Oso planning to go pro
I will assume the weapons came from an orthodontist.
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.
Oh my lord. Just when I think your brain couldn’t get more mushy.
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.
Oh, Dickie. It's cute that you think that gangs in U.S. cities need to get guns from international arms dealers via Mexican cartels, when all they need to do is send a buyer to the nearest redneck state and acquire them legally. And it's cute that you think the Mexican cartels need to deal with international arms dealers for weapons, when the world's largest gun shop is just north of the border. (Fun fact: the large majority of guns seized in Mexico trace back to the U.S. You worry about guns coming from Mexico? Ha. It's the other way around. )What's not cute is you pretending to give a sh*t about minority kids gunned down in some alley in South Central. If bodies are being stacked up like cordwood, it's not because of some Russian arms dealer. It's because of our silly gun culture.
Tucker hearts Lenny.https://www.mediaite.com/tv/tucker-carlson-claims-biden-sought-brittney-griners-release-over-paul-whelan-because-shes-a-black-lesbian/
A) I almost never watch Tucker and didn’t tonight.B) My post was well before his show aired.But sometimes Tucker Carlson or Chuck Todd or Chris Hayes says something as obvious as the nose on your face. Unlike you and the guy who calls himself Sultan (could anything be more infantile?) I think that people from all different points of view can at times have the facts on their side.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
On the surface, this is a terrible deal. I doubt the extent of the deal is being publicly reported.
Because the US wasn’t “bullied” into anything.
You believe that the trade of Griner for Bout was equal?I'm not saying they *have* to be equal, but undoubtedly, it wasn't an equal trade. If you want to quibble over the word 'bully' then that's fine. Stupid, but fine.
One man's opinion... This was never about Greiner. Greiner was a symbol and a flex by Putin. If things had gone his way, she would still have come home eventually, but as a symbol of his power and benevolence.Well that didn't work.So it came down to old fashioned diplomacy and trading. Was it a completely even exchange? Probably not. But symbols matter. So, this will be a discussion for about another week and then we will be on to the next. The Grindr thing is funny. And it could have been used as a punchline for a while. But not now. Alas.
Griner landed safely in Texas.But just her luck ... DeSantis had her shipped to Martha's Vineyard.
nice try, but i missed the part about desantis taking over texas from abbott...nyet though eyn'a?