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2022-12-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Brittney Griner released from Russian prison 10 months after arrest in exchange with Viktor Boutfor
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Posted by DarthVader 2022-12-08 08:48|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 ....I'd like to think that maybe - just maybe - Ms. Griner will have a different view of things in this country going forward.

Not gonna hold my breath, though.

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-12-08 09:06||   2022-12-08 09:06|| Front Page Top

#2 If your kid was killed anywhere Bout sold weapons, you paid it all.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-08 09:06||   2022-12-08 09:06|| Front Page Top

#3 I have to ask what the hell is Griner, girl or man? Or us he one of those indeterminate persons we never know the truth of, like Michelle Obama?
Posted by Dron66046 2022-12-08 09:29||   2022-12-08 09:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Difference between a female Pub and a male Dem.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-08 09:44||   2022-12-08 09:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Just forgot about the other guy huh.
Posted by Chris 2022-12-08 09:55||   2022-12-08 09:55|| Front Page Top

#6 So the no negotiations with Putin is over?

Can't wait to hear how a c-list end of career gay woman basketball player is just as stronk and powerful as an international arms dealer.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-12-08 10:16||   2022-12-08 10:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Meanwhile: Retired U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, who is also currently imprisoned in Russia for the past four years on espionage charges, is reportedly not part of the prisoner swap.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-08 10:24||   2022-12-08 10:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Biden prisoner exchange for Brittney Griner leaves behind Marine veteran Paul Whelan — again
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-08 12:10||   2022-12-08 12:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Brittney Griner swap for Russia 'Merchant of Death' is trading an 'elephant for a fly': Ex-FBI official
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-08 12:11||   2022-12-08 12:11|| Front Page Top

#10 Who is Viktor Bout, Russia's 'Merchant of Death' freed in prisoner swap for Brittney Griner?
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-08 12:12||   2022-12-08 12:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Biden slammed for swapping Russian ‘Merchant of death’ for WNBA’s Griner: ‘Most lopsided trade in history’
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-08 12:13||   2022-12-08 12:13|| Front Page Top

#12 GOP rips Brittney Griner deal for stranding Paul Whelan in Russia: ‘Celebrities over veterans?'
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-08 12:15||   2022-12-08 12:15|| Front Page Top

#13 That about covers it.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-08 12:15||   2022-12-08 12:15|| Front Page Top

#14 first time anyone's paid attention to a WNBA trade.

Snark O'The Day
Posted by bman911 2022-12-08 12:55||   2022-12-08 12:55|| Front Page Top

#15 Dunno Viktor Bout's current value but it must be considerable for Putin to have made this deal. Maybe Putin thinks the guy can score some HIMARs. Can't understand why Putin didn't hold out for more.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-12-08 12:56||   2022-12-08 12:56|| Front Page Top

#16 Could also be ransom -10%.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-12-08 15:08||   2022-12-08 15:08|| Front Page Top

#17 It cost her 10 months. Likely she will garner a book deal out of it. No one will read the book. She will continue to speak out on various important topics from the bully pulpit that is the WNBA. She may have some interesting stories about the low quality of toilet tissue in the former gulag archipelago. I might be curious enough to page through a People magazine article to find out what passes for hard labor in modern Russia but my Walmart moved to self-checkout so I no longer wait in line by the trashy mags.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-12-08 16:02||   2022-12-08 16:02|| Front Page Top

#18 #14 has to be in the running for Snark of the Day. LOL
Posted by Matt 2022-12-08 16:06||   2022-12-08 16:06|| Front Page Top

#19 #14 has to be in the running for Snark of the Day. LOL

Seconded.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-12-08 16:19||   2022-12-08 16:19|| Front Page Top

#20 She checked all the right boxes. Being a white male USMC vet gets nothing but the punishment he deserves for being a white male USMC vet. I'm still trying to figure out which war we lost.We (the US as in all of us including scumbag Dems) definitely lost to... I dunno, something just no idea what.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-12-08 16:58||   2022-12-08 16:58|| Front Page Top

#21 Is the WNBA still a thing?
Posted by AlanC 2022-12-08 17:43||   2022-12-08 17:43|| Front Page Top

#22 I believe the end result of this "trade" is that Pootie-Poot, with the assistance of MBS, has successfully stuck it up The Sniffer in Chief's anal orifice and broken it off.
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2022-12-08 19:15||   2022-12-08 19:15|| Front Page Top

#23 The WNBA will likely now market a rainbow version of the POW flag. Is that a thing? I think it is a thing. It is a horrible thing.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-12-08 21:46||   2022-12-08 21:46|| Front Page Top

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