James Clapper told NBC's "Meet The Press" that Russians are genetically programmed to infiltrate glorious western democracies. Whatever you say, Dr. Mengele.
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Former Director of National Intelligence and current doctor of eugenics James Clapper has a message for all you brave Democrats on Tinder: Never share your pure, democracy-loving bodily fluids with a Russian.
After all, as Clapper correctly points out, Russians are "genetically driven" to hate Democracy.
Clapper said during a Sunday interview on NBC's "Meet The Press":
If you put that in context with everything else we knew the Russians were doing to interfere with the election, and just the historical practices of the Russians, who typically, almost genetically driven to co-opt, penetrate, gain favor, whatever, which is a typical Russian technique. So we were concerned.
Let's play a game. Replace "Russians" with "Muslims", "blacks", "women", "Latinos", "bi-curious Eskimos" or the big no-no: "Jews"—then watch as an avalanche of outraged Daily Beast op-eds and Rachel Maddow scream-fests break the internet.
We've left the realm of baseless conjecture. We're now bravely goose-stepping towards a future where it's perfectly fine to suggest that Russians are genetically programmed to interfere in "democracies".
Take a moment and think about that.
Let's move on to Morning Headlines.
Today is May 29, 2017. It's a lovely morning here in Moscow, despite the fact that everyone in this city is "genetically driven" to "gain favor".
Here are some internet articles for you to enjoy:
- "Does Vladimir Putin really own Donald Trump? It’s more likely than you think". Yikes. [Salon]
- Russia is preparing for a massive overhaul of its air defense strategy [TASS]
- "The owners of Russian Alfa Bank have filed a defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed for its publication of a controversial dossier on US President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia" [RT]
- Abolish Memorial Day [AntiWar.com]
- "Russia is pressing ahead with its biggest-ever auction for renewable energy, seeking to award contracts to purchase 1.9 gigawatts of clean electricity as well as attracting foreign investment to support jobs at home." [Bloomberg]
- The Real Story of Zbigniew Brzezinski That the Media Isn’t Telling [AntiMedia]
- Russia has surprised the airline industry by announcing the successful test flight of a new medium range passenger plane. [CNBC]
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