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As Curry puts it, leaders at white-shoe law firms, elite universities and major foundations have repeatedly surrendered without a shot, revealing themselves as “traitors, cowards, rank opportunists or simply inept.”

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The FBI has assigned him to man a table at recruitment fairs, but he’s an inept salesman and not much more effective as a father.

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So, in his typically inept attempt to downplay his connection to the Epstein scandal, Donald revealed that a former employee was the reason his friendship with Epstein ended.

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“I think there’s probably a bunch of episodes this season that are going to be people’s favorite episodes that they have ever seen,” says Povenmire, who also voices the show’s inept nemesis Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz.

Some believe that it was intrinsically inept to target a benefit paid to pensioners.

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