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Biden Trades a Terrorist Gun-Dealer Who Plotted to Kill Americans to Get Back Drug Smoking WNBA Flake; Gives Up Trying to Get Back the Marine Russia's Kept in Prison for Four Years

FIRST TIME ANYONE'S EVER NOTICED A WNBA TRADE
Posted by: Elric Blade

Biden's bragging that he got back a woman who is important to his key constituencies of LGBT Activists and CRT Grievance Stokers and literally no one else:

britneygriner.jpg

The Great Diplomat is less forthcoming about the man he's putting on a plane in exchange for this pothead scofflaw.

Steven Portnoy
@stevenportnoy

MORE: To secure Griner's return, Biden has freed arms dealer Viktor Bout. Bout gained infamy as the "Merchant of Death" & was found guilty for conspiring to sell AK-47's that would've been used to kill DEA agents.


Cameron Cawthorne
@Cam_Cawthorne

This is what John Brennan, Obama's deputy national security advisor for homeland security and counterterrorism, said about "Merchant of Death" arms dealer Viktor Bout in 2010.

terroristarmsdealerstatement.jfif

Note that Russia doesn't usually engage in diplomacy to get back its criminal scumbags so that means that this terrorist weapons-dealer who plotted to kill Americans is actually a... wait for it... agent of Putin's government.

He works for Putin. He was doing terrorism for Putin.

And the Sage of Scranton released him for a pothead who can't dunk without a boost.

The idea of someone being so f***ing entitled and stupid that they'd go to a backwards and unfree foreign country and just smuggle in drugs to feed their habit is just... well, people wind up where they wind up for reasons most of the time.

And the Marine Paul Whelan who has been held for four years?

F*** him, BLM and GLAAD never heard of him.

Steven Portnoy
@stevenportnoy

MORE: The swap to see Griner home for Christmas is 1-for-1 & does not involve Ret. Marine Paul Whelan, who is about to mark his 4th year in Russian custody.


Matt Whitlock
@mattdizwhitlock

So we gave up the "merchant of death" who has been involved in plots to kill Americans

And we got the famous basketball player that a lot of celebrities lobbied for but not the marine who has been captive for 4 years.

And they're going to treat this like a major win.

Whelan is being held for (allegedly) spying -- which would be a more even trade for a TERRORIST ARMS DEALER.

But nah, trade the terrorist arms dealer for the woman that Elizabeth Warren has a poster of in her bedroom.

The clapping seal media is pleased as punch, obviously:


Can't wait to see David French praise the cool steady hand of Scranton Joe later.

Ah yes: The elections.

He wouldn't make this wretched "deal" before the elections.

Only after the elections, when, as Obama once said, he had more room to be flexible.

This was inevitable. As soon as the elections were over, naturally. I actually thought it was going to be WORSE than just a one-for-one for the Death Dealer. I thought Putin would get even more in exchange for this creepy useless twat that 80% of the USA utterly despises. Over-under on how soon she's back to shitting on the USA? 48 hours? 24?
Posted by: Elric Blade


Posted by: Ace at 12:02 PM




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1 Pray for Paul Whelan

Posted by: rd at December 08, 2022 12:02 PM (Z32m1)

2 Well, I nooded, when I shoulda been firsting.

I said FIRSTing, perverts.

G'mornin', Ace.

Posted by: mindful webworker - click for best offer at December 08, 2022 12:03 PM (xz/l4)

3 Everybody knows Marines are terrible at lesbian basketball. This trade is a no brainer.

Posted by: Minuteman at December 08, 2022 12:03 PM (LaNzR)

4 Didn't we have five Russian Criminals to give up? That was the Obama standard?

Posted by: rd at December 08, 2022 12:03 PM (Z32m1)

5 Prayers for Paul, indeed.

Overlooked and left behind because he's not in the target demographic.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 08, 2022 12:03 PM (6VKyY)

6 FJB

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 08, 2022 12:04 PM (NX1lk)

7 Dark news indeed, gray even

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 08, 2022 12:04 PM (pyVNc)

8 Waited until the day after the Georgia runoff.

Posted by: griff at December 08, 2022 12:05 PM (iWXHo)

9 What really matters is who's complaining about the prisoners.

And the Dems always deliver for their constituency.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 08, 2022 12:05 PM (6VKyY)

10 No doubt Whelan's captors have gleefully and maliciously shared the news with him.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 08, 2022 12:05 PM (F5ekr)

11 So a convicted felon goes free but ace puts us all in the gray box again...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2022 12:05 PM (YIVH2)

12 That's a MAN, baby.

Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2022 12:05 PM (jr/Q9)

13 He sold AK-47s that would be used to kill DEA agents.


I presume that means Putin would be correct in arresting any Raytheon or Lockheed representative they catch in another country.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 08, 2022 12:05 PM (+dYih)

14 White Lives Don't Matter

Posted by: rd at December 08, 2022 12:05 PM (Z32m1)

15 #bringpaulhome!

FJB anf FBG

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 08, 2022 12:05 PM (yb11p)

16 Maybe she gave Biden COVID again when he sniffed her...

Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2022 12:05 PM (yezA1)

17 Victor Bout is not a standout from the WNBA. Putin got the shitty end of the stick on this deal.

LET'S GO BRANDON!!!

Posted by: Minuteman at December 08, 2022 12:06 PM (LaNzR)

18 Why is it that EVERY F'ING THING this scruntonian does is exactly the wrong move, or the most stupid move imaginable?

It's got to be his handlers, and they have got to be doing this kind of crazy stuff on purpose. If it were mere incompetence, at least 1 time in, say, 50, they'd do the correct thing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2022 12:06 PM (J2vNu)

19 Another grey thread.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 08, 2022 12:06 PM (F5ekr)

20 Is it wrong to hope her plane crashes and she's the only one killed?

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 08, 2022 12:06 PM (yb11p)

21 I want to throw up. We gave up a huge criminal for a pot smoking woman’s basketball player who protested our National Anthem over a marine.

How and in what world is this even thought as oh! Great news y’all! Look what I did?!? We need to pray for the Whalen family. I can’t even imagine what they are going through right now.

Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2022 12:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

22 @stevenportnoy
MORE: To secure Griner's return, Biden has freed arms dealer Viktor Bout. Bout gained infamy as the "Merchant of Death" & was found guilty for conspiring to sell AK-47's that would've been used to kill DEA agents.

++++
Well his old boss's "Fast and Furious" scheme got disrupted, so I guess it's only reasonable that he's trying to right that wrong by other means.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 08, 2022 12:06 PM (t0OGg)

23 This is a direct smack in the face to the US military and Veterans. He traded an international arms dealer for a friggin basketball player and let a US marine veteran rot in prison on bogus charges while the idiot gay basketball player really did commit a crime.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2022 12:06 PM (uNylN)

24 "arms dealer Viktor Bout. Bout gained infamy as the "Merchant of Death" & was found guilty for conspiring to sell AK-47's that would've been used to kill DEA agents."

...are we SURE Bout is a bad guy?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 08, 2022 12:06 PM (pyVNc)

25 America Is Back, Baby!

Posted by: Senile Joe Biden, Supreme Warlord! at December 08, 2022 12:06 PM (KCOCK)

26 Did there used to be an office building in Manhattan called the Graybar Building?

That's where we are!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2022 12:06 PM (J2vNu)

27 Note that Russia doesn't usually engage in diplomacy to get back its criminal scumbags so that means that this terrorist weapons-dealer who plotted to kill Americans is actually a... wait for it... agent of Putin's government.

He works for Putin. He was doing terrorism for Putin.

++++
Likely, yeah.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 08, 2022 12:07 PM (t0OGg)

28 Grey boxes for a grey man...

I am as happy Bout got released as I am Butch Griner is home.

Posted by: Sven at December 08, 2022 12:07 PM (gLCrJ)

29 Morning.

Horde, help me pray the gray away.

Posted by: Robert - Metallica, 72 Seasons, out 4/14 at December 08, 2022 12:07 PM (BBKJB)

30 Another grey thread.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO


Unlike Paul, we get out of the box in the next thread.

Posted by: mikeski at December 08, 2022 12:07 PM (P1f+c)

31 America will stop at nothing to retrieve our black, gay, "celebrities"!

If you are a white male Marine veteran, you can rot in prison forever - I could care less.

Posted by: Senile Joe Biden, Supreme Warlord! at December 08, 2022 12:08 PM (KCOCK)

32 Joe has a lot of experience getting drug addicts out of trouble in eastern Europe.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2022 12:08 PM (ZLI7S)

33 Everything I know of Russians if they thought Bout was a real criminal they wouldn't have gave a bucket of piss for him. He gets back and is a celebrity you know he was on the government side.

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 08, 2022 12:08 PM (NX1lk)

34 Our prayers worked!

Posted by: Robert - Metallica, 72 Seasons, out 4/14 at December 08, 2022 12:08 PM (BBKJB)

35 Never let an opportunity to gouge your thumb into the eye of loyal American patriots go to waste. - Shit Rahm Emanuel Probably Said

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 08, 2022 12:08 PM (IYjDb)

36 The idea of someone being so f***ing entitled and stupid that they'd go to a backwards and unfree foreign country and just smuggle in drugs to feed their habit is just... well, people wind up where they wind up for reasons most of the time.

It's not surprising though. Personal responsibility is not in vogue in general, but certain demographics are exempted from it almost altogether. People who always get a pass expect the free ride to continue everywhere and everywhen.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at December 08, 2022 12:08 PM (ppBhU)

37 I'm going to start worshipping Lincoln now. I know I'm the only one, and that's the point. It gets me a debate dance partner with a thousand people who say "Stop worshipping Lincoln."

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 08, 2022 12:08 PM (44ww/)

38 Imagine the uproar if Kid Rock had been arrested by the Russians for the same thing during the Trump Administration, and then Trump traded the Merchant of Death to get him back.

And Biden said Russia owned Trump...

Posted by: Lieutenant Duh at December 08, 2022 12:08 PM (Ebr2D)

39 Just wait until I honor her at the White House!

Posted by: Senile Joe Biden, Supreme Warlord! at December 08, 2022 12:08 PM (KCOCK)

40
This should lock up the vital lesbian WNBA fan community for 2024.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2022 12:09 PM (MoZTd)

41 Ugh

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 08, 2022 12:09 PM (DRSnL)

42 Merchant of Death. Retailer of Ruin. Peddler of Pestilence. Streetcart Vendor of Vengeance. Wholesaler of Havoc.

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at December 08, 2022 12:09 PM (24fqN)

43 I shall refer to F. Joe as "the Old Scruntonian" or "the Scrunt From Scranton" as often as possible.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2022 12:09 PM (J2vNu)

44 Whelan is being held for (allegedly) spying -- which would be a more even trade for a TERRORIST ARMS DEALER.

But nah, trade the terrorist arms dealer for the woman that Elizabeth Warren has a poster of in her bedroom.

++++
It's so very typical that it disgusts me that not only am I not surprised, I probably could have predicted it if I'd even thought about it prior to this. A prisoner exchange *at all* for Griner is appalling and it never even crossed my mind. It isn't surprising, I just never would have thought of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 08, 2022 12:09 PM (t0OGg)

45 North Korea released three, iirc, prisoners for nothing in exchange to PDT, but brilliant Biden has to trade the Merchant of Death for an actual felon. Great job, Joe!

Posted by: EveR at December 08, 2022 12:09 PM (MUpk6)

46 FJB and the freak in tattoos.

Posted by: Ziba at December 08, 2022 12:09 PM (4h9M3)

47 Scrunt gets out of the gray bar hotel, no we're in it. We've been exchanged!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 08, 2022 12:09 PM (yb11p)

48 aww

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 08, 2022 12:09 PM (pyVNc)

49 Great to breath the free non-grey-boxed air again!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 08, 2022 12:09 PM (F5ekr)

50 OTOH this Britney dude returns to relative obscurity in the WNBA.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2022 12:09 PM (Q4IgG)

51 This was inevitable. As soon as the elections were over, naturally. I actually thought it was going to be WORSE than just a one-for-one for the Death Dealer. I thought Putin would get even more in exchange for this creepy useless twat that 80% of the USA utterly despises. Over-under on how soon she's back to shitting on the USA? 48 hours? 24?

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 08, 2022 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

52
Just wait until I honor her at the White House!
Posted by: Senile Joe Biden, Supreme Warlord! at December 08, 2022 12:08 PM (KCOCK)

_________

With the Medal of Freedom.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2022 12:10 PM (MoZTd)

53 On the plus side for Griner Bout's release will make her dope costs go down when the DEA's interference with the market is curtailed through Bout's efforts.

Posted by: Minuteman at December 08, 2022 12:10 PM (LaNzR)

54 I remember when Trump got China to release the shoplifting basketball players and they were ungrateful douchebags when they returned.

Posted by: polynikes at December 08, 2022 12:10 PM (0om5x)

55 People who always get a pass expect the free ride to continue everywhere and everywhen.

She was getting paid two million a year to pay basketball in Russia. She figured that she could always buy her way out.

Ooops.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 08, 2022 12:10 PM (KCOCK)

56 Wow

Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at December 08, 2022 12:10 PM (xsmst)

57 *He

That's a man.

Posted by: Haimerej at December 08, 2022 12:10 PM (uUe/a)

58 FIRST TIME ANYONE'S EVER NOTICED A WNBA TRADE

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 08, 2022 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

59 This should lock up the vital lesbian WNBA fan community for 2024.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2022 12:09 PM

Those 73 votes will come in handy if all the dead voters aren't enough to push them over the top.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 08, 2022 12:11 PM (yb11p)

60 Has that El Chapo hitman been found? The one who "went missing" from Fed custody at exactly the same time? Perhaps coincidentally perhaps not?

Full disclosure: I am not a coincidence theorist. But sometimes they happen. Or seem to happen. Occasionally.

Posted by: Thesokorus at December 08, 2022 12:11 PM (1ais2)

61
I think the Russians couldn't get rid of her fast enough.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2022 12:11 PM (MoZTd)

62 There's Kamala, just happy to be kinda included.

Posted by: Ktgreat at December 08, 2022 12:11 PM (ei7q6)

63 I am sure there will be great pomp and circumstance at the Whitehouse when she gets off that plane. Big party and back slapping all around. This is all so very disgusting.

Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2022 12:11 PM (ZdaMQ)

64 I hate my country.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Contemplating Suicide Since 2020 at December 08, 2022 12:11 PM (VTu1l)

65 I'm just saying, Americans may well need the services of arms dealers in the near future. See OR, WA, CA, NY, MA....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 08, 2022 12:11 PM (pyVNc)

66 Maybe he sent a pallet of cash too

Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2022 12:12 PM (yezA1)

67 46 FJB and the freak in tattoos.
Posted by: Ziba at December 08, 2022 12:09 PM (4h9M3)

No thanks. Not even with your dick.

Posted by: Lieutenant Duh at December 08, 2022 12:12 PM (Ebr2D)

68 Dallas Cowboy Micah Parsons forced to apologize for saying it's 'crazy' that Biden didn't get Paul Whelan in Griner swap

Micah Parsons@MicahhParsons11
My last tweet was no shot at Brittney Griner. I’m super happy she’s back home as she should be. I just have family who have served and it’s crazy to me the President wouldn’t bring him home too. I’m the furthest thing from a trump supporter but I’m not a fan of Biden either.

-
I'm not sure he bowed low enough.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 08, 2022 12:12 PM (FVME7)

69 This was inevitable. As soon as the elections were over, naturally. I actually thought it was going to be WORSE than just a one-for-one for the Death Dealer. I thought Putin would get even more in exchange for this creepy useless twat that 80% of the USA utterly despises. Over-under on how soon she's back to shitting on the USA? 48 hours? 24?
Posted by: Elric Blade


Under by 12 hours.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2022 12:12 PM (gKNhs)

70 I guess people don't watch Midnight Express nowadays.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 08, 2022 12:12 PM (wscPk)

71 Bout is like the Wagner Group - he does jobs for the Kremlin that the Kremlin doesn't want to accept responsibility for.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 08, 2022 12:12 PM (KCOCK)

72 58 I rate this: TRUE

Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2022 12:12 PM (yezA1)

73 Does wnba do drug testing?

Posted by: BignJames at December 08, 2022 12:12 PM (AwYPR)

74 If every instinct I have is wrong, then the opposite has to be right!

Posted by: George Costanza and Brandon at December 08, 2022 12:12 PM (trl0x)

75 73 Does wnba do drug testing?
Posted by: BignJames at December 08, 2022 12:12 PM (AwYPR)

Do they check of penises?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 08, 2022 12:13 PM (pyVNc)

76 This was inevitable. As soon as the elections were over, naturally. I actually thought it was going to be WORSE than just a one-for-one for the Death Dealer. I thought Putin would get even more in exchange for this creepy useless twat that 80% of the USA utterly despises. Over-under on how soon she's back to shitting on the USA? 48 hours? 24?
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 08, 2022 12:10 PM (iFTx/)


What took you so long!

Posted by: Britney at December 08, 2022 12:13 PM (Z32m1)

77

Grinder gets high and does butt stuff, but only with chicks.

Posted by: Fat Screeching Black Chunt at December 08, 2022 12:13 PM (bmiGO)

78 "I hate my country."

I think that's their goal, to make you hate your country.

Posted by: DaveX64 - AWFLs smell like dryer sheets at December 08, 2022 12:13 PM (ctRkh)

79 71 Bout is like the Wagner Group - he does jobs for the Kremlin that the Kremlin doesn't want to accept responsibility for.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 08, 2022 12:12 PM (KCOCK)

Good thing we don't do anything like that

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 08, 2022 12:13 PM (pyVNc)

80 Does Whelan's family have grounds to sue? They've very likely been told "we're doing everything in our power to get him back" at least once. 100% lie of course.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 08, 2022 12:13 PM (F5ekr)

81 Has that El Chapo hitman been found? The one who "went missing" from Fed custody at exactly the same time? Perhaps coincidentally perhaps not?

Full disclosure: I am not a coincidence theorist. But sometimes they happen. Or seem to happen. Occasionally.
Posted by: Thesokorus at December 08, 2022 12:11 PM

Hmmmm, I saw that but it didn't cross my mind. How in the EFF does a high value guy like that go "missing" from federal custody? Much like Epstein who didn't kill himself.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 08, 2022 12:13 PM (yb11p)

82 I'm going to start worshipping Lincoln now. I know I'm the only one, and that's the point. It gets me a debate dance partner with a thousand people who say "Stop worshipping Lincoln."
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 08, 2022 12:08 PM (44ww/)

Hah. Since I mentioned Dali on the art thread , look up his painting Lincoln in Dalivision. Dude was technically brilliant and had a freaky imagination.

Posted by: polynikes at December 08, 2022 12:14 PM (0om5x)

83 U.S. officials told reporters that it became clear in talks with the Russians that the prospect of exchanging both Griner and Whelan for Bout was a nonstarter, with one saying the U.S. had was ‘a choice between bringing home one particular American — Brittney Griner — or bringing home none.’”

Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2022 12:14 PM (yezA1)

84 Full disclosure: I am not a coincidence theorist. But sometimes they happen. Or seem to happen. Occasionally.
Posted by: Thesokorus


For one to be a coincidence theorist, there would have to be coincidences.

There's no such thing as a coincidence.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2022 12:14 PM (gKNhs)

85 Is that actually her in the red dress? What did they do, airbrush out her tattoos and smooth her face to make her look less tranny?

And is it me, or are you usually thinner, not fatter after being in prison for a stretch?

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Contemplating Suicide Since 2020 at December 08, 2022 12:14 PM (VTu1l)

86 I assume the Russian released will be buying equipment from the Ukrainians now.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at December 08, 2022 12:15 PM (+4D1M)

87 Over-under on how soon she's back to shitting on the USA? 48 hours? 24?

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 08, 2022 12:10 PM


My money is on when she visits the white house. She will spout some garbage about how the US is a racist country.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2022 12:15 PM (uNylN)

88 @79
LOL

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 08, 2022 12:15 PM (F5ekr)

89 83 let’s go with none for $200. We keep this dirtbag behind bars. Maybe stick him on a work line in the south picking up trash in July.

Thanks for playing.

Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2022 12:15 PM (ZdaMQ)

90 Having some experience with Russian females (actual females) I can say that the ones the Russians decided were so cruel they had to be removed from society are members of a terrifying group.

PS. I would do it all again god help me.

Posted by: Thesokorus at December 08, 2022 12:15 PM (1ais2)

91 58 FIRST TIME ANYONE'S EVER NOTICED A WNBA TRADE
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 08, 2022 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

LOL

props

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 08, 2022 12:15 PM (pyVNc)

92 FIRST TIME ANYONE'S EVER NOTICED A WNBA TRADE
Posted by: Elric Blade


IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE. ALSO TYPING IN CAPITALS IS MY THING.

Posted by: BEN ROFLCOPTER at December 08, 2022 12:15 PM (P1f+c)

93 Dallas Cowboy Micah Parsons forced to apologize for saying it's 'crazy' that Biden didn't get Paul Whelan in Griner swap

He's a millionaire. He should have said go fuck yourselves if you don't like my opinion.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 08, 2022 12:15 PM (yb11p)

94 It's a clown world. Tall women with big feet are just part of the cast.

Posted by: DaveA at December 08, 2022 12:16 PM (FhXTo)

95 This should be added to the articles of impeachment Biden will never face.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at December 08, 2022 12:16 PM (MFZ8i)

96 Merchant of Moderate Inconvenience > Merchant of Death

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 08, 2022 12:16 PM (AuTCi)

97 85 Is that actually her in the red dress? What did they do, airbrush out her tattoos and smooth her face to make her look less tranny?

And is it me, or are you usually thinner, not fatter after being in prison for a stretch?
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Contemplating Suicide Since 2020 at December 08, 2022 12:14 PM (VTu1l)

I don't think it's Britney in the red dress. That looks like an actual woman.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 08, 2022 12:16 PM (pyVNc)

98 Reminds me. They use to have a plastic briefcase modeled on 007's that was a sold to kids.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 08, 2022 12:16 PM (vKGG0)

99 >>>3 Does wnba do drug testing?
Posted by: BignJames

lol, you're funny

Posted by: ace at December 08, 2022 12:16 PM (C1Zwz)

100 85 that is her wife, not Britney herself.

Posted by: Piper at December 08, 2022 12:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

101 U.S. officials told reporters that it became clear in talks with the Russians that the prospect of exchanging both Griner and Whelan for Bout was a nonstarter,

with one saying the U.S. had was ‘a choice between bringing home one particular American — Brittney Griner — or bringing home none.’”
Posted by: steevy

You do that Russia. Then we put the arms dealer in GenPop and let it be known he's a child molester.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2022 12:16 PM (gKNhs)

102 Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2022 12:14 PM (yezA1)

Should have been none and I would have said we have another billion in reserve to give the Ukraine fuckheads. ( and I despise that we've given them a penny)

Posted by: polynikes at December 08, 2022 12:17 PM (0om5x)

103 I heard of Victor Bout a decade ago; he's essentially Destro from GI Joe, so by all means let's let him go.

The level of unhidden contempt Biden has for actual patriotic Americans is as astounding as it is evil.

Posted by: UGAdawg at December 08, 2022 12:17 PM (tRd71)

104

Scum all the way down. Unfrickingbelievable.

Posted by: four seasons at December 08, 2022 12:17 PM (ichPI)

105 Someone better make sure Biden doesn't give her a welcome home sniff.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 08, 2022 12:17 PM (4olE8)

106 The world is laughing at us. All types of crap will be tried under this feckless "Administration"

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 08, 2022 12:17 PM (4q/mG)

107
I thought Putin would get even more in exchange for this creepy useless twat that 80% of the USA utterly despises.

Maybe he IS getting even more. Secretly.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2022 12:17 PM (63Dwl)

108 Their prisoner has a cool name.

The Merchant of Death.

Griner needs a cool name like that, too.

The Smuggler of Sausage
The Tucker of Tube

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 08, 2022 12:17 PM (+dYih)

109 Taking Grimes hostage was a crime against humanity on the level of the Gulag or Holdomore. We got a good deal.

Posted by: Ripley at December 08, 2022 12:17 PM (MxEKc)

110 Bout, i'm sort of surprised they are being so public about him going back to Russia. I'd expect them to try and hide who we gave up.

maybe we get lucky and one of his missiles hits his plane on the way home...

Posted by: SturmToddler at December 08, 2022 12:17 PM (nXhwP)

111 Does Whelan's family have grounds to sue? They've very likely been told "we're doing everything in our power to get him back" at least once. 100% lie of course.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 08, 2022 12:13 PM


Unfortunately they can't see the biden administration. All they can do is go to media outlets that will let them put pressure on biden to get their son out. Heard the mom on the radio this morning saying she was happy that wnba girl was let go but reminded everyone her son is still in a Russian jail on bogus up spying charges.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2022 12:17 PM (uNylN)

112 I'm surprised Vlad didn't get Tapioca Joe to disown Ukraine too?

Posted by: rd at December 08, 2022 12:18 PM (Z32m1)

113 One problem with the St. Griner is she 'had' a lousy temper & 'was' an abusive spouse and child (twins) abandoner in her prior life (relationship).

Few people truly change.

Posted by: Lola at December 08, 2022 12:18 PM (NIYa7)

114 If ever we'd needed more proof about how this administration is just filled with pieces of crap.

So Russia gets everything it wants, and we get a drug addict, seems like Biden just used this as an excuse to give Putin what he wanted, probably using Griner as cover, as the real reason this terrorist was released was one of those payoffs Putin laundered through Hunter.

A hope would be Republicans would grow a pair and investigate why Biden gave up so much for so little in return, as just lies about Russians paying to have Americans killed was something Trump was going to get impeached for, but now Biden is freeing someone who actually tried to get Americans killed.

Posted by: Rbastid at December 08, 2022 12:18 PM (/HQcE)

115 There are no words, except maybe pandering

Posted by: CN at December 08, 2022 12:18 PM (Zzbjj)

116 "FIRST TIME ANYONE'S EVER NOTICED A WNBA TRADE" - Elric Blade

Threadwinner

Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2022 12:18 PM (OTzUX)

117
>>>this Britney dude returns to relative obscurity in the WNBA.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 08, 2022 12:09 PM (Q4IgG)

....

Even that is too good for a POS like s/he/it.

Posted by: Ziba at December 08, 2022 12:18 PM (4h9M3)

118 Is it wrong that I kind of sort of wish Griner got the Otto Warmbier treatment on the way out the door?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 08, 2022 12:18 PM (IYjDb)

119 Joe Biden is just a Putin stooge.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 08, 2022 12:19 PM (yQpMk)

120 71 Bout is like the Wagner Group - he does jobs for the Kremlin that the Kremlin doesn't want to accept responsibility for.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 08, 2022 12:12 PM (KCOCK)

So Bout's going to work for them now (again)?

Posted by: Thrawn at December 08, 2022 12:19 PM (Rl7KJ)

121 Someone better make sure Biden doesn't give her a welcome home sniff.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 08, 2022 12:17 PM (4olE

Griner is safe. Joe only sniffs girls.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at December 08, 2022 12:19 PM (+4D1M)

122 Gee, another subliterate, entitled sportsball freak gets bailed out of the clear consequences of their anti-social behavior. It's the American way. Because fuck you if you're not part of the circuses.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at December 08, 2022 12:19 PM (dReA3)

123 Remember. Nobody fucks with a Biden.

Posted by: Ripley at December 08, 2022 12:19 PM (MxEKc)

124 Victor Bout is not a standout from the WNBA. Putin got the shitty end of the stick on this deal.

LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
Posted by: Minuteman at December 08, 2022 12:06 PM (LaNzR)

right!!?! i mean, can he even dunk?

Posted by: SturmToddler at December 08, 2022 12:19 PM (nXhwP)

125 She deserved a glass of warm beer while in prison.

Posted by: Rex B at December 08, 2022 12:19 PM (jg54c)

126 85 that is her wife, not Britney herself.

**********

So headline says Pedo Joe meets with Briner but show a photo of Pedo Joe holding her dyke partner like he's about to lick her face instead.

Da fook?

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Contemplating Suicide Since 2020 at December 08, 2022 12:20 PM (VTu1l)

127 78 "I hate my country."

I think that's their goal, to make you hate your country.
Posted by: DaveX64 - AWFLs smell like dryer sheets at December 08, 2022 12:13 PM (ctRkh)

I love my fellow man. Government officials are not my fellow man.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at December 08, 2022 12:20 PM (sI15f)

128 Someone better make sure Biden doesn't give her a welcome home sniff.

Considering how Griner towers over the female guards, Joey would be sniffing the armpits...

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2022 12:20 PM (8EJMD)

129 Reminds me. They use to have a plastic briefcase modeled on 007's that was a sold to kids.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at December 08, 2022 12:16 PM (vKGG0)
---------
I had one of those! It was awesome!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 08, 2022 12:20 PM (AuTCi)

130 Posted by: SturmToddler at December 08, 2022 12:17 PM (nXhwP)

Reminded me of Red Sparrow.

Posted by: polynikes at December 08, 2022 12:20 PM (0om5x)

131 But, no mean tweets.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 08, 2022 12:20 PM (wmDcS)

132 As I said in earlier comments, Biden traded a Mickey Mantle card for one of Joe Schlabotnick. Elric is correct that she'll be back shitting on the USA very quickly and Bout will be aiding Russia in its war. Effing stupid on every level

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 08, 2022 12:20 PM (mP+mW)

133 Merchant Of Death = 1 WNBA player

sounds right
This oughtta buy Uncle Joe a lot of street cred with lesbian/tranny minor league basketball players

Posted by: DB at December 08, 2022 12:21 PM (geLO8)

134
My money is on when she visits the white house. She will spout some garbage about how the US is a racist country.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2022


***
And a serious president would send her right back to Russia. "Don't like it here? You can go back!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2022 12:21 PM (J2vNu)

135 Does wnba do drug testing?
Posted by: BignJames

lol, you're funny
Posted by: ace at December 08, 2022 12:16 PM (C1Zwz)

In the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), cannabis is reported to be a banned substance that the league tests and penalizes players for.

per wiki

Posted by: BignJames at December 08, 2022 12:21 PM (AwYPR)

136 Isn't Lord of War, starring Nicolas Cage, a kinda biopic of Victor Bout?

Posted by: Thrawn at December 08, 2022 12:21 PM (Rl7KJ)

137 The world is laughing at us. All types of crap will be tried under this feckless "Administration"

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 08, 2022 12:17 PM


Yep, there is a reason Russia decided to invade Ukraine. And that reason is joe biden. putin knew he wouldn't do a thing to stop him. It's like it is 1979 all over again and carter is president.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2022 12:21 PM (uNylN)

138 85. That is Griners “wife”

Posted by: Jen the original at December 08, 2022 12:22 PM (19hRb)

139 There was, apparently, an NFL player who said wrong think about the Marine.

Within 2 hours, per Posobiec's feed, he had recanted and issued party line statement.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 08, 2022 12:22 PM (MLrvz)

140 Trump did nothing to free Britney!!!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 08, 2022 12:22 PM (+hI+T)

141 OT.

FJB signed the Defense of Homosexual Marriage Act today.

I heard one of the defended items is "National Origin." Another is Religion.

Does that mean if you are from a country that allows Polygamous Marriage means your second and third and fourth wives are now legal?

Asking for my buddy Mo.

Posted by: rd at December 08, 2022 12:22 PM (Z32m1)

142 I think this is fucked in the head.

Putin and China are using us like a coked out whore.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 08, 2022 12:23 PM (ZR+kM)

143 Why did we need to get her back now?

Posted by: runner at December 08, 2022 12:23 PM (UK2bo)

144 Joey traded a first round draft pick, the arms dealer, for a seventh round...

If Joey was a real GM, after such a disastrous decision he would be looking for new work.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2022 12:23 PM (8EJMD)

145 Heh. At the end of the news day no one really GAF about the WNBA "star freak." There's solace in that.

Posted by: Ziba at December 08, 2022 12:23 PM (4h9M3)

146 One more thing: I thought we were in some kind of war with Russia, or at least allied with Ukraine in its war against Russia. So why are we giving them back a major arms dealer? It just goes to show that the whole Russia-Russia-Russia thing is just another op. All kabuki theater.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 08, 2022 12:23 PM (iFTx/)

147 141 They already recognized multiple spouses of muslim refugees

Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2022 12:23 PM (yezA1)

148 Trump got those basketball players out of China and didn't get thanked for it.

Posted by: Synova at December 08, 2022 12:24 PM (BD/yx)

149 Over-under on how soon she's back to shitting on the USA? 48 hours? 24?
Posted by: Elric Blade


Probably about the same as how long before the GOP starts lining up to praise this and then get snubbed.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2022 12:24 PM (anj39)

150 FIRST TIME ANYONE'S EVER NOTICED A WNBA TRADE
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 08, 2022 12:10 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Now that shit's funny right there.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 08, 2022 12:24 PM (t0OGg)

151 Was she some kinda secret agent or something?

Posted by: runner at December 08, 2022 12:24 PM (UK2bo)

152 The timing is fortuitous for me because the efficacy of the hormones I take is waning and the hair is starting to grow back on my ballsack.

Posted by: Britney Griner at December 08, 2022 12:24 PM (LaNzR)

153 Dems look out for their own. Can't say that about the GOPe.

Posted by: Liberty at December 08, 2022 12:24 PM (uRrQp)

154 Not so sure Wagner is about deniability. The most open secret in the world is that they're a Russian operation with official support. Not a soul on Earth considers them anything else. However there was downside-deniability when for example we had to slaughter a large number of them in Syria because they insisted, in a Darwinian way, that we do so.

And they were created during the long period of Russian military decline, some financial social and organizational advantages to the "contractor" model were especially large then.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 08, 2022 12:24 PM (OTzUX)

155 I know Victors parents Whatta and Rounda

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 08, 2022 12:25 PM (flINI)

156 143 Why did we need to get her back now?
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2022 12:23 PM (UK2bo)

While the Demoncrats still controlled the House.

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2022 12:25 PM (UnA8+)

157 Posted by: Paul

I thought Trump was pooty-poot's butt buddy?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 08, 2022 12:25 PM (+hI+T)

158 And they wonder why military recruitment is tanking.

Posted by: DaveX64 - AWFLs smell like dryer sheets at December 08, 2022 12:25 PM (ctRkh)

159 Let's not overlook that this is valuable propaganda for Putin at home - "look at those decadent Americans who will negotiate their own demise by giving us our patriot who kills Americans for a pot smoking trans ball player."

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 08, 2022 12:25 PM (gfbgX)

160 FJB signed the Defense of Homosexual Marriage Act today.

******************

We are Sodom and Gommorah. Meanwhile Russia has banned teh tranny propaganda. I wonder which country will come out ahead in the next 10 years.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Contemplating Suicide Since 2020 at December 08, 2022 12:25 PM (VTu1l)

161 "Will she be making any public appearances?"
"No, she'll be playing WNBA games."

Posted by: Wally at December 08, 2022 12:25 PM (FJYfm)

162 Sportsball uber alles. Should make some of the resident jock-sniffers happy, but that's about it.

Posted by: WNBA plays middle-school level ball anyway at December 08, 2022 12:26 PM (oTpPW)

163 Keeping an arms dealer in jail doesn't get you love on ESPN. Priorities, ok?

Posted by: brak at December 08, 2022 12:26 PM (lO5WT)

164 Was she some kinda secret agent or something?
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2022 12:24 PM (UK2bo)
----------
Because the person you want for HUMINT in Russia is a freakishly tall, heavily tattooed black woman. Blends right in.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 08, 2022 12:26 PM (AuTCi)

165 The cherry on top of this shit sundae will be in maybe 6-12 months, when Bout is found to be fencing stolen US arms from Ukraine on the open market - either because he "got caught" or boasted about it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 08, 2022 12:26 PM (t0OGg)

166 Was she some kinda secret agent or something?
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2022 12:24 PM (UK2bo

Her vape pen was a miniature camera.

Posted by: polynikes at December 08, 2022 12:26 PM (0om5x)

167 135. Her vaping canisters contained CBD which is banned in Russia. Griner claimed it as Rx for her to combat pain. I have no idea what the WBNA s policy is regarding CBD

Posted by: Jen the original at December 08, 2022 12:26 PM (19hRb)

168 136: more or less. Lord of War is an excellent movie. Cage is almost normal in it. He was very good in the roll.

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 08, 2022 12:26 PM (sAmhv)

169 On a serious note

Joey still needs to up his game if he wants to exceed Gaylord trading seven Islamic terrorists for Bowe Bergdahl.

Let's pray Joey never does.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2022 12:27 PM (8EJMD)

170 Can't say that about the GOPe

*************

The GOPe club definitely looks out for their own, but we ain't in it.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Contemplating Suicide Since 2020 at December 08, 2022 12:27 PM (VTu1l)

171 I just want to see his first game get sold out so the fans can boo him relentlessly.

Posted by: Haimerej at December 08, 2022 12:27 PM (uUe/a)

172 He wouldn't make this wretched "deal" before the elections.
Posted by: Ace at 12:02 PM

Weird...that's not how DU is spinning it...

did they wait to swap for Griner after GA election? makes sense given GOP habit of makingeverything dems do bad.

...update...checked free republic... they are unhappy. reference to her sexual identity and supposed criticism of America making her unworthy


Why would a non-announced swap being delayed have any impact on a Georgia Senate race? The US got her out as soon as possible without regard to elections or politics.

Welcome home Brittany, Dems can shout that to the rooftops. I really don't give a shit how Fox News spins it. It's all about race with them. She's a person of color, they wanted the white guy with 4 passports who got kicked out of the military for stealing instead.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at December 08, 2022 12:27 PM (hoj4J)

173 Breaking: Brittney Griner freed as part of prisoner swap


Isn't she the entirety of the exchange? Are or we getting someone else as well?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 08, 2022 12:27 PM (yQpMk)

174 In the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), cannabis is reported to be a banned substance that the league tests and penalizes players for.

per wiki
Posted by: BignJames


Tests the women, correct?

Well, Griner is safe then.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2022 12:28 PM (gKNhs)

175 Was she some kinda secret agent or something?
Posted by: runner at December 08, 2022 12:24 PM (UK2bo)

Agent 6&7/8ths

Posted by: CONTROL at December 08, 2022 12:28 PM (4I/2K)

176 have no idea what the WBNA s policy is regarding CBD
Posted by: Jen the original at December 08, 2022 12:26 PM (19hRb)

I don't think they read CBD.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 08, 2022 12:28 PM (ZR+kM)

177 Over-under on how soon she's back to shitting on the USA? 48 hours? 24?
Posted by: Elric Blade

That depend on how soon Leslie Stahl or The View get the first interview. It could be tomorrow!

Posted by: Ziba at December 08, 2022 12:28 PM (4h9M3)

178 You can't virtue signal over the release of a Marine. Everyone can tweet something about Britney and feel like a hero.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 08, 2022 12:28 PM (+hI+T)

179 I don't want to shock you but . . .

The CDC Used a Backchannel With Twitter to Control the COVID Narrative

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 08, 2022 12:28 PM (FVME7)

180 ... Why would a non-announced swap being delayed have any impact on a Georgia Senate race? The US got her out as soon as possible without regard to elections or politics. ...
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at December 08, 2022 12:27 PM (hoj4J)
++++
Sure, Jan.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 08, 2022 12:28 PM (t0OGg)

181 Too tall, can not sniff her hair
-Joey B.

Posted by: Yo! now Ultra MAGA at December 08, 2022 12:28 PM (bTQ72)

182 Maybe it has naturally high HGH levels,
And a penis.

Posted by: it's over at December 08, 2022 12:28 PM (aMcXi)

183 Russia is buying North Korean Artillery shells, and Iranian Drones. They cannot / will not supply body armor, Winter uniforms and basic equipment to their newly mobilized and untrained cannon fodder.

Victor Bout and his Arms Dealer contacts are exactly what Russia needs right now. He will be able to make trades with people that would not trust Russia and their FSB thugs to not rip them off.

Posted by: rd at December 08, 2022 12:29 PM (Z32m1)

184 What euphemisms will the media use to run cover for this ridiculous trade?

Is Viktor Bout a "shady businessman" with ties to such-and-such? A "smuggler"? A "broker"?

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 08, 2022 12:29 PM (wBpKf)

185 What would be neat is if we were to send a clandestine 'snatch team' over there and grab Viktor up again

get me Tom Cruise

Posted by: DB at December 08, 2022 12:29 PM (geLO8)

186 I don't want to shock you but . . .

The CDC Used a Backchannel With Twitter to Control the COVID Narrative
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 08, 2022 12:28 PM (FVME7)
++++
I'm sort of surprised. Given the way these things usually work, why'd they bother mucking about with a "back channel?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 08, 2022 12:29 PM (t0OGg)

187 Ethan Hawke was also great in Lord of War.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 08, 2022 12:29 PM (44ww/)

188 Dallas Cowboy Micah Parsons forced to apologize for saying it's 'crazy' that Biden didn't get Paul Whelan in Griner swap

He's a millionaire. He should have said go fuck yourselves if you don't like my opinion.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 08, 2022 12:15 PM (yb11p)
***

Ok. Who forced him?
The Cowboys organization or a thousand bots on twitter?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2022 12:29 PM (anj39)

189 Griner just pops up outta nowhere.
Where did she go to college and play ball? Where did she go to high school and play? Jr High?

Pro athletes rarely just "walk on" into the pros.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2022 12:29 PM (gKNhs)

190 I don't expect Senile Pervert Joe wants to sniff Britney.

Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at December 08, 2022 12:29 PM (eGTCV)

191 Isn't she the entirety of the exchange? Are or we getting someone else as well?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 08, 2022 12:27 PM (yQpMk)

I don't think there will be a player to be named later.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 08, 2022 12:30 PM (ZR+kM)

192 178 You can't virtue signal over the release of a Marine. Everyone can tweet something about Britney and feel like a hero.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 08, 2022 12:28 PM (+hI+T)

Juwanna Mann was a movie, not an instruction manual.

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2022 12:30 PM (UnA8+)

193 Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 08, 2022 12:30 PM (zmr+E)

194
I know Victors parents Whatta and Rounda
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report


You talkin' Bout love?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 08, 2022 12:30 PM (63Dwl)

195 Britney wasn't getting his hormone treatments (presumably) and was going to quickly revert to his man body with full beard and chest hair. Couldn't let this happen, the only option was to offer a good deal to Putin. No such urgency in Paul Whelan's case.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 08, 2022 12:31 PM (fs1hN)

196 What would be neat is if we were to send a clandestine 'snatch team' over there and grab Viktor up again

get me Tom Cruise
Posted by: DB

Extraction would be too risky. Just end him there.
For a bout of irony, use a ricin tipped umbrella.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2022 12:31 PM (gKNhs)

197 Hollywood's gonna Hollywood.

“Avatar: The Way of Water” Production Notes Appear to Confirm Film Will Push Climate Change and Colonization Propaganda

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 08, 2022 12:31 PM (FVME7)

198 143 Why did we need to get her back now?
Posted by: runner



So she can celebrate Kwanzaa with her 'family'. Duh!

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 08, 2022 12:31 PM (sAmhv)

199 F' it all.. What a travesty... Bet this is as well received as Bergdahl....

Posted by: It's me donna at December 08, 2022 12:31 PM (bs+z0)

200 Can she even come into the country, with her domestic abuse issues?

Posted by: Wally at December 08, 2022 12:32 PM (FJYfm)

201 Any word on the 400+ Americans left behind in Afghanistan?

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 08, 2022 12:32 PM (DD8zc)

202 A hope would be Republicans would grow a pair and investigate why Biden gave up so much for so little in return, as just lies about Russians paying to have Americans killed was something Trump was going to get impeached for, but now Biden is freeing someone who actually tried to get Americans killed.
Posted by: Rbastid


Oh, another investigation~~!!! Yes, that'll do it! And a blue ribbon committee with a breakfast buffet every day! That'll stop the Biden Regime!

How about red state governors start arresting the criminals in the regime instead? How about actually putting people in jail? HMMMMM? How about some actual shit being done to evil fucks pretending to be our government?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2022 12:32 PM (IyrhE)

203 I wish we’d kept Anna Chapman.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 08, 2022 12:33 PM (fWMRJ)

204 Russia had him almost a year.
They are sending back a Manchurian Spy.

Posted by: it's over at December 08, 2022 12:33 PM (aMcXi)

205 Jesse Kelly Twitter:

"We traded a WNBA player for someone who can actually shoot."

Posted by: DaisyB at December 08, 2022 12:33 PM (AbL8c)

206 Getting pigeon-holed by Hollywood isn't good, but it is solid consistent work if you can ace playing a Russian mobster or something like that.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 08, 2022 12:33 PM (44ww/)

207 Britney wasn't getting his hormone treatments (presumably) and was going to quickly revert to his man body with full beard and chest hair. Couldn't let this happen, the only option was to offer a good deal to Putin. No such urgency in Paul Whelan's case.
Posted by: Chuck Martel


So Bia Den trades the Merchant of Death for Amanda Huginkiss.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2022 12:33 PM (gKNhs)

208 197 Hollywood's gonna Hollywood.

“Avatar: The Way of Water” Production Notes Appear to Confirm Film Will Push Climate Change and Colonization Propaganda
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 08, 2022 12:31 PM (FVME7)
_____________________

The first movie already did that, so of course the sequel is gonna double-down

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 08, 2022 12:33 PM (iFTx/)

209 Another example of using US foreign policy to appease domestic constituencies while potentially costing the future lives of blameless Americans.

Sounds like a win win for the Dems.

Posted by: whig at December 08, 2022 12:33 PM (bDjBG)

210 I just wanted to drop a partial list of action hero women that were on film before dimwit fool Jennifer Lawrence spouted her stupidity

Mary Fuller in What Happened to Mary (1912)
Gail Davis in Annie Oakley (1954 - 1957)
Pam Grier in Coffy (1972)
Sigourney Weaver in Alien (1979)
Anne Parillaud in La Femme Nikita (1990)
Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 (1991)
Hillary Swank in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
Bridget Fonda in Point of No Return (1993)
Geena Davis in Long Kiss Goodnight (1997)
Demi Moore in GI Jane (1997)
Michelle Rodriguez in The Fast & Furious (2001)
Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil (2002)
Uma Thurman in Kill Bill I & II (2003 & 2004)
Gina Carano in Haywire (2011)
Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider (2001)
Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu in Charlie’s Angels (2000)

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2022 12:33 PM (0hOvj)

211 “Avatar: The Way of Water” Production Notes Appear to Confirm Film Will Push Climate Change and Colonization Propaganda

Sadly, the special effects look cool and imaginative, but the story is a stinking pile of godless commie horseshit.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 08, 2022 12:33 PM (ZR+kM)

212 “Avatar: The Way of Water” Production Notes Appear to Confirm Film Will Push Climate Change and Colonization Propaganda
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 08, 2022 12:31 PM (FVME7)

I notice a large number of recently arrived colonizers every time I travel toward Houston or Dallas. Some even speak a bit of English, and a few speak Spanish. Most don't.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at December 08, 2022 12:33 PM (aGGj6)

213 So she can celebrate Kwanzaa with her 'family'. Duh!
Posted by: Puddleglum at December 08, 2022 12:31 PM (sAmhv)

Speaking of that My Husband wanted to know if the official Kwanzaa carol is Jungle Bells ? I denounce him and myself for laughing at that

Posted by: It's me donna at December 08, 2022 12:33 PM (bs+z0)

214 Boston trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees is no longer the worst trade in history.

Posted by: Rock Doc at December 08, 2022 12:33 PM (qHgd/)

215 Random though -

If Musk was smart (OK, I will grant that one) he would set up a feature on Twitter with group privacy of some sort to encourage a "journolist" type usage among journalists as well as other nefarious actors.

Then he could monitor them since he owns the platform.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 08, 2022 12:34 PM (gfbgX)

216 Mary Fuller is almost certainly the first female action hero in a series of adventures where she avoids being kidnapped and so on by her self in the big city. I'm sure MPPP approves.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2022 12:34 PM (0hOvj)

217 May Avatard Two sink at the box office like RMS Titanic and take James Cameron with it.

Delicious Irony will be if Top Gun:Maverick which was re-released on Dec 2 is still playing and beats this movie.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2022 12:34 PM (8EJMD)

218 Any word on the 400+ Americans left behind in Afghanistan?

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 08, 2022 12:32 PM


Pretty sure any who are left are either dead or in hiding. That one former Army Ranger guy that went in against State departments rules and got a bunch out before the biden administration ratted him out. Can't remember the exact number but IIRC he got a couple of dozen out.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 08, 2022 12:34 PM (uNylN)

219


"She"

hahahaha

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 08, 2022 12:35 PM (NG6Iv)

220 Sadly, the special effects look cool and imaginative, but the story is a stinking pile of godless commie horseshit.

Well, and Cameron recently stated that testosterone is "poison."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2022 12:35 PM (0hOvj)

221 Why this is on par with the brilliance of JFK trading nuclear missiles in Cuba for nuclear missiles in Turkey.

What diplomatic brilliance demonstrated by the resident potato!


Posted by: Archer at December 08, 2022 12:35 PM (gmo/4)

222 All hail our ghey masters.

Everything within the gjey state. Nothing outside the ghey state.

Posted by: waveguy at December 08, 2022 12:35 PM (ai2Yq)

223 “Avatar: The Way of Water” Production Notes Appear to Confirm Film Will Push Climate Change and Colonization Propaganda

Cameron has always loved his dopey leftwing messaging in. movies, but earlier in his career he had wiser folks overrule him. Like terrible original endings to "The Abyss" and "T2" for example.

Posted by: brak at December 08, 2022 12:35 PM (lO5WT)

224 The blue people three asteroids over from the ?Navi? did a lot better in comparison, after being colonized by the Space British. They've got trains and indoor plumbing. The place cleaned up real good and their giant tree doesn't have termites.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 08, 2022 12:35 PM (44ww/)

225 Oh, thank God. I was worried our nation was running short of hash-smoking America haters.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 08, 2022 12:35 PM (lf83v)

226 He learned from the "best" -- Barry trading Taliban terrorists for deserter Beau Bergdahl.

Maybe Chester the Molester Joey will give Griner and "her" wife a Rose Garden presser like Bergdahl's lefty parents got.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2022 12:35 PM (ptqGC)

227 Pam Grier again in Jackie Brown

Posted by: DB at December 08, 2022 12:35 PM (geLO8)

228 Talk about number 1 gun seller. Good job potato 🥔

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 08, 2022 12:35 PM (ytSiK)

229 [From this morning's Art thread:]

Best joke seen this morning so far: "We traded a carpet muncher for a carpet bomber".

Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2022 10:15 AM (ZGrMX)

Posted by: ShainS -- Ctrl+Galt+Delete to remove the The Great Reset malware virus at December 08, 2022 12:35 PM (mR+TH)

230 "did they wait to swap for Griner after GA election? makes sense given GOP habit of makingeverything dems do bad."

Yes, because there's nothing bad to be said about trading a big-time arms dealer for a b-ball star. What retards.

Now if Trump had done the same during this same situation, DU would be freaking out about it and calling Trump a Putin stooge.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 08, 2022 12:35 PM (Rl7KJ)

231 Now, the book and movie deal.

Posted by: fd at December 08, 2022 12:36 PM (sn5EN)

232 The WNBA isn't a "sports" league. We need to all stop pretending otherwise.

Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2022 12:36 PM (ibQSj)

233 Here's an alternate take. It's like bullshit global warming...maybe this Russia thing is all bullshit too.

If they're going to trade criminals for ultra super mega extreme radical Muh Ruszzians, then this Russia Putin hype is all a joke too.

fuck biden.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 08, 2022 12:36 PM (MLrvz)

234 I am surprised that any country with a nuclear program hasn't tried to blackmail our government with a strike threat. We look very weak, and probably are, what is FJB going to do about it? The way the country is being mismanaged is one more explanation for what's happening. I have no other reason for the absolute insanity of our government.

Posted by: megthered at December 08, 2022 12:36 PM (JMO84)

235 >“Avatar: The Way of Water” Production Notes Appear to Confirm Film Will Push Climate Change and Colonization Propaganda
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 08, 2022 12:31 PM (FVME7)

The deuce you say???

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at December 08, 2022 12:36 PM (dReA3)

236 “Avatar: The Way of Water” Production Notes Appear to Confirm Film Will Push Climate Change and Colonization Propaganda

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 08, 2022 12:31 PM (FVME7)

And you need to make $2 billion to break even?

I'll hold your beer.

Posted by: Michael Cimino at December 08, 2022 12:36 PM (wBpKf)

237 Griner is going to finish the rest of her sentence here, right?

Posted by: fd at December 08, 2022 12:36 PM (sn5EN)

238 The Rule 34 version of Avatar was better.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 08, 2022 12:36 PM (ZR+kM)

239 Pam Grier again in Jackie Brown

Yeah she's been lead in a ton of action movies, but I just tried to find and list the first.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2022 12:36 PM (0hOvj)

240 So is that "It's" wife with Joe ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 08, 2022 12:37 PM (bs+z0)

241 We are Sodom and Gommorah. Meanwhile Russia has banned teh tranny propaganda. I wonder which country will come out ahead in the next 10 years.
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Contemplating Suicide Since 2020 at December 08, 2022 12:25 PM (VTu1l)

============
In ten years Russia will still be a corrupt, alcoholic shithole, except with 10% less population than it has now.

And Russia might very well be better off than the Socialist Democrat Shitholes of America.

Posted by: rd at December 08, 2022 12:37 PM (Z32m1)

242 "top IOC officials can order testosterone testing for women whose gender is for some reason deemed debatable....

Griner says she'll be "fine" when I ask her about the IOC rules, though she also seems to say that she's never had a testosterone test. She'd take one if asked, she tells me, tersely. And what would she do if she didn't pass?

"I don't know," she replies."

https://tinyurl.com/2h2676sc

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 08, 2022 12:37 PM (NG6Iv)

243 If the Marine would come out as gay/trans and start shit talking America, Christianity and Westen culture, the biden State Department would work to get him released.

Posted by: Bob in Idaho at December 08, 2022 12:37 PM (k46vA)

244 Oh man....the mental gymnastics at DU over this trade are amazing.

an important question. Could we have insisted on more? I doubt it. I see this as a negotiation success. The way I see it is that Viktor Bout is disposable to Putin; as bizarre as it seems I don't think Viktor Bout is as important to Russia as Brittney Griner is to the USA.

Because we are the USA. Our people are not supposed to be disposable. That's not the same in Russia. Viktor Bout is not so important to a dictator; Putin can easily get himself a new arms dealer.

Doesn't matter that she's an NBA star or famous. She might as well have been a tourist... we're supposed to cherish our citizens.


Those are citizens we don't "cherish" Russia got their arms merchant back, and may be able to get their hands on more sophisticated weapons with which to kill Ukrainians.

But I love this "we're supposed to cherish our citizens". Ummm.. I don't "cherish" them all in this country, let alone ones I see abroad who act as if being an American is an exemption from acting like a decent human.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at December 08, 2022 12:37 PM (hoj4J)

245 And you can't be a "star" in something nobody comes to see, can you? If a play opened on Broadway and 5 people show up to watch it, did anyone really "star" in it?

Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2022 12:37 PM (ibQSj)

246 Speaking of that My Husband wanted to know if the official Kwanzaa carol is Jungle Bells ? I denounce him and myself for laughing at that
Posted by: It's me donna

You are both bad bad bad bad funny people.

Double plus I good wrongthink! Off to the camps!

Posted by: waveguy at December 08, 2022 12:37 PM (ai2Yq)

247 I do not buy the transgender label on Griner. I read a recent article about her which included a an interview she did a while back in which she talks about growing up , she started playing basketball to fight back against the kids who always made fun of her looks and out of norm height. This was twenty plus years ago before tranny became a thing. I think she has some kind of genetic defect that resulted in the height and lean masculine body. It also explains the stupid need to cover herself in tats and the lesbianism.

Posted by: Jen the original at December 08, 2022 12:37 PM (19hRb)

248 To all the WNBA zealots, I ask one question:

When was the last time you watched a WNBA game from tip-off to final buzzer?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 08, 2022 12:37 PM (lf83v)

249 Are or we getting someone else as well?
Posted by: G'rump928(c)


Yeah, I want to know what else the US gave up that is not public? Cash? Agreement on Ukraine? Concession re the seized assets? You know we gave up something more

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 08, 2022 12:37 PM (gfbgX)

250 wanted to know if the official Kwanzaa carol is Jungle Bells ?

************

Incorrect, I believe the official Kwanzaa carol is Gimme Gimme Gimme

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Contemplating Suicide Since 2020 at December 08, 2022 12:37 PM (VTu1l)

251 Another Fuck Biden thing.

Heck of a negotiation, eh?

Couldn't get the basketball player AND the Marine, could you?

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 08, 2022 12:37 PM (MLrvz)

252 "And they wonder why military recruitment is tanking."
No disrespect to veterans here an the blog (many), but the woke stuff in the military is a farce. So, you're a patriotic guy (or girl) and you want to serve your country?
You're exactly the type they are proudly purging right now.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 08, 2022 12:37 PM (jTmQV)

253 Griner is going to finish the rest of her sentence here, right?
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2022 12:36 PM (sn5EN)

"She'll" probably receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2022 12:38 PM (ptqGC)

254 here's what I didn't get about Avatar:


there's no infrastructure, no commerce, no economy-
what do they DO all day besides ride magic flying horses and stuff

Posted by: DB at December 08, 2022 12:38 PM (geLO8)

255 Griner is going to finish the rest of her sentence here, right?
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2022 12:36 PM (sn5EN)


Good point. I guess it is fair to say that we are officially harboring a felon now.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 08, 2022 12:38 PM (yQpMk)

256 IK-2 Yavas women's basketball team hardest hit.

Posted by: huerfano at December 08, 2022 12:38 PM (dTFZY)

257 I'm sure Joe is doing a much better job negotiating with Xi.

Because nobody messes with a Biden.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2022 12:38 PM (ZLI7S)

258 This is the same negotiating flair Biden's bringing to the railroad workers...the "open wallet, money on fire, can't so no" tactic.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 08, 2022 12:38 PM (MLrvz)

259 Jane D'Oh

Gaylord trading for Bowe is STILL worse than this trade.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2022 12:38 PM (8EJMD)

260 To all the WNBA zealots, I ask one question:

When was the last time you watched a WNBA game from tip-off to final buzzer?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot


What is this WNBA Tip-off thing you speak of?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2022 12:38 PM (gKNhs)

261 "It's come to my attention that Russia now has an extremely dangerous asset. That's why I'm introducing a Bill to send 200 Billion to Ukraine. Effective immediately."

~Mitch McConnell today prolly.

Posted by: DaisyB at December 08, 2022 12:39 PM (AbL8c)

262 A fucked in the head country that would elect a Fetterman and a Warnock to the US Senate is perfectly comfortable with this trade. Time to get out.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 08, 2022 12:39 PM (pb6ET)

263 Well, and Cameron recently stated that testosterone is "poison."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2022 12:35 PM (0hOvj)


Cameron's next Terminator will therefore cast ???? in the role of the Terminator?

Posted by: Archer at December 08, 2022 12:39 PM (gmo/4)

264
"She'll" probably receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2022 12:38 PM (ptqGC)

Count on it.. And he'll parade her at his State of Confusion speech...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 08, 2022 12:39 PM (bs+z0)

265 Brought to you by the same negotiation team that gave Iran pallets of millions of dollars. The leadership in this country is pathetic.

Posted by: JM in Florida at December 08, 2022 12:39 PM (OM820)

266 what do they DO all day besides ride magic flying horses and stuff

//

uh, it's paradise. Plus, ngl, they're fauna. What did your cat do all day?

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 08, 2022 12:39 PM (MLrvz)

267 >"She'll" probably receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Posted by: Jane D'oh


oh she/he will be pimped out at some White House function very soon- with its spouse in tow to celebrate the wonder of gayness

Posted by: DB at December 08, 2022 12:39 PM (geLO8)

268 In fairness, CBD with a not strong Delta variant from Hemp (Trumps farm bill) does enough to really help with pain if you train or active (the gummies). Helps with sleep too because you aren't in pain.

He is still retarded for flying with something illegal to another country and even playing there last year with the situation as it were over there.

Now Americans traveling over seas will be at risk. The AWFL and young girls in their 20's and 30's skirting their responsibility to have kids better pay attention.

Posted by: it's over at December 08, 2022 12:39 PM (aMcXi)

269 Doesn't matter that she's an NBA star or famous. She might as well have been a tourist... we're supposed to cherish our citizens.

I don't exactly disagree with this, but it applies to more than just some hateful alleged woman being held in Russian prisons and the sportsball player is the only one they seem to care about

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2022 12:39 PM (0hOvj)

270 I see Biden and Harris have moved up from their Play-Skool phones.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 08, 2022 12:39 PM (lf83v)

271 The best quip I've seen about this trade is still "we traded a carpet muncher for a carpet bomber". Saw it on Twitter, can't remember who said it.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2022 12:40 PM (ZGrMX)

272 CRT, Buffy was Krist Swanson wasn't it? Good list, despite my nit

Posted by: Oedipus at December 08, 2022 12:40 PM (Z6vKV)

273 265 Brought to you by the same negotiation team that gave Iran pallets of millions of dollars. The leadership in this country is pathetic.

///

another Biden negotiating masterpiece.

4 more years!

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 08, 2022 12:40 PM (MLrvz)

274 247 I do not buy the transgender label on Griner.
Posted by: Jen

If - according to the Left - a man can be a "woman," than a gay doper freak female can be a "trans" man.

Maybe he biological sex is female, but clearly her natural gender is male and she only identifies as a female .

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 08, 2022 12:40 PM (gfbgX)

275 I think she has some kind of genetic defect that resulted in the height and lean masculine body. It also explains the stupid need to cover herself in tats and the lesbianism.
Posted by: Jen the original
----------------------

#242 has the link to the 2013 article of her being interviewed about it.

It's literally titled "How Slam-Dunking, Gender-Bending WNBA Rookie Brittney Griner Is Changing the World of Sports"

He's a man. He says so in the article.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 08, 2022 12:40 PM (NG6Iv)

276 "She'll" probably receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Posted by: Jane D'oh "

I'm not even sure what it is. Does it or did it ever have a penis?

Posted by: fd at December 08, 2022 12:40 PM (sn5EN)

277 Boston trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees is no longer the worst trade in history.

Posted by: Rock Doc at December 08, 2022 12:33 PM (qHgd/)

The Padres/Cardinals Ozzie Smith/Gary Templeton trade has gotta rank pretty high.

Posted by: BignJames at December 08, 2022 12:40 PM (AwYPR)

278 Anyone else notice that Biden doesn't sniff the hair of black women?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 08, 2022 12:40 PM (lf83v)

279 254 here's what I didn't get about Avatar:


there's no infrastructure, no commerce, no economy-
what do they DO all day besides ride magic flying horses and stuff
Posted by: DB at December 08, 2022 12:38 PM (geLO

They link up via that huge tree. You know, the one Stephen Lang and Co. lit up like a Christmas Tree so Cameron could try to invoke 9/11 attack imagery.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 08, 2022 12:40 PM (Rl7KJ)

280 Black Lives Matter.
Your life does not.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 08, 2022 12:40 PM (BJKQV)

281 The Vikings trade for Hershel Walker doesn't look so bad now

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 08, 2022 12:40 PM (flINI)

282 When was the last time you watched a WNBA game from tip-off to final buzzer?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 08, 2022 12:37 PM (lf83v)

I was the first to ever do it.

Posted by: Jennifer Lawrence at December 08, 2022 12:41 PM (76Foq)

283 Griner's a dude, right?

Those arms don't look natural at all for a woman.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 08, 2022 12:41 PM (eyxn4)

284 Oh hysterical, Mrs928 is buying these for the doper nephews for Christmas.

https://amz.run/6Cty

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 08, 2022 12:41 PM (yQpMk)

285 I'm not even sure what it is. Does it or did it ever have a penis?
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2022 12:40 PM (sn5EN)

I think it's just a lesbian

Posted by: It's me donna at December 08, 2022 12:41 PM (bs+z0)

286 military is a farce. So, you're a patriotic guy (or girl) and you want to serve your country?

//

uhmmmm...no.

the country is a force for evil. And they left is pretty open about nuking the south and midwest. so, no thanks, I won't enlist to shoot mom.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 08, 2022 12:41 PM (MLrvz)

287 Hillary Swank in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
. . .
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 08, 2022


***
Was she in the Buffy movie? I thought the lead was played by Kristy Swanson.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2022 12:41 PM (J2vNu)

288 though she also seems to say that she's never had a testosterone test. She'd take one if asked, she tells me, tersely. And what would she do if she didn't pass?

"I don't know," she replies."


https://tinyurl.com/2h2676sc
Posted by: Press Juan For English


THAT'S a tell. No "non-prostate born woman" would have enough testosterone in their system to trigger the testing.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2022 12:42 PM (gKNhs)

289 Speaking of that My Husband wanted to know if the official Kwanzaa carol is Jungle Bells ? I denounce him and myself for laughing at that
Posted by: It's me donna at December 08, 2022 12:33 PM (bs+z0)


I thought it was "Black Christmas"?

"I'm Dreaming of a Blaccckkk Christmas.
Just like the ones I used to know."

Posted by: rd at December 08, 2022 12:42 PM (Z32m1)

290 The next time Joey ends another rambling, disjointed speech with "God bless our troops," remember Bergdahl, blown up Marines during his disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, and this America-hating trannie being freed while leaving behind a former Marine, who's been in prison since 2018.

But boy howdy, the left is positively giddy.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2022 12:42 PM (ptqGC)

291 I am proud to say I never saw Avatar, or Titanic, partly because the more hyped up a movie was, the less likely I would see it.

Sadly, I wish that had still been the case with The Force Awakens.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Contemplating Suicide Since 2020 at December 08, 2022 12:42 PM (VTu1l)

292 there's no infrastructure, no commerce, no economy-
what do they DO all day besides ride magic flying horses and stuff
---------------------------

It makes Wakanda look like a well thought out Tolkien-grade world.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 08, 2022 12:42 PM (NG6Iv)

293 I'm pretty sure the ruskie prison people looked at her no-no region to make sure she's a girl

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 08, 2022 12:42 PM (MLrvz)

294 265 Brought to you by the same negotiation team that gave Iran pallets of millions of dollars. The leadership in this country is pathetic.
Posted by: JM in Florida

---------------------
It is no secret, the elites hate average Americans (or in the UK, average Brits, in Germany, average Germans, and so on) and want them dead or enslaved. That is who they are and they have been yelling it louder and louder.

When you look at government policies to demoralize you, make you poorer, colder, less mobile, and ultimately displace you, it all stems from they want you dead or a slave that knows its place.

Posted by: whig at December 08, 2022 12:43 PM (bDjBG)

295 Yes, she was unjustly detained; she's a leftist and, no matter what, you cannot detain leftists.

Posted by: JM in Florida at December 08, 2022 12:43 PM (OM820)

296 Breaking: Brittney Griner freed as part of prisoner swap pic.twitter.com/JbmucoOB7h

Neither Bout nor Griner were prisoners of war.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2022 12:43 PM (ESjRY)

297 I thought it was "Black Christmas"?

"I'm Dreaming of a Blaccckkk Christmas.
Just like the ones I used to know."

Posted by: rd at December 08, 2022 12:42 PM (Z32m1)


How many shoplifting days until Kwanzaa?

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at December 08, 2022 12:43 PM (OgrpQ)

298 It's a shame the NYT is on strike. I'd really love to see their headline for this.

Posted by: screaming in digital at December 08, 2022 12:43 PM (tYr3O)

299 Let me put this as succinctly as I can.

They don't care.

They don't care what you think. They don't care what you say or write.

Democrats have control of the government. They have control of the elections so that everything they do is inconsequential. They know Republicans are weak, feckless cowards who won't fight back beyond strongly worded letters and posturing on Fox.

This isn't for you. It's bread and circuses for the people who just elected more Democrats.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 08, 2022 12:43 PM (tDEa7)

300 Now Americans traveling over seas will be at risk. The AWFL and young girls in their 20's and 30's skirting their responsibility to have kids better pay attention.
Posted by: it's over

40% of which are prolly sterile after the vax according to the Prizer docs. I would assume having a still born from a vaccine doesnt beard to well for future successful pregnancies.

Posted by: it's over at December 08, 2022 12:43 PM (aMcXi)

301 Paul Whelan seems kinda sketchy but he apparently voted for Trump in 2016.
Dems will never get him out

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 08, 2022 12:43 PM (EGSGm)

302
Oh, another investigation~~!!! Yes, that'll do it! And a blue ribbon committee with a breakfast buffet every day! That'll stop the Biden Regime!

How about red state governors start arresting the criminals in the regime instead? How about actually putting people in jail? HMMMMM? How about some actual shit being done to evil fucks pretending to be our government?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2022 12:32 PM (IyrhE)


You act like that's possible. A governor of Florida or Texas can't just go and arrest Biden, or any government individual, and even most AGs are kept from investing members of the federal government, especially since none of these crimes are within their jurisdiction.

You can mock the ineffectiveness of panels and investigations, but that's all Republicans can do now. To have some moronic idea that DeSantis can just send a local FL sheriff to arrest Biden, and then try to act like everyone else is just being weak for thinking otherwise, is the stupidity that causes Republicans to constantly snatch defeat from the hands of victory.

Posted by: Rbastid at December 08, 2022 12:43 PM (/HQcE)

303 there's no infrastructure, no commerce, no economy-
what do they DO all day besides ride magic flying horses and stuff


Apparently they kill and eat those dog things, while being grateful.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 08, 2022 12:43 PM (yQpMk)

304 THAT'S a tell. No "non-prostate born woman" would have enough testosterone in their system to trigger the testing.
Posted by: rickb223
----------------------------------

Yeah, it's a bit weird for a woman to worry about that sort of thing.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 08, 2022 12:43 PM (NG6Iv)

305 Was she in the Buffy movie? I thought the lead was played by Kristy Swanson.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

You are correct.

Posted by: whig at December 08, 2022 12:43 PM (bDjBG)

306 Hillary Swank in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Kristy Swanson. (And of course Sarah Michelle Gellar in the TV version).

Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2022 12:43 PM (ZGrMX)

307 253 Griner is going to finish the rest of her sentence here, right?
Posted by: fd at December 08, 2022 12:36 PM (sn5EN)

"She'll" probably receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2022 12:38 PM

Along with a Biden provided crack pipe.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at December 08, 2022 12:44 PM (hoj4J)

308 Cameron's next Terminator will therefore cast ???? in the role of the Terminator?

Posted by: Archer at December 08, 2022 12:39 PM (gmo/4)

Pee Wee Herman

Posted by: BignJames at December 08, 2022 12:44 PM (AwYPR)

309
Joe Biden, the Bill O'Brien of diplomacy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2022 12:44 PM (MoZTd)

310 I bet the Russians are happy to be rid of this freak show.

Thanks Joe!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 08, 2022 12:44 PM (0ZEfs)

311 248 To all the WNBA zealots, I ask one question:

When was the last time you watched a WNBA game from tip-off to final buzzer?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot



Bill Burr

https://youtu.be/QY9Gz_IMn_k

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 08, 2022 12:44 PM (sAmhv)

312 “Avatar: The Way of Water” Production Notes Appear to Confirm Film Will Push Climate Change and Colonization Propaganda
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 08, 2022 12:31 PM (FVME7)
++++
So, much the same as the first one?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 08, 2022 12:44 PM (t0OGg)

313 Anyone care to postulate on the caliber of Griner's meat cannon?

Posted by: Archer at December 08, 2022 12:44 PM (gmo/4)

314 How poorly thought out the world of Pandora is?

The Na'avi are bipedal. Everything else in the world is hexapedal

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2022 12:45 PM (8EJMD)

315 "She'll" probably receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Posted by: Jane D'oh "

I'm not even sure what it is. Does it or did it ever have a penis?
Posted by: fd

Not a true test. Anyone can cut their dick off.
Very few have ever had their prostate removed.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2022 12:45 PM (gKNhs)

316 there's no infrastructure, no commerce, no economy-
what do they DO all day besides ride magic flying horses and stuff
---------------------------

It makes Wakanda look like a well thought out Tolkien-grade world.
Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 08, 2022 12:42 PM (NG6Iv)
---
Isn't it basically a hunter-gatherer society? That means they would not be able to support a large population...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2022 12:45 PM (YIVH2)

317
I thought Putin would get even more in exchange for this creepy useless twat that 80% of the USA utterly despises.
Posted by: Elric Blade


You just know that there's more to the deal than a one for one swap. I'm thinking that Pooty got Joe Plugs to cut off HIMARS reloads for Ukraine. I'm gonna watch for a sudden re-evaluation of certain key weapons systems for the Ukes by the end of the year.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 08, 2022 12:45 PM (n+4am)

318 Pee Wee Herman

US Senate potential right there.

Posted by: Donald Trump at December 08, 2022 12:45 PM (pb6ET)

319 Why are we trading someone dangerous for an idiot?

Russia isn't like the US, and if you go over there, you had best pay attention.

Posted by: Dianna at December 08, 2022 12:45 PM (YFlEv)

320 303 kill and those dog things

*jug ears prick up*

— Barack Obama

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 08, 2022 12:45 PM (fWMRJ)

321 now the latest is that MBS brokered the deal after Biden gave him immunity

Posted by: REDACTED at December 08, 2022 12:45 PM (us2H3)

322 here's what I didn't get about Avatar:


there's no infrastructure, no commerce, no economy-
what do they DO all day besides ride magic flying horses and stuff
Posted by: DB at December 08, 2022


***
I've never seen the original film. Aren't the natives, like, hunter-gatherers? There'd be trade, and infrastructure might consist of huts or whatever the natives live in. And if they were human HGs, there'd be raids on other tribes, limited war, and other entertainments.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2022 12:45 PM (J2vNu)

323 there's no infrastructure, no commerce, no economy-
what do they DO all day besides ride magic flying horses and stuff
Posted by: DB at December 08, 2022 12:38 PM (geLO

A culture that doesn't explore is a dead end.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 08, 2022 12:45 PM (44ww/)

324 313 Anyone care to postulate on the caliber of Griner's meat cannon?
Posted by: Archer at December 08, 2022 12:44 PM (gmo/4)

I believe it would have to be a strap on

Posted by: It's me donna at December 08, 2022 12:45 PM (bs+z0)

325 Anyone care to postulate on the caliber of Griner's meat cannon?
Posted by: Archer

Pffft.....

Posted by: Michele Obama at December 08, 2022 12:45 PM (FrlRD)

326 ...and even most AGs are kept from investing members of the federal government, especially since none of these crimes are within their jurisdiction

*************

Hi there!

Posted by: New York vs Trump at December 08, 2022 12:46 PM (VTu1l)

327 Isn't it basically a hunter-gatherer society? That means they would not be able to support a large population...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
----------------------------

Didn't you learn anything about the Indians, you racist? They used every part of the buffalo, so that made everything work out fine.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 08, 2022 12:46 PM (NG6Iv)

328 She's been famous as a basketball player since high school. ("Famous" at least in the basketball community) She's not a guy. That said, she has a very deep voice and is 6'8" so the speculation isn't completely ridiculous.

Posted by: Wally at December 08, 2022 12:46 PM (FJYfm)

329
FIRST TIME ANYONE'S EVER NOTICED A WNBA TRADE
Posted by: Elric Blade


Heh.

Watch it. You're gonna make Wicket jealous.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 08, 2022 12:46 PM (n+4am)

330 THAT'S a tell. No "non-prostate born woman" would have enough testosterone in their system to trigger the testing.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2022 12:42 PM (gKNhs)
++++
Unless she isn't "trans" but is rather an example of a hermaphrodite. They're rare, but they exist.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 08, 2022 12:46 PM (t0OGg)

331 THAT'S a tell. No "non-prostate born woman" would have enough testosterone in their system to trigger the testing.

The best argument against Griner being Big Mike II: Electric Penisloo is that an actual M-to-F tranny in the WNBA should be scoring 150 points a game by themselves, just like we've seen in all other women's sports.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2022 12:46 PM (ZGrMX)

332 Do we have a latter-day Sam Donaldson to shout at the President, at every opportunity: "What about Paul Whelan?"

It should be a chorus.

Posted by: JM in Florida at December 08, 2022 12:46 PM (OM820)

333 >>> Hillary Swank in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Kristy Swanson. (And of course Sarah Michelle Gellar in the TV version).
Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2022 12:43 PM (ZGrMX)


I wouldn't be surprised if Kristy was a moron of the us variety. She's a pretty based conservative.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 08, 2022 12:46 PM (2oHWb)

334 Note to marines: your lives aren’t all that valuable to the regime you are supporting. Just thought I’d mention it.

Posted by: Ex-GOP at December 08, 2022 12:47 PM (YTBIQ)

335 A culture that doesn't explore is a dead end.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

///

more like, Avatar is the best anti-immigration movie ever.

A culture that let's in a replacement population is just dead.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 08, 2022 12:47 PM (MLrvz)

336 Didn't you learn anything about the Indians, you racist? They used every part of the buffalo, so that made everything work out fine.
Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 08, 2022 12:46 PM (NG6Iv)
++++
Industrial animal processors use every part of the animal, too. Yet no one waxes poetic about them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 08, 2022 12:47 PM (t0OGg)

337 Isn't it basically a hunter-gatherer society? That means they would not be able to support a large population...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
----------------------------

Didn't you learn anything about the Indians, you racist? They used every part of the buffalo, so that made everything work out fine.
Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 08, 2022 12:46 PM (NG6Iv)
---
I'm pretty sure it was the development of agriculture that led to stable populations and eventually major growth...The Na'vi don't seem to have that, so they are a stagnant society that is limited by the resources they can hunt/gather.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2022 12:47 PM (YIVH2)

338 Democrats have control of the government. They have control of the elections so that everything they do is inconsequential. They know Republicans are weak, feckless cowards who won't fight back beyond strongly worded letters and posturing on Fox.

Yep. And all of our posturing about candidates and races is just Fantasy Football at this point.

Posted by: DaisyB at December 08, 2022 12:48 PM (AbL8c)

339 IDK, is Griner's WAG NBA hot?

what's the point

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 08, 2022 12:48 PM (MLrvz)

340 330 THAT'S a tell. No "non-prostate born woman" would have enough testosterone in their system to trigger the testing.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2022 12:42 PM (gKNhs)
++++
Unless she isn't "trans" but is rather an example of a hermaphrodite. They're rare, but they exist.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
==================
I think a prominent South African runner had that issue back around one of the Olympics over ten years ago or some such. Forget what the rule changes if any were to accommodate her.

Posted by: whig at December 08, 2022 12:48 PM (bDjBG)

341 I'll say one thing, it diverted everyone's attention off that Lt. Col. Christopher Schilling censorship story.

Posted by: lowandslow at December 08, 2022 12:48 PM (76Foq)

342 Boston trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees is no longer the worst trade in history.

Posted by: Rock Doc at December 08, 2022 12:33 PM (qHgd/)

The Padres/Cardinals Ozzie Smith/Gary Templeton trade has gotta rank pretty high.
Posted by: BignJames at December 08, 2022 12:40 PM (AwYPR)
***

Ummm. About that...

Posted by: Denver Broncos at December 08, 2022 12:48 PM (anj39)

343 I'm pretty sure it was the development of agriculture that led to stable populations and eventually major growth...The Na'vi don't seem to have that, so they are a stagnant society that is limited by the resources they can hunt/gather.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2022 12:47 PM (YIVH2)

Or mind-rape via their dred-USB ports.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 08, 2022 12:48 PM (Rl7KJ)

344 Kristy Swanson of Buffy I believe is a conservative as well.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger at December 08, 2022 12:48 PM (VTu1l)

345 Do we have a latter-day Sam Donaldson to shout at the President, at every opportunity: "What about Paul Whelan?"

It should be a chorus.


The libs already have a defense: Whelan's been in since 2018, so it's Trump's fault.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2022 12:48 PM (ZGrMX)

346 The Na'vi seem to live in a world where everything might try to kill you, sort of like Australia.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 08, 2022 12:49 PM (yQpMk)

347 and Wakanda- that's just 'The Avengers' for P of C, right

Posted by: DB at December 08, 2022 12:49 PM (geLO8)

348 The best argument against Griner being Big Mike II: Electric Penisloo is that an actual M-to-F tranny in the WNBA should be scoring 150 points a game by themselves, just like we've seen in all other women's sports.
Posted by: Ian S.


Unless he's just not that good. Period.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2022 12:49 PM (gKNhs)

349 here's what I didn't get about Avatar:

there's no infrastructure, no commerce, no economy-
what do they DO all day besides ride magic flying horses and stuff
Posted by: DB at December 08, 2022 12:38 PM (geLO

============
It is so Obvious Dude!
The Government gives everyone a Basic living wage maannn!
If they can do it?
Why Can't we?

Vote for Bernie Sanders!

Posted by: rd at December 08, 2022 12:49 PM (Z32m1)

350 Meh who cares? Par for the course. More noise for the Foxnews dummies to jack off on. True American history hasn't been taught in public schools for at least 25 years. Based on this and the fact the vast majority of young people who are now joining the military are ignorant anti- christian woke dullards, I say we have about 8 years before the woke gain majority in the military and we begin seeing the left deploy its newly found strong arm against Patriots. 10 years ago I'd hear of young Christian men in our family circle joining up (with reservation even back then). Today that reservation is gone. No Patriot would encourage a young adult to join today. This is the real threat.

Posted by: MikeN at December 08, 2022 12:49 PM (1LE7b)

351 >The Na'vi seem to live in a world where everything might try to kill you, sort of like Australia.

Posted by: G'rump928(c)


also everything glows in the dark

Posted by: DB at December 08, 2022 12:49 PM (geLO8)

352 More seriously -

The real problem with Russia is not "collusion," or Ukraine, but their obsession with fucking around with other countries internal issues. Since the start of Soviet times they have spent a lot of effort trying to destroy societies around the world.
This is the nugget of truth behind the election interference claims -- they did interfere, but only to cause division and a discontent population that made life worse for Americans. (They clearly preferred Clinton.)

Most of their current influence operations are economically targeted such as anti GMO, or anti Fracking in Europe. Much is military in SA and Africa.

This trade only supports that effort - they see this guy as a patriot to the Russian cause of destroying all the world's nations. And biden helped that effort.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 08, 2022 12:49 PM (gfbgX)

353 Cameron's next Terminator will therefore cast ???? in the role of the Terminator?

Posted by: Archer


An interior decorator. Oh, wait... that was the last Terminator.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 08, 2022 12:49 PM (IyrhE)

354 The Padres/Cardinals Ozzie Smith/Gary Templeton trade has gotta rank pretty high.

As a Vikings fan, I have to throw the Herschel Walker trade into this ring. (Yes, *that* Herschel Walker).

Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2022 12:50 PM (ZGrMX)

355 So, did the Indian wimmins use the bull buffalo’s meat cannon for… you know…?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 08, 2022 12:50 PM (fWMRJ)

356 It makes Wakanda look like a well thought out Tolkien-grade world.

*********

Remember the world of Avatar was the world pussy whipped soy soaked fans were depressed they couldn't live in.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger at December 08, 2022 12:50 PM (VTu1l)

357 Cameron's next Terminator will therefore cast ???? in the role of the Terminator?

Posted by: Archer at December 08, 2022 12:39 PM

Dylan Mulvaney

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at December 08, 2022 12:50 PM (hoj4J)

358 Or mind-rape via their dred-USB ports.
Posted by: Thrawn at December 08, 2022 12:48 PM (Rl7KJ)
---
Are they so tied to their planet that they can't leave it? Is their "utopia" limited to their planet? How can they grow as a species if they cannot explore the universe?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2022 12:50 PM (YIVH2)

359 Over-under on how soon she's back to shitting on the USA? 48 hours? 24?
Posted by: Elric Blade

As soon as she's "Feet Dry".

Posted by: Fox2! at December 08, 2022 12:50 PM (ueLz3)

360 Robert Mueller has offered to drop the indictments against 10 Russian hackers if Whelan is returned

Posted by: REDACTED at December 08, 2022 12:50 PM (us2H3)

361 Commandant of the Marine Corps doesn't think the vaccine mandate is an issue for recruiting. He's believes it's "misinformation in some areas about the vaccine". You know like it doesn't stop the spread of the virus, it doesn't prevent you from getting COVID and it has a very high percentage of side effects.

Let that sink in, because the Commandant has no self awareness.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 08, 2022 12:50 PM (tDEa7)

362 Jennifer Lawrence “Don’t Know Much About (Movie) History”

-
What was your first clue?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 08, 2022 12:51 PM (FVME7)

363 the trade was not really one for one, the arm's dealer will sell to bad people that will kill many innocents. The cost will be (runs calculations for ten seconds) ten thousand dead innocents, to get back one America hater.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 08, 2022 12:51 PM (Cus5s)

364 Did Biden at least get us a Lesbian-Drug-Offender-to-be-Named-Later in the deal?

Posted by: Lincoln Hawk at December 08, 2022 12:51 PM (OpX6M)

365 How poorly thought out the world of Pandora is?

The Na'avi are bipedal. Everything else in the world is hexapedal
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2022


***
Any decent SF writer would either not do that, or would set it up to indicate that the intelligent natives came there from some other planet. Then we have a mystery: How did they get there, and who brought them? And why?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2022 12:51 PM (J2vNu)

366 The real problem with Russia is not "collusion," or Ukraine, but their obsession with fucking around with other countries internal issues.


Yes ... err .. well .. quite..

Those bastards..

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: The USA at December 08, 2022 12:51 PM (yQpMk)

367 I mean- if you're a Na'vi, do you have a job?

Posted by: DB at December 08, 2022 12:51 PM (geLO8)

368 here's what I didn't get about Avatar: there's no infrastructure, no commerce, no economy-what do they DO all day besides ride magic flying horses and stuff. Posted by: DB at December 08, 2022

***

I've never seen the original film. Aren't the natives, like, hunter-gatherers? There'd be trade, and infrastructure might consist of huts or whatever the natives live in. And if they were human HGs, there'd be raids on other tribes, limited war, and other entertainments.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Avatar is 50's western but with 20' natives who happen to be blue, who spend all day riding around on magic flying horses, sitting around a tree, and well, who in the hell knows. You aren't supposed to be asking these questions, so please for the sake of humanity please control yourself.

Posted by: Lost in Space at December 08, 2022 12:52 PM (c1mVn)

369 Are they so tied to their planet that they can't leave it? Is their "utopia" limited to their planet? How can they grow as a species if they cannot explore the universe?

Assuming Cameron wants the Na'avi to give up their pure ways to tread the star lanes...

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2022 12:52 PM (8EJMD)

370 Griner is going to write a book. No doubt about it. The question is:

What will be the title?

Russian Justice: Putin In My Time.

Offensive Foul: A Black Women Called for Traveling

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 08, 2022 12:52 PM (lf83v)

371 As a Vikings fan, I have to throw the Herschel Walker trade into this ring. (Yes, *that* Herschel Walker).
Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2022

I'll throw in the Montreal Canadiens trading Patrick Roy to the Colorado Avalanche for spare parts.

Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at December 08, 2022 12:52 PM (eGTCV)

372 The Fart of The Deal

Posted by: wth at December 08, 2022 12:52 PM (v0R5T)

373 What took you so long you ungrateful cracker whitey bigots?

I PLAY BASKETBALL!

I AM A WOMAN OF COLOR!

I AM A LESBIAN!

Posted by: Brittany Grinder at December 08, 2022 12:52 PM (XIJ/X)

374 Just to add to CRT's list of female action leads above, Michelle Yeoh was a huge international action star going back to the 1980s. There were also tons of female-lead action movies in the 80s. They were mostly B-movies featuring martial arts stars like Cynthia Rothrock, but they were real movies. JLaw is a fucking moron.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 08, 2022 12:52 PM (iFTx/)

375 Check out this Mensa candidate's Hot Take:

@ananavarro

#BrittneyGriner is free! Hallelujah!

Folks, if you are an American citizen, DO NOT go to Russia, right now. Just don't.
Putin is a ruthless man, capable of anything.

Also, WNBA needs pay equity so US athletes don't have to go play in God-forsaken countries with no rule of law.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2022 12:52 PM (ptqGC)

376 #370. Nicely done!

Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2022 12:53 PM (ibQSj)

377 368 Avatar is 50's western but with 20' natives who happen to be blue, who spend all day riding around on magic flying horses, sitting around a tree, and well, who in the hell knows. You aren't supposed to be asking these questions, so please for the sake of humanity please control yourself.
Posted by: Lost in Space at December 08, 2022 12:52 PM (c1mVn)

Someone should have wrote a movie about introducing High Fructose Corn Syrup to the blue cat-people population.

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2022 12:53 PM (UnA8+)

378
Yo! Right here!

Posted by: Lou Brock for Ernie Broglio at December 08, 2022 12:53 PM (MoZTd)

379 "Do we have a latter-day Sam Donaldson to shout at the President, at every opportunity: "What about Paul Whelan?"

Democrats: "We thank him for his service".

Posted by: Marcus T at December 08, 2022 12:53 PM (tDEa7)

380 Let that sink in, because the Commandant has no self awareness.

On Twitter yesterday, one of the big outrages was a photo posted by an active-duty Marine at Pearl Harbor where he's wearing a gay fetish dog mask, a uniform top with the name tag removed, no pants, and a boner. China needs to just invade now and put us out of our misery.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2022 12:53 PM (ZGrMX)

381 where do they poop

Posted by: DB at December 08, 2022 12:53 PM (geLO8)

382 Avatar is 50's western but with 20' natives who happen to be blue, who spend all day riding around on magic flying horses, sitting around a tree, and well, who in the hell knows. You aren't supposed to be asking these questions, so please for the sake of humanity please control yourself.
Posted by: Lost in Space


It's Dances With Smurfs.

Posted by: Oedipus at December 08, 2022 12:53 PM (4n5/o)

383 Commandant of the Marine Corps doesn't think the vaccine mandate is an issue for recruiting.
____________

If he doesn't eat his crayons in the morning, he gets a little cranky.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 08, 2022 12:53 PM (lf83v)

384 We need a thread on gift ideas.
I'm stumped.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2022 12:53 PM (anj39)

385 Wolfus

H. Beam Piper already did that and gave us Fuzzy Sapiens.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2022 12:54 PM (8EJMD)

386 Didn't you learn anything about the Indians, you racist? They used every part of the buffalo, so that made everything work out fine.
Posted by: Press Juan For English


Kinda hard to use every part when they would run a thousand over a cliff just for a dozen humps.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2022 12:54 PM (gKNhs)

387 Why do all the tribes of the peaceful Na'vi have a pretty obvious warrior caste and tradition.

I think there is something they aren't telling us.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 08, 2022 12:54 PM (yQpMk)

388 380 Let that sink in, because the Commandant has no self awareness.

On Twitter yesterday, one of the big outrages was a photo posted by an active-duty Marine at Pearl Harbor where he's wearing a gay fetish dog mask, a uniform top with the name tag removed, no pants, and a boner. China needs to just invade now and put us out of our misery.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2022 12:53 PM (ZGrMX)

The only shock is that he's a Marine and not Air Force.

Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2022 12:54 PM (UnA8+)

389 @ananavarro
#BrittneyGriner is free! Hallelujah!

Folks, if you are an American citizen, DO NOT go to Russia, right now. Just don't.
Putin is a ruthless man, capable of anything.

Also, WNBA needs pay equity so US athletes don't have to go play in God-forsaken countries with no rule of law.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2022 12:52 PM (ptqGC)
++++
That merits the good old Captain Picard response:
https://is.gd/uj7KlC

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 08, 2022 12:54 PM (t0OGg)

390 She is safe.
She is on a plane.
She is on her way home.
.......

She?
Oh good. Now he can finish his tats and buy some Knotty Boy Dread Wax.

Posted by: wth at December 08, 2022 12:54 PM (v0R5T)

391 She will "write" a book that will get her an advance in the millions from all the usual groups that no one will ever read.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 08, 2022 12:54 PM (2oHWb)

392 My people used every part of the wheel.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 08, 2022 12:55 PM (44ww/)

393 Boston trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees is no longer the worst trade in history.

Posted by: Rock Doc at December 08, 2022 12:33 PM (qHgd/)

The Padres/Cardinals Ozzie Smith/Gary Templeton trade has gotta rank pretty high.
Posted by: BignJames at December 08, 2022 12:40 PM (AwYPR)


Ahem

Posted by: Any New York Mets trade of the 1970s at December 08, 2022 12:55 PM (fatpD)

394 Why do all the tribes of the peaceful Na'vi have a pretty obvious warrior caste and tradition.

******************

It's quite possible that when it comes to logical consistency and realism Cameron is an utter fucking moron.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger at December 08, 2022 12:55 PM (VTu1l)

395 Diogenes, you can order a can of edible zebra tarantula meat from Amazon.

Saw it at a link on Insty.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 08, 2022 12:55 PM (fWMRJ)

396 389 @ananavarro

Shut up you fat f**k

Posted by: It's me donna at December 08, 2022 12:55 PM (bs+z0)

397 Hmmm, the plot thickens?

"Saudi crown prince, UAE president led mediation in US basketball star Griner, Russia’s Viktor Bout prisoner swap"

https://tinyurl.com/2hpnmfnf

Posted by: Thrawn at December 08, 2022 12:55 PM (Rl7KJ)

398 370 Griner is going to write a book. No doubt about it. The question is:

What will be the title?

Russian Justice: Putin In My Time.

Offensive Foul: A Black Women Called for Traveling
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 08, 2022 12:52 PM

They put me in that terrible work camp. Maybe something referencing that, like "Mine Camp"? Sounds familiar...

Posted by: Brittney Greiner at December 08, 2022 12:56 PM (hoj4J)

399 338 Democrats have control of the government. They have control of the elections so that everything they do is inconsequential. They know Republicans are weak, feckless cowards who won't fight back beyond strongly worded letters and posturing on Fox.

Yep. And all of our posturing about candidates and races is just Fantasy Football at this point.
Posted by: DaisyB

I disagree. The only way to break through to people enough to cause a change in the status quo is to keep bringing the issue up and rub the normie noses in it the shit.

More or less, the Democratic coalition is as unstable as the GOPe and GOP base. Money is what holds it together and that is becoming worthless plus scarcity leads to empty shelves with nothing to buy as well.

When the govt can no longer buy loyalty, then the politics of the moment will change.

Posted by: whig at December 08, 2022 12:56 PM (bDjBG)

400 Our brave ancestors left the trees and made a go of it on two legs. With various stops and starts we have arrived at . . . Joe Biden and company.

If one had a Wayback Machine, would one use it to go back and say, "Just stay up there. "

Posted by: 2009Refugee at December 08, 2022 12:56 PM (3KXHn)

401 Someone should have wrote a movie about introducing High Fructose Corn Syrup to the blue cat-people population.
Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2022 12:53 PM (UnA8+)



Firewater.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 08, 2022 12:56 PM (yQpMk)

402 Couldn't get the basketball player AND the Marine, could you?
Posted by: sockamster,


You think I'm stupid?

Putin

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 08, 2022 12:56 PM (NW9xb)

403 Is it an Aeroflot plane?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2022 12:56 PM (8EJMD)

404 Looking on the negative side: The Russia government got a useful resource, the American government got nothing.

Looking on the positive side: The current American government is a bigger danger to Americans then the Russian one is so on net this is a positive.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 08, 2022 12:57 PM (ESjRY)

405
She will "write" a book that will get her an advance in the millions from all the usual groups that no one will ever read.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 08, 2022 12:54 PM (2oHWb)

___________

The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am pleased.
In vast quantities it has been remaindered
Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been seized
And sits in piles in a police warehouse,
My enemy's much-prized effort sits in piles
In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs.
Great, square stacks of rejected books and, between them, aisles
One passes down reflecting on life's vanities,
Pausing to remember all those thoughtful reviews
Lavished to no avail upon one's enemy's book --
For behold, here is that book
Among these ranks and banks of duds,
These ponderous and seeminly irreducible cairns
Of complete stiffs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 08, 2022 12:57 PM (MoZTd)

406 Wolfus

H. Beam Piper already did that and gave us Fuzzy Sapiens.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2022


***
I've never been able to find his work at any libraries around here. Are paperback editions available on AbeBooks?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2022 12:57 PM (J2vNu)

407 Serious question I'd like to see the actual accounting books on: "What is the closest a WNBA team has ever come to breaking even?"

The question itself assumes that none ever generated a profit--I feel pretty certain of that, but am I missing something?

Posted by: Crusader at December 08, 2022 12:57 PM (ibQSj)

408 248 To all the WNBA zealots, I ask one question:

When was the last time you watched a WNBA game from tip-off to final buzzer?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot


"Tip Off to Final Buzzer: The Ilhan Omar Guide to Islamic Sex."

(alternate title: "Nipped in the Bud")

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 08, 2022 12:57 PM (x0n13)

409 CRT, since you mentioned Hilary Swank...Million Dollar Baby...not exactly an action hero, but a worthy similar role since she's been metioned.

Posted by: Oedipus at December 08, 2022 12:57 PM (4n5/o)

410 I can't express how thrilled I am that short Brittney and tall Brittney are free at last, good God almighty, free at last. That FJB is proving to be a real something or the other.

Posted by: Lost in Space at December 08, 2022 12:57 PM (c1mVn)

411 The Layup Archipelago

Posted by: DB at December 08, 2022 12:57 PM (geLO8)

412 On Twitter yesterday, one of the big outrages was a photo posted by an active-duty Marine at Pearl Harbor where he's wearing a gay fetish dog mask, a uniform top with the name tag removed, no pants, and a boner. China needs to just invade now and put us out of our misery.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2022 12:53 PM


To clarify, he is an Army colonel. He's set all his accounts to private, thank God. It was really bad. He had posted a "retirement" photo, framed like an official photo with the U.S. flag in the back, of himself in his dress uniform (the pinks and greens that were recently brought back) announcing that he was now retired after almost 30 years in the Army. I suspect he has now discovered that he wasn't quite "fully retired" and free from Army.

Posted by: Bert G at December 08, 2022 12:57 PM (aCgRi)

413 *types* *deletes*

Hakeem Jeffries
@RepJeffries

Thankful that Brittney Griner is free and on the way home.

President Biden gets it done.

Again.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2022 12:58 PM (ptqGC)

414 Brittany is a national treasure. C'mon, man. She's had some great albums. I'm serious. I mean it. Not a joke.

Posted by: My word as a Biden at December 08, 2022 12:58 PM (wSrM+)

415 366 The real problem with Russia is not "collusion," or Ukraine, but their obsession with fucking around with other countries internal issues.

unlike Obama, when a guy like Putin tells you something is a redline, he means it

he told us Ukraine joining NATO was a redline in the mid 2000's and we sent Kamaltoe over in Nov 2021 to cross it

Posted by: REDACTED at December 08, 2022 12:58 PM (us2H3)

416 She is safe.
She is on a plane.
She is on her way home.
________

Wait. She calls America "home"?

Really?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 08, 2022 12:58 PM (lf83v)

417 Diogenes, you can order a can of edible zebra tarantula meat from Amazon.

Saw it at a link on Insty.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 08, 2022 12:55 PM (fWMRJ)


Great idea if I was still working and doing the secret santa thing. But I don't think Mrs D will go for it.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2022 12:58 PM (anj39)

418 Someone should have wrote a movie about introducing High Fructose Corn Syrup to the blue cat-people population.
Posted by: XTC at December 08, 2022
*
Firewater.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 08, 2022


***
Same story. Forty years later the blue-skinned people are seen lying about the fort with boxes of Oreos.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2022 12:58 PM (J2vNu)

419 Man, Robinette sure is a faggy middle name.

Posted by: Douglas Yancey Funnie at December 08, 2022 12:58 PM (2gboT)

420 When was the last time you watched a WNBA game from tip-off to final buzzer? Posted by: Adirondack Patriot

Sober?

Posted by: Lost in Space at December 08, 2022 12:58 PM (c1mVn)

421 Griner is going to write a book. No doubt about it. The question is:

What will be the title?
.......

Managing Your Dreads in a Russian Prison

Russian Prison Tats, Do's and Dont's

Posted by: wth at December 08, 2022 12:59 PM (v0R5T)

422 Wolfus

Here is Little Fuzzy online

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18137

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2022 12:59 PM (8EJMD)

423 397 Hmmm, the plot thickens?

"Saudi crown prince, UAE president led mediation in US basketball star Griner, Russia’s Viktor Bout prisoner swap"

https://tinyurl.com/2hpnmfnf
Posted by: Thrawn at December 08, 2022 12:55 PM

Do they want an international arms dealer freed because of the Yemen Civil War they're engaged in? I don't know all the details, because I don't care, but the lefties I follow all bitch about it, and how the US supporting Saundi Arabia means we're guilty of war crimes.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at December 08, 2022 12:59 PM (hoj4J)

424 Good lord. What the hell is it with the Obama clan and their ilk with making absolutely piss-poor deals and then touting them as "the deal of the century?"

Griner's sentence was over the top, no doubt, but it was a sentence commensurate with the sentences of others convicted of the same crime in Russia. People shouldn't do 9 years for simple possession, that's ridiculous, but that's what happens in Russia all the time. Given that, only an absolute idiot would smuggle drugs into Russia. If she comes home and doesn't face punishment here for the cost her stupidity has accrued on America, as a whole, then I'm going to be ripshit.

Posted by: Goober at December 08, 2022 12:59 PM (Hgvgt)

425 416 She is safe.
She is on a plane.
She is on her way home.

unlike Bret Grindr, Joe can dunk

Posted by: REDACTED at December 08, 2022 01:00 PM (us2H3)

426 Let that sink in, because the Commandant has no self awareness.
Posted by: Marcus T

The late Soviet era had similar stupid pronouncements by their officials where they know the truth and artlessly lie about it.

A revitalization of the military will have to eliminate about half if not more of the officer corp and a lot of senior NCO's enabling this shit. Otherwise, it will take a lot of casualties and losing a major war to change course (and probably the regime will fall as well).

Posted by: whig at December 08, 2022 01:00 PM (bDjBG)

427 I Know Why the Caged Bird Smokes

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 08, 2022 01:00 PM (44ww/)

428 Griner is going to write a book. No doubt about it. The question is:

What will be the title?
.......

Managing Your Dreads in a Russian Prison

Russian Prison Tats, Do's and Dont's

Posted by: wth at December 08, 2022 12:59 PM (v0R5T)

Hiding Your Junk While Incarcerated

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2022 01:00 PM (ptqGC)

429
(alternate title: "Nipped in the Bud")

Snort.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 08, 2022 01:00 PM (wSrM+)

430 Posted by: Bert G

I am sure it was easy to figure out who the fuck he is. The number of Army Cols retiring with 30 yrs on Nov 30 is a really short list.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 08, 2022 01:00 PM (+hI+T)

431 Why do all the tribes of the peaceful Na'vi have a pretty obvious warrior caste and tradition.

******************
It's quite possible that when it comes to logical consistency and realism Cameron is an utter fucking moron.
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger at December 08, 2022


***
If they have a warrior tradition, they're going to use it. "War on the tribe over the hill! Pass it on!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 08, 2022 01:00 PM (J2vNu)

432 Twitchy link to Colonel Puppy Fetish:
https://is.gd/sM5aPB

Posted by: Bert G at December 08, 2022 01:01 PM (aCgRi)

433 President Biden gets it done.

Again.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2022 12:58 PM (ptqGC)

So.. He had a bowel movement ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 08, 2022 01:01 PM (bs+z0)

434 I'm not saying this Viktor Bout fella isn't a bad guy, but I'm am saying I don't care for the characterization of him being a supplier of terrorists who are out to git us.

DEA agents? Where are these DEA agents? Because they might just be up to no good themselves. I'm not just going to take the word of anyone on the right anymore, when they say the GLOBULL War On Terror means we're the good guys.

Because often, we ain't.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 08, 2022 01:01 PM (YV6PJ)

435 now every tranny will go to Russia to get their balls worked off

Posted by: REDACTED at December 08, 2022 01:01 PM (us2H3)

436 This paid DNC shill:

Jeff Tiedrich
@itsJeffTiedrich

America's racists are going ape-shit today because Joe Biden helped a black woman get out of prison. That's what all this is about, full stop

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2022 01:02 PM (ptqGC)

437 I've never been able to find his work at any libraries around here. Are paperback editions available on AbeBooks?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Amazon and Ebay have used copies to buy. But, you can get most of his writing free from Project Gutenberg (except maybe the third Fuzzy novel).

Posted by: whig at December 08, 2022 01:02 PM (bDjBG)

438 When the govt can no longer buy loyalty, then the politics of the moment will change.
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2022 12:56 PM (bDjBG)

From the Washington Times today:
"President Biden will announce Thursday that he's spending $36 billion of taxpayer funds to bail out the troubled Teamsters union pension plan projected to run out of money in 2025."

When they have access to unlimited money (ours), that change is going to take a very long time.

Posted by: DaisyB at December 08, 2022 01:02 PM (AbL8c)

439 I don't think the creepy Col expected that post to go viral.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 08, 2022 01:02 PM (+hI+T)

440 Where's our age's unambiguously gay youtuber to plead with us to "Leave Britney Alone"?

Posted by: banana Dream at December 08, 2022 01:02 PM (2oHWb)

441 Col. Puppy Mask..

Bet he is into Zoophilia

Perfect bookend for Sam Brinton

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2022 01:02 PM (8EJMD)

442 These dog fetishists better steer clear of Fauci.

Hey, wait a minute, that gives me an idea…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 08, 2022 01:02 PM (fWMRJ)

443 "But in 1986, the Sixers traded the 30-year-old Malone along with Terry Catledge and two first-round picks to the Bullets for Cliff Robinson and Jeff Ruland. The move was not received well by the players — especially by a young Barkley — and Malone made three more All-Star appearances."

CASE CLOSED

Posted by: Thesokorus at December 08, 2022 01:02 PM (1ais2)

444 @itsJeffTiedrich
America's racists are going ape-shit today because Joe Biden helped a black woman get out of prison. That's what all this is about, full stop
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2022 01:02 PM (ptqGC)
++++
It must be a boring way to live.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 08, 2022 01:03 PM (t0OGg)

445 Schumer: We Want Omnibus Bill for Whole Year ‘to Avoid the Problem’ of House GOP ‘Having Any Control’

Posted by: SMOD at December 08, 2022 01:03 PM (RHGPo)

446 "When the govt can no longer buy loyalty, then the politics of the moment will change.
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2022 12:56 PM (bDjBG)"

Normally I would agree. After the last election, I don't. Either people voted against their own self interests or the process is rigged. Every single statistic and outcome in history was defied in the last two elections. People are poorer and less free, crime and insecurity are rising, and it's demonstrable. The situation isnt getting better. Yet Democrats still won. I don't care how they did it, they did. The GOP has done almost zero to fight back and they leave people like McConnell and McDaniel as what passes for leadership. They are weak, feckless cowards who don't fight for anything except what their donors want. So there is no help on the horizon, we're on our own and captured by a soft coup determined to lead to our destruction. Their supporters don't care as long as the fire is trained on us. When they do it will be too late.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 08, 2022 01:03 PM (tDEa7)

447
America's racists are going ape-shit today because Joe Biden helped a black woman get out of prison. That's what all this is about, full stop
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2022 01:02 PM (ptqGC)

LOL... He said Ape.. racist

Posted by: It's me donna at December 08, 2022 01:03 PM (bs+z0)

448 Fuck. I finally figured out why my subwoofer wasn't working when I switched the AVR receiver into stereo mode. I am pretty stoked at this. I thinking I am up for building a rocket from scratch now.

Posted by: Lost in Space at December 08, 2022 01:03 PM (c1mVn)

449 I am sure it was easy to figure out who the fuck he is. The number of Army Cols retiring with 30 yrs on Nov 30 is a really short list.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire


Top. Men.

Posted by: Oedipus at December 08, 2022 01:04 PM (4n5/o)

450 Schumer: We Want Omnibus Bill for Whole Year ‘to Avoid the Problem’ of House GOP ‘Having Any Control’
Posted by: SMOD at December 08, 2022 01:03 PM (RHGPo)



Our hands are tied.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at December 08, 2022 01:04 PM (yQpMk)

451 Didn’t the guards at Abu Ghraib get punished for taking fetish pictures?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 08, 2022 01:04 PM (fWMRJ)

452 "Folks, if you are an American citizen, DO NOT go to Russia, right now. Just don't.
Putin is a ruthless man, capable of anything."

even the Russians are leaving Russia ... to avoid the draft mostly.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 08, 2022 01:04 PM (Cus5s)

453 To clarify, he is an Army colonel. He's set all his accounts to private, thank God. It was really bad. He had posted a "retirement" photo, framed like an official photo with the U.S. flag in the back, of himself in his dress uniform (the pinks and greens that were recently brought back) announcing that he was now retired after almost 30 years in the Army. I suspect he has now discovered that he wasn't quite "fully retired" and free from Army.

He was first, but two others replied to his post. One of them was the Marine I mentioned.

So yes, the real takeaway is that there were 3 active-duty military who are into gay kink, not just regular old buttsecks. And they wonder why recruiting is catastrophic.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2022 01:04 PM (ZGrMX)

454 I am sure it was easy to figure out who the fuck he is. The number of Army Cols retiring with 30 yrs on Nov 30 is a really short list.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire


Yep, and easier since everyone knows he's Aviation.

Posted by: Bert G at December 08, 2022 01:04 PM (aCgRi)

455 I bet Igor of Cell Block 9 was surprised when he pantsed Griner.

Posted by: wth at December 08, 2022 01:04 PM (v0R5T)

456 LOL... He said Ape.. racist

Posted by: It's me donna at December 08, 2022 01:03 PM (bs+z0)

Great catch! hahahahahaha!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2022 01:04 PM (ptqGC)

457 Russians: "welp, time to start on our winter offensive."

Biden: "Here's your arms merchant back. Hot diggity cornwhacker cadoo!"

*circus calliope music plays backwards*

Posted by: Azathoth at December 08, 2022 01:05 PM (wb1YC)

458 nood


Kevin

Posted by: banana Dream at December 08, 2022 01:05 PM (2oHWb)

459 "Schumer: We Want Omnibus Bill for Whole Year ‘to Avoid the Problem’ of House GOP ‘Having Any Control’"

Fuck you. See you in January, dickhead.

-Marcus T

Posted by: Marcus T at December 08, 2022 01:05 PM (tDEa7)

460 447

LOL... He said Ape.. racist
Posted by: It's me donna at December 08, 2022 01:03 PM

THAT'S RAYCIST!!!!!

Posted by: SJW NPC knee jerk reaction at December 08, 2022 01:05 PM (hoj4J)

461 My people used every part of the wheel.
---------------------

hahahahaah

Stolen.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 08, 2022 01:05 PM (NG6Iv)

462 We need a thread on gift ideas.
I'm stumped.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2022 12:53 PM (anj39)

A pony?

Posted by: BignJames at December 08, 2022 01:05 PM (AwYPR)

463 Nood

Posted by: Rex B at December 08, 2022 01:05 PM (ie65O)

464 "Brittney" Griner is another dude pretending to be a woman in order to gain an advantage in a woman's sport.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 08, 2022 01:05 PM (ylYAl)

465 He was first, but two others replied to his post. One of them was the Marine I mentioned.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 08, 2022 01:04 PM


Got it. I didn't check out the replies too closely, lol.

Posted by: Bert G at December 08, 2022 01:05 PM (aCgRi)

466 We need a thread on gift ideas.
I'm stumped.

Posted by: Diogenes
------------------

https://tinyurl.com/2p4jz9o3

I can't begin to tell you how great this little flashlight is.

Posted by: Press Juan For English at December 08, 2022 01:07 PM (NG6Iv)

467 446 "When the govt can no longer buy loyalty, then the politics of the moment will change.
Posted by: whig at December 08, 2022 12:56 PM (bDjBG)"

well yeah, but unfortunarely not fot the better

Posted by: REDACTED at December 08, 2022 01:07 PM (us2H3)

468 I thought that trading things for black people was illegal in the US.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 08, 2022 01:07 PM (BJKQV)

469 “He works for Putin. He was doing terrorism for Putin.”

According to Joe Biden, so are we. So fuck it.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at December 08, 2022 01:07 PM (28IDa)

470 We need a thread on gift ideas.
I'm stumped.

Posted by: Diogenes
........

Knotty Boy Dread Wax

Posted by: wth at December 08, 2022 01:07 PM (v0R5T)

471 When they have access to unlimited money (ours), that change is going to take a very long time.
Posted by: DaisyB

They don't. Essentially about 1/3 of all spending now is borrowing and interest on the federal debt has now equals the size of the defense budget. Eventually, you either have to end the borrowing, raise taxes vastly including on the wealthy, and cut spending. All of those moves piss people off pretty badly.

All that Dem spending is essentially going on Uncle Sam's charge card and at an increasingly unsustainable rate. So the Fed can either put inflation into hyperdrive, raise interest rates enough to cause a default in US paying foreign debt by bankrupting the government, and/or destroy the US reserve currency status.

We are out of good options and financial crises this bad normally take over a decade to resolve itself. Best to start prepping now if you have not already.

Posted by: whig at December 08, 2022 01:08 PM (bDjBG)

472 Nood McCarthy

Posted by: Iris at December 08, 2022 01:10 PM (NaH5I)

473 And giving away a highly capable terrorist in the exchange is just the bad part of the deal we SEE. Doubtless there are all kinds of secret assurances of cash for oligarchs, etc etc.

OTOH Trump made a phone call to Ukraine asking them to look into actual corruption by someone who bragged on video of extorting a Ukrainian prosecutor.

Posted by: Zek at December 08, 2022 01:11 PM (5FPX4)

474 well yeah, but unfortunarely not fot the better
Posted by: REDACTED

Depends on what you mean by better. The usual response in many countries and historically is the entrance of a strong man to repress the elites. Another response is external war which collapses the state and takes the elites with it resulting in anarchy for a while. Still yet another option is try to repress the populace which causes unrest from the level of Northern Ireland to complete disintegration of the state's ruling regime via civil war, secession, or some other such.

Posted by: whig at December 08, 2022 01:11 PM (bDjBG)

475 369 Assuming Cameron wants the Na'avi to give up their pure ways to tread the star lanes...

the na'avi will need to find some unobtainium to power their hyperspace engines. i wonder where they could find some.

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at December 08, 2022 01:14 PM (v3pYe)

476 There's one simple thing that seems to be overlooked in the handwringing over. Griner: She did it.

This is not someone arrested erroneously or on fabricated charges or due to some State pressure campaign. Griner went to Russia with weed in her possession, knowing they don't allow weed.

But the victory lap Biden is taking here is reminiscent of the Bowe Bergdahl Rose Garden ceremony, where Obama expected to be showered with praise -- for retrieving a deserter in exchange for Gitmo terrorists.

Tone-deaf doesn't begin to describe it.

Posted by: red speck at December 08, 2022 01:14 PM (gS3OW)

477 The underlying facts of the Griner story are even more telling as to the present (decomposed) state of the Republic.

The Rooskies have huge sentences for simple "possession" on the books for the same reason we have arcane rules on what constitutes insider trading, FARA registration, tax evasion, fibbing to the Fibbies and trespassing in the Capitol.

It makes it "legal" when they bring the hammer down on their enemies, because: "Look its following a law on the books!"

Posted by: Zek at December 08, 2022 01:16 PM (5FPX4)

478 299 Let me put this as succinctly as I can.

They don't care.

They don't care what you think. They don't care what you say or write.

/////////////////

If this is true (and it is), what might they care about? Going Galt? Refusal to work, so fewer taxes coming in?
Maybe the stay-at-homes are on the right track.

Posted by: JM in Florida at December 08, 2022 01:16 PM (LVA0R)

479 I'm pretty sure it was the development of agriculture that led to stable populations and eventually major growth...The Na'vi don't seem to have that, so they are a stagnant society that is limited by the resources they can hunt/gather.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 08, 2022 12:47 PM (YIVH2)

You need a stable climate as well. Earth's climate has been stable for the past ten to eleven thousand years. Guess what happened (I know you know).

Posted by: Javems at December 08, 2022 01:19 PM (AmoqO)

480 "He works for Putin. He was doing terrorism for Putin."

An excellent observation. Also, Bout was doing so all the way back in 2007.

So much for the "we caused Putin to become our enemy."

Putin just let the mask drop the stronger he became.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at December 08, 2022 01:33 PM (t5SZv)

481 She should do "don't take drugs into foreign country" public service ads for the rest of her life.

Posted by: m at December 08, 2022 01:52 PM (RtN13)

482 Hollywood's gonna Hollywood.

“Avatar: The Way of Water” Production Notes Appear to Confirm Film Will Push Climate Change and Colonization Propaganda
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at December 08, 2022 12:31 PM (FVME7)

That's pretty funny since that would mean the blue people are just as bad at humans at destroying Gaia. Because one or two shiploads visiting could hardly jumpstart global warming in 5 years.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2022 02:07 PM (eoQWY)

483 I remember when Trump got China to release the shoplifting basketball players and they were ungrateful douchebags when they returned.

Posted by: polynikes at December 08, 2022 12:10 PM (0om5x

****

I think that was the father who did that…not the player/s.

Posted by: EFG at December 08, 2022 02:11 PM (Ae67h)

484 Wolfus

H. Beam Piper already did that and gave us Fuzzy Sapiens.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 08, 2022 12:54 PM (8EJMD)

Piper just mentioned the mystery of why the Fuzzies were dependent on an element so rare on Zarathustra in Fuzzy Sap IIRC. One or two of the "non-Piper" Fuzzy books expanded that into a full XT origin and idea - Fuzzy Bones and Golden Dream.

Piper's third Fuzzy Novel released a few decades after his death has few to zero mentions of this thread, so the successor authors might have been going rogue. Pournelle did have some contact with HBP so might have had a different idea that led to the plot path taken.

In his Future History Piper wasn't afraid of other now wild notions - His Martian origin of Homo Sapiens, the Freyans - human but prettier, and interfertile wasn't explained by him (though successor authors postulated a second Mars colony ship that somehow gets to the stars then fails).

Some Piper stuff is available on Kindle/Audiobooks but not all I don't think. Only some parts seem public domain or republished

Posted by: Oldcat at December 08, 2022 02:24 PM (eoQWY)

485 Brittney Griner is 6'9" tall. How tall is Biden?

Posted by: OCBill at December 08, 2022 03:55 PM (SJxrL)

486 One lesbian is worth more than one marine. People need to get used to Democrats prioritizing humans. And if you fight for this country, if you especially fight for Democrats then your worth to them is the same as it was to them in Vietnam. You are worth nothing. Just ask Ashli Babbitt.

Posted by: william ferrin at December 08, 2022 04:57 PM (BuZjQ)

487 Impeach then have Biden charged with aiding and abetting the enemy

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 08, 2022 05:22 PM (wGqjj)

488 "46 FJB and the freak in tattoos.
Posted by: Ziba at December 08, 2022 12:09 PM (4h9M3)

No thanks. Not even with your dick."
____________

Hey now!!

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at December 08, 2022 05:31 PM (TU8Tj)

489 It’s just like Afghanistan;

ship over the America-haters after you’ve abandoned the Marines.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at December 08, 2022 05:57 PM (Ndje9)

490 The Taliban wanted two of their commanders back in exchange for Bergdahl, but Obama held out for five.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at December 08, 2022 05:59 PM (Ndje9)

491 66 Maybe he sent a pallet of cash too

Minus 10%...

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 08, 2022 06:08 PM (oVJIF)

492 I want to to thank you for this wonderful read!! I definitely enjoyed every
little bit of it. I have got you bookmarked to look at new stuff you post…

Posted by: xxx at December 11, 2022 01:18 AM (OjM41)

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Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
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