When you gossip about another person, listeners unconsciously associate you with the characteristics you are describing, ultimately leading to those characteristics' being “transferred” to you. So, say positive and pleasant things about friends and colleagues, and you are seen as a nice person. In contrast, constantly complain about their failings, and people will unconsciously apply the negative traits and incompetence to you.
The utter incompetence of the U. N. is literally incomprehensible.
I think her comments - Hillary's [Clinton] comments just don't get the same attention that Trump's do. For example, she lied to a Gold Star mother. She lied to pre - Patricia Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, who - who was killed at Benghazi, I believe, because of her incompetence, her incompetence in failing to secure that mission.
Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence
Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.