Name: The Controversy Around Brittney Griner's Return
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Controversy Around Brittney Griner's Return' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-12-20. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Controversy Around Brittney Griner's Return' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-12-20. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience
International politics scares the shit out of me. Mm-hmm with this Britney Griner
trade for that arms dealer scares the shit out of me, man
You know what's funny? Oh
So I had one
I had one passive wonder. I had like one understanding of it
where I'm like, oh
So she broke a rule
The rule seems like not that big of a deal. It's nothing, but you know
As my friend Chris recently said rules is rules. She breaks a rule and I'm like,
holy shit
They're really like using her as a political pawn. Yeah, and then
they get her back with an arms dealer
Trade an arms dealer and you wonder about whether that's an asymmetrical
somehow an asymmetrical trade
But I don't know I don't know what's going on and then you and then you just it's
kind of like oh glad glad she's back
and then you and then talk about the outrage machine then you read like a
narrative that'd be like
uh, we traded a
International arms dealer
What's his nickname dr. Death or some shit merchant of death merchant of death
for a dope smoker
We didn't get the marine back
The person didn't want the national anthem play it at their games, right and
you go like oh
There's a there's a narrative that I you know, I mean yeah
There's like a well-crafted narrative that I didn't put together
Have you ever seen Russia's take on it? No. Oh my god
It's kind of crazy because it turned out that they offered
One or the other they offered either Paul Whelan. Oh, really?
Yeah, or that's what that's what they're saying. Yeah, well, that's what NBC
was saying as well
And then they really they redacted it and changed their story, but yeah, that's
all
Supposedly it was a one versus one you could pick which one and in Russia there
there's this
Political show sort of like a Fox News type show where they're making for see
if you can find it Jamie
I'll send it to you if you do do you know what it is? I'm trying to pull it up
It's just not the links on so the in this
Thing they're just completely mocking like will he the one you know, she has
one thing going against him
He is a man and also, you know, he is white like here meanwhile in Russia top
state propagandists reveal the narrative
They'll be pushing to harm Biden and enrage Americans about the exchange of
Brittany Griner for
Victor bout by falsely claiming that it wasn't Russia's decision to oppose
Whelan's release as opposed to Griner so it's hard to say
This person who's saying this is saying that it was Russia's decision to oppose
Whelan's release who they think was spying
I don't know if he was or wasn't he may have been may have
Been arrested for espionage, but see if you can find the video because it's
just it's gonna be in Russian
So they don't have it known, but it's um you see the translation well people
are listening. No, yeah, we'll translate it
He's got a great point Joe. Yeah, he does
Of course I was very amused but not surprised that bout was exchanged for Griner
and not Whelan
First of all I can graduate bout and his entire family for many years
We have been in touch with his family and with him personally to the extent it
was possible
We communicate with him to the extent that we could of
Course this is a huge joy and relief for all of us. I can't even imagine I can't
say anymore Jamie you touched it
Just go full screen
But but but he was not exchanged for the heroic spy
Because he is a spy whelan is a spy
He was apprehended while receiving information
On a flash drive
He said he was supposed to get photos of churches and
Sergio Posada on a flash drive you send the church photos to whatsapp, right?
That's where we get them look where I've been
You don't quality would be decent no worse than on a flash drive. He's a spy
therefore to them. He's a hero
He's a hero decorated marine covered in metals
He only has one no two no three problems
His first problem is he is white second problem is he is a man
Third problem. He is a heterosexual and they're laughing. This is not something
that can be forgiven today
It's just a catastrophe it here grinder beats him in every aspect American
voters were given a choice
a hero who suffered while serving his fatherland a
Metal-covered heroes covered who's suffered during his service
To his fatherland the United States or a black lesbian hooked on drugs. Oh
Jesus
Who's suffered for a vape with hashish
And well-known for the sake of PR
American voters are choosing the obvious
I think for us it's one of one more piece of good news first good news is about
has returned the second good news is that a nation
That spits on its heroes to the extent
That it considers it significantly more important to free a rightly charged
well-known athlete
She didn't suffer because she served her motherland
But because she couldn't live for 10 hours without her hashish instead of freeing
that person in prison for two years
For serving his motherland
This says a lot about the state of this society
So this is just like basically fox news in russia
They're you know, it's obviously a very propaganda driven
Show but you have to that's like that's the thing about russia like you can't
have a show that shits all over the government in russia
You could never have like when msnbc was
Mocking openly mocking trump and you know cnn was constantly talking about
trump and it was
Jacking up the ratings that's like not even possible in russia. Yeah, you can't
have a show like that bruskies be all over your ass. Oh, yeah
Yeah, well, you could never
Society like this this is what people don't understand when they try to impose
censorship it goes all the way through
You will eventually get to a point where it's only state sanctioned information
That's allowed to be distributed if you allow censorship because they've
already shown that the government is deeply embedded in social media
And they they this is one of the things that's most disturbing about these
revelations about
whether it's the fbi or whatever
intelligence agencies were behind
Censoring certain people off of twitter and removing certain people off of
twitter and removing certain narratives and certain stories like the hunter biden
laptop story
Yeah, if you support that because it fits with your ideology
Ultimately you support government control over a narrative and that is it's
going to go the other way if a republican gets in office
Then you're going to deal with a similar problem
Imagine if there's
Imagine if instead of hunter biden's laptop
It was donald trump jr's laptop and donald trump jr's laptop. He's getting foot
jobs by prostitutes and smoking street crack
You think they would have censored that off of twitter?
You think they would have censored that off of twitter and said we can't verify
the information
We don't know whether or not it's true. No, it has all the earmarks of russian
disinformation
It's not a fucking chance in hell. That's the problem like
The truth dies with censorship