Your thoughts? And the message it sends? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11517075/Republicans-criticize-Biden-favoring-celebrities-veterans-Griner-swap.html
Disney more or less admitted that hating on America as overtly as Biden does cost them dearly.
Meanwhile, the criminal racket that is the modern DNC seems to no absolutely zero slowing down, and zero decency.
The only time in recent memory that anyone has managed to get them to even pay pretend lip service to the Constitution they so love to trample, was when Trump had the nerve to suggest doing away with it entirely, and that he be made some sort of monarch!
In that one single act, Trump stooped to a level of overt insanity that even the DNC won't admit to openly!
Meanwhile, Biden (and through him, Obama) shows how much he hates us at every given opportunity. Letting that garbage bitch back, but denying a wrongly-accused Marine his chances? Meanwhile, giving back to Russia an absolute psychopath, in exchange for a worthless basketball player?
This is almost as disgusting as that POS judge in the UK that put a man in prison for the fact that two idiots who stole his motorcycle injured themselves, because THEY failed to learn how to drive one before stealing his, as if the owner somehow did jack diddly squat to them, when he was the one that called the police and emergency to save their lives when they got injured, in spite having reason to want them dead for breaking into his home to steal from him, terrorizing his pregnant wife!
And then they penalized him monetarily on top of it, putting him 5 million pounds in debt, because the idiots who robbed the man were allowed to sue him for what was THEIR OWN STUPIDITY, on TOP OF the fact that he was put in prison! Meanwhile, the thieves themselves got nothing more than meager community service for all the trouble they caused!
Frickin' Clown World! That judge should be executed by stump grinder for getting the case that back-asswards!
It's hard to know which miscarriage of justice infuriates me more. But probably the UK story. By a hair.
The NWO needs to be placed on the ash heap of history, along with Nimrod's original vision, and confined there with extreme prejudice, after its proponents face mobs of freedom lovers all around the world avenging their freedoms with mad fervor!
May the trees have ornaments, all over the world. And not for Christmas!
Given my view of this a few times and even made a question about it months ago, but I will say it here again.
This is not a shock. This is something Biden WOULD do. No one in their right mind would trade an arms dealer who makes a career of funding people with ill intent to do harm onto others, much less for a professional, washed up athlete.
There is more value in one of those prisoners and the US was willing to be fleeced on a prionser exchange that was namely used for political brownie points. Meanwhile he shows his disdain for servicemen once again by leaving the Marine behind. Much like he did with the Americans in Afghanistan and getting 12 of them killed and disrespecting them and their families at their funerals. Grade A piece of shit.
Griner made her bed and should have laid in it. You break the laws of another country you are subject to their laws and should not be considered for a prisoner exchange. There is a reason why servicemen receive country briefs before going on vacation or are getting ready for a deployment. To keep you out of trouble.
Griner's value, take away her net worth, is jack shit compared to the Marine and the arms dealer funny enough.
It's sad that this is the best that could be done in this situation. But the Russians specifically said it's either we let her go or we let no one go.
I'd choose to get SOMEONE out too. That girl was stupid, but didn't deserve prison for bringing in CBD or editbles or whatever the heck it was she brought. The details of the man who's been in prison are completely unknown to me. And of course the russian arms dealer is a horrible man, but given the NO ONE or someone, I would've chosen someone too.
I don't even get why it was the US's job to get her out, she choose to go to Russia and have illegal stuff on her, she should accept what she was given.
The US doesn't care about non celebrities that get arrested in other countries for breaking the law, why do they care so much about her?
It was a terrible trade, arms dealer for her.
Like someone in the comments or in another post said it brings Biden brownie points.
If it was you or I we would rott over there since we aren't famous. 😕
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One guy I talked to today said how could BIDEN do this! And I responded it's pretty simple, Griner is a WNBA player. For starters, her release is going to give his popularity a boost. Secondly the offer wasn't Griner and Whelan. It was Griner or NOTHING. Now having said that the question is did splitting the negotiations of the two hurt Whelan's odds of coming home. You have to weigh the good by the cost. Bout was freed so Russia got what it wanted. But Russia will most likely kill Bout. There's no question Griner being freed is a good thing. But Russia's gain from this is twofold. Not only did they get Bout, but now they can use the high profile release to appear merciful, which will give the media currency to spread thier propaganda. You have to ask yourself does her release hurt more in the long run.
One things for sure, I sure hope Griner appreciates her freedom now. And understands all the sacrifices that have been made over the past 247 years so we all could have it, and stands for the national anthem now.
Why would Russia kill Bout?
All his connections to Russian intelligence. I'm not saying it's a done deal. I'm sure he'll be interrogated. But he was caught he could have exposed a lot of Russian elites. I'm not saying he did. But it would make sense for Russia that Putin would interrogate him and then have him liquidated.
This is exactly what happens in politics today. A good thing happens and it gets spun to fit each persons own agenda.
A woman was released after spending time in a Russian prison of all places. That length of time more than fits the actual factual details of her arrest.
I think her spending more than a month in jail was a excessive but it's not what I think, it's what a foreign country and its laws says.
Exactly. Tell that to everyone spinning it. “What about the marine”. Huge difference in cases.
Freeing Britney Griner makes the LGBTQ+ community happy, and that community is a key supported of the Democrats, so of course a Democratic President will push for her release over a Marine. If there were a Republican President in office, the exact opposite would happen. Sad, but that's the way politics work.
The marine has been in a Russian jail since 2018. Trump could have get him out but didn't.
Why didn't trump get him out? Have heard nothing about this.
I have to argue over this LGBTQ issue. Though I heard her spouse waxing all poetic over this being a victory for that group, I was stunned by the ignorance of her statement. This had nothing to do with Griner being gay. Russia gave a declaration. Either we free Griner or we free no one. There was no further negotiation to be made. Doesn't make Russia look good at all. Makes Russia look cheap. It wasn't a fair exchange in any way, shape or form. But Biden choose to get SOMEONE out instead of no one. If the shoe were on the other foot and they offered Whelan and NOT Griner, I'm sure Biden would've taken Whelan. Has nothing to do with not getting a Marine out either.
It was the only offer offered and it was taken though it was an incredible diappointment. Griner should've kissed the ground when she got off that plane, she was AMAZINGLY lucky. The Whelan issue isn't over. It's simply over for now. Russia is playing political games and trying to make Biden look bad. That he takes a worthless basketball star for losing an arms dealer!!! The point is neither of these people are worthless. They're human beings who have people who care for them. That's the bottom line. I'm glad one of them is freed. They're using Whelan as a further bargaining chip. Grimer wasn't valuable so they let her go. It's chess. You rarely give up the queen. Whelan is the most powerful piece on the board, clearly.
Frickin joke. It's how the democrats view things. An lgbtq blm protestor pot head wnba player who hates America and hot arrested ib Russia breaking thrir laws is worth more than a man who served his country.
I agree. We don’t owe that narcissist a thing
Here everyone liked to talk about how Trump always made bad deals, only for Biden to take making bad deals to a new low. As a side note, it's scary as *uck seeing seeing all these Biden supporters praising Biden for releasing the "Merchant of Death". I don't care if your left right or center, no one should be praising the release of such a criminal. Instead of releasing a war criminal to get one person out of jail, why not just release the thousands of non violent, minor drug offenders here at home which would only require a pardon.
Good. The protection of citizens comes before the servicemen themselves. Choosing to exchange the marine before the basketball player would be like putting the cart before the horse. It is literally the marines job to ensure the safety of said civilians at the cost of their own safety.
How is this even controversial?
She's a convicted criminal in a foreign country that has never done ish for the country unlike the marine.
and feminists will still say the US is unfair to women. SMH
question is will Brittany Griner continue smear the US?
In the next social upheaval she will probably trash the U. S. again.
I personally think he should have swapped the dealer for the marine, and left the basketball player in jail. It basically says that he only cares about Z-list celebrities and woke people, rather than real people who do real jobs.
Simples...
All she did was play baseball and bring marijuana into Russia they should’ve made a trade for somebody that did the same thing that she did something equivalent. Not a fair deal Russia is too demanding. Blame the NBA putting pressure on America as usual to make a bad deal like that.
Excellent, and I fully approve this decision. Should send a signal to any intelligence officer that he shouldn't try to spy on us, as POC and LGBT basketball celebrity is far more important than he is. The more demoralized and/or corrupt Western intelligence is, the better.
I agree. Its absolutely disgraceful how someone who actively hates our country and disparages it was given priority over someone who served it.
Not to mention, why are we giving up a dangerous guy for this sh-tsack?
I mean its a wonder why we even feel any obligation to save her ass when she spends all her time trashing the country and calling it racist.
It was one or none. The Russians were not going to give up the other guy who they convicted of espionage. Griner was sentenced for having weed.
It doesn't send any message. The Russians aren't stupid.
Griner did actually tried to smuggled illegal substances into a foreign country.
Russia accusing a former U. S. military man of espionage is most likely was BS to try to get levege on the U. S. on deals.
She didn't try and smuggle anything.
Per the NY Times today:
www.nytimes.com/.../brittney-griner-russia.html
"Why was Griner arrested?
Griner was detained on Feb. 17 after the Russian authorities accused her of carrying hashish oil in her luggage at an airport near Moscow. Griner was traveling to Russia to rejoin her professional team, UMMC Yekaterinburg, which she played for during the W. N. B. A. off-season.
The Russian Federal Customs Service said that a sniffer dog had prompted it to search Griner’s carry-on luggage, and that it had found vape cartridges containing hashish oil.
Hashish oil is a marijuana concentrate that has a high concentration of the psychoactive chemical THC, and it is commonly sold in cartridges that are used in vape pens."
So, she had a product that she legally purchased in the USA but that the Russians discovered. As to it being a crime to have marijuana-related products in Russia, I don't know, but they trained the dogs to sniff for it just like they do here. But, what the Russians did do was convict her on a charge of attempting to smuggle narcotics into Russia.
As for Paul Whelan, the ex-Marine in Russia for a wedding, he's been there since 2019 and Trump's "art of the deal" skills apparently weren't very sharp at getting Whelan, a Trumpster no less, home.
No matter how you try to spin it. She brought a substance that is illegal another country.
That's her fault and responsibility.
Exactly.
(My comment was to original)
Yes, I agree, she should not have done that.
But that's also a problem all of us face to a certain degree - what is legal here is illegal elsewhere and we don't necessarily know what is illegal there.
For example, let's say you buy 5 packs of gum. On the flight to Singapore, you chew a pack's worth of gum on the airplane because chewing helps prevent pressure issues in your ear during the flight. You land in Singapore and go through Customs. They notice you have 4 packs of gum. You are promptly arrested...
Why?
You were smuggling gum.
In Singapore, sales of chewing gum are banned and tourists to the country are allowed to bring a maximum of 2 packs of gum... but you arrived in Singapore with 4 packs. You should have known better than to smuggle chewing gum into Singapore...
www.chewinggumfacts.com/.../
Drugs and bubble gum is totally different.
No, they're not.
Logic doesn't pick and choose situations.
My example holds because it is logically consistent with what happened.
Feel free to download and study this free classic textbook on the subject.
Introduction to Logic, 14th Edition, Irving M. Copi et alia.
dorshon.com/.../Introduction-to-Logic.pdf
Can we please trade Biden for the Marine? I realize it would be an uneven trade for Russia, but maybe we can throw in Hunter and Kumilla?
That Americans shouldn't go to Russia?
Didn't Trump release 5000 Taliban? The one arms dealer (who at least served 10 years, if I understand correctly) can't pull 5000 triggers and won't lead a country.
That would be the democratically elected Afghanistan government who released them.
I don't remember Trump releasing 5,000 Taliban members.
I do think he released a few for some American soliders.
Considering the fact she apprently does not like USA, and who he traded for her, I would say it was a bad deal and should have traded for the former marine instead. You brought up Trump as if it was relevanted, and it sounded like you thought what Trump did was bad, and unless you also think what Biden did was bad it would be considered irrelevant to the question would it not? If not, why bring up Trump at all?
@Sasahara No, I made no comment about whether the deal was good or bad, I was pointing out that Republicans are up in arms about Biden releasing a Russian who's already served over half his original sentence while ignoring the 5,000 Taliban fighters Trump released.
Now I've looked into things in more detail, I find Trump handed over a Russian spy without bothering to ask for Paul Whelan in return, but Republicans are moaning that Biden didn't get him back in this latest swap.
Picking the white male would be viewed by our elite and the Democrat activist base as “problematic.”
I just shudder to think what colossal screw up he will bumble into next?
Seems your article forgot to mention why he’s no longer a Marine. Bad conduct discharges are not easily obtained.
But at least he served the country. Griner just knows how to throw a silly ball in a hope and talk ish about the U. S.
I don’t understand a baller for an arms dealer, but to complain that a convicted military criminal is left behind?
Don’t care tbh
@Hispanic-Cool-Guy Damn it man! That is straight up COMMUNISM. Who pays for it? Who pays for the REAL people, who enter the TRADES? Who pay's for their time and experience? Blue collar people make the world Go round. We don't ask for a hand out. We DON'T. Blue Collar people spend a lot of time and effort to get to the REALM of being a JOURNEYMAN. It requires MONEY to get there. They indeed Need TO SaCRIFICE. wHAT YOU ARE DOING IS SHITTING ON THEM. What you want to do is not pay for their CONTRiBUTIONS. yOU ARE ELITIST.
bUTT HURT. You want a single payer health system where you have no SAY when it comes to your TREATMENT. You simply get in line. For what? You get a broken bone or some other thing. It get's paid for. Fantastic. bUT WHEN it comes to any thing serious? Now you are left to what? You have no FREEDOM to seek out any and all treatment. You are simply in A LINE. You can't have the FREEDOM to have real Health Insurance where you CALL THE SHOTS!!! The GOVerNmenT now tells you what you can and can't do. We need to ERADICATE that.
Mickey Mantle got preferential treatment.
DALLAS —
Mickey Mantle doesn’t understand why people think he got preferential treatment in receiving a new liver, he said in his first interview since the surgery.
“You know, people think I got that liver because of who I am, but they have rules they go by,” Mantle told the New York Daily News. “They told me I had one day to live. If I hadn’t got this one, I wouldn’t have made it.”
Mantle was hospitalized May 28 and received a new liver June 8, two days after he was put on the list of patients in need of an organ donor.
The transplant was done when doctors found Mantle had progressive liver failure they linked to a small malignant tumor, more than 40 years of excessive drinking, and a long dormant hepatitis C infection.
Mantle, 63, was released from Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas on Wednesday after continuing to show significant improvement from the surgery. He is staying at his youngest son Danny’s home in North Dallas.
Mantle’s doctors have said the former New York Yankee slugger’s outlook for recovery is good, despite signs that his body has been slightly rejecting his transplanted liver.
Mantle told the Daily News he had no idea how serious his condition was before he received the transplant.
“I didn’t even know what was going on,” he said. “I can’t even remember them telling me anything.”
It is like the Warriors trading Steph Curry for an armless dwarf, only worse.
Biden does not have it all upstairs and neither does his group of followers.
I think its stupid, Biden is stupid and leftists will try to dig up something Trump have done and point fingers at that rather than admitting Biden did something stupid.
Biden is a goddamn idiot. Get his ass out of office now
Who also refused to stand for the National Anthem
You know what I think of biden
I don't know why I haven't heard this before now
Is this Britney something? Maybe it was she was a woman? Forgein prison as a woman is not great. I'm not sure tbh
Biden is trash.
Disgraceful...
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