Scholarship table
Fox News really does put the fear of god in people.
Not just a basketball player - a basketball player who is at least a minor celebrity, African American and a member of the LGBTQ community. That’s also part of the optics that mattered. None of the other Americans being held hostage checked any of those boxes.
Ah yes. Nobody ever looks out for the straight white male with money. Minority LGBT females have it so dang cushy in this country. Surely Tom Brady would’ve been left in a Russian jail cell for 9 years!Lol. Gtfo
Google "Trevor Reed."Come back and tell us what you've learned.
Here’s what I learned. Reed, like Whelan, was arrested in Russian in 2018. He was exchanged for a cocaine smuggler in April, 2022, two months after Brittany Grindr was detained (February, 2022) but before she had been charged. At the time of his release, the Reed family petitioned the US to secure Whelan’s release also. The US said it was a top priority. Once Grindr was charged, convicted and sentenced, though, she evidently became our #1 priority. Today, 10 month’s after her detention, she was exchanged for a much, much more dangerous criminal than Reed was and Whelan, 4+ years later, remains in a Russian prison.
Not just a basketball player - a basketball player who is at least a minor celebrity, African American and a member of the LGBTQ community. That’s also part of the optics that mattered. None of the other Americans being held hostage checked any of those boxes.Maybe this was the “best deal available”. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t a bad deal.
How long have the three old guys that are now in Russian prisons been there? Are you that stupid?
Due to our effective prison system, I am sure he is rehabilitated
As a non-Black, non-gay, non-athlete, how is it that Reed was released before Griner?
Do we think Mrs. Lenny knows he uses Grindr so much that his phone autocorrects to that? Awkward. Guy just outed himself on Scoop.
Do “we” think? You gotta mouse in your pocket, Bias.?It’s hard to combine unfunny and illogical - congratulations.
The mouse in my pocket tells me your autocorrect just shot you up the list of prisoner exchanged if you ever get detained in a foreign country!
You're more likely to be harmed by a dentist than Viktor Bout.
But I’ve been told guns don’t kill people, people kill people. So what’s the big deal about a guy who distributes things that do no harm being released from prison?
They didn’t have to wait for midterms to be over for Reed.
I don't know about that.Mr. Bout will now be free to sell unlimited amounts of weapons to Mexican and Columbian drug cartels, who will then be able to truck theses weapons across our Southern border, unfettered because the Federal government doesn't give a chit about security at the Southern border. And those weapons will inevitably wind up in the hands of drug gangs in Chicago, LA, Houston, Miami and a host of other big cities in the US. And that usually results in the bodies of young black males and young Hispanics being stacked up like cordwood on the streets of our cities.So, laugh it up, funny boy, about the relative dangers presented by dentists and international arms dealers. The next time 10 minority kids are gunned down in an alley in South Central LA, I will assume the weapons came from an orthodontist.
https://www.rt.com/news/567929-trump-whelan-griner-bout/
Explain how that isn't the case. Russia got what it wanted, and sent a pretty terrible message to the world. Which also makes the US appear weak.Are BG and her family happy? I'm sure they're ecstatic, and I'm very happy for them. But the message sent to the world today is that you can arrest a US citizen, convict and hold them on a trumped up charge, and then ransom them for a global terrorist.