Was it a good swap for the basketball chick?

[Bratsondanielle]

We just swapped the famous "merchant of death" for a tatted up dreadlocks weedsmoker ball juggler thanks to our wonderful president Biden. (God bless the Biden family - lifelong public servants... and thus billionaires)

My fellow democrats and myself are very happy about this wonderful deal. We know Republicans will say "why didn't we get the marine who was serving his country instead of this pothead? - or both?"

But Republicans are just against weed and lbdtqis2k+ and homosexuality that's why they be bitchin bout it

Good swap god bless biden

I'm a republican (threat to democracy)

[Stoner710]

I’m republicans I smoke weed every day. No issue is LGB community no Christian so I don’t find it sinful like most republicans my issue is the fact that marriage is now a worthless word and shouldn’t be use in the United States anymore. Words have definitions it destroys the language when you change them. Marriage is a man and a women getting together with the interest of bearing and raising children. So a gay couple by definition can’t be married. Civil union would be to correct term. But since we have blown up the definition of marriage there is no singular word we can use in America to describe what was commonly known as marriage. So other then tax benefits marriage means nothing. I’ll marry by friend until get a tax break we’ll have an open marriage and when we find a women we actually want to be with we will divorce and marry the girl we want to be with, That basically is what marriage means in the United States at this point. Unless government wants to get rid of the tax benefit in which case marriage is just gibberish now

[Soteris]

One is an American citizen, the other not. One is infinitely more valuable to USA than the other.

I mean, if you want to begin arguing that American citizenship should not be worth shit then we can have that argument. I am nothing if not willing to be there for the downfall of USA.

[DaisyM23]

non-american here and i'm more left than right wing and even i say it was a pretty bad deal. I'm not against weed or gay people but trading ONE person who knowingly brought weed into RUSSIA of all places for an arms dealer known as the merchant of death is just so stupid. People like Griner get what comes for them when they do stupid stuff, yes I feel sorry for her and her crime was a small one according to our standards but she was essentially trying to bring a tiny amount of drugs into another country, of course there was the chance of getting caught!

[Illumimati453]

Worst trade ever - literally

Trump would at least have gotten the marine - probably both

[Surely]

Wasn’t this the same chick that thinks America is terrible in so many ways and thought that the National Anthem shouldn’t be played at her BBall games. Probably she was one who wouldn’t stand for it either.
She needs to voice her opinion of the country now since a killer was exchanged for her!

[Metallsturm]

An excellent swap, frankly, and I'm very glad it happened. Sends a proper message to any intelligence community in the West that being a celebrity, POC and supportive of LGBT is far more important than being an intelligence officer. Shouldn't spy on us 🤷‍♂️

Heck, we should outright kidnap foreign celebrities for this reason alone.

[Bratsondanielle]

Lol yeah, well, on the bright side now they will go for lesbos and trans and blendergenders and ignore our military personnel

Putin be like " niet, ignore those troops, go find me a poc lesbian, comrade "

[Metallsturm]

Well, let's be honest, your military personnel is already a joke to begin with, which is good. I mean, just watch your latest recruitment ads (animated one with some girl talking how much she loves her 2 moms serving and whatnot) and read the comments from Americans themselves; let alone how your military personnel fled from Afghanistan, as if it was Saigon all over again 😂

In any case, no need to be salty or angry about the whole situation; the more scenarios like this will happen, the faster US will realize it's no longer the superpower & hegemon it once was, and the faster it will adapt to a multipolar world, perhaps even as a single country it is for now 🤷‍♂️

[Andres77]

she doesn't even want to be an American. i'll bet she kneels down at her next game too. what a pathetic waste.

victor bout is a threat to the lives and well being of tens of thousands of people worldwide and has the blood of many on his hands. we risk him being able to repeat that just so a spoiled shyt American hater can play a game that no one watches?

[Sixgunsound]

On the plus side, anyone who wants a gun but can't get one because of increasingly draconian government restrictions now has another option🤣

[Andres77]

@Sixgunsound yes, gtfo.

[SpringValley]

Like you, I'm a devout Democrat, and I loved the trade. I'm not sure why the Republicans are upset. They love guns, so why not let out an infamous gun dealer? Heck, with enough guns on the street, it might even lower gun prices.

[Bratsondanielle]

And guns are getting expensive. We just bought a couple more. Ammo is crazy expensive too. We still stock up thou (cuz like uhm look at the government duh)

[SpringValley]

You can't buy ammo, because the IRS is getting all of it. Biden is trying to create his own military, but I hope the Republicans do more than talk about stopping it.

[exitseven]

I just bought a couple of firearms last spring and could not believe how expensive they were, especially the handgun.

[Bratsondanielle]

@exitseven it's completely insane. We're going to look in pawnshops soon

@springvalley murdocks got tons and so does sportsman

We heard of a little handcrank gizmo that you can make your own but we haven't researched it yet

[SpringValley]

I have two cousins that make their own, but what if they ban gun powder and the firing caps?
China is winning...

[Bratsondanielle]

Lol I will buy enough before that. We actually have a pretty good pile of ammo already

[SpringValley]

You're going to have to learn how to make your own ammo because the IRS is buying it all up.

[Bratsondanielle]

Bullets and guns are plenty at sportsman and murdocks at least here in Colorado

[SpringValley]

Hopefully the IRS won't read this.

[Bratsondanielle]

Lol Biden's new agents will come running

[exitseven]

It is a real embarrassment. At least he didn't trade a half dozen high level terrorists for one deserter.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

I didn't vote for either of the options above.

I will say that the recent lop-sided swap was the result of poor negotiations.

[TrueConfection]

I'm just wondering when the plane load of mixed currency will be delivered to our enemy as part of the deal.

[exitseven]

One pallet or two

[TrueConfection]

@exitseven I think it was actually 2 planes. The pallets of cash were "lost" in Iraq, but Iran was delivered full plane loads in the night.

[exitseven]

its only money. we can always print more.

[Sixgunsound]

@exitseven our nation's children and grandchildren would actually suffer less in totality if a tactical nuke went off in Times Square that if Biden does a repeat of Obama pallets of cash. Guess what he's doing in Ukraine?

[TrueConfection]

@Sixgunsound There is a nuke, lots of people are dying.

[Sixgunsound]

Correct. But tactical are small. BackpCk or mam portable rocket launcher sized. If NYC went the way of Hiroshima that would suck, but right now we are on the path to failed statehood with lots of angry enemies if Bumbling Biden keeps siphoning all the cash out of our economy and treasury. Rome couldn't pay soldiers and was destroyed by barbarians. We really aren't that far from there if Biden completes his term.

[TrueConfection]

@Sixgunsound Agreed

[ChiTown33]

Yeah, she gives us more of a presence in the lane and solid rebounding. I haven't actually see Bout play. But I'm guessing he can only dunk a doughnut.🤣

[gorydetails]

If the Orange Man had done this I would have called for him to be impeached! Trump is a threat to our democracy

[Bratsondanielle]

You mean biden I guess? (Since trump has absolutely nothing to do with this)

[gorydetails]

I'm a good loyal democrat. This is Trump's fault somehow.

[Bratsondanielle]

Lol oh yeah I see. Yeah, trump did something during his 4 years that somehow created this now... just like how trump was responsible for the disaster in Afghanistan

[LiamJHayden]

People who think this was a good trade would probably also trade Stephen Curry for an armless midget.

[call_me_scar]

We should have gotten more out of it but an innocent person free is a good thing

[JohnK123]

No should’ve been whelan too… but the Germans would not give up their Russian spy prisoner for him

[AngryCarl]

Hmmm dreadlocks, what does that suggest? Careful dude, your racism is showing.

[douride2]

Not even close to being good.

[JennieF]

Softball players are even better. :)