Putin Played Joe like a Drum!!

 In breaking news this morning, the news media was absolutely agog with the news that Brittney Griner had been released from a Russian prison. She was taken to an airport in the United Arab Emirates and exchanged for Viktor Bout, arms dealer. President Biden announced that she had been freed, but former Marine Paul Whelan is still held by the Russians.

What did we learn today? Joe Biden ain't  no Monty Hall from "Let's Make a Deal." We had a world class arms trader in prison and traded him for a black, lesbian, national anthem hating, basketball player. 

It didn't matter whether Griner was innocent or guilty. I read an article today claiming that Griner had a prescription for the oil from her doctor in Arizona. Unfortunately, Moscow is not in Arizona. Most Americans can't grasp that "different laws in different countries" concept. We go back to the Midnight Express movie.

The Russians grabbed Griner because they planned it. They didn't just pick an American at random. They picked someone that the Democrats would have to get back. Griner has all the signs of the Democratic core constituency. She's an athlete who can make a jump shot but can't stand up for the national anthem. She's a lesbian married to another woman. She's black. She has the mandatory sullen expression all of the time. Griner is the perfect liberal. Putin checked all of the boxes when he decided to get Griner. 

Putin knew that Biden had to get Griner out of Russia. His constituency would not be quiet until he did.  So, we traded a guy who was one of the world's largest arms dealers for a basketball player. Only in America could the news media portray this as a great deal. I guess that we weren't holding any Russian drug dealers or mass murderers we could throw into the deal.

Why couldn't they get Paul Whelan out in the deal? To be honest, Whelan probably is a spy. They should have worked out a deal swapping the spy for the international arms trader. Why didn't they?

The Russians didn't want to give up Whelan for Bout. They wanted Bout for Griner. Putin knew that Biden was under pressure to cut a deal for Griner. Christmas is only a few days away and the media would be reporting on Griner in a Russian penal colony for Christmas. At least it wasn't a penile colony? Not a good look for the party of diversity and dumbasses. The holidays and the Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives in a couple of weeks was more pressure than Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Susan Rice or whoever is actually making the decisions at 1600 Pennsylvania to stand. Biden and company had to give the Russians the deal that they wanted. They traded the ball jockey for the international arms dealer.

The only good thing here is that I refuse to watch Biden's Press Idiot talk about this deal. She's got that job for the same reason that Griner is out of Russian prison. She checks all of the boxes for liberals. The problem is that when you check all of the boxes, but not the references, you get an idiot. They need to hide her binder one day and see if she knows anything at all.