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Bloomberg (December 2)

2022/ 12/ 05 by jd in Global News

“If Sam Bankman-Fried isn’t lying, crypto is in trouble.” If “systematic incompetence” was the reason behind FTX’s implosion, “it’s perhaps more damaging to the industry’s ambitions than if its problems were caused by premeditating Madoff-like criminals who could be brought to justice.”

 

Washington Post (January 19)

2021/ 01/ 21 by jd in Global News

“The challenge — and the opportunity — for Joe Biden is that he succeeds the worst president in U.S. history. Donald Trump’s tenure was characterized by colossal incompetence and mind-numbing indifference to the public good.” As a result, the new president will face the biggest challenges since Franklin D. Roosevelt. “Paradoxically, by taking over at such a low point in our history, Biden is set up for success” and his approval rating is already “higher than Trump’s ever was.”

 

Financial Times (January 19)

2021/ 01/ 20 by jd in Global News

From the beginning, Donald Trump was clearly a “grave threat…. He lacked any of the qualities required in the leader of a great republic. But, it turned out, he had the redeeming flaw of gross incompetence.” America has survived this wrenching, “near-death experience,” but “Donald Trump was just a symptom and the US is still in danger from those who peddle lies in place of truth.”

 

Washington Post (July 15)

2020/ 07/ 15 by jd in Global News

“All signs suggest it’s closing on his presidency because of his world-class incompetence with the coronavirus pandemic, the protracted economic collapse that resulted, and the increasingly overt racism Trump has embraced.

 

Washington Post (March 30)

2020/ 04/ 01 by jd in Global News

“Any attempts at mitigation are handicapped at the start by this president’s manifest incompetence.” With few exceptions, Trump’s helpers are “hopeless.” This “is a tragedy” and “the price will be paid in American lives.”

 

New York Times (February 26)

2020/ 02/ 28 by jd in Global News

“Japan can’t handle the coronavirus. Can it host the Olympics?” The nation’s leaders have a “sense of entitlement.” This “breeds indifference and incompetence,” which was on full display during “by the unmitigated epidemiological and public relations disaster that was the saga of the Diamond Princess cruise ship.”

 

Los Angeles Times (January 3)

2018/ 01/ 03 by jd in Global News

“Although Trump is in a class by himself when it comes to incompetence, greed, mendacity, absence of values and unfitness for office, America’s ‘abdication’ of its world leadership role has been a long time coming. We have gone from overreach to inertia to incompetence, and damaged our standing at every step along the way.”

 

The Week (May 10)

2017/ 05/ 13 by jd in Global News

“We know how the Trump administration will end. Whether or not Trump ends up impeached, we know that it will end not because of an attempted coup d’état, but because of incompetence and an endless series of shootings in the foot.”

 

New York Times (December 17, 2013)

2013/ 12/ 18 by jd in Global News

With average incomes nearly tripling “over the past decade, India has reached a tipping point. “The old politics are over. The governing Indian National Congress, the centrist reference point of the nation’s democracy, seems out of touch, and with it the Gandhi dynasty. Passivity is giving way to a ferocious engagement. It is driven by anger over corruption, incompetence, inequality and inertia.” Change seems assured, but little else. “New forces and parties are emerging with unpredictable, perhaps even dangerous, consequences.”

 

Detroit Free Press (July 19)

2013/ 07/ 20 by jd in Global News

Detroit became the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy, hoping to escape nearly $20 billion in debt. “The word bankruptcy provokes an intense emotional response. Instinctively, many Detroiters feel the news is horrible and is synonymous with defeat. Fear kicks in as we envision our city being shut down and sold for scrap…. In fact, it is the exact lifeline we need to unshackle our town from the mismanagement, corruption and incompetence of the past in order to get on with the real work of rebuilding Detroit.”

 

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