Posted on 06/04/2017 11:51:30 AM PDT by Lorianne
The former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper thinks Russians have some sort of biological predilection to be an untrustworthy bunch. I wish I was making that up, but sadly, Im not.
Clapper said it during last Sundays episode of Meet The Press on NBC, during a response to a question about Jared Kushners ties to Moscow. The Russians are typically, almost genetically driven to co-opt, penetrate, gain favor, whatever was the exact quote.
Theres great irony in that comment by Clapper, with his own record of perjury, implying that an entire ethnicity cant be trusted. So, of course, widespread outrage followed the blatantly xenophobic comment.
Nah, Im only joking. No one actually noticed or cared. Chuck Todd, the interviewer, let the comment slide without even acknowledging that Clapper had said something untoward.
If there was a debate about Clappers comment and it was deemed somehow acceptable, that would be bad enough but its actually worse than that, because anti-Russian sentiment is so deeply ingrained in the American psyche, that no one even notices when a high profile figure like Clapper makes a comment about the genetics of Russians in an effort to brand them as inherently devious and conniving.
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Clapper is untrustworthy.
Rhetorical question:
Is there anyone that served in the Obama Administration who isn’t a total tool?
Russians are naturally a paranoid people.
There is history to justify it, as they have had everyone from the Mongols to the Ottomans, the Victorian British, and Nazis try to either hem them in or wipe them out.
They aren’t in the business of making friends.
Clapper is somewhat like right in, that as a group Russian leaders are shifty, but it isn’t genetic. It is because as a people they are still recovering from the evils of communism/socialism and a totolitarians Soviet Union. Clapper, if only he had the mental ability to think beyond his sociopath self, would realize that what he doesn’t like about Russians he suffers from himself.
Clapper is also trying to impose the evils of communism upon us and for that he should be tried for treason and then be hung.
Who knew that the Clintons are Russian?
Replace “Russians” with Muslims, Mexicans, Jews, Blacks or Democrats and see what happens.
If he said Whites, he would be receiving a Nobel Prize.
Interesting, in that just looking at Clapper makes one feel uneasy, and the more you learn about him, the person he is, one becomes very distrustful of everything he says and does.
Since I am married to one, Clapper should STFU
The Russians are the enemy now so he can say anything. The day he says Mid Easterners are predisposed to violence, well, then the you-know-what will hit the fan.
He never would have said it, if the Soviet Union still existed.
I remember the Democrats said that about black people only a few decades ago.
I blame moose and squirrel. Always moose and squirrel
Russians are basically paranoid on just about everything.
Clapper is, without a doubt, the most stupid person I have ever seen reach high office.
The Peter Principle should renamed ‘Clapper’.
IT must be my liberal upbringing/programming, but I can’t understand why it is so ok to say bad things about Russian people. What has any Russian person every done to me? The ones I’ve meet have all been perfectly nice, except for that kind of dour thing, but that’s just in public. I don’t get it. It’s not fair. Hindus too - people say the ugliest things about them and their religion and it isn’t fair. They’re not out to hurt anybody.
Bet he loved Russians during the Soviet-era.
That is exactly what is going on. Russia also has a flat tax.
Will Clapper have the nads to express how he feels about blacks,latinos or Italians?What about the Irish?Or the dreaded Germans?He comes off as a real jerk.
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