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U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner has been sent to a Russian penal colony
Texas Standard News ^ | November 9, 2022 | By Charles Maynes, NPR

Posted on 11/09/2022 9:48:58 AM PST by Navy Patriot

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To: volunbeer
...part of me feels sorry for young people who have been indoctrinated by this experiment that will certainly fail.

You are not alone.

She was not born hating our nation. She was told to hate our nation by people who gain power by promoting the idea.

We have taught young people that marijuana is no a big deal and actions don’t have consequences...

Her indoctrination into privilege, self-indulgence, and grievance has now hit the most immovable object on earth - reality.

Like I said, with Friends like Brandon and Blinken...

My anger is placed at the feet of those who indoctrinated her into such a foolish worldview. Our nation now has tens of millions of Brittney’s who don’t understand reality. They are raised by Brittney’s, taught by Brittney’s, and governed by Brittney’s.

Yep. Thanks, well done!

21 posted on 11/09/2022 10:09:14 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

Hopefully he will survive in the Russian jail


22 posted on 11/09/2022 10:09:56 AM PST by ncfool (TRUMP SHOULD BE THE KING MAKER IN 2024 AND NOT THE KING. -- Desantis 2024)
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To: Navy Patriot

Hopefully he will survive in the Russian jail


23 posted on 11/09/2022 10:10:09 AM PST by ncfool (TRUMP SHOULD BE THE KING MAKER IN 2024 AND NOT THE KING. -- Desantis 2024)
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To: volunbeer
Back in the day children were disciplined to respect the law, tell the truth, work hard, and so on. This ethic carried over into the military, thus when military members (ie., my husband, our family) were assigned to Incirlik, Turkey, they respected the law even though they did not agree with it.

As a nation we began to lose our virtue toward the end of WWII when globalists like the Rockefellers brought the Frankfurt School into our nation that they would demoralize and debauch Americans as they had done to Germans prior to Hitler's arrival. The rotten seeds planted throughout our institutions by the Frankfurt School and fellow travelers took root and bore fruit. Generation by generation more rotten fruit came forth until this generation, the generation of the Woke, Luciferian Democrats, Satanists, Hunter Biden, Epstein, BLM, Beto O'Rourke, Brittany, et al.

24 posted on 11/09/2022 10:10:31 AM PST by spirited irish ( )
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To: Navy Patriot

This headline, I just can’t . . . .


25 posted on 11/09/2022 10:11:25 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: Navy Patriot
Now there's a bright spot in the news! Griner will have a great opportunity to learn Russian while she's making small rocks out of big rocks.
Hopefully she can revive that moaning, soulful tradition of plaintive chain gang singing and harmonizing, just like the good ol' days.



26 posted on 11/09/2022 10:13:24 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: robowombat

Perhaps I am too kind so I will state it more harshly.

Our animosity should never be for the dog who is bred to fight. Yes, we dispose of them and do so with pity, but our anger is reserved for those who beat the dog and made it that way.

It is a fine point and a debate for the ages. Yes, a human is far more capable of “reason” than an animal, but the world is not that black and white - it is many shades of grey. The animal was not born to be vicious although it has that capability - it was “trained” to be vicious.

Brittney was not born to hate our nation. People taught her to hate our nation and she was raised and operated in a world where there were few consequences for bad behavior.

A twofer of stupidity and now she is paying the price.


27 posted on 11/09/2022 10:14:44 AM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Navy Patriot

From what I’ve read about her.....she seems to be a spoiled person that thought our country was trash and made her feelings public. Then thought she could break Russian laws. So, I think she is not somebody I care too much about. That said, she is an American citizen and I think she has paid a heavy price for her stupidity. Trump would have had her home months ago. She knows this and it must be a bitter realization.


28 posted on 11/09/2022 10:14:51 AM PST by Pigsley (I)
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I think you are pretty much correct in your evaluation.

I do wonder what kind of person Griner would be, if Griner had absolutely NO Prog Socialist Left Indoctrination in America or elsewhere.

29 posted on 11/09/2022 10:21:05 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: spirited irish

You are correct in the lesson of history. One that too few know and understand.

I would go even further..... the “Frankfurt School” was replaced by the supreme efforts to co-opt academia by the KGB in the Cold War with great effectiveness. Khruschev said the quiet part out loud and if he were around today he would be quite proud.

Academia in America has been the root of the modern left and they are the BIGGEST influence on media, culture, bureaucracy, and the courts. The “grievance culture” of America can be laid at their feet. Brittney was immersed in it with tragic consequences for her personally.

Throughout human history “who” do despots purge immediately with a change in power? Academics. Many of the Academics who wholeheartedly supported Castro in Cuba were imprisoned or disappeared because Castro knew that they were the biggest threat to his power.

The Bible provides the best method of understanding the world today and always. The father of lies is winning the battle for hearts and minds even as he will certainly lose the war.

While your point and mine about external forces eroding the base of our nation is true, it is the lack of biblical morality and norms that creates the space in which evil can flourish and it is flourishing!

PS - I was an Army brat and lived in Europe for many years and became a veteran myself. FRegards for your family and words of wisdom.


30 posted on 11/09/2022 10:28:38 AM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: volunbeer

I don’t feel sorry for her at all, and you shouldn’t either.


31 posted on 11/09/2022 10:34:06 AM PST by dinodino ( )
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To: volunbeer

Good summary of the situation.


32 posted on 11/09/2022 10:34:52 AM PST by irishjuggler
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Is thus like a work release program?


33 posted on 11/09/2022 10:39:24 AM PST by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: volunbeer

Be that as it may - the dog still needs to be put down.


34 posted on 11/09/2022 10:42:12 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: Navy Patriot

I get a strange notion that the reason Griner is being punished to the max is that she probably was arrogant when arrested and arraigned, and thought that she could trash talk to the Russians.


35 posted on 11/09/2022 10:43:59 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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It didn’t help her to pull that crap, initially.


36 posted on 11/09/2022 10:55:38 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: volunbeer

“She was not born hating our nation. She was told to hate our nation by people who gain power by promoting the idea.”

Free will..she bought into it.


37 posted on 11/09/2022 10:58:56 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Navy Patriot

She better hope that her hard time will be served on the prisons basketball team because she’s not going to like the hard labor she’s going to do.


38 posted on 11/09/2022 11:08:26 AM PST by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: spirited irish
"....were assigned to Incirlik, Turkey, they respected the law even though they did not agree with it...." There are plenty of horror stories of GI's who said something derogatory about Atatürk or messed with the Turkish flag. They had unpleasant detours in their lives! Turks don't fool around.


39 posted on 11/09/2022 11:09:55 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Hopefully she serves the full sentence.

She can think of it as a really deep-dive immersive language learning experience.

Then perhaps get a shortened sentence by volunteering to go to Ukraine!
40 posted on 11/09/2022 11:27:58 AM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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