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** Another name for this phenomenon is being [[Kicked Upstairs]].

* Multiple American Vice-Presidential candidates have been accused of being such poor choices they were nothing but a drag on their ticket, accusations which can continue if they ''do'' become vice president. The 2008 election in particular saw both the Democrat and Republican Vice-Presidential candidates, [[Joe Biden]] and Sarah Palin, accused of this.

* Russian's Second Pacific Squadron in the [[Russo-Japanese War]] had many obsolete ships crewed by incompetent but politically connected officers which were arguably more of a hindrance than a help, but the repair ship Kamchatka would show [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mdi_Fh9_Ag truly] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCrAQFBUFlU ludicrous] levels of incompetence. Kamchatka's antics would delayed, endanger, and ''infest'' the Second Pacific Squadron while nearly bringing Great Britain into the war by starting the Dogger Bank Incident through some utterly incompetent IFF protocol that mistake a civilian fishing vessel for a Japanese attacker despite being ''on the wrong side of the world'' for that to be possible.

* Russian's Second Pacific Squadron in the [[Russo-Japanese War]] had many obsolete ships crewed by incompetent but politically connected officers which were arguably more of a hindrance than a help, but the repair ship Kamchatka would show [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mdi_Fh9_Ag truly] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCrAQFBUFlU ludicrous] levels of incompetence. Kamchatka's antics would delayed, endanger, and ''infest'' the Second Pacific Squadron while nearly bringing Great Britain into the war by starting the Dogger Bank Incident through some utterly incompetent IFF protocol that mistake a civilian fishing vessel for a Japanese attacker despite being ''on the wrong side of the world'' for that to be possible... then doing it ''again'' by going missing for several days where it would shoot at (emphasis on ''at'') Swedish, German and French civilians within four days of each other. Upon catching up it would eventually fire a salute for the fleet's dead... with live ammo, hitting the ''Aurora'' (the same one involved in the Communist revolution a few decades later that survives to this day), which was one of the few competent and relatively modern ships in the doomed fleet.