement has stunned many observers with its sheer recklessness and incompetence.
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Sam's phone, which belonged to an idiot, paid the price for Sam's incompetence.
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Labour audiences love this as much as the Tories relish parading Labour's incompetence.
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It looks like he acted out of fear, incompetence or a partisan purpose.
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It has exposed the corruption and incompetence at the heart of Peruvian politics.
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When a coworker starts slacking, you might want to blame negligence or incompetence.
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In fact, it would have discouraged cronyism, incompetence and other economically damaging behaviors.
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As with most things Trump-related, Occam's razor has always pointed to incompetence.
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But his approach has been marked by uncertainty, U-turns and, occasionally, incompetence.
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DeVos's nomination wasn't only controversial because of her radical views or her incompetence.
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Can Apple legally argue government incompetence is to blame for this whole snafu?
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The second is that this administration's cynicism is only matched by its incompetence.
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It paints a picture of incompetence, confusion and poor planning across the government.
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A ruling of incompetence would set off power struggles at Viacom and CBS.
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But what unfolded may be less a tale of wrongdoing than of incompetence.
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The second thing is, you know, the sheer managerial incompetence of this administration.
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We simply can't allow veterans to be endangered by incompetence or unethical behavior.
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And I do not respond well to what I perceive as willful incompetence.
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Stadium crowds have been enthusiastic and reports of violence and logistical incompetence few.
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Of course, incompetence, self-aggrandizement, and xenophobia are some of Trump's key traits.
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But Trump's malevolence has been tempered by incompetence, to quote Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes.
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And that's what they got, with corruption, incompetence, and treason on the side.
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Because of its incompetence, the opioid crisis has gone from bad to worse.
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To call those officials incompetent would be to redefine the concept of incompetence.
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Many people agreed with my interpretation that it's more incompetence than ill will.
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In that sense, Leigh's incompetence isn't a burden: It's a kind of hope.
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If globalism's weakness is technocratic naïveté, populism's faults are ignorance, incompetence and paranoia.
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Every democratically elected government has been removed on charges of corruption and incompetence.
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We are going to reject Hillary Clinton's politics of fear, futility, and incompetence.
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Yeah. But it was due to stupidity, incompetence and lack of due diligence.
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Thanks to Will and Joel for their patience with my occasionally evinced incompetence.
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Trump's month so far has been a remarkable cavalcade of ugliness and incompetence.
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"As a programmer, I'm highly amused and disturbed at the incompetence here," they added.
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That the barge is necessary at all is a result of the government's incompetence.
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Other songs, meanwhile, juxtapose Alpini bravery with the supposed incompetence of other Italian soldiers.
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According to researchers, the attorney's false statement either amounts to perjury or gross incompetence.
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As a parliamentary party, LRM was accused of arrogance by some, incompetence by others.
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But Republicans have a reason for doing this — and it's not incompetence or carelessness.
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It either is based upon total incompetence, feckless leadership, or its done on purpose.
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Despite his viciousness and incompetence, he was hailed as a hero by many Africans.
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The incompetence of the Houthis has been compounded by the involvement of Saudi Arabia.
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"People are tired of the corruption, injustice & incompetence of their leaders," the secretary said.
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Whether operating out of desperation or incompetence, the Trump campaign is in deep trouble.
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That's just plain old incompetence and greed, essentially, that everyone can react to, right?
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"Hunger is Venezuelans' biggest day-to-day problem," Falcon said, lambasting Maduro for incompetence.
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Some Peruvians spy partisan conspiracy; the charitable view is that it is blind incompetence.
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There's no evidence that the pace of the cleanup is due to EPA incompetence.
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In general, Trump's manifest managerial incompetence is impairing his ability to actually do anything.
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The administration's malevolence may be constrained on some fronts—for now—by its incompetence.
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But sheer incompetence can't be ruled out when it comes to the Trump campaign.
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Her employment status is in permanent jeopardy because of chronic tardiness and blistering incompetence.
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"I think unfortunately this administration is the collision of cruelty and incompetence," she remarked.
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My best friend in middle school despaired at my incompetence with hair and makeup.
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Republicans have long targeted the E.P.A. as a source of government incompetence and overreach.
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"A lot of what gets interpreted as nefariousness often is just incompetence," said Dauber.
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The incompetence of the British Bankers' Association, which oversaw the benchmark, is also stunning.
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He deserves every word of criticism he has received for his lies and incompetence.
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Either there was terrible incompetence, or there was a heavy hand on the scale.
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None of that erases a troubling bottom line: The city tolerated incompetence for years.
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The program has become a veritable nightmare of waste, incompetence and poor health care.
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But it would be wrong to pin the government's incompetence only on partisan ideology.
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But it would be wrong to pin the government's incompetence only on partisan ideology.
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The federal government has oscillated between incompetence and indifference; between being softheaded or hardhearted.
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But Mr. Cagle has emphasized what he considers Mr. Kemp's incompetence on the job.
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Work colleagues tend not to interpret a flushed face as a sign of incompetence.
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Incompetence or an inside job was at play, or perhaps both — not technical ingenuity.
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Detractors saw artifice and incompetence, while supporters saw a cheeky glint in his eye.
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" — STEPHEN COLBERT "There are now more books about Trump's incompetence than the 'Goosebumps' series.
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But anyone who fears incompetence more than tyranny has plenty of evidence as well.
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The 25th Amendment was designed to apply to physical incapacity, not incompetence or irresponsibility.
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By all means stand up to him, and point out his lies and incompetence.
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It was poisoned with a lethal cocktail of incompetence, arrogance, short-sightedness & sociopathic delusion.
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They lack it, she explains, because of a combination of government incompetence and neglect.
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So take your pick — rank incompetence, utter stupidity or links to a foreign power.
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"It was poisoned with a lethal cocktail of incompetence, arrogance, short-sightedness & sociopathic delusion."
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Most important, another trait in common with his boss is his jaw-dropping incompetence.
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Did they follow up with stories of government competence after harping on government incompetence?
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Amanda Chase on Sunday blamed "complete incompetence" by the media company she recently hired.
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He is always the undeserving victim of other peoples' malice, incompetence or both. 19.
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"The incompetence is staggering," said one adviser with close ties to the White House.
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Like bribery, rigidity and incompetence, blindly positive thinking is always a risk in bureaucracies.
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With Trump, though, the only clear precedent being set is one of deplorable incompetence.
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It's indicative of a fundamental incompetence at the heart of the new White House.
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He is always the undeserving victim of other peoples' malice, incompetence or both. 38.
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" He told the Intercept that the level of incompetence at play here is "mindblowing.
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So nothing would surprise me about the sheer incompetence of the British ruling class.
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That was a reminder, too, of the incompetence that laces even the sinister in Egypt.
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The hackers threatened to reveal embarrassing details about authorities' incompetence if their demands aren't met.
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Duterte has cited Robredo's "incompetence" as a reason for his inability to quit as president.
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I have been totally shocked at the sheer incompetence of senior administration officials this week.
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Among them is that he manages to spin his utter incompetence as a good thing.
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The Vice President's incompetence doesn't go unnoticed; it was part of the game's selling point.
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It's Kate's incompetence, after all, that got us all into this mess to begin with.
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It is a fierce ouroboros: Trump's incompetence feeds his struggle to recruit his preferred candidates.
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The lawyer's incompetence, in other words, may not have uniquely doomed Mr Lee to deportation.
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The overall picture is of a party struggling with familiar incompetence and unfamiliar existential angst.
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But it's probably not possible to remove spectacle and incompetence entirely from a congressional hearing.
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He already did something today where he said don't blame them, essentially, for your incompetence.
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Mr Maduro's incompetence has pauperised Venezuelans, forcing around a tenth of the population to emigrate.
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Instead it has to deal with the aura of incompetence and evasion surrounding the firm.
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But it's worth asking given the president's dangerous incompetence and complete lack of intellectual curiosity.
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He scrapes that bowl clean, swallowing his digital-security incompetence bite by tasty bite. Yum.
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The problem often isn't teachers' incompetence, it's that they're forced to instruct kids using rubbish.
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But to dismiss them as distractions, theatrics, or mere incompetence is to miss the point.
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President Bush lost 31 in 2006 as Americans revolted against Congressional corruption and Executive incompetence.
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But even Trump's own words don't quite do justice to his signature brand of incompetence.
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In private, some UN officials say that all this mistreatment is not incompetence but strategy.
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Gallego disputed that and accused the administration of incompetence in enforcing its zero tolerance policy.
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But in this instance, she and the public were defeated by a lesser foe: incompetence.
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Elections are typically the best means for removing presidents for bad policies or general incompetence.
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There will be plenty of time to be disgusted with Trump's bigotry, narcissism and incompetence.
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In both situations, government (especially law enforcement) corruption and incompetence allowed organized crime to flourish.
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It is no surprise that government officials don't want their wrongdoing or incompetence made public.
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Add in software incompetence and you get the mess that New York is facing now.
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They depict a center in disarray, hobbled by incompetence and inefficiency and overwhelmed by demand.
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Our place on the world stage can't endure even four more years of Democratic incompetence.
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An economic slowdown seems likely because of the coronavirus, which also highlights Trump's administrative incompetence.
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Their incompetence is a historical force in the lives of each and all of us.
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In Iraq, the U.S. occupation—in its incompetence and brutality—became emblematic of American decline.
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But sometimes what looks like incompetence is really an institution failing to achieve the impossible.
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We are handling the first real global crisis since the Cold War with staggering incompetence.
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But with everything we know heading into November 2018, incompetence no longer seems particularly exonerating.
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Analysts are debating whether the country's economic debacle is the result of design or incompetence.
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His alarming, riveting exposé portrays a multibillion industry plagued by violence, corruption, deprivation and incompetence.
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Their perceived warmth elicits affection and support, while their perceived incompetence elicits disrespect and neglect.
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It could simply be bureaucratic incompetence by individuals within the organization, the news outlet notes.
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Beijing offers ambiguous "aid" to Italy, a tragic victim of Beijing's incompetence and callous disregard.
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" They accused him of highlighting "government incompetence" and spreading "anti-American" and "left-wing messages.
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But even if it is true, it's a confession of a stunning level of incompetence.
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None of the breaking scandals necessarily suggested high crimes as opposed to simple omni-incompetence.
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He accused Nissan&aposs leaders of treachery, of attempting to distract from their own incompetence.
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The VA is almost completely devoid of any sort of accountability for misconduct or incompetence.
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After Maria, a series of incidents pointed to incompetence in the handling of emergency aid.
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The investigation into the killings drew allegations of police incompetence, torture and mishandling of evidence.
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There was savagery by all, and incompetence on the part of the U.N. and NATO.
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Militant incompetence and autocracy are not in opposition: They are two sides of a coin.
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The incompetence and ineptitude consistently exhibited by the Trump White House are of unfathomable measure.
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Thankfully, for now, the saving grace of American democracy seems to be Trump's bumbling incompetence.
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But it is as much the product of the European Union referendum as local incompetence.
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The Florida constitution allows the governor to suspend county officials for wrongdoing or incompetence. Gov.
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Under Mr. Zuma, the once-heroic party of liberation became identified with graft and incompetence.
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All will be well: Trump's incompetence will outweigh his irascibility, his lies, and his provocations.
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The real story, as usual, is [graft/incompetence/Anthony Michael Hall being named Surgeon General].
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After being fired from one office for "incompetence" the other congressional offices continued to pay him.
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"It reflects the incompetence of the Macau government and the aftermath of typhoon Hato," Au added.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The combination of both white nationalist racism making the policy complete and total incompetence.
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"It's absolutely unbelievable the level of incompetence at this district," Andrew Pollack, Meadow's father, said, sighing.
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"I'm always amused that the way to increase the budget is by pleading incompetence," he added.
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But such calamities are also man-made, and a trail of incompetence led to this one.
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And Obama's policies never approached anything like the breadth, cynicism, and incompetence of Trump's executive order.
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In all the above cases, corruption and incompetence functioned not as opposed but as complementary explanations.
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Between geopolitical scandals, governmental incompetence, and global climate change, you're probably in need of some escape.
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Too many people think the problem with education hinges on the laziness and incompetence of teachers.
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When he offers his resignation to the queen, he still cannot bring himself to admit incompetence.
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The starting point is unconscious incompetence—when a swimmer does not even realise what is amiss.
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Next comes conscious incompetence, when you spot what is wrong and try to stop doing it.
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The class-ridden incompetence of British post-war industrial management offered easy pickings for left-wingers.
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Annalise can handle personal victimhood (witness: any day of her haunted, complicated life) — but professional incompetence?
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In Britain, the Northcote-Trevelyan report of 1854 called for exams to weed out hereditary incompetence.
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You've got that trio of incompetence to feast on and that's the best you can do?
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A scandal has mired the country and its government in the reek of incompetence and corruption.
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Horror stories of long waits for treatment, bureaucratic inertia, fraud, incompetence, cover-ups and politics abound.
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What we do when we fail to recognize either our own competence or our own incompetence.
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There is perhaps no better example of the Egyptian government's incompetence than its handling of wheat.
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It suggested that Mr Xi understood how grievances about official incompetence and corruption risked boiling over.
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The first case would show reckless incompetence in Trump's campaign, while the second would reveal malevolence.
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"It's costing our country hundreds of billions of dollars because of incompetence in California," Trump said.
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Call it Don Cherry Syndrome, call it perceived playoff incompetence, call it wild and unabashed Russophobia.
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But by revealing her incompetence so publicly, she made her already-struggling party even less electable.
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But it's really his way of excusing his ignorance, costuming his incompetence and greenlighting his hooliganism.
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"This is the grossest kind of indifference and incompetence and we are losing lives," Clinton said.
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Venezuelans are living a humanitarian catastrophe, the result of government incompetence and an entrenched, unmovable autocracy.
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It's the kind of admission of age-based incompetence best shared with only the closest advisers.
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"It's costing our country hundreds of billions of dollars because of incompetence in California," Trump said.
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With near-daily, headline-worthy press briefings, it's easy to succumb to generalizations about Spicer's incompetence.
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As long as he is driving the news cycle, that incompetence is reassuring to his skeptics.
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One danger to the proper functioning of federal agencies is a combination of incompetence and neglect.
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That group's incompetence is barely eclipsed by the football team whose sparsely-attended games they accompany.
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We have two cases of sort of botched responses to epidemics out of neglect and incompetence.
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I've gotten extreme value from tech, while I've mostly got waste, incompetence and corruption from government.
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During the 143s, the incompetence of Peru's political class had turned the country into a nightmare.
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Any setback, in Pérez's eyes, could only be attributed to officials' incompetence or to dark conspiracy.
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In some cases, the problem is "self-inflicted political wounds" brought on by incompetence, says Nelson.
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We want something new, but for women, unfamiliarity and youth end up being tied to incompetence.
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Yet sometimes Trump's incompetence and malevolence are not at cross-purposes; instead, there's a multiplier effect.
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She did not concede, however, saying "disenfranchisement, disinvestment and incompetence" had kept voters from the polls.
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The coronavirus pandemic changes the view of Donald Trump's incompetence, because this time it is intimate.
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He'd been a strict bandleader and had often hurt my feelings by singling out my incompetence.
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"Once more, the Temer administration uses the military to hide its incompetence," she wrote on Twitter.
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What do you mean by the phrase "electoral incompetence," and why is it a significant problem?
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These findings are deeply troubling, but also speak to a pattern of VA negligence and incompetence.
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The trillion-dollar question is whether the confusion is by design or simply confusion and incompetence.
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According to a whistleblower complaint, his administration's incompetence may have facilitated coronavirus's spread in California 3.
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By adding in the missing children, the story manages to incorporate an incompetence angle as well.
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Colleagues describe him as both supportive and self-regarding, happy to delegate but impatient with incompetence.
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But I'd hesitate to administer Narcan out of fear of incompetence and fear of tort liability.
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The government would be accused of negligence, incompetence, even malfeasance in its handling of the case.
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Some choose to find comfort in the belief that the incompetence will undermine the anti-Americanism.
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But an astonishing level of incompetence, incoherence and infighting has marked his first weeks in office.
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"There are literally people who will be dying because of this level of incompetence," Gohmert said.
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He once dressed down a contingent from the U.S. Agency for International Development for their incompetence.
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We're going to win bigger than people think, because the American public is tired of incompetence.
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These "Veterans Law Judges," as they like to call themselves, are never held accountable for incompetence.
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He repeats lies over and over again to cover up for his complete and utter incompetence.
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Imagine that the Trump administration descends further into chaos, through some combination of investigations and incompetence.
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We have destroyed all the miles you have accumulated out of contempt for your technical incompetence.
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She seemed distressed by what she called "gross incompetence" by her superiors during her time abroad.
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A narrative has arisen in response suggesting that incompetence is at the root of these decisions.
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In my article on impeachment, I argued that a president's incompetence could and should be impeachable.
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Labour is in the grip of a hard-left faction that combines repugnant politics with extreme incompetence.
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Those who still refuse to take Trump seriously cite his incompetence for the rough start in office.
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"It's possible it was incompetence, but we have to assume it's not," he said of the arrest.
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Romania&aposs top court ordered her dismissal over accusations of incompetence — allegations critics say were politically motivated.
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The most frequently cited responses are lying (13%), racism (11%), incompetence (11%) and not acting presidential (7%).
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The result was a public outcry, insults of incompetence and a humble retreat to what creditors wanted.
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Complacency, incompetence and sterile elitist philosophizing have created problems that will take a long time to solve.
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It takes something extraordinary—war, revolution or epic incompetence—to mess things up on such a scale.
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This combination of injustice and incompetence is common in capital cases in Pakistan, a new report argues.
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"Equifax's incompetence would be comical if the subject matter weren't so serious," Herrera said in the statement.
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More likely he'll find a way to make it more horrible, if not through intent, through incompetence.
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By all accounts, Gell-Mann was well acquainted with his own genius, treating perceived incompetence with impatience.
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Where to begin: There are the allegations of sexual harassment and HR incompetence from Susan Fowler Rigetti.
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The people who — either through incompetence, negligence, abuse, or absence — failed to prepare them for the world.
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Nearly every day starts with a new report detailing infighting, dysfunction, and incompetence in the White House.
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Mr Khamenei's advisers level accusations of incompetence, and suspect Mr Rohani has fallen into an American trap.
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What's worse is we are not even trying – due to a combination of incompetence and bureaucratic intransigence.
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Successive governments, detached from the people, have produced little more than staggering levels of corruption and incompetence.
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Its exiles in Istanbul and Doha bemoan the incompetence of Muhammad Morsi, Egypt's short-lived Brotherhood president.
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There's no doubt that incompetence has emerged as the best, most believable excuse of the Trump administration.
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Had House Republicans failed in passing the CR, it would have been another example of Republican incompetence.
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Never mind the cyber (Cyber!) attackers; it's malingering incompetence that will get us all in the end.
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Ukrainian law enforcement has a well-deserved reputation for incompetence, cover-ups and colluding with corrupt oligarchs.
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Still, it is hard to see how national security benefits from punishing people because of bureaucratic incompetence.
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Publicly, she continues to pretend that this condition has gone undiagnosed because of the incompetence of doctors.
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The act often provides the best tunnel into the otherwise impenetrable federal bureaucracy, exposing wrongdoing and incompetence.
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Many claimed this lag shows severe incompetence in the organization's security, some even claiming it was negligent.
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The F.B.I.'s conduct in every aspect of the San Bernardino case has been rife with incompetence.
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Death comes for us all eventually, but could gross incompetence impede even this most inevitable of truths?
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In many ways, it's reassuring to know that a malevolent administration's actions will be tempered by incompetence.
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Instead, as the headline on his piece puts it: "Keep the focus on Trump's cruelty and incompetence."
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Likewise, the other ugly problems around the world, like racist immigration policies or Brexit incompetence, will continue.
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Sanders said the official response had been hurt by Trump's incompetence and the absence of universal healthcare.
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It suggests a toxic blend of bad luck and gross incompetence, and probably more of the latter.
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There has never been any sign of mental defect or other incompetence that would mitigate any sentence.
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"My mother called this male pattern of behavior 'creative incompetence,'" wrote beeceenj, a reader in New Jersey.
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" He writes of "unilateral diplomatic disarmament" under Trump, born of "equal parts ideological contempt and stubborn incompetence.
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But the Russia scandal, fanned by the administration's incompetence, has ensnared one of its more competent members.
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The questions of incompetence hovered above events that continued to move swiftly on the ground on Friday.
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It needs to understand that the deadly incompetence of Republican governance is a feature, not a bug.
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My revenge list is blank thanks to my incompetence at grudge-accounting and also my mental frailty.
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Given the general incompetence of the GOP Congress and the certainty of a filibuster, that seems unlikely.
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Since winning the presidency in November 2016, he has been dogged by charges of inexperience and incompetence.
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This capacity is currently missing, in no small part because of the incompetence of the Trump administration.
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Sometimes, this will be to urge public complacency when the government seeks to conceal its own incompetence.
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The city comptroller would be well-served to focus on the city's incompetence than blaming the victim.
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That pattern of false accusations and deflection from China's own incompetence and dictatorial irresponsibility is well-established.
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And with Trump, the line between incompetence and nefariousness, misjudgment and misdirection, is usually a blurry one.
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Heller's constituents, people like Heather McCreary, from Sparks, Nevada, who were foreclosed on because of OneWest's incompetence.
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Second, even if Trump's ideology were not noxious, his incompetence is a threat to all around him.
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Unfortunately, the bluster and incompetence will also probably make any deal worse than it otherwise might be.
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The corruption and incompetence of a government handpicked by Iran was not lost on the Iraqi demonstrators.
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The Gamecocks capitalized on the Bears' incompetence — they missed 11 straight shots — by scoring 18 unanswered points.
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Many Iranians blamed their own government's corruption and incompetence, taking to the streets with demonstrations last November.
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He can, and should, be appropriately denounced for his ignorance, incompetence, impulsivity and pursuit of dictatorial powers.
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California law mandates that any evidence of mental incompetence be tied to the specific issue being contested.
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I watched other veterans die unnecessarily, as a result of poor administrative management or sheer medical incompetence.
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What a stain on New York and a case study in the incompetence of its political class.
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The Chicago White Sox offense is reaching new levels of incompetence as the club drifts under .500.
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In some ways this cluelessness may be a good thing: malevolence may indeed be tempered by incompetence.
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Iran blamed the 2015 haj disaster on Saudi incompetence, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sept.
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The crisis on display over the past couple of months is the total incompetence of Donald Trump.
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We don't accept such incompetence in Silicon Valley and we must not accept it from our government.
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Perhaps all this makes the mistake of attributing to malice what is really best understood as incompetence.
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At least in Retina-X's case, the lack of customer outreach doesn't appear to be down to incompetence.
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That would remove any malicious intent from the equation and would instead chalk the incidents up to incompetence.
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So go ahead: marvel in his prowess, be simultaneously awestruck and ashamed at your own incompetence in comparison.
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They are now encouraging canvassers to highlight government corruption and incompetence, two issues most Russians have directly experienced.
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Meyler had no experience in education or management herself, and the board she recruited only compounded the incompetence.
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Which the Democrats have alleged was the greatest sin of the Trump Presidency despite Comey&aposs obvious incompetence.
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"Fat chance of this absurd discipline deterring anyone from anything other than continued incompetence and indifference," Chandra said.
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Under Florida law, the governor can suspend elected officials for criminal activity, misfeasance, incompetence or neglect of duty.
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His power is more or less his incompetence and need for validation from his far-smarter cousin Bruce.
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In short, behavioural deficits and compromised intelligence—not complete incompetence—are the hallmarks of people with intellectual disabilities.
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Poroshenko has sought to portray Zelenskiy as a buffoonish populist whose incompetence would leave Ukraine vulnerable to Russia.
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Or when I hear an art advisor-woman brushing off an artist-man's incompetence with a little laugh.
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Pointing this out is worthwhile, especially since the industry can be too defensive about instances of genuine incompetence.
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Social media users called Li a hero, accusing authorities of incompetence in the early stages of the outbreak.
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During his campaign, he had accused the Mahama administration of corruption and incompetence, charges the outgoing president denied.
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I'm voting for Donald Trump because I don't think we can afford four more years of liberal incompetence.
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It's a combination of incompetence, misconduct, and the very, very close connection these women had to law enforcement.
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In the Ajit Pai era, you should expect Verizon's potentially-fatal incompetence to barely warrant a second glance.
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Those with memories of the Obamacare website's disastrous start will confirm that it's become a byword for incompetence.
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Feinstein and Burr have yet again displayed total incompetence about how encryption works at a very basic level.
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Dearest Parenting Experts, What advice do you have for dealing with feigned incompetence in previously capable, competent children?
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Elizabeth Warren, as the left's answer to the corporate influence -- and political incompetence -- it believes poisoned Clinton's candidacy.
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" "In addition to great incompetence and corruption, The Smollett case in Chicago is also about a Hate Crime.
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Saagar Enjeti describes how the Iowa Democratic Party's incompetence robbed the actual winner of the Iowa Caucus. Hill.
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Khurelsukh succeeds Jargaltulga Erdenebat, who was voted out of office in September amid allegations of corruption and incompetence.
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Sheer incompetence by NATO, thanks to a lack of resources in these simulations, was Russia's greatest military advantage.
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He has fired officials suspected of incompetence or dishonesty and purged 10,000 "ghost workers" from the public payroll.
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On top of its incompetence, corruption and authoritarianism it was also seen as pandering to extremist Islamist groups.
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Bits Some people are old enough to remember when websites went down because of incompetence, not malicious intent.
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But if rampant cybersecurity incompetence is allowed to perpetuate unchecked, the future damage will be incalculable and irreversible.
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Crazy incompetence comes in the forms of the two leading pro-Brexit campaigners, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.
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Daniels fired back with a sexual reference to Trump and blasting the president for his "incompetence" and misogyny.
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Olbermann ended his broadcast by saying that the Trump administration's incompetence was enough to remove Trump from office.
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Votel said a separate, "exhaustive after-action review" had not found incompetence, poor decision-making or bad judgment.
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To a normal person, that's proof of incompetence, which doesn't exonerate the president but should definitely reassure us.
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"Equifax's incompetence would be comical if the subject matter weren't so serious," Herrera said in a prepared statement.
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And a toxic wastewater spill in a Colorado river last year brought charges of incompetence from both parties.
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This kind of incompetence [by the tribunal] just further undermines the already precarious nature of our democratic institutions.
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Hacking Team's leaked inboxes are filled with exchanges mocking their Azerbaijani client and others for their basic incompetence.
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Trump offers an incompetence that leads him to endlessly reverse positions on vital issues he knows nothing about.
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Those who recognized the self-delusion and incompetence began referring to the Green Zone as the Emerald City.
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Critics have argued that the lack of immediate attention stems from racism, incompetence or some combination of both.
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But today's column will focus on the incompetence, whose full depths — and consequences — we're just starting to see.
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Not only is the person unaware of their incompetence, but there may be no evidence to the contrary.
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The good news is that Andy Lack(y) is about to be fired(?) for incompetence, and much worse.
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Trump's team could easily insert text in these blank spaces, but hasn't—either by outright neglect, or incompetence.
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For example, we do not include potential amateurism and incompetence of the terrorist group as a security layer.
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The government's floundering and incompetence in handling the recent alerts about the Easter attacks have been widely reported.
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It takes years of observation and documentation to begin the process of removing a tenured teacher for incompetence.
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It was only a matter of time, however, before Americans started feeling the material consequences of Trump's incompetence.
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In my practice, I have often been frustrated by the incompetence of certain BOP correctional officers and management.
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We are very worried about the president's incompetence and lack of focus on fighting the spread of coronavirus.
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And not surprisingly, that inexperience or incompetence is one reason the Qatar crisis has become this dangerous already.
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Many see Rikers Island as "synonymous with brutality, incompetence, corruption and neglect," as this page once described it.
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But you're not doing yourself any favors by constantly planting the seeds of your incompetence or temporary status.
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The perceived incompetence of local officials is contrasted unfavorably with support for medical professionals on the front line.
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The chief information officers were forced to defend their commitment to bolstering data security amid charges of incompetence.
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And it makes everyone paint the Bureau of Prisons with that broad brush of incompetence across our system.
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The "culture of corruption, cronyism and incompetence is so pervasive and it's in the White House," she added.
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Where can you count on finding stories every day about violence, social dysfunction and government incompetence and scandal?
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That means more appeals, and Goldsmith wonders if the mistake was made out of incompetence or with intent.
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The incompetence of the boys' club effectively saved funding for Planned Parenthood and insurance coverage of maternity care.
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As Nixon found, one problem with subverting the intelligence and law enforcement apparatus is the risk of incompetence.
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Until his death, the regime was "a closed society run with exceptional brutality and incompetence," writes the Economist.
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The thefts have been a result in part of the "incompetence or complacency" of local authorities, he said.
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Turns out, we didn't underestimate Canadian (and British) fighting mettle as much as we underestimated our own incompetence.
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And the fact that the Trump WH doesn't do normal salesmanship/policymaking, bc incompetence, is an insufficient excuse.
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Despite Western media allegations about the GRU's alleged incompetence, there has been pride in some quarters in Moscow.
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"The only way you get to a shutdown is incompetence, which this group is certainly capable of," Elmendorf said.
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He says that when corruption and incompetence are "an accepted part of public life" it could be "a sign".
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America's response to this public-health crisis was one of federal neglect, bureaucratic incompetence, corporate greed and brazen prejudice.
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Still, the amateur fugitives' incompetence doesn't stop the investigators from giving us a glimpse into their fine-tuned process.
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The question of whether incompetence is inflected by corruption isn't about whether the "coding problem" that prevented Shadow Inc.
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Poroshenko has sought to portray his opponent as a buffoonish populist whose incompetence would leave Ukraine vulnerable to Russia.
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First an investigative outfit, Bellingcat, and its Russian partner, the Insider, exposed their true identity, and their spectacular incompetence.
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Jeremy Corbyn, who combines ideological extremism with political incompetence, has led Labour to a near-record slump in popularity.
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Career civil service reform would allow the next president to fire people that are — that are showing sheer incompetence.
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Congressional Republicans were aghast — they were willing to defend Trump's policy, but they didn't want to defend his incompetence.
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The incompetence of Romania's latest government is outrageous, says Oana Popescu of Global Focus, a think-tank in Bucharest.
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The dithering and incompetence that have defined much of his tenure have been absent from his judicial-selection process.
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It must also recognise that since 220 the ANC's approach to land has involved administrative incompetence and widespread corruption.
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Mr Laughlin spent the first half of his life in unconscious incompetence, which he initially blamed on his physique.
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But the SSL lapse points to the most fundamental similarity between the Trump administration and its loathsome lapdog: incompetence.
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You might think that risking the biggest disruption to the economy since wartime was enough incompetence for one party.
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What does the US phone buyer do when Samsung or Apple shows complacency, incompetence, conservatism, or some combination thereof?
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"The greatest asset Buhari has right now, politically, is the incompetence of the opposition," says Chris Ngwodo, an analyst.
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Authorities have closed Sharon's Day Care in Treichlers, citing the center for "gross incompetence, negligence and misconduct," records show.
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In fact, a leaked 2015 memo from CEO Dick Costolo declared their incompetence in censoring trolls and the like.
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Incompetence in her first term in office, from 2011 to 2014, has made the country's economic plight incomparably worse.
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In her article, Long seemed to charge almost everyone involved, borrowers and creditors alike, with disingenuousness, incompetence, or both.
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Or maybe it was trolling on the part of the Russian government and incompetence on part of the president.
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His blatant incompetence and instability demonstrates the dangers of investing so much power in the hands of one person.
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The mismatched detectives in his new film, "The Nice Guys", have two attributes in common, incompetence and self-loathing.
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The choices are meant to refute accusations of inexperience and incompetence often leveled at 5-Star by its critics.
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Dean also said Trump could be impeached for incompetence even though that is not spelled out in the Constitution.
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Two public officials in the municipality say Vidal's death is a sign of federal and Puerto Rican government incompetence.
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"On her watch, whether through negligence or incompetence, millions of Americans lost their privacy and personal data," Chaffetz said.
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Nor does it address whether WeWork's concerns relate to intentional sabotage, reckless cost-cutting or mere incompetence by staff.
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Legal experts think these have a good chance to succeed, owing to the incompetence of the EO draft itself.
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My brain told my fist to close around the wrench and not let go, lest my incompetence reveal itself.
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But in Moss and Baden's telling, the family have long been victims of bad actors and their own incompetence.
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Much of this rhetoric has continued, asserting that the incompetence of the left led to the rise of ISIS.
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British education is burdened with decades of political incompetence, basically, and it looks to be buckling under the strain.
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Given the evidence thus far, Trump's administration promises a reactionary lurch in policy accompanied by historic corruption and incompetence.
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He drafted articles of impeachment that accuse Bentley of corruption, incompetence, immoral behavior, and neglecting his duties as governor.
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Some spend the entire time feeding, in successive final acts of either charity or incompetence, depending on your perspective.
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" On NBC News Chairman Andy Lack: "Andy Lack(y) is about to be fired (?) for incompetence, and much worse.
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"What was really found guilty was the reckless pay-to-play incompetence of Andrew Cuomo's administration," Mr. Molinaro said.
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While still politically influenced, Ukrainian law enforcement is no longer the swamp of incompetence and corruption it once was.
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Looking at the chaos in the White House these days, I worry about inexperience, incompetence and lack of judgment.
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" Judge Kwan added in the Facebook post: "Will you continue to demonstrate your inability to govern and political incompetence?
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The American hard-liners are quite right that the regime is unpopular because of its corruption, incompetence and repression.
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Mr. Golunov made a name for himself in Moscow for his reports chronicling corruption and incompetence in City Hall.
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And critics of the Italian government have called the deal yet another example of its dangerous naïveté and incompetence.
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"The incompetence coming out of DC is absolutely amazing," said Chuck Spoon, 78, a retired California state government employee.
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I wish these were one-off errors that we could attribute to authoritarian Chinese Communism or routine Trumpian incompetence.
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But demanding praise is often a compensatory act, one meant to assuage a nagging sense of incompetence and failure.
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At the same time, critics say, limited public accountability has allowed incompetence and even graft to spread among officials.
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The biggest factor in a company&aposs growth isn&apost the company itself but the incompetence of the incumbents.
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Humans have gone to war for a lot of reasons — racism, hubris, and incompetence have all been common factors.
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But now she's fed up with his incompetence and feels betrayed -- principally on his failure to build the wall.
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A hardworking teenager struggling with college tuition has his carefully hatched plans derailed by the incompetence of school administrators.
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It is much easier for Republicans to look the other way on Trump's incompetence … go along to get along.
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And even those may simply be imagined for the profits of a few or due to a dangerous incompetence.
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The opposition is vowing to make Mr. Moon's "incompetence" the top election issue for the April 2000 parliamentary polls.
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The defense suggested several times that prosecutors were politically motivated or that the case was built on police incompetence.
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" — STEPHEN COLBERT "You know, in 2014 Donald Trump tweeted, 'Are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence?
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One of the things I've learned about incompetence over the past few months is that it is radically nonlinear.
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Editorial Americans have been watching the Trump administration unfold for almost a month now, in all its malevolent incompetence.
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The August 2015 Gold King Mine spill kicked off a flurry of lawsuits over environmental damage and government incompetence.
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With respect to any contract, we must always consider one's capacity to contract – but we do not presume incompetence.
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The third possibility is that the primary threat in the Trump era is a combination of incompetence and anarchy.
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I fumed alongside my fellow passengers, cursing man's general incompetence and specifically the imbecile operating that stupid jet bridge.
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The cancerous corruption of the Republicans in Congress is matched only by the uncoordinated incompetence of the congressional Democrats.
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Some point to problems like homelessness, an unsolved, slow-motion disaster under this mayor, as evidence of his incompetence.
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Faraday Future's last two years of financial scandal and managerial incompetence have put all of those factors at risk.
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The defense suggested several times that prosecutors were politically motivated or that the case was built on police incompetence.
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And Trump himself has long been frustrated with Congress's growing willingness to call out incompetence in the executive branch.
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Letting the Trump administration spin off into corruption, kleptocracy, and incompetence doesn't serve the country, or the Republican Party.
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The clear implication is that air support could have saved two lives but was held up by bureaucratic incompetence.
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It was only when confronted with gross incompetence that he managed to muster the authority he otherwise found elusive.
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National Security's combination of viciousness and incompetence leans hardest on those with the least protection: the young and the anonymous.
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The antics were hilarious in a time when the headlines weren't dominated by tales of unforced errors and political incompetence.
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But it&aposs just I&aposm angry with all this incompetence that my daughter&aposs not getting her diploma tomorrow.
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New Jersey resident Janell Kastner joined the New York rally to protest the "gross incompetence" of President Trump, she said.
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Some disillusioned PD sympathisers mutter that the M5S amateurs may as well be given a chance to prove their incompetence.
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Or perhaps Mary is too distracted by the fertility struggles of Anna, who learns that she's suffering from cervical incompetence.
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Yet Mr Dragnea's allies have fought back, implausibly accusing Ms Kovesi of incompetence and of targeting only politicians she dislikes.
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The way it looked to him, an unimaginable family tragedy was now being compounded by official incompetence and rank stupidity.
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Even in conservative Indiana, his combination of extremism and incompetence put his prospects of winning reelection very much in doubt.
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They got away with their treachery because Soviet spycraft was superb, whereas Britain's spycatchers were riddled with snobbery and incompetence.
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So if you're ever wondering how the hell something awful can happen, just think about the incompetence at the top.
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Large boardroom meetings can be intimidating for anyone, but especially women and minorities, who are often battling stereotypes of incompetence.
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The collapse was caused by incompetence in many parts of the organization, and ultimately, a toxic level of under-pricing.
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Even with Zanero's elaborations, to most of the security community, this has read like Vodafone employees attributing malice to incompetence.
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Thiel likened Trump to Silicon Valley leaders, calling him a "builder" and saying he would stamp out "incompetence" in government.
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It's all just another example of probable incompetence and possibly criminal negligence on the part of Trump and his people.
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Internal EPA memos and emails Chaffetz released about the crisis raised questions about the agency's actions and the state's incompetence.
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Its haphazard implementation — federal agencies and congressional leaders weren't even notified — betrayed the rank incompetence of Trump and his staff.
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"My son is another victim and statistic of the incompetence of the (Division of Children and Family Services)," she said.
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Trumpcare failed for numerous reasons, starting with the incompetence of President Trump himself and the dysfunction of the Republican Party.
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Carson might have been beatable on the grounds of obvious incompetence, but the subsequent nominee might have been ruthlessly competent.
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To add insult to injury, she ignored security protocols that protect our country and then lied to cover her incompetence.
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Of course, scandal is drowning out most of the administration's policy agenda these days, and incompetence is impeding progress otherwise.
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It seems simple to have the U.S. intervene and stop the killing, the incompetence, the corruption that is today's Venezuela.
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A recent Center for American Progress report on the accrediting group scrolls out a long list of incompetence and wrongdoing.
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"The people of Iran are tired of the corruption, injustice, and incompetence from their leaders," Pompeo said in a statement.
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Nonetheless, the party's popularity has been sliding, thanks to the incompetence and corruption that South Africans see in their government.
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And their failure to reunite these families by court-imposed deadlines is a shameful display of incompetence, cruelty, or both.
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Walmart's complaint spent some time examining this controversial deal and claimed that Tesla inherited and amplified existing incompetence at SolarCity.
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An example: the sight of an older person using a cane might trigger associations with "dependency" and "incompetence" -- negative biases.
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Journalists also build bridges through stories that shock or disturb us -- by factually and meticulously revealing wrongdoing, incompetence or hypocrisy.
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The case of Imran Awan illustrates that the pattern of dangerous incompetence is particularly true of their approach to cybersecurity.
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So bad, in fact, that her podcast exploring her financial incompetence, Bad With Money, is now in its third season.
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Inside Bannon's White House there are rampant leaks, paranoia, cellphone confiscation, and in response, only toddling incompetence or indiscriminate rage.
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But, as the saying goes, never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by total legislative incompetence (or something).
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Flynn is smart and knows the world very well, but he was fired from his last government job for incompetence.
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She ran the State Department too well for incompetence by her inner circle in handling government emails to explain everything.
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They show, at the very least, a woeful pattern of incompetence and neglect on the part of the federal government.
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Instead, he had a plan to blow the whistle on (apparently largely imagined) "officer incompetence" and mismanagement in his unit.
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Due largely to Hamas's malevolence and incompetence, but also some Israeli restrictions, Gaza has limited hours of electricity each day.
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And when they habitually fail to do so because of a fatal combination of indifference and incompetence, that becomes criminal.
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Interviews with protesters in Tehran suggest they are exasperated with what many view as the government's economic incompetence and corruption.
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And plenty of volunteers who splashed into the floods saw a tangle of miscommunication, wrenching delays and plain old incompetence.
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Other voters are thwarted not by malice but by incompetence — poorly run polling places, bureaucratic snafus, confusing ballots and more.
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To the Editor: The incompetence and lack of judgment of the Democrats during this most critical election period is appalling.
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"It highlights the unprofessionalism, incompetence, and disorganization of Lambda School's UX program," one student wrote in a note to Lambda.
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"Incompetence Looms: Trump To Appoint Non-Scientist As USDA's Chief Scientist," said the headline on an op-ed in Forbes.
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He focuses on four in particular: voter suppression, electoral incompetence, dirty tricks, and escalating rhetoric about "stolen" or "rigged" elections.
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He explicitly blames America first, ascribing the nation's problems to the stupidity and incompetence of predecessors in the White House.
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Jeremy Corbyn's personality, incompetence and anti-Semitism all are seen as lesser reasons for his failure to attract more voters.
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The Presidential Personnel Office, which is in charge of recruiting potential administration officials, has been hobbled by inexperience and incompetence.
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In some sense, embarrassment is a surprising choice: We tend to associate it with incompetence and awkwardness — hardly inspiring characteristics.
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Macau suffered catastrophic flooding during Typhoon Hato last year, leading to accusations of corruption and incompetence at its meteorological office.
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But that model is now under threat -- and the coronavirus has revealed deep structural flaws and incompetence in the government.
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Trump's incompetence will continue to play out as tensions wax and wane, while Iranian civilians remain caught in the middle.
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Defense attorneys also read unflattering texts into the record in which Unsworth disparaged the Thai Navy SEALs for their incompetence.
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We have already lived through an embarrassing parade of wrongful conviction, tragic incompetence, laboratory scandal and absurdly unsupported forensic findings.
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Even people who abhor Trump's crudeness, incompetence, bigotry and anti-democratic leanings may not vote against their own self-interest.
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Mr. Horowitz found no evidence that political bias — as opposed to gross incompetence or confirmation bias — was behind the bungling.
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Mr. Trump's incompetence and impetuousness brought about the assassination of one of the most revered and powerful individuals in Iran.
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The bets do not require fantastic leaps of logic or probability nor rank incompetence by whoever becomes the Democratic nominee.
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Yet in the areas where he needs congressional support to implement his agenda, there has been either dithering or incompetence.
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Three years ago Uzbekistan was an old-fashioned post-Soviet dictatorship, a closed society run with exceptional brutality and incompetence.
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The explosive book detailing White House chaos and incompetence has sparked a furor since its early release late last week.
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The bar for spectacular incompetence in the face of a flurry was set high a quarter of a century ago.
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I've always been mystified by how the president's enablers, who understand his venality and incompetence, justify their behavior to themselves.
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If some combination of criminality, incompetence or crisis moves the center-right against the president, his end could come quickly.
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The AFC North mostly sat out of free agency, in some cases by choice and in some cases by incompetence.
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By then, as Robert Lipsyte of The New York Times put it, they had become an international symbol of incompetence.
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Of Trump's term so far, the best that can be said is that the president's incompetence has blunted his danger.
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The massive effort to restore electricity has been crippled by government incompetence, poor planning, and potentially illegal grid repair contracts.
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"It is a special kind of incompetence that takes a program that was fought for for 15 years by firefighters, police officers, first responders, veterans and survivors, that has finally come to fruition, and is finally working well -- it is a special kind of incompetence to want to turn that upside down," Stewart said.
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"The incompetence of Ministers at the Department for Education is breathtaking," said MP Lucy Powell, shadow Secretary of State for Education.
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But at home in Pawnee, even when they were dealing with incompetence, the Knope crew usually managed to get things done.
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I don't know how most people end up working for the police, but for me, it was through incompetence and panic.
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"It was pretty clear that it was frankly, incompetence, on the part of the Brooklyn Board of Election Management," said Lerner.
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I would say 90 percent of redactions are generally designed to cover people&aposs incompetence, and they&aposre not national security.
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Fortunately, President Trump's incompetence in foreign relations, while not a cure-all, can moderate the damage that he might otherwise cause.
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It can be used for pretty much anything, from exposing your government's incompetence to drawing attention to Harry Styles's perfection. Wow!
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This was a wild and tumultuous year in tech, with game-changing scandals, staggering displays of incompetence, and chin-scratching revelations.
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Indeed, YouTube's own incompetence and lack of quality is one of Soph's recurring themes; she acknowledges owing her fame to them.
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It was due only to incompetence that the death toll on the subway was just 20063, with more than 6,000 injured.
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He killed himself in a jail cell in October 2013 and then his guards falsified their logs to hide their incompetence.
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But here, too, Trump's response has been to blame the institutions recording his incompetence rather than to fix the underlying problem.
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Fortunately for Isola, the Knicks lengthy record of incompetence has given him plenty of ammo in their two-decade flame war.
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I think it's law enforcement incompetence, and I think the women were deeply connected to very powerful people in law enforcement.
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"Incompetence, corruption and vulgarity have streamed from Prague Castle for nearly five years," Mr Drahos told The Economist during the campaign.
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Add in regular sums of incompetence that any new venture could fall prey to, and ICOs feel a bit Old West.
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The parties do not disagree much on ideas or policies, so they fight each other with accusations of corruption and incompetence.
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To the extent we let Trump's comments pass, it is because we are calmed by his incompetence, lulled by his indiscipline.
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Children's displays of incompetence may not be a strategy, but cries for help from a genuinely overwhelmed or over-stressed child.
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They had seen him become upset over small issues like this, had observed him attack executives for their incompetence and inabilities.
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The parties, discredited by incompetence and scandal, have instead been overtaken by one formerly fringe party and one entirely new one.
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" A former employee, who left several years ago, said that their tenure at Jigsaw was filled with "dramatic incompetence and pointlessness.
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The incompetence will persist, the embarrassments and pseudo-crises will resume, and the republic will remain on the brink of disaster.
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To said he was aware that many police felt angry they were "shouldering the blame" for the incompetence of the government.
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It is the a bedrock principle by which we hold the powerful to account and ferret out incompetence, hypocrisy and corruption.
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Others want him to fail to prove his supposed incompetence and to affirm that they have been right all the time.
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That tragic mistake was the culmination of a much longer ongoing disaster, one caused by greed, politics, incompetence, and selective amnesia.
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Within that context, his grandiosity and his incompetence combined to form something that wasn't so much threatening as it was hilarious.
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This seems at times to be by design—a method of authoritarian control—and at other times an outgrowth of incompetence.
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Through sheer incompetence and avarice, Republicans could both squander their chance to eliminate the ACA and plunge the economy into chaos.
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As Natalie Dormer mentioned in a post-mortem interview with Entertainment Weekly, her downfall was the product of a man's incompetence.
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We've been here before with Trump officials, who always plead inexperience and incompetence and cop to whatever evidence is publicly available.
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She's a cruel femme fatale, a savagely protective mother, and a power-hungry tyrant who has zero insight into her incompetence.
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It's a stunning display of incompetence that five days after the initial story broke, they still can't get their stories straight.
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Trump is already blaming Democrats for Republican incompetence, and progressives might as well thwart more of his plans in the process.
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You know it but your preening self-interest, general incompetence and apparent lack of will to change means that nothing advances.
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A lot of what's been reported about the Russia investigation can be chalked up to incompetence or cravenness rather than collusion.
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He has adopted a slightly different stance on the Chinese tech giant, shifting focus away from state interference and towards incompetence.
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Exhibiting equal parts arrogance and incompetence, the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) politician symbolized the very worst of Mexico's ruling class.
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Israel was suspended for "repeated failures, incompetence and neglect of duty," as well as his "pattern of poor leadership," DeSantis said.
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The intention is to answer question such as whether there were information gaps and whether there was incompetence or bad judgment.
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The Democratic Unity opposition coalition said the socialist leader should resign for incompetence and for inflicting yet more suffering on Venezuelans.
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If the incompetence and poor planning weren't bad enough, there was also the misappropriation of funds — a hallmark of Kenyan corruption.
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All of this, plus accusations of incompetence against the Electoral Commission and vote-rigging, heralds a period of uncertainty and jostling.
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For years, I assumed this was due to incompetence, whether at the scale of the Farm or a country like China.
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The main question is whether Trump's bellicosity and general diplomatic incompetence will destabilize the already-fraught relationship between India and Pakistan.
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In practice, innocent people will pay the price for these companies' incompetence and their willingness to do business with autocratic regimes.
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Mr. Berlusconi was able to govern Italy for as long as he did mostly thanks to the incompetence of his opposition.
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Michelle Goldberg In the frustrated anguish of Puerto Rico, we can see the real-world consequences of Donald Trump's flagrant incompetence.
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"There's been a constant, general incompetence," said Kate Fields, a City Council member who is supporting Mr. Kincaid in the recall.
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Whether Mr. Kapkanov's flight was the result of corruption, incompetence or a mix of the two has not been clearly established.
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But from isolation to governmental incompetence, the hurricane only heightened the daily struggles faced by many Puerto Ricans, particularly the poor.
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Sooner or later, however, stuff happens — and then incompetence becomes a very big deal, as it already has in Puerto Rico.
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Raised expectations induced by the lifting of sanctions that accompanied the 2015 nuclear deal have met incompetence, bank failures and corruption.
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"In the public space, the word incompetence has been brought forward and I am absolutely offended with that characterization," he said.
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Trump made his point clear: The mismanagement and incompetence of these brown people amount to stealing resources from these white people.
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" He blamed the police, writing that it was "incompetence and negligence that resulted in a failure to prevent this from happening.
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I want to talk about malignant incompetence on the part of our elected officials, and this isn't even about the pandemic.
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The US is still in the disastrous breakout phase, as a result of the shocking incompetence of Trump and his administration.
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There can be no excuse next time for the sort of incompetence and chaos that marked FEMA's work on Puerto Rico.
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But his campaign rhetoric also makes it more polarizing than its substance deserves, and his incompetence makes its legislative prospects dim.
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It is incompetence surrounded by a sea of misinformation and bad actors who try to hijack the situation for political gain.
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How did Communism, with its dream of a perfectly just society, result in Stalinism, with its paranoia, persecution, incompetence, and cruelty?
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Parliamentary elections last year and the presidential election in 2014 were marred by violence and by allegations of corruption and incompetence.
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"Look, this is incompetence, they got swindled and he admits 'If I had known, I wouldn't have done this,'" Krauthammer added.
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Not all misbehavior reflects psychopathology; the fact is that ordinary human meanness and incompetence are far more common than mental illness.
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But research shows that we get angrier when we explain someone's behavior by pointing to their incompetence, intentionality or poor character.
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Abe, however, had drawn fire from both ruling and opposition party lawmakers for retaining Inada despite her missteps and perceived incompetence.
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The arrests were for a variety of charges including negligence, incompetence and complicity, General Helal said at a contentious news conference.
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"I don't believe the Taliban are stronger than us, what makes them stronger is the incompetence of our officials," he said.
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But in Mr. López Obrador's case the sheer incompetence of his cabinet is a major obstacle to his promises' becoming policies.
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And once again, Trump has created a situation where it's hazardous for his opponents to say too much about his incompetence.
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That may very well be true, but every indication suggests the Kings' total incompetence is a holding pattern and not a trend.
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The GOP operative close with the Trump campaign called it "general incompetence" and a signal that a change in focus was necessary.
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In 2016, it did better on both of those counts, but there were widespread reports of irregularities and incompetence in caucus administration.
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It's easy to see how that philosophy transfers to the Trump administration's approach to most subjects, be it intentional or through incompetence.
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The GOP has shown no desire to actually stop Trump's train of incompetence and corruption, because, well, tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks.
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The SEC's civil case uses a lower standard, so misconduct resulting from ignorance or incompetence might still mean he is found guilty.
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Several interviews revealed the blatant incompetence and callousness of his original trial attorney, who didn't seem troubled at all by the conviction.
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Under Dodd-Frank, the president may only fire the CFPB director "for cause," which is generally understood to be misconduct or incompetence.
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It was shaken by the Iraq war, which associated the relationship not with national liberation but with lies, incompetence and strategic disaster.
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We appear before actual adults and stumble around, demanding participation trophies and social justice buzzwords before failing due to our own incompetence.
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Russia also doubts the capabilities of the Syrian army, which has demonstrated tactical incompetence time and again throughout the eight-year war.
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Uber had a chance to show people that hey, maybe our company isn't a bottomless barrel of incompetence, and it just... didn't.
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That report showed how political skullduggery, incompetence, and waste bedeviled both NGOs and Greece's government; seven out of ten euros were misspent.
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"The way the Tories (Conservatives) are handling Brexit tells you a lot about their competence - or should I say incompetence," Starmer said.
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Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, faces the opposite dilemma: Trump's incompetence frees her to run with pretty much anyone she wants.
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Local authorities cannot be relied on to address the challenge of Hezbollah's terror finance, due to a mixture of incompetence and complicity.
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But whether due to a desire to help out Paul Ryan or due to simple incompetence, Priebus evidently failed to do so.
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Those who charge election officials with incompetence, or worse, indifference to the threat, are wrong, and not helping bring about a solution.
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Jon's battlefield incompetence doesn't make sense if you think of him as the hero of the episode, or of the overall story.
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The CFPB is an independent agency with a sole director who can only be dismissed for major abuses of power or incompetence.
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He treats the dead Martha in his basement as a spill that needs cleaning and blames the loss on June's perceived incompetence.
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Trump's early days in office have been characterized by the same volatile mixture of incompetence, rage, and reactionism that defined his campaign.
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But today's pleas for unity should not obscure a central, unshakeable fact: We are also here because of the Democratic Party's incompetence.
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Or, as is always the case with this administration, this draft memo could just be the result of pure incompetence and stupidity.
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In a way, his administration enjoys continuity with his dark horse presidential campaign, which was similarly beset by incompetence, melodrama, and criticism.
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Failure would leave the United States vulnerable to defaulting on its own debt, sinking the domestic and global economies through sheer incompetence.
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For this, blame a combination of managerial incompetence and ideological inanity from Donald Trump and his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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You see the White House's incompetence and the president's insistence on fighting back against every bit of criticism, no matter how deserved.
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History shows that any hints of incompetence at a time of national security crisis can deal a devastating blow to a presidency.
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"There has been an investigation into Lake Charles and it found incompetence and not fraud," said Cratos Capital equities trader Greg Davies.
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Or will one of them achieve the holy grail of incompetence: the 0-323 season, accomplished only by the 2008 Detroit Lions?
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Passing up the out-of-touch insiders, they went for an overflowing souffle of crazy incompetence in the form of Donald Trump.
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Unfortunately, some are not equal to the task and disenfranchise voters through incompetence, poor training, and even willful violation of the law.
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But Republicans rejected Waters's connecting Wells Fargo's scandals to its size, blaming mismanagement and incompetence instead of its $28500 trillion in assets.
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That would be the ultimate proof of the D.O.J.'s incompetence and the reason they have not pursued prosecutions despite the evidence.
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An attorney for Dentsu hit back in a memorandum of law, alleging "misrepresentations, incompetence, and contractual breaches," by Woodstock 50 and Lang.
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These frustrated Americans may not fully realize it, under the influence of decades worth of sermons about government's ultimate incompetence and venality.
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"Today's @flcourts opinion leaves no doubt of my authority to suspend a government official for neglect of duty and incompetence," he tweeted.
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In addition to his…umm…shortcomings, he has demonstrated his incompetence, hatred of women and lack of self control on Twitter AGAIN!
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The GOP's lack of action in ensuring seamless funding for the program reveals the party's deep incompetence when it comes to governing.
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But those priorities are informed by inexperience and incompetence and amplified by the belief that regulation harms rather than protects vulnerable people.
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"But for his attorney's incompetence, Lee would certainly have known that accepting the plea agreement would certainly lead to deportation," Roberts said.
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The lab was shut down after it was found to be riddled with "systemic failures" including mismanagement, nonexistent security, and bumbling incompetence.
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But it quickly became apparent that this was one more error-filled display in what has been a grotesque carnival of incompetence.
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Between the corrupt stranglehold the Republican Party has on political power and the incompetence and cowardice of the Democrats, voting feels futile.
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Soderbergh contests that critical ire should be reserved for "actual filmmaking incompetence," something that the immaculate Ocean's Twelve is never guilty of.
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"The government is trying to hide the fact from the people; they are trying to hide their weakness and incompetence," he said.
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She already has a history in corruption and incompetence and the people of Puerto Rico are set on cleaning out the government.
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But pretty much every major tech company fell afoul of hackers — or their own incompetence — in 2018, including Apple, Google, and Amazon.
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This crisis has exposed the deep fissures and failures in our culture and the incompetence of so many of our federal leaders.
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Philip F. Queeg, a seething blend of paranoia and incompetence, constantly fiddling anxiously with two steel ball bearings in his left hand.
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The affected "farmers and ranchers in cowboy hats" are providing cover for the president when they should be outraged by his incompetence.
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"Their record is an uninterrupted litany of cowardice, incompetence and blame shifting," Robert Shrimsley wrote in a column for the Financial Times.
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Pakistani military officials have denied knowing Bin Laden's whereabouts, arguing that incompetence rather than complicity kept them from alerting the United States.
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"Just another disgruntled former employee who got fired for gross incompetence," Trump tweeted Tuesday morning of his former White House communications director.
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Kingsolver explores how anyone might possibly find a safe place in this world that we keep befouling through ignorance, greed or incompetence.
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It's an "and" not an "or" because the dirty tricks from foreign actors feed on the incompetence of our own election administrators.
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" In a landmark ruling for the country, the court described the conduct of the electoral commission as "very lacking and demonstrated incompetence.
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"What an example of your incompetence," says David to the late night show host in the video above (jump to 5:20).
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Abroad, the Obama administration slowly restored a tattered American reputation damaged by warmongering and military incompetence — for incompetent it most certainly was.
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To make matters worse, the Obama presidency has been characterized by injurious incompetence, in particular with regard to his signature achievement, Obamacare.
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Mr. Huang said although the company said it had dismissed Mr. C for incompetence, it provided no evidence to support this assertion.
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But if Steyer wants to foster corruption and incompetence in Congress, term limits are a pretty good way to accomplish that goal.
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Opposition politicians are vowing to make what they call Moon Jae-in's incompetence the top election issue for April 15 parliamentary polls.
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" Assange on Thursday derided the CIA for letting its files get hacked, accusing the agency of a "historic act of devastating incompetence.
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Due to a combination of legitimate strategic difficulty and the gross incompetence of its leader, Labour simply didn't have an effective response.
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One possible, even plausible, reason for the substance-lite nature of the document, which makes meaningful debate about it impossible, is incompetence.
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"Among mature democracies, the nuts and bolts of American contests seem notoriously vulnerable to incompetence and simple human errors," Ms. Norris notes.
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For months, Mr. Trump rejected the finding that Russia was behind the hacking, accusing the intelligence agencies of incompetence and political bias.
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Instead of developing a nuanced response to the facts on the ground, this administration has chosen incompetence and cruelty as its approach.
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In addition to his...umm...shortcomings, he has demonstrated his incompetence, hatred of women and lack of self control on Twitter AGAIN!
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He also berated radical Islamist groups for attacking civilians, criticized the government for incompetence and corruption, and denounced tax-dodging by the rich.
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Whether Palestinians' long confinements were deliberate decisions on the part of officials or the accidental outcomes of bureaucratic incompetence is hard to say.
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So any hint of incompetence could damage his presidential brand and undercut his claims that his business tycoon personality can get things done.
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In all, 304 people died, and it quickly became clear that the ferry's sinking was a man-made disaster of corruption and incompetence.
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"I'm all for 'don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence' but I don't believe Google is that incompetent," Nightingale wrote.
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Enjeti said Tuesday that "sheer incompetence" of the state's party was a huge waste for both voters and the Democratic presidential contenders alike.
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But that is likely only to increase Mr Erdogan's control over the economy, hardly a promising sign—and not just because of incompetence.
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The lawsuit accuses Tesla of having untrained workers putting up shoddy installations and showing "utter incompetence or callousness, or both," court papers said.
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Fox News has devoted itself to painting Trump as a protagonist, which can be hard given the scandals, the incompetence, and the cruelty.
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Still, Mr Hull's book is a delicious companion to the tale Greene confected from the incompetence of spooks and an island in turmoil.
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Ponch's bosses know that rookie Jon isn't corrupt — but Jon's incompetence also stands in the way of Ponch completing his investigation in time.
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The incompetence and unpredictability of Trump is overwhelming, and so the Russians would likely want as many handlers in the room as possible.
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Don't cotton to any more drastic cuts in foreign aid and assistance, which helps lift other nations out of poverty, ignorance and incompetence.
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Young Thug's former personal manager says his reputation has been ruined by Thug's finance guys who trashed him to cover their own incompetence.
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While foes slam him for incompetence and failed socialist policies, Maduro blames an "economic war" against him by pro-opposition businessmen and Washington.
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NHL referees are a mix of incompetence, inconsistency, and cowardice usually reserved for a low-level henchman in a poorly written action movie.
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This time, his epic rant includes, "Fuck you all for giving me chest pains because of the staggering fucking incompetence" etc etc etc.
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"The committee recommended their removal on the basis of stated misbehaviour and incompetence, pursuant to Article 146(1) of the Constitution," it said.
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The damage claims would centre on either criminal offences or incompetence of committee members and Danske's board during the years 2012 through 2017.
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Trump's incompetence and the GOP Congress' infighting have led to a stalled government and a wholesale desperation for a victory of any kind.
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We could certainly contribute to an international effort, but haven't we amply demonstrated our utter incompetence in managing regime change and nation-building?
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He was also temporarily suspended on Tuesday for trying to block the appointment of ministers he accuses of incompetence and links to scandals.
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Mary's doctor tells Anna that she suffers from "cervical incompetence," which means her womb struggles to carry a fetus past the first trimester.
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There is a democratic deficit in the E.U. and they have treated the Greek economic crisis with incompetence and a lack of empathy.
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An unsecured database exposed millions of records of Chinese Muslims being tracked via facial recognition — an ugly trifecta of prejudice, bureaucracy and incompetence.
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Nor is it surprising that to save face, the Russian government blamed someone else for its own incompetence, and that of its ally.
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Now with the Islamic State holding significant territory in Iraq, including Mosul, the second-largest city, the government's incompetence poses a regional threat.
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In a statement posted to social media, Rahul Gandhi, leader of India's main opposition Congress party, accused the BJP of incompetence and arrogance.
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He said that Mr. Woodyard lived in his home temporarily, stayed out late partying, and was terminated from the job because of incompetence.
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These startling developments drew new attention to the odor of incompetence and corruption that has hung over Trump ever since he took office.
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In a study published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, researchers found people read smiley faces as a sign of incompetence.
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Others have simply quit, overwhelmed by the chaos and incompetence of a man who declines expert advice in favor of telegenic talking heads.
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His adversaries say those problems were created by incompetence and corruption, and that he has refused to recognize the severity of the situation.
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It takes a special combination of incompetence and bad luck to lose as much as the Mets have in deGrom's starts this season.
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Incompetence is one thing, but making statements that diminish the tragedy of the Holocaust is dangerous and inexcusable, especially from a public official.
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The Southern California schools will always be around because even the grossest incompetence cannot drive out the entirety of the local talent base.
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The son of Cristina Gutierrez (the late attorney whose alleged incompetence is the grounds for Syed's latest appeal) is also set to appear.
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The Prime Minister and her office no longer have any relevance, except as a symbol of an incredible combination of ignorance and incompetence.
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Andrew M. Cuomo of New York described a night of "gross incompetence" as the federal government raced to return children to their parents.
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Perhaps above all, it provides a check on power and a means of exposing corruption and incompetence, whether among government agencies or corporations.
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I do a bit on stage sometimes where I say that Trump, in his incompetence, will turn America into a third world country.
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Chris Grayling: The political survival of Britain's transport minister has baffled many who accuse him of staggering incompetence, but his loyalty to Mrs.
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"There is incompetence on all levels," said Hojjat Kalashi, a sociologist who has been banned from leaving the country because of his writings.
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How odd that these companies, whose only responsibility is to their shareholders, had failed to make up for the incompetence of this administration.
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Like most recent American wars, the battle against the coronavirus is already checkered by the immense incompetence of the administration that launched it.
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But it's hard to avoid the suspicion that the incompetence is related to politics, perhaps to Trump's desire to play down the threat.
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" Risa Hontiveros, an opposition senator, said Mr. Duterte's remarks were meant to distract the public from "the incompetence and corruption plaguing the administration.
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"But for his attorney's incompetence, Lee would have known that accepting the plea agreement would certainly lead to deportation," Chief Justice Roberts wrote.
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Many traditional Tory voters have had their loyalty tested almost to breaking-point by the party's recent mix of establishment-bashing and incompetence.
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Where were the questions about how the candidates would handle the public corruption, incompetence and dysfunctional governance running rampant in this White House?
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Embattled Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel has rejected calls for his resignation amid accusations that his department's incompetence failed to stop the gunman.
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Eventually I gave up, deleted the Dictionary widget one final time, and was forced to start admitting my shameful spelling incompetence to Google.
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There is a legion of arguments on moral, ethical and policy grounds for Mr. Trump's defeat, and that's leaving out the sheer incompetence.
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Also, weak European economies could further strengthen the political standing of far-right parties eager to charge mainstream Governments with incompetence and worse.
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As is usually the case when confronted with his own incompetence, Mr. Trump has spent his time looking for somebody else to blame.
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We must begin by recognizing that what we are seeing is not just greed or incompetence or stupidity or corruption at the top.
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"Chris Grayling and the ferry contracts will evermore be a case study in ministerial incompetence," said Andy McDonald, the opposition Labour's transport spokesman.
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" Michigan Representative Justin Amash, who left the GOP in July, tweeted that McCarthy's interview "again displays his unique brand of incompetence and dishonesty.
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Day after day, the media themes of corruption and incompetence are hammered home with few solid facts to back up the negative expositions.
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Some developments have stalled because of graft, people familiar with the projects said; others were derailed by incompetence and a lack of supervision.
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Few are as skilled as Hamilton, and incompetence by jailhouse lawyers can lead to the loss of viable avenues of relief for defendants.
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MORE STORIES FROM THE HILL: Vets shouldn't pay for Pentagon's bureaucratic incompetence ObamaCare is imploding — what are Republicans going to do about it?
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What a debacle President Trump's shutdown proved to be — what a toddler's pageant of foot-stomping and incompetence, of vainglory and self-defeat.
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I know our readers will be able to name 50 reasons how this could go badly wrong, including incompetence and lack of accountability.
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From the depths of British bungling, hubris and incompetence is emerging a St. Patrick's Day miracle: the real chance of a united Ireland.
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Getting dunked on is like getting caught masturbating, in that it's embarrassing and shameful and a sign of great personal weakness and incompetence.
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And that's the tricky part with the First Week of a New Job: hiding that incompetence from the people who just hired you.
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But these problems are, as seems to be true in 2018, about human error and incompetence, not any apparent incidents of voter fraud.
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Reacting to the perceived corruption, incompetence and complacency of the political class, comedians started to lead, as well as reflect, the new populist era.
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So, the false alert in Hawaii was a disaster that exposed incompetence and poor communication from the top of the government to the bottom.
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They pointed to places where internet infrastructure is obscured, such as by corruption and incompetence in Sicily, and by occupation and surveillance in Palestine.
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Slowly, but surely, we worked our way through the various beats of the fight, adjusting for my incompetence and left-handedness along the way.
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Now, I couldn't possibly comment on the corruption and incompetence which may or may not now be part of life as we know it.
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Its ultimate success, however, hinges on others' incompetence — more specifically, their willingness to lie and otherwise obfuscate the truth in order to protect themselves.
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Would you really choose Spain or Belgium (no government), Italy (ineptitude), Greece (incompetence), or Israel (extremist intransigence) over the clarity and simplicity of Westminster?
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" Thomas Piketty, the economist and best-selling author, was quoted as saying in the newspaper Libération that the government had added "infamy" to "incompetence.
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The Tories are clearly on the offensive in this election—taking advantage of Mr Corbyn's incompetence to advance their tanks deep into Labour territory.
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I'm sad, yes, but these are tears of horror, disgust, and shock — and frustration about my life's total incompetence at preparing me for this.
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Of course there's an establishment, but it's much more diffuse, much less lavishly funded, much less insistent on orthodoxy and forgiving of loyal incompetence.
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In an interview, the country's sports minister, Paul Kamara, accused Ms. Johansen of embezzlement, incompetence and of bringing Sierra Leonean soccer to its knees.
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"The cause of our problems is the officials' incompetence," he told The Associated Press as fellow motorbike drivers called out for passengers in Tehran.
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Ironically, there might also be some advantage in managers who, having demonstrated incompetence at a particular level, are now given only a diminished mandate.
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The parts of the country that it runs, including Cape Town and Johannesburg, are islands of efficiency in a sea of murk and incompetence.
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Though supposedly an agent of the Breitmans, he did not spare Arthur; he understood why Gevers, hammered by Arthur for incompetence, had been offended.
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And only then are we ready to see all the follies and breathtaking, ass-covering incompetence that led to the unthinkable moments that followed.
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When the sheriff's office failed to make an arrest after months of investigation, the community grew angry and started accusing the police of incompetence.
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Half of adults said the source of the President's problems are rooted in incompetence and a lack of the experience needed to change Washington.
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But mixed messages and sudden policy reversals have mainly created a degree of unpredictability that now reads more as disarray and incompetence than strategy.
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The mixture of incompetence, extremism, and erraticism Trump brings to the White House elevates the risk of genuine national destruction to an uncomfortable level.
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Thanks to low oil prices and its own incompetence, the government does not have enough money to subsidise imports to make up the shortfall.
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A new controversy over the Russian press gaining access to the Oval Office, on the other hand, is incompetence almost all the way down.
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It's a crystallization of the chaos and incompetence that has defined his first term, and a fitting end to his ninth week as president.
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"Effective immediately, I am officially suspending Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel for his repeated failures, incompetence and neglect of duty," DeSantis wrote on Twitter.
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The current crisis at the border caused by Trump's policy of forced family separations is a mix of incompetence, immorality, carelessness, cluelessness and callousness.
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"At best, State's efforts to pass off its deficient search as legally adequate during settlement negotiations was negligence born out of incompetence," Lamberth wrote.
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Tommy is putting on his dress uniform and taking his own life with a rifle after dealing with the Department of Veterans Affairs' incompetence.
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More likely, it's another example of the curious blend of malevolence and incompetence that has characterized Trump's campaign and presidency from the very beginning.
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In the show's fourth season, she finally gets fed up with Selina's incompetence and quits her job as campaign manager in a fantastic outburst.
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And it's noteworthy that there have, so far, been no scandals or shocking examples of incompetence or wild dishonesty coming out of her shop.
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Whether the bonus overpayments were awarded because of bureaucratic incompetence or fraud on the part of those administering the program is beside the point.
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How can anyone have confidence in his or her government when the leader continues to brag in the face of widespread evidence of incompetence?
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His authoritarianism threatens libertarian ideals as well as progressive ones, he's personally repugnant in ways that transcend politics, and his incompetence endangers us all.
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We men are so happy to live up to this idea of male incompetence — and then get angry and defensive when called on it.
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The trouble is that your sister is likely to cross the border into incompetence, where the balance shifts as to what your relationship demands.
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That's the reason he's able to "get away with" a scale of abuses in terms of personal corruption, broad incompetence, and alarming racial demagoguery.
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The Democratic landslide in the midterms proved that the laws of political gravity haven't been suspended; Trump's incompetence, venality and boorishness had electoral consequences.
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Perspective: "The malign incompetence of the Brexiteers," the Op-Ed contributor Pankaj Mishra argues, has parallels in the British Empire's ruinous departure from India.
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Whether it's incompetence or bad luck or super-bad bad guys, it doesn't matter: Facebook keeps screwing up with people's personal data and privacy.
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But readers' news appetite isn't infinite, so they're starved of information about the fraudulence of his supposed populism and the toll of his incompetence.
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President Trump again accused Puerto Rican politicians of corruption and incompetence last week, signaling his unwillingness to approve more funds for the bankrupt commonwealth.
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For years I've bounced between these two interpretations of the president — at times astonished by his incompetence; at other times amazed by his cunning.
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Brown took a lot of blame for the whole botched response, and Bush's "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job" became a catchphrase for incompetence.
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No plot — just sloppy incompetence, sloppy enough that a deranged man could just sit in the window where he worked and assassinate a president.
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Mr. Trump's decision to include Pepfar and expand the global gag rule's reach underscores this administration's gross incompetence when it comes to global health.
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These teachers shouldn't have to answer for Ms. DeVos's incompetence or wonder if there's room for them in the future of progressive education politics.
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" The fictional journal, Kirkus continued, was rife with "literary pork-barreling" and "the utter incompetence and gratuitousness that goes under the term 'editorial judgment.
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Founded in 1908, the bureau started out plagued by the very problems Civil Service law was designed to eliminate: incompetence, corruption and crony appointments.
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The government's proposed solution to these grave water shortages, the Melamchi project, has turned into a four-decade-long fiasco of almost unrivaled incompetence.
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Many tasks are morally dubious—finding a way not to prosecute a well-connected murderer—and others he performs with indifference bordering on incompetence.
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But none highlighted corporate incompetence or government fecklessness quite like the 2017 hack of Equifax, which exposed the financial data of 145 million Americans.
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It tells a story of heroism, sacrifice, political ineptitude and strategic incompetence that offers many lessons for the issues the country is facing today.
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Whether it's obliviousness or incompetence or both, the Senate is losing what may be a limited opportunity for the GOP to make meaningful change.
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Like the nonsense that Delta Air Lines, not his own administration's incompetence, was to blame for the cruel mess of the travel ban's implementation.
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Unfortunately, the saga of health care also reveals the capacity of Mr. Trump to do harm, through incompetence and indifference, if not effective action.
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The reality of a flailing, uninformed president who is indeed destroying the federal government before our very eyes with his own incompetence is unimaginable.
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The Skins are an eternal fucking disgrace that has lost an entire generation of local fans thanks to their incompetence, racism, and general obliviousness.
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For people worried a Trump agenda would mean more uninsured people and higher costs to patients, the incompetence might be a blessing in disguise.
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Republican strategist Steve Schmidt has blasted the Trump administration, pointing to an "unprecedented" level of "incompetence" during President Trump's first few weeks in office.
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" Florida Speaker of the House Richard Corcoran and dozens of lawmakers have called on Scott to suspend Israel for "incompetence and dereliction of duty.
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A new trial was ordered for Syed after a state intermediate appeals court said the attorney's incompetence resulted in impermissible prejudice to Syed's defense.
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These often see the domestic failure that Ischomachus puts right by "educating" his wife as a mark not of her incompetence but of his.
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But it's perfectly fine to root for incompetence on the White House's legislative agenda, given the damage that would do to so many citizens.
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Or had this event merely been the result of McDonald's incompetence, in which they miscalculated the enormity and fervor of Rick and Morty's fanbase?
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The movie's very clear message is that the deaths in Benghazi were preventable, and would have been prevented if it weren't for bureaucratic incompetence.
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In the exponentially better second and third episodes, the writers mostly ignore the time lapse, except to poke fun at Mulder's incompetence with personal electronics.
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A recent scandal and accusations of incompetence in Rome, where 5-Star member Virginia Raggi is mayor, has done relatively little to damage its popularity.
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But at least we can take solace in the fact that President Trump's incompetence and lack of intellectual curiosity might actually be making us safer.
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Police brutality and clumsiness in dealing with the protests have stoked the sense of outrage that many Russians feel with their rulers' corruption and incompetence.
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" American Israel Public Affairs Committee speech March 21, 2016 "Which brings me to my next point, the utter weakness and incompetence of the United Nations.
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What is the phrase that you say when someone has reached a point in their career … Yeah, everyone rises to the level of their incompetence.
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Anna Kuznetsova, Russia's children's rights commissioner, said the fire had been caused by incompetence and that similar shopping centers across Russia should be urgently checked.
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"It's hard to pick out right now out of the noise what is simple incompetence and what is a general desire to impede offshore wind."
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The screw-up has screamed incompetence and even conspiracy to Sanders supporters and progressive media figures who've been key in boosting the senator's message online.
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Some officials, who have seen multiple Italian governments come and go, believe the Five Star Movement's ferocity is driven by incompetence more than grand design.
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In many cases, the offending officers are still not facing suspension or indictment for their crimes, but the evidence of corruption and incompetence is mounting.
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In July, across the Black Sea, Romanians and Bulgarians also staged demonstrations: the former over police incompetence and the latter over cronyism in the judiciary.
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If Mr Trump serves a full eight years—which, despite attacks from his critics, is possible—the price of paralysis and incompetence could be huge.
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Many Leavers now believe that a perfect, costless version of Brexit exists, which they are being denied only through some mix of incompetence and conspiracy.
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But if you were wondering how the slow creep of federal incompetence is affecting the basic functions of technology, this is a pretty good example.
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I was home from work early because I had just been fired for incompetence and I decided to hit the hay at 4:29 p.m.
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Chances are Google wouldn't have been able to alert me of those delays, though, given that incompetence isn't something it can predict yet, after all.
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But as a system stronger than the people who ran it, it was unique in Latin America—at least until it unravelled into corrupt incompetence.
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The Peter principle, developed by Laurence Peter for a book published in 1969, states that workers get promoted until they reach their level of incompetence.
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The disaster appears to have been the result of corner-cutting on the part of the mall's owners, as well as incompetence on the scene.
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A petition has since been issued for his resignation, and all across Facebook, residents speculated that a changing climate wasn't the problem — organizational incompetence was.
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David Ige overcame fierce criticism for his administration's false missile alert earlier this year, which led to accusations of widespread government incompetence in the state.
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And the most alarming thing about it is the way his air of impunity allows attendant failures–greed, incompetence, cruelty–to feed upon one another.
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As Vox's German Lopez points out, there's no evidence of voter fraud in Florida, but some incompetence and lack of transparency have come to light.
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The fact that he could get elected to Congress, despite such manifest incompetence and intolerance, is a problem rooted in our government's crisis of accountability.
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Nowhere is the poisonous mix of demographic stress, political repression and economic incompetence more worrying than in Egypt under its strongman, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi.
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The EPA's incompetence was greatly revealed after their mishandling of the 85033 Animas River mine spill in Colorado that polluted three million gallons of water.
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This is a historic act of devastating incompetence to have created such an arsenal and store it all in one place and not secure it.
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So far, and despite some notable wins, such as on education policy and in the battle against ISIS, the administration has a reputation for incompetence.
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And after a few months of reflection, he's now penned an angry attack on the culinary Bible, decrying its "amateurism" and the inspectors' "profound incompetence."
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Trump argued that his since-walked-back temporary Muslim ban is really a matter of "extreme vetting," accusing Clinton of foreign policy incompetence and malice.
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"The American people deserve so much better than the culture of corruption, cronyism, and incompetence that is pervasive at Administrator Pruitt's EPA," she said. Rep.
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The Five Star Movement was supposed to bring a new approach, but it's the same old, same old, except with a higher level of incompetence.
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In such a climate, it's difficult to prove incompetence: true pragmatism would be quick and dirty, but emotional cycles can be sustained for much longer.
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There, corruption and incompetence, frequently hiding behind a fig leaf of revolutionary rhetoric, have essentially bankrupted what should be the richest country in South America.
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One of the sources close to the Kremlin said Putin does sometimes feel extremely tired, but largely through exasperation at officials' incompetence and bureaucratic sloth.
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Winging it and filling body bags as we sort out what works reminds us of themoral dictates and the cost of incompetence in our profession.
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The best-known of these is the rowdiest, "Gosforth's Fete," in which a village fair is leveled by both a thunderstorm and raging human incompetence.
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Such a deposition is really the only chance Mr. Salerno has because it could establish Mr. Redstone's incompetence and perhaps aid the litigation in Massachusetts.
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Scott, one of Snipes's fiercest critics, cited "widespread issues with voting" and "misfeasance, incompetence and neglect of duty" as reasons for suspending the election official.
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Publicly, Putin has remained on the sidelines while the two men wage a war of words by news release leveling allegations of treachery and incompetence.
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"This doesn't appear to have been caused by the intention to make it harder for anyone to vote, but by bureaucratic incompetence," Mr. Hasen said.
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However, others point to the botched first launch of the online declarations database in August as a sign of the incompetence of the agency's management.
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"They try to look for those responsible before putting out the forest fires to hide their own incompetence," tweeted independent opposition lawmaker Jose Manuel Edwards.
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This is a story not so much of legislative incompetence as the sidelining of Congress when it comes to charting the course of the country.
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While it's completely understandable to be concerned about individuals intentionally damaging internet infrastructure, incompetence and nonhuman intervention are just as likely to cause physical outages.
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My problem with Donald Trump, for example, has nothing to do with his political inexperience and everything to do with his moral and intellectual incompetence.
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The military was able to exploit the liberals' naiveté and the Muslim Brotherhood's incompetence, taking power for itself and placing Egypt under a military dictatorship.
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The truly horrendous corruption and incompetence has meant that sewage pumping stations are in disrepair and raw sewage is being pumped directly into the water.
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Mistake theorists believe that the world is complicated and most of our troubles are caused by error and incompetence, not by malice or evil intent.
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However, for the sake of encouraging or even achieving these policy wins, Christians cannot be seen to excuse lies, rationalize incompetence or impose double standards.
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" Instead, Americans face poverty and deprivation because "the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence.
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"What's changed in my opinion in the last two years has been just a level of incompetence I've never quite seen before," Mr. Leon said.
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How else do you explain the laundry list of ex-coaches and execs who leave New England and immediately sabotage other organizations with their incompetence?
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From late September through October so far, Trump's presidency has once again been dominated by stories of petty feuds, partisanship, incompetence, and just general chaos.
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Rather than revealing thoughtful analysis, his in-your-face malevolent incompetence could be a sly diversion to keep our attention off accusations of his criminality.
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So far Trump's base and Congressional Republicans have stuck with him despite his incompetence, corruption, coddling dictators, and hijacking U.S. policy for his own gain.
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So all of this incompetence or malfeasance, regardless of where or why it occurs, undermines trust in the entire process, and that's a serious problem.
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"The TrumpCare bill failed because of two traits that have plagued the Trump presidency since he took office: incompetence and broken promises," Schumer told reporters.
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But the tariff tale nonetheless epitomizes the pattern we're already seeing in this shambolic administration — a pattern of dysfunction, ignorance, incompetence, and betrayal of trust.
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" However, Sherman said, he wants "to begin a long process to protect our country from abuse of power, obstruction of justice, and impulsive, ignorant incompetence.
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He does deserve credit for one thing: His incompetence and futile bullying seem to have led his own party to begin making deals without him.
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"Remember: lack of tax details is not due to laziness/incompetence - it reflects impossibility of a GOP plan that matches Trump rhetoric," Jacob Leibenluft tweeted.
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"Li's breaches were not the result of incompetence or negligence only, as there was a clear conflict of interest situation," SFC said in a statement.
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So that leaves the Democrats as the only people with the power to put an end to the current spectacle of Republican incompetence and folly.
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But other experts have grown increasingly skeptical of the new approach, arguing that manufacturing errors, disgruntled insiders and sheer incompetence can also send missiles awry.
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That said, you're right: Love it or hate it, Trump's epic incompetence makes it unlikely that any significant pro-growth reforms will move through Congress.
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But is it compatible with outrageous presidential incompetence, with a White House that can't hit a target with a Super Soaker from six inches away?
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Did some hacker simply take advantage of the committee's cyber-incompetence, or was an American political party the specific and premeditated target of Russian intelligence?
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