Brittney Griner might be sentenced up to 5 years in Russian labor camp

[Bryan Danielson]

“why continue to stay in America, I wanna leave this country” gang come get this L


I can’t find the thread from earlier this week but OP and others looking funny in the light right now

 

[BK The Great]

Maybe pleading guilty will make them release her and ban her from entering that country for good. As long as she comes home i doubt she would care.

 

[Jefferson Jackson]

BMX Biden need to do better

 

[Ashley Banks]

they dont promote lesbians in that shyt at all. think about all the lgbtq commercials and media that has been around the past few years and even this month

they only promote gay men and mtf trans. no lesbians or ftm trans to be seen at all

the more prominent these "movements" become, its easier to see the gaps within

You’re right

 

[downtheline]

I understand that she’s an athlete and was traveling for work. North Korea and Russia are two of many places that aren’t even on the list of places I’d possibility for though.

Definitely would not be smuggling in any cannabis related items.

 

[The D-List Vet]

“why continue to stay in America, I wanna leave this country” gang come get this L


I can’t find the thread from earlier this week but OP and others looking funny in the light right now

not one time do you see someone say lets go move to russia

 

[RennisDeynolds]

You’re right

It's so blatant when you think about it.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Maybe pleading guilty will make them release her and ban her from entering that country for good. As long as she comes home i doubt she would care.

Correct.

If she pleads not guilty this becomes a very long drawn out process and it's Russia, in the end, she would lose anyway.

Plead guilty, become a "prisoner" and now there can be a "prisoner" exchange program

 

[Lord_nikon]

Correct.

If she pleads not guilty this becomes a very long drawn out process and it's Russia, in the end, she would lose anyway.

Plead guilty, become a "prisoner" and now there can be a "prisoner" exchange program

This is Exactly what i ready also

 

[Professor Emeritus]

what in the fukk do they Expect the NBA to do ??? What type of stupid fukk shyt is this,, this why i hate the news

Brittney Griner has been abandoned by the NBA stars who could help her the most​

Brittney Griner has been abandoned by the NBA stars who could help her the most

The WNBA has a decal in tribute to Griner on every court and is donating to Griner’s charitable foundation.

www.msnbc.com

That's not "the news", it's an opinion piece by a sportswriter.

The cac who wrote that article probably gay and he seem like he got a thing for hating on the NBA. I wouldn’t take dude serious. Check out some of his other work

I checked out his other work like you said and he looks like a pretty serious writer. He also wrote,

"The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World"
"Muhammad Ali Handbook"
"The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World"
"Jim Brown: Last Man Standing"
"What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States"
"Things That Make White People Uncomfortable"
"Race, Power & American Sports"



So it seems like he rides for Black athletes all the time and would be doing the same thing if she were a straight male athlete caught up like this. Looked up his wikipedia page and it looks like he called for an NBA boycott of Arizona to protest their "Support our Law Enforcement" act, publicly attacked Hank Williams Jr. as a racist, and was a big defender of Barry Bonds when the rest of the media was attacking him.

Oh, and his John Carlos book was cowritten with John Carlos himself. "Things That Make White People Uncomfortable" was cowritten with Michael Bennett and Bennett got all the prominence on the cover.

Dave Zirin - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Maybe pleading guilty will make them release her and ban her from entering that country for good. As long as she comes home i doubt she would care.

Nah, Russia is after much bigger fish than that. Russia is trying to use her as leverage to get one of the world's worst arm dealers released from US prisons.

Report: Russia wants prisoner swap between 'Merchant of Death' and WNBA star Brittney Griner

Viktor Bout was arrested during a sting operation in Thailand in 2008 and sentenced to 25 years in prison in the U.S. for multiple offences

nationalpost.com

Will Griner Be Freed Through Prisoner Trade With The 'Merchant Of Death'? Lawyer Claims That's What Moscow Wants.

Viktor Bout nicknamed the “The Merchant of Death,” who is serving a 25-year jail sentence in the U.S, could be offered to Moscow for a potential prisoner swap.

www.forbes.com

I have a feeling they are gonna let her go, but, this is crazy.

Again, we playing politics with Russia and it's biting us in the ass.

"Playing politics" is what Russia WANTS us to do. They're not holding her because we're "playing politics". They're holding her because they want the USA to release a major war criminal in a prisoner swap.

BMX Biden need to do better

Would you prefer that Biden immediately released the worst Russian criminals every time Russia arrested an American celebrity? Or.....what exactly?

She'll be let go either as part of the deal when the war ends or after several years.

The war is irrelevant. The State Department just successfully completed a prisoner swap a couple months ago.

However, it's true that it could take years to negotiate. The swap they just completed took 3 years and that was for a far less prominent swap.

Shows how powerful the agenda is over here in countries that's not america. or europe there's no politically gay people. At best it is a personal choice but no one is asking for the right to use certain bathrooms or anything like that.

In Russia they're trying to get their numbers up so they're actually hard on gays over there.

Them being hard on gays has nothing to do with "getting their numbers up".

The average straight Russian man ain't trying to have a family either. The hard-on-gays agenda in Russia is just pure political pandering to a particular base same as it is here.

 

[BK The Great]

Nah, Russia is after much bigger fish than that. Russia is trying to use her as leverage to get one of the world's worst arm dealers released from US prisons.

Report: Russia wants prisoner swap between 'Merchant of Death' and WNBA star Brittney Griner

Viktor Bout was arrested during a sting operation in Thailand in 2008 and sentenced to 25 years in prison in the U.S. for multiple offences

nationalpost.com

Will Griner Be Freed Through Prisoner Trade With The 'Merchant Of Death'? Lawyer Claims That's What Moscow Wants.

Viktor Bout nicknamed the “The Merchant of Death,” who is serving a 25-year jail sentence in the U.S, could be offered to Moscow for a potential prisoner swap.

www.forbes.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/01/viktor-bout-griner-whelan/

"Playing politics" is what Russia WANTS us to do. They're not holding her because we're "playing politics". They're holding her because they want the USA to release a major war criminal in a prisoner swap.





Would you prefer that Biden immediately released the worst Russian criminals every time Russia arrested an American celebrity? Or.....what exactly?






The war is irrelevant. The State Department just successfully completed a prisoner swap a couple months ago.

However, it's true that it could take years to negotiate. The swap they just completed took 3 years and that was for a far less prominent swap.






Them being hard on gays has nothing to do with "getting their numbers up".

The average straight Russian man ain't trying to have a family either. The hard-on-gays agenda in Russia is just pure political pandering to a particular base same as it is here.

Who knows if the Biden administration will budge.

 

[Dre God]

PUSSAKREMLIN GIVE A STUD A HUNNID YEAAAAS

 

[Wiseborn]

Nah, Russia is after much bigger fish than that. Russia is trying to use her as leverage to get one of the world's worst arm dealers released from US prisons.

Report: Russia wants prisoner swap between 'Merchant of Death' and WNBA star Brittney Griner

Viktor Bout was arrested during a sting operation in Thailand in 2008 and sentenced to 25 years in prison in the U.S. for multiple offences

nationalpost.com

Will Griner Be Freed Through Prisoner Trade With The 'Merchant Of Death'? Lawyer Claims That's What Moscow Wants.

Viktor Bout nicknamed the “The Merchant of Death,” who is serving a 25-year jail sentence in the U.S, could be offered to Moscow for a potential prisoner swap.

www.forbes.com

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/01/viktor-bout-griner-whelan/

"Playing politics" is what Russia WANTS us to do. They're not holding her because we're "playing politics". They're holding her because they want the USA to release a major war criminal in a prisoner swap.





Would you prefer that Biden immediately released the worst Russian criminals every time Russia arrested an American celebrity? Or.....what exactly?






The war is irrelevant. The State Department just successfully completed a prisoner swap a couple months ago.

However, it's true that it could take years to negotiate. The swap they just completed took 3 years and that was for a far less prominent swap.






Them being hard on gays has nothing to do with "getting their numbers up".

The average straight Russian man ain't trying to have a family either. The hard-on-gays agenda in Russia is just pure political pandering to a particular base same as it is here.

I fukk with you, but you see the world in a liberal lens, We just got Gay marriage legalized under Obama we also got gays in the military any Gay person will tell you that gays have always been around even under severe hard on gays policies.

Gays got what they wanted and what happened now what a Man or a women is in question. maybe just maybe people see the bullshyt a mile away. Make shyt totally illegal almost no one gets arrested and people literally do what they want in their own bedrooms. Make it a political issue and suddenly it's a whole wave

Super liberal Bill Maher called it;

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Who knows if the Biden administration will budge.

It's difficult to imagine them releasing the world's most famous arms dealer in exchange for a mid-level celebrity caught up on the most minor possible drug charge. Especially since it basically would set the standard for Russia to imprison any American they wanted whenever they needed another Russian crook released.


I imagine it's going to be a long-ass waiting game. US State Department is going to work for her release via other means, then will offer some far less-significant Russian up in a prisoner swap. Putin will hold out for the Merchant of Death. I don't see either side blinking.

Maybe Biden would move earlier for political considerations....but if Biden releases a war criminal in order to gain the freedom of a WNBA star most Americans don't even know anything about, does that even help him politically? It might just be played as him getting worked by Putin.

I think her best bet is to get released as a minor piece of a larger deal, like a pullback of US sanctions or some shyt.