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Just In: Caputo is kaput (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2020 OP
Yes! soothsayer Sep 2020 #1
Boy--Trump just keeps appointing the Best People, doesn't he...? First Speaker Sep 2020 #2
F-Off! denbot Sep 2020 #3
+10000 bronxiteforever Sep 2020 #8
When you turn on the lights leftieNanner Sep 2020 #4
Trumpism is a mental disorder. madaboutharry Sep 2020 #5
Small victories. BKDem Sep 2020 #6
Well, someone has a brain .....if he had a nervous breakdown. OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2020 #7
That fine-tuned machine just lost another idle pulley. yonder Sep 2020 #9
LOL! Spazito Sep 2020 #14
He'll go work for the campaign doing his damage. dem4decades Sep 2020 #10
now he will have plenty of time qazplm135 Sep 2020 #11
My guess is Jonesing for Civil War 2 doesn't sell well TheRealNorth Sep 2020 #12
He seemed like a perfect match for this mal-administration spanone Sep 2020 #13
What person does this?? EndlessWire Sep 2020 #15
Those are good questions - a bit existential, but erronis Sep 2020 #23
He has now put this whole concept out there. It doesn't matter that he is resigning. not_the_one Sep 2020 #47
Well, I think EndlessWire Sep 2020 #49
Same reason you'd say you weren't drinking before you think you hit that deer. Iggo Sep 2020 #27
Maybe a future legal excuse for criminal behavior? Buckeye_Democrat Sep 2020 #38
That idiot shitstain should never have had a job with any kind of responsibility. GaYellowDawg Sep 2020 #16
Now he is free to work for Putin again/still. BigmanPigman Sep 2020 #17
Mental Health Break Down rpannier Sep 2020 #18
Thanks volstork Sep 2020 #42
He definitely needs mental health support. dhol82 Sep 2020 #19
Great news, but the damage is already done. GoCubsGo Sep 2020 #20
Upstaging Der Fuehrer on insanity will get you canned? /nt bucolic_frolic Sep 2020 #21
Luckily Obama Has a Plan for That Stallion Sep 2020 #22
"shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long." thenelm1 Sep 2020 #24
When these freaks leave, fine, but they are representative of SHITLER, so UTUSN Sep 2020 #25
I thought that was a requirement to work for Trump DrToast Sep 2020 #26
Shuffle off to Buffalo, Capuko. NBachers Sep 2020 #28
bye-bye to another one of the "very best"🤣 bringthePaine Sep 2020 #29
Just shocked that anyone wanking conspiro-nuttery on behalf of the Tangerine Menace Grokenstein Sep 2020 #30
Err...he wasn't wrapped too tight to begin with. LudwigPastorius Sep 2020 #31
Caputo is no less intelligent than ANY other NoMoreRepugs Sep 2020 #32
This fucker is all ways around scandals. I wish him nothing but misery and misfortune. Pepsidog Sep 2020 #33
Well him quitting will certainly help our mental health. His, not so much. SunSeeker Sep 2020 #34
get his office ready at Trump campaign HQ TeamPooka Sep 2020 #35
First you've got to have mental health to begin with. ancianita Sep 2020 #36
great. he's probably gonna use that mental health break orleans Sep 2020 #37
Anyone read his speaknow Sep 2020 #39
He will be replaced by someone worse SoonerPride Sep 2020 #40
Sadly you are correct shanti Sep 2020 #48
was he seeing more shadows on the ceiling? Roland99 Sep 2020 #41
Well, um, there's a lot of them who need to cite a "Mental Health Break." NNadir Sep 2020 #43
I like your title ailsagirl Sep 2020 #44
Jesus. It makes the W Adminstration look like PCIntern Sep 2020 #45
What kind of chickenshit hires that kind of chickenshit... czarjak Sep 2020 #46
More evidence of an American mental health crisis: Caputo struggle4progress Sep 2020 #50

OAITW r.2.0

(24,393 posts)
7. Well, someone has a brain .....if he had a nervous breakdown.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 08:44 PM
Sep 2020

I can't imagine the world he had to build to defend Trump.

TheRealNorth

(9,474 posts)
12. My guess is Jonesing for Civil War 2 doesn't sell well
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 08:51 PM
Sep 2020

with the white, suburban women that the GOP is trying to scare.

EndlessWire

(6,478 posts)
15. What person does this??
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 09:04 PM
Sep 2020

Why would you resign a position and cite MENTAL HEALTH reasons for the departure?? Would *you* do that??

Why would you open the door to having your head examined by those watching what you do?

He must have been told something, by someone...oh well, we are living in an alternate universe, anyway...

erronis

(15,216 posts)
23. Those are good questions - a bit existential, but
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 09:57 PM
Sep 2020

Do you have any hints on answers to these?

I'm reading an intimation about ulterior motives or something nefarious.

 

not_the_one

(2,227 posts)
47. He has now put this whole concept out there. It doesn't matter that he is resigning.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 11:22 PM
Sep 2020

Now the turd humpers are thinking about it in much realer terms than just some "out there" rightwing conspiracy.

It will now percolate, stew. I would imagine the hope would be that when the turd loses, bigly, this simmering will come to a boil, and action will be taken by the goons who WANT to believe it. All the turd has left to fall back on is FEAR.

Yet more Putin chaos.

EndlessWire

(6,478 posts)
49. Well, I think
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 01:40 AM
Sep 2020

that Trump is crazy, and this guy has had enough. But, he doesn't have the guts to flip, so he is saying, in the only loyal-to-the-GOP way he can, that he has had enough of the chaos.

Also, he is jumping ship. But, you don't leave a job like this. This could be that he got fired, and this is his flying finger as he exits.

But, read this: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/09/caputo-mental-health-has-definitely-failed/

This is the guy who was involved in the CDC report fixing, and the one who warned of post election violence by Trump. What better way to explain that stuff except to say that the guy is crazy?

Most people recognize when they are stressed, but some of this stuff is over the top, and very alarming.

But, gosh, I don't know! Anything Trump touches fails. That's what I have seen.

Iggo

(47,546 posts)
27. Same reason you'd say you weren't drinking before you think you hit that deer.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 10:05 PM
Sep 2020

Setting the stage ahead of the dropping of the other shoe.

BigmanPigman

(51,582 posts)
17. Now he is free to work for Putin again/still.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 09:44 PM
Sep 2020

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss (the old boss IS the new boss...in this case).

GoCubsGo

(32,078 posts)
20. Great news, but the damage is already done.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 09:45 PM
Sep 2020

He already incited violence, and spewed conspiracies. At least he won't be doing any more of that, I guess.

thenelm1

(852 posts)
24. "shadows on the ceiling in my apartment, there alone, shadows are so long."
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 09:59 PM
Sep 2020

This whack job should have been confine to a padded room long ago. And to think he's in charge of public statements from the CDC? We are well and truly fucked -

UTUSN

(70,671 posts)
25. When these freaks leave, fine, but they are representative of SHITLER, so
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 09:59 PM
Sep 2020

I'd just as soon they stay in place until he's *out* so that the full horror of him will be irrefutable, well it is irrefutable anyway.






Grokenstein

(5,721 posts)
30. Just shocked that anyone wanking conspiro-nuttery on behalf of the Tangerine Menace
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 10:17 PM
Sep 2020

would actually admit that they're mentally ill---even to protect God Emperor Rampstumbler Bumbleshits, or as a bone-spurs-type excuse to abandon ship.

LudwigPastorius

(9,126 posts)
31. Err...he wasn't wrapped too tight to begin with.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 10:18 PM
Sep 2020

...as evidenced by his tweets before Trump hired him.

Well, I'm sure there's a nice, comfy job for him in the gewalt-right media somewhere.

SunSeeker

(51,546 posts)
34. Well him quitting will certainly help our mental health. His, not so much.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 10:28 PM
Sep 2020

He appears to be irreparable.

ancianita

(36,013 posts)
36. First you've got to have mental health to begin with.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 10:38 PM
Sep 2020

If he ever had it and lost it, his break will take years to find it.

orleans

(34,043 posts)
37. great. he's probably gonna use that mental health break
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 10:45 PM
Sep 2020

to stock up on ammunition and take up arms.
(what a psycho!)

"The top communications official at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) accused career government scientists of plotting against President Trump and told Trump supporters to arm themselves ahead of the November presidential election.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/516319-top-hhs-official-accuses-scientists-of-plotting-against-trump-tells

NNadir

(33,511 posts)
43. Well, um, there's a lot of them who need to cite a "Mental Health Break."
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 11:00 PM
Sep 2020

It's the signature of the entire class of people in this administration.

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