It was a brilliant PR coup for the Russians to set up an either-or choice. If he chooses Griner over Whelan, Biden's people come off looking like feckless, degenerate fools... the silly pop culture people will love it but Patriots will hate Biden even more than we do already.
If they choose Whelan over Griner, it acknowledges that Whelan WAS INDEED a spy and that Griner was a lesser choice... pop culture, vapid Idiots will hate Biden and Patriots might have a slightly better opinion about him. Slightly.
It wasn't exactly a Hobbesian Choice, but it comes damned close. Well played, Vladimir,well played.
Look I get it... Being in a Russian prison has to be terrible. Being trans or lesbian or whatever the hell Griner is only makes it worse.
But when you knowingly take contraband into a country against their laws, wtf do you expect? I don't take religious books into the DPRK. I don't bring radioisotopes into USA (without proper documentation and storage). And I sure as hell don't bring drugs into Singapore, Russia, or anywhere else where they have capital punishment for possession or shit-hole prisons.
Griner has no one to blame but Griner. And Biden lets a patriot rot under a foreign correctional system - most likely for following orders - instead of letting Griner pay for her own mistake.
You have SUCCINCTLY summarized the situation....this is pretty much what I told my wife this morning when she asked, "Who the hell is Brittany Griner?" I noticed yesterday that Xiden, HeelsUp Harris and presumably some media whore Griner family member FLED to the cameras yesterday to breathlessly announce that "BRITTANY IS FREED!"...and that all of the typical useless media whore mainstream and sports outlets picked it all up. I'm sure the TikTok generation lapped up every second of it...
I'll preface what I'm about to say by clarifying that this is my opinion, which is influenced by my life experiences and interactions I've had with people in the armed services:
The real irony here, is that if Paul Whelan is anything like any of the marines I've met, he'd tell the administration to take Griner instead of him. Because he's a real man. Because he's a soldier. Because if Whelan was spying (I think he was) he always knew there was the possibility he could end up being charged, imprisoned, tortured and executed for espionage. But ultimately, because Griner is a Civilian and he is a Marine. No self-respecting marine (bad discharge or not, court martial or not, retired or active, able or lame) would let a civilian suffer in their place. Whether Griner is Trans, lesbian, liberal, smokes pot, or wants the national anthem unplayed. Because a marine fights for our freedom, even our freedom to be ungrateful and ignorant idiots and assholes.
So, in a way, I think taking Griner could have been the right decision, if Whelan was allowed to make that call. But for Biden to flatout choose Griner over Whelan is shameful.
I didn't even hear Biden say, "we hope as a former soldier, Whelan will understand if not approve"... Because that would take balls and actually owning the hard decision.
That's a good AND insightful take. And I couldn't agree more with your last three sentences...at least the fake president is staying true to character.
No, but it DOES make some actual Biden voters upset having the finger pointed at them. Not all of them would have picked Grinder. For them this could be their "elections have consequences" moment.
Except for one thing, she says it was the American Voters who decided.......nope.
It would be nice to have some Ruskie Pedes here on GAW giving us Americans some real feedback instead of what these Russian newscasters are saying about the American people.
Most Americans, a majority I might add, DO NOT AGREE with our corrupt and illegally elected leaders and how they are running OUR country.
P.S. Just like in the US, these Russian news organizations are following a script... especially in their country, because if they don’t, they’d end up in prison... or worse.
Imagine freedom-loving Ruskies, Yankees, Brits, Aussies, rooftop Koreans, and anyone else who's tired of their government's bullshit teaming up and bringing the pain to the cabal.
It's habbening. Just on a slow time frame.
Not all communication and plans make the news.
There are Russian league of legends servers.
Nothing like a 'custom game' of ARAM during the night job - I mean hey, it's daylight in Moscow - to get the plans going.
And unfortunately it’s going to get much, much worse. It’s not just America, its all WESTERN countries. Unfortunately we have allowed the corrupt to lead, the degenerate to flourish and the leftist media to lie. We are watching the collapse of the West, spiritually, morally and economically. A parallel group of nations no longer want to trade because if they don’t, they are threatened…….or invaded. The EU is finished. The West too. And we only blame ourselves because we were more comfortable sitting at home watching our favourite shows than marching. We forget there are a handful of them and millions of us. Klaus Schwaab can tell us ‘we will own nothing and be happy’ is becoming a reality……for the West. The other? They will not follow this path. They want to be sovereign nations, free citizens that want to go where they want to, buy what they want to and not have some unelected swill dictating what we can and cannot do.
Makes us all want to join the Marines. Ohhh, they are not. Hummmm. Be interesting to see what the 101st in Ukraine to get "military inventory data" think about supporting the NOT-Zs and being used as cannon fodder. Wish they could inventory the $$$$$$ sent and ended up in FTX. But I live in a fantasy world, life is great, and like the bees, birds and butterflies, don't see the S*&T, only smell the wonderful flowers. Is this mocking? I will have to check.
If Griner had a medical marijuana card from Arizona and bought her weed there, or bought it in Colorado as a tourist, she potentially could have been locked up in a federal prison if the TSA caught her with weed in airport security. Denver airport has warning signs at security that weed possession will be prosecuted at the federal level, even though it is allowed at the state level.
In Arizona, having any kind of physical pain or difficulty sleeping is enough to get a medical marijuana card, as one cardholder once explained to me.
It was a brilliant PR coup for the Russians to set up an either-or choice. If he chooses Griner over Whelan, Biden's people come off looking like feckless, degenerate fools... the silly pop culture people will love it but Patriots will hate Biden even more than we do already.
If they choose Whelan over Griner, it acknowledges that Whelan WAS INDEED a spy and that Griner was a lesser choice... pop culture, vapid Idiots will hate Biden and Patriots might have a slightly better opinion about him. Slightly.
It wasn't exactly a Hobbesian Choice, but it comes damned close. Well played, Vladimir,well played.
Just a far fetched thought, but what if Trump and Putin arranged this….
Biden shows his colors by choosing the anti-American POC trans Griner, which makes waves in the media.
A few weeks later, out of the blue, Trump works an art of the deal with Putin to release Whelan, who Biden had left behind.
OOOooohhh.... plausible, just plausible.
That would mean Trump is colluding with Putin. And leaving a Marine to rot in jail longer than needed, just to make himself look tough.
.
No
Fucking
Way
If that happens, the media will suddenly spin Whelan as a clear and present threat to "our democracy".
Absolutely
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Hobson's%20choice
Thank you for enriching my vocabulary today :-)
Hehe, my pleasure.
Of course, the correct choice was to demand both and not budge a single micrometer until they agreed.
True, but Old Joe & Co. just HAVE to show repeatedly just how stupid they all are.
She summarized it very succintly.
Whelan has 3 problems.
He is a man
He is white
He is heterosexual
Griner beat him in all of this. KEK.
Beat him in 2 of these, it's a man, man!
Trans get +2 points so beats him 4/3
Trans
Tran = Pretender
"That's not your mother, it's a man, baby!" - Austin Powers
Look I get it... Being in a Russian prison has to be terrible. Being trans or lesbian or whatever the hell Griner is only makes it worse.
But when you knowingly take contraband into a country against their laws, wtf do you expect? I don't take religious books into the DPRK. I don't bring radioisotopes into USA (without proper documentation and storage). And I sure as hell don't bring drugs into Singapore, Russia, or anywhere else where they have capital punishment for possession or shit-hole prisons.
Griner has no one to blame but Griner. And Biden lets a patriot rot under a foreign correctional system - most likely for following orders - instead of letting Griner pay for her own mistake.
You have SUCCINCTLY summarized the situation....this is pretty much what I told my wife this morning when she asked, "Who the hell is Brittany Griner?" I noticed yesterday that Xiden, HeelsUp Harris and presumably some media whore Griner family member FLED to the cameras yesterday to breathlessly announce that "BRITTANY IS FREED!"...and that all of the typical useless media whore mainstream and sports outlets picked it all up. I'm sure the TikTok generation lapped up every second of it...
I'll preface what I'm about to say by clarifying that this is my opinion, which is influenced by my life experiences and interactions I've had with people in the armed services:
The real irony here, is that if Paul Whelan is anything like any of the marines I've met, he'd tell the administration to take Griner instead of him. Because he's a real man. Because he's a soldier. Because if Whelan was spying (I think he was) he always knew there was the possibility he could end up being charged, imprisoned, tortured and executed for espionage. But ultimately, because Griner is a Civilian and he is a Marine. No self-respecting marine (bad discharge or not, court martial or not, retired or active, able or lame) would let a civilian suffer in their place. Whether Griner is Trans, lesbian, liberal, smokes pot, or wants the national anthem unplayed. Because a marine fights for our freedom, even our freedom to be ungrateful and ignorant idiots and assholes.
So, in a way, I think taking Griner could have been the right decision, if Whelan was allowed to make that call. But for Biden to flatout choose Griner over Whelan is shameful.
I didn't even hear Biden say, "we hope as a former soldier, Whelan will understand if not approve"... Because that would take balls and actually owning the hard decision.
Just my take.
That's a good AND insightful take. And I couldn't agree more with your last three sentences...at least the fake president is staying true to character.
Well technically Grindr is a man too.
Griner is a man.
No, Americans (voters or otherwise) weren't given a choice. Don't blame Americans for Biden's failure(s).
But but an average Russian believes that, just like them, American voters have a say!
No, but it DOES make some actual Biden voters upset having the finger pointed at them. Not all of them would have picked Grinder. For them this could be their "elections have consequences" moment.
Let's hope so!
Holy mother, she is not wrong!
Except for one thing, she says it was the American Voters who decided.......nope. Can't change my mind that we voted for Braindead Brandon.
It would be nice to have some Ruskie Pedes here on GAW giving us Americans some real feedback instead of what these Russian newscasters are saying about the American people.
Most Americans, a majority I might add, DO NOT AGREE with our corrupt and illegally elected leaders and how they are running OUR country.
P.S. Just like in the US, these Russian news organizations are following a script... especially in their country, because if they don’t, they’d end up in prison... or worse.
Imagine freedom-loving Ruskies, Yankees, Brits, Aussies, rooftop Koreans, and anyone else who's tired of their government's bullshit teaming up and bringing the pain to the cabal.
It's habbening. Just on a slow time frame.
Not all communication and plans make the news.
There are Russian league of legends servers.
Nothing like a 'custom game' of ARAM during the night job - I mean hey, it's daylight in Moscow - to get the plans going.
Is it any different in the West?
Everyone will be mocking him soon.
I already do
I got a picture of him in Saudi holding a red gas can in my living room. Every time I look at that, remind me to laugh.
She’s hot and right
Snapshot of how the world sees us all collectively as a Nation right now. Fucking shameful.
And unfortunately it’s going to get much, much worse. It’s not just America, its all WESTERN countries. Unfortunately we have allowed the corrupt to lead, the degenerate to flourish and the leftist media to lie. We are watching the collapse of the West, spiritually, morally and economically. A parallel group of nations no longer want to trade because if they don’t, they are threatened…….or invaded. The EU is finished. The West too. And we only blame ourselves because we were more comfortable sitting at home watching our favourite shows than marching. We forget there are a handful of them and millions of us. Klaus Schwaab can tell us ‘we will own nothing and be happy’ is becoming a reality……for the West. The other? They will not follow this path. They want to be sovereign nations, free citizens that want to go where they want to, buy what they want to and not have some unelected swill dictating what we can and cannot do.
And they are 100% correct.
Wow! I wonder if CNN will pick this up? It could up their ratings. LOL
And mocking us, the “voters”.
We are a laughing stock in eery single way.
Dear The Russian People,
We, the American voters had no say in this. We did not choose the black lesbo.
Sincerely, We the People
Knee-slapping good! Why is it that the Russians are awake to our problems and we are not? The point is: somebody is awake...
Griner can't be a lesbian if he's a man.
CORRECTION: You can if that person lives in Norway.
Makes us all want to join the Marines. Ohhh, they are not. Hummmm. Be interesting to see what the 101st in Ukraine to get "military inventory data" think about supporting the NOT-Zs and being used as cannon fodder. Wish they could inventory the $$$$$$ sent and ended up in FTX. But I live in a fantasy world, life is great, and like the bees, birds and butterflies, don't see the S*&T, only smell the wonderful flowers. Is this mocking? I will have to check.
If Griner had a medical marijuana card from Arizona and bought her weed there, or bought it in Colorado as a tourist, she potentially could have been locked up in a federal prison if the TSA caught her with weed in airport security. Denver airport has warning signs at security that weed possession will be prosecuted at the federal level, even though it is allowed at the state level.
In Arizona, having any kind of physical pain or difficulty sleeping is enough to get a medical marijuana card, as one cardholder once explained to me.