Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Brittany Griner
Date:	8/4/2022 12:57:57 PM

Looks like America hating Brittany Griner is going to be spending additional time in Russia - like 9 and 1/2 years in a penal colony.  She was sentenced today and was to be immediately removed to the penal colony.  You may recall she asked that the national anthemn not be played, and she is part of the "take a knee crowd".  She went to Russia to make more money, since her $228K salary in the WNBA was not enough for her, took cannibis vapes with her that she claimed she uses for medicinal purposes and then packed by accident.  She pled guilty to the charge.  

Biden has offered a prisoner exchange for her and another American, giving up a Russian arms dealer.  Instead of embracing the deal, Russia came back and said they also want a convicted murderer who is in prison in Germany.  Not much has been said about our effeots to get the Germans to release him.   It was a smooth move on the Russians part and basically took it out of Biden's hands.  

So LeBron James has been running his mouth about how she probably doesn't want to come back to the US, because how bad it is here for people of color - so it'll be interesting to see what he has to stay now. These entitled athetes need to find out what it is like in foreign countries where their butts are not being kissed.  

Name:	MartiniMan -	Reply
Subject:	Brittany Griner
Date:	8/5/2022 10:54:02 AM

As much as I hate to say it I have a hard time caring much about this issue.  If I had any concern it would be about trading high value individuals for an American that broke the law in a foreign country.  It would invite every tin hat dictator to grab Americans, charge them with a crime, convict them and sentence them to 20 years hard labor in order to get something from the U.S.  Of course Dementia Joe would probably think the obvious because being wrong about things is his key competence.

As for this lady, until she was in the news for committing the crime I had never even  heard of her.  As for her antics at WNBA games regarding the National Anthem, only about 30 people (all friends and relatives) see her do it so no biggie.  More people would see it at a high school basketball game.