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They've accused Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer – who didn't vote for the funding bill – of being secretly complicit in the reopening plan or simply incompetent.

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When professors are concentrated at one extreme, a department isn’t only unbalanced—it’s incompetent.

“We look like fools to our friends,” wrote a New York Times columnist, “rascals to our enemies and incompetents to the rest.”

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An incompetent American foreign-policy cadre failed to win wars, advance democracy or build peace.

If the Fed is this incompetent with banking system liquidity, why should I trust them with anything?

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