BREAKING: US has traded Russian arms dealer, Viktor Bout (Merchant of Death) for Brittney Griner

[West_Midlander]

Wonder if she starts standing for the National Anthem now.

Almost certainly not.

[West_Midlander]

I’d rather see a guilty person let free than an innocent person sent to the gulags. Bout already served a lot of his sentencing anyways, and there’s no guarantee that he’s gonna go back to being an arms dealer

Why would Russia want him if he's not of any use to them, then?

[West_Midlander]

Notably, 40% of forum Democrats opposed the trade at this point, in addition to 83% of Independents & Third Partiers and 76% of Republicans (which surprisingly isn't the most opposed group to the deal).

[West_Midlander]

Some of you people just need to admit that you would rather have seen her rot in a Russian prison because she happens to be a Black, relatively butch lesbian.

If you are going to make absurd and outrageous claims like this, you need evidence.

Some of the loudest critics of Biden's move here are notorious racists and homophobes, so why should they be given the benefit of the doubt that their objections are not based on bigotry?

Because there are plenty of reasons to criticize this decision? Are we supposed to never criticize anything involving a black woman or a person who is LGBTQ?

Questioning a poster who's black? You racist. And the OP was from a lesbian, you homophobe.

/s