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Rachel Maddow: "This government is positively insane. Genuinely nuts." (Original Post) triron Sep 2020 OP
K & R . . . Iliyah Sep 2020 #1
Watching your beloved,,,,, Cryptoad Sep 2020 #16
It is. Solly Mack Sep 2020 #2
I have been reading echoes of this same thing on right wing forums; they are saying that Chainfire Sep 2020 #3
Wow, mindem Sep 2020 #8
looking forward to shooting the libs kiri Sep 2020 #18
Hahaha If you are looking for the statement Bev54 Sep 2020 #4
Like talking about a grievous petty crime, isn't it? RVN VET71 Sep 2020 #14
This guy is completely nuts. He needs some help. Arkansas Granny Sep 2020 #5
Christofascist fear mongering and scapegoating... Thomas Hurt Sep 2020 #6
Caputo is a Russian agent with long ties to Vladimir Putin dalton99a Sep 2020 #7
++++++++++++!!! 2naSalit Sep 2020 #9
What?!? FakeNoose Sep 2020 #11
Are they all Putin's puppets? WVreaper Sep 2020 #10
Many of them apparently. triron Sep 2020 #12
The easiest way to take down a government is from within. Lonestarblue Sep 2020 #13
I'll bet drugs are involved. Dios Mio Sep 2020 #15
Rachel please put this government in quotes StClone Sep 2020 #17
Highly contagious DENVERPOPS Sep 2020 #19
Genuinely insane and geniously nuts. And genuinely destroying democracy. In real time. Hang on. Evolve Dammit Sep 2020 #20
That is the only thing about them that is "genuine" world wide wally Sep 2020 #21
Caputo is a great spokesperson for the panicked psychopathic Progressive dog Sep 2020 #22
We need to stop shrugging these people off as "stupid" or "insane". Act_of_Reparation Sep 2020 #23
I don't think Rachel is implying they are not. triron Sep 2020 #24

Cryptoad

(8,254 posts)
16. Watching your beloved,,,,,
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 05:23 PM
Sep 2020

MAGA World crumble around your feet, does strange shit to their head......!

Chainfire

(17,532 posts)
3. I have been reading echoes of this same thing on right wing forums; they are saying that
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 03:24 PM
Sep 2020

All of us liberal hippies are going to go to war if Trump wins the election. (Which means that they must prepare) We are going to raise a "Fascist" Antifa Army to attempt to displace the legally elected Trump.

I just did not know that it was originating in the Trump Administration.

It is insanity.

kiri

(794 posts)
18. looking forward to shooting the libs
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 05:49 PM
Sep 2020

They boast that they have all the guns. Probably right.
The radical right is very dangerous.

Bev54

(10,048 posts)
4. Hahaha If you are looking for the statement
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 03:29 PM
Sep 2020

it is in the last paragraph of the story. He must have heard the word and did not understand the meaning of it. LOL

RVN VET71

(2,690 posts)
14. Like talking about a grievous petty crime, isn't it?
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 05:07 PM
Sep 2020

Or a grievous minor injury?

But this guy, Caputo, is sick, grievously sick. He says "they" are going to try to kill him. The guy's a flack for Trump and really thinks "they" are conspiring to kill him! A freaking flack! Fragile mind bordering on, perhaps, just a tad of paranoia?

And then there's this, for all of us amateur shrinks to chew on:

“I don’t like being alone in Washington,” he said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He then ran through a series of conspiracy theories, culminating in a prediction that Mr. Trump will win re-election but his Democratic opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr., will refuse to concede.

“And when Donald Trump refuses to stand down at the inauguration, the shooting will begin,” he said. “The drills that you’ve seen are nothing.” He added: “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get.”

Caputo is a bad person. This I firmly believe. But I'm just wondering if he might also be a sick person -- elsewhere in the article, he says that very thing of himself -- and in need of help. He appears, frankly, suicidal. I hope he is able to get the help he needs, but I doubt it considering the people for whom and with whom he's working.

Arkansas Granny

(31,515 posts)
5. This guy is completely nuts. He needs some help.
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 03:31 PM
Sep 2020

More from the article:


“I don’t like being alone in Washington,” he said, describing “shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long.” He then ran through a series of conspiracy theories, culminating in a prediction that Mr. Trump will win re-election but his Democratic opponent, Joseph R. Biden Jr., will refuse to concede.

“And when Donald Trump refuses to stand down at the inauguration, the shooting will begin,” he said. “The drills that you’ve seen are nothing.” He added: “If you carry guns, buy ammunition, ladies and gentlemen, because it’s going to be hard to get.”

dalton99a

(81,455 posts)
7. Caputo is a Russian agent with long ties to Vladimir Putin
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 03:38 PM
Sep 2020

Last edited Mon Sep 14, 2020, 04:33 PM - Edit history (2)

Mr. Caputo boasted in his Facebook talk that the president had personally put him in charge of a $250 million public service advertising campaign intended to help America to get back to normal.

His Facebook presentation comes as Mr. Trump has increasingly singled out federal government scientists as targets, complaining without evidence that they were deliberately trying to subvert his administration’s efforts to fight the pandemic for their own political reasons.

They “haven’t gotten out of their sweatpants except for meetings at coffee shops” to plot “how they’re going to attack Donald Trump next,” Mr. Caputo said. “There are scientists who work for this government who do not want America to get well, not until after Joe Biden is president.”

Mr. Caputo suggested, also without evidence, that the August killing of a Trump supporter in Portland, Ore., by an avowed supporter of the left-wing collective known as antifa was part of a broader left-wing plot to target the administration’s supporters.

Mr. Caputo has no background in health care. He worked on Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign for a time but was passed over for a job early in the administration. He remained friendly with Dan Scavino, the deputy chief of staff for White House communications who is among the few of Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign aides still on the administration’s staff. Mr. Scavino played a role in reconnecting Mr. Trump and Mr. Caputo. Some of Mr. Trump’s allies heralded Mr. Caputo’s appointment at Health and Human Services, describing him as both media savvy and intensely loyal to the president.

Lonestarblue

(9,980 posts)
13. The easiest way to take down a government is from within.
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 04:49 PM
Sep 2020

A lesson the US has never learned. We just go in and blast the he’ll out of everything, in luding civilian populations, then stay there for decades trying to fix the mess.

Putin has achieved his heart’s desire to weaken the US. Four more years of Trump will give him our destruction.

Dios Mio

(429 posts)
15. I'll bet drugs are involved.
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 05:20 PM
Sep 2020

I don’t think most people would be that paranoid with alcohol alone.

(cocaine’s a helluva drug)

StClone

(11,683 posts)
17. Rachel please put this government in quotes
Mon Sep 14, 2020, 05:43 PM
Sep 2020

I don't know what this disgusting, insanity-driven pile of coprolite is but it is not any form of government. Chaos on srooms maybe.

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)
23. We need to stop shrugging these people off as "stupid" or "insane".
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 02:51 PM
Sep 2020

They are not stupid. They are not insane. They are fascists. Time to wake up and recognize what we're dealing with here.

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