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Nearly a year of incarceration in a foreign tyranny forced a basketball star to discover a renewed appreciation for her country.
Brittney Griner, a 6-foot-9 center for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, reversed a personal policy recently when she stood for the national anthem before her first games since her release in December. Previously, Griner either knelt or remained in her team’s locker room during the anthem as a racial protest.
Griner, a former All-American at Baylor who led the Bears to the 2012 NCAA championship, made the WNBA’s post-season first or second all-star team six times and helped the Mercury win the 2014 WNBA title. Griner also won Olympic gold medals for the United States in 2016 and 2020. She is one of only 11 female players to win NCAA, WNBA, Olympic and EuroLeague championships.
“With what I went through, everything just means a little more to me now,” Griner said May 19 after playing in the Mercury’s regular-season opener. “I was literally in a cage and could not stand the way I wanted to. So just being able to hear my national anthem and see my flag, I definitely want to stand now.”
In 2020, however, Griner held a far different opinion. That year, with riots raging nationwide in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, Griner stated the WNBA must not play the anthem before games.
“I honestly feel we should not play the national anthem during our season,” she said at the time. “I think we should take that much of a stand. I don’t mean that in any disrespect to our country. My dad was in Vietnam and a law officer for 30 years. I wanted to be a cop before basketball. I do have pride for my country.”
Other WNBA players shared her stance. When that season began, entire teams stayed inside their locker rooms during the anthem. But Griner added she would continue protesting regardless of what others did.
“I’m not going to be out there for the national anthem,” she said. “If the league continues to want to play it, that’s fine. It will be all season long. I’ll not be out there. I feel like more are going to probably do the same thing. I can only speak for myself.”
Griner eventually modified her protest by kneeling, as did former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. She only stood when she received her gold medal with the rest of her teammates at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which the COVID-19 pandemic postponed for a year.
“At the Olympics, I understand,” she said. “You’re playing for your country at that point.”
But in February 2022, Russian police arrested Griner in Moscow when customs officials found less than one gram of cannabis oil in her vaping cartridges. Griner went to Russia to play for UMMC Ekaterinburg during the WNBA’s off-season.
Most WNBA players compete overseas to supplement earnings that pale compared to NBA incomes. UMMC Ekaterinburg pays some of Europe’s highest salaries, with Griner having earned more than $1 million per season.
During her trial, Griner testified that her doctor in Arizona prescribed medical marijuana to treat pain. But medical marijuana is illegal in Russia.
That May, the State Department designated Griner as “wrongly detained.” Griner pleaded guilty July 7 to possession but said she had no intention to break any law or use cannabis oil in Russia.
On Aug. 4, the court sentenced her to nine years imprisonment, one year less than the maximum, and fined her 1 million rubles (or $16,301). The standard sentence in Russia for anyone caught with less than two grams of cannabis oil is 15 days.
Before Russia released her Dec. 8, Griner spent her sentence in a women’s prison in Mordovia, a Russian republic about 310 miles southeast of Moscow. An article in The Guardian described the conditions she faced:
“Russian penal colonies are known for their harsh treatment of inmates, unsanitary conditions and lack of access to proper healthcare. Conditions in penal colonies are much harsher than in detention centers. Activists say abuse and torture are frequent in Russia’s vast network of prisons, a successor to the notorious Gulag system of the Stalin era.”
Olga Zeveleva, a sociologist at the University of Helsinki who studies the Russian penal system, characterized penitentiaries in Mordovia as uniquely appalling.
“Prisons in Mordovia are notoriously terrible, even by Russian standards,” Zeveleva told The Guardian. “The prisons there are known for the harsh regimes and human rights violations. It is a place any prisoner wants to avoid.”
A popular saying reinforces that image: “If you haven’t done time in Mordovia, you haven’t done time at all.”
Griner even expressed fear in a handwritten letter dated July 4 to Joe Biden, the virtual president, imploring him to act.
“As I sit here in a Russian prison, alone with my thoughts and without the protection of my wife, family, friends, Olympic jersey, or any accomplishments, I’m terrified I might be here forever,” she wrote. “It hurts thinking about how I usually celebrate this day because freedom means something completely different to me this year.
“I realize you are dealing with so much, but please don’t forget about me and the other American Detainees. Please do all you can to bring us home.”
So when she played her first WNBA game in 19 months on May 12 in a pre-season exhibition in Phoenix, Griner stood for the anthem.
“Hearing the national anthem, it definitely hit different,” she said afterward. “It’s like when you go for the Olympics, you’re sitting there, about to get gold put on your neck, the flags are going up and the anthem is playing, it just hits different. Being here today, it means a lot.”
Griner’s incarceration motivated her to expand her portfolio of activism. She now works with Bring Our Families Home, which supports the 54 Americans whom the State Department considers to be “wrongfully detained.” Griner also used her Instagram account to generate support for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovitch and Paul Whelan, a former Marine and a security advisor for Borg-Warner. Both are detained in Russia.
By standing for the anthem, Griner now views it as a reflection of national values rather than as an expression of oppression. She even defends those who disagree, especially for the reasons she offered three years ago.
“I totally support them, 100 percent,” she said. “You know, we’re fighting a good cause. One good thing about this country is that you have the right to protest, to be able to speak out, to question, to challenge. That’s our right as an American in this great country. Sometimes, you get labeled as a non-American. Actually, I think it makes you more American.”
That equitable attitude expresses the tolerance Griner’s ideological colleagues support only with lip service.
The young lady deserves our respect, she’s learned that her schools and colleges were not teaching her the truth about her nation.
Lots of young people are being taught that the west was created by oppression and exploitation some of which is true but what they are not taught is that the west has created the freedom that they all take for granted.
Freedom is not created, freedom just IS, freedom is discovered. It’s the human condition, the human biological nature because man has a brain which produces a thinking consciousness, a natural spirit, a natural soul, the rational, reasoning mind, which has free will. That’s freedom.
It is liberty that is created and established. Liberty is political freedom, freedom in a social context. Liberty is the freedom to be left free of the INITIATION of physical force, physical compulsion, physical threats, intimidation, from other people. Political freedom, or in other words, liberty, is the social recognition and defense of individual rights and private property rights. Private property rights begin with ownership of your body, your mind, and the product of your thinking, effort, and labor.
Liberty is the social recognition that man must be left free, free to think, free to act, and free to keep the product of his effort, if he is to survive, live, and flourish.
Yes, but in all of known history, the only free nations are Christian/Judaea.
Marx reasoned “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” and look how that ends.
“Politically, the ancients never conceived a society of full-fledged individual liberty; no nation achieved that before the United States.” – Leonard Peikoff
Before the Age of Enlightenment Europe was filled with Christian theocracies and Divine Christian Monarchs, you call that free nations?
No, but Marx’s quote is reasonable and rational and it wouldn’t take much persuasion for the world’s professorial leaders to agree and recreate communism.
I would rather have Christian religion than woke religion.
“Marx reasoned “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” and look how that ends.”
If you consider that statement rational you have a poor understanding of reason.
I’d say it sounds rational to many of the masses that hear it. It certainly isn’t rational. It almost sounds like some voluntary “lets all take care of each other” like suggestion. But in reality it’s an act of force where we’ll take whats yours and give it to who we consider needy.
As long as we practice freedom under the yoke of Objectivism, right?
Ayn Rand just laid down another narrative, and some people fell for it, instead of focusing on reality.
Agreed. She earned recognition for learning some truth about America and western civilization. She earns respect for working now to help those who still experience the same injustices.
I am hopeful also because these people are not black, so Griner might even become westernkind.
Sure too many young people take western freedoms for granted, but I, as a freedom loving conservative, have some serious concerns about the US specifically.
Do we Americans not sentence drug offenders to decades in prison? Should the so called “land of the free” be giving long sentences for consensual crimes? You can spin forwards , backwards sideways, any way you want, but drug crimes are victimless crimes (unless you intentionally give to children who are not old enough to consent).
All drugs need to be made legal yesterday and anyone that spent even a day in jail for using or dealing should be handsomely compensated by the American tax payer.
I am embarrassed for my fellow conservatives/republicans who call for harsher drug sentences and even tyrannical mandatory minimums for consensual drug offences.
Sometimes we are no better than authoritarian s%^hole nations like Russia.
Objective law would not punish an adult for possession, sale, or use of any drug, medical or recreational.
BUT if a person commits an act of violence, destruction, or death of others while under the influence of any recreational drug, including alcohol, there must be severe, and I do mean severe punishment, for these violations of other people’s life, limb, or property. So severe that people would take them so seriously they would think carefully about and plan carefully about getting drunk or high. Until these laws exist and are enforced I cannot in good faith be in favor of legalizing recreational drug use.
It’s like the death penalty, the death penalty can be just and appropriate but not under the legal standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt”. The death penalty can only be morally applied by the state under the standard of 100% proof, as in Ted Bundy’s case. I cannot be in favor of the death penalty under the “beyond a reasonable doubt standard”.
If you commit a serious crime there should be appropriate punishment regardless if you are intoxicated or not. Now harsher penalties? Careful what you wish for giving the government such power. In the US, we already have by far the harshest punishments for serious crimes in the free world. How much harsher can we make our sentencing and still be a free country. Among first world free countries, the US is essentially the only one that has life without parole for murderers.
I believe that the punishment should be even greater if the harm or destruction of others is done under the influence of a mind-altering drug. Before the individual consumes the alcohol or drug he knows that it carries the risk of loss of judgement and inhibition.
Objective law? What the hell is that? It’s obvious you have a hard time functioning in the real world.
Objective law is law based on the facts of reality, based on the facts of a given situation, based on the real world. As opposed to the fantasy of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Objective law allows adults to destroy their families? Allowing adults to choose highly addictive drugs always results in family destruction.
That’s my objective law, who decides which objective law is rational?
So you’re going to legislate morality? Like Sharia Law does? You’re championing state paternalism, the Nanny State?
Thou shalt not smoke, drink, eat pork, fornicate, do drugs, wear sexy clothing, use gas stoves, drive gas cars, drive faster than 25 miles an hour, etc.?
Where does your state paternalism end? Because other people’s state paternalism goes further than yours and once you accept the principle that the Almighty State has the right to legislate your choices in one case, you have accepted the principle in full for all cases of all choices.
“But contrary to paternalism, we are not congenitally irrational misfits. We are thinking beings for whom it is both possible and necessary to rationally judge which courses of action will serve our interests. The consequences of ignoring this fact range from denying us legitimate pleasures to literally killing us: from the healthy 26-year-old unable to enjoy a trans-fatty food to the 75-year-old man unable to take an unapproved, experimental drug without which he will certainly die.
By employing government coercion to deprive us of the freedom to judge for ourselves what we inhale or consume, the anti-smoking movement has become an enemy, not an ally, in the quest for health and happiness.” – Don Watkins
There are a lot of victims of victimless crimes.
Sure. But it’s victimhood they chose to get themselves into. You can spin it any way you like, but drug offenses are 100 percent consensual. I have been living in this country for 40 years. Lived is some good and some not so good parts of cities. Not once has a drug dealer or junkie forced me or pressured me or any one I have ever known to do drugs!
Important words like “freedom” and “free will” are words requiring clarification and context. A discussion such as the one you raise is impossible without it. If you are curious, here is a philosophical discussion of differing concepts of “free will” given by theologian R.C. Sproul. Which definition is the one you mean here?
You continue to raise the limited context of drug dealing and use. That context is an excellent one for thinking about the different kinds of “free choice.” Here is the article given as a transcript of Dr. Sproul’s lecture. It can be quickly absorbed:
https://www.ligonier.org/learn/series/chosen-by-god/what-is-free-will
This country is falling apart in large part because so many people, especially young people, are addicted to drugs and alcohol.
If you want to accelerate our demise, just legalize all drugs. We’ll go belly-up in a fortnight. Just look at San Francisco. Those addicted homeless people should be in a jail, a clinic, or some other facility so that they can’t harm themselves or others. We must institutionalize them.
NEVER give up fighting for life and health. If we’re going down, I’m going down swinging.
This country is going downhill and headed in the wrong direction because of steady move down the road to socialism, the breakdown of the family incentivized by the welfare state, etc. While drug use can cause severe issues in your personal life, drug use is not the reason , in large part as you say, that we are falling apart.
Countries like the Netherlands and Portugal that nearly completely decriminalized all drugs, have by the worst estimates maybe a 25 percent increase in junkies and drug use. Small price to pay to finally end this idiotic drug war. And everyone of those additional addicts has taken those drugs on their own free will.
Some of the benefits of ending the drug war:
No more drug related gang activity. How much crime will that eliminate?
Freeing up large amounts of police resources.
Freeing up massive amounts of prison space.
Freeing up countless billions in taxes used to fight the drug war. Money that can be returned to it’s rightful owner, the taxpayer! (Though Dems will just want to spend it elsewhere!)
Striking a massive financial blow to the drug cartels.
Savings thousands of lives from OD”s from laced drugs as legalization would mean clean proffesionally manufactured drugs.
Thousands saved from long prison sentences.
And we may be able to call ourselves the “land of the free” again when we stop locking up people for consensual crimes.
The benefits of legalization by far outweigh the costs. Not even close.
Now what do you hope to accomplish by continuing this moronic drug war?
Do you hope someday to achieve this pristine drug free utopia many dream of? Lets leave utopian fantasies to the left!
She doesn’t deserve one iota of respect. Her exact words were “,means a little more to me now”. Give her a few months and she’ll be back to her true self.
Probably. But she still shouldn’t have done prison time.
You are supporting a “homosexual”, not a “young lady”.
Your white knight idiocy is exactly why the entire Right has failed.
“Young people” are being torn to pieces by the State propaganda and Fedora-wearing morons like you are exactly why we get nowhere.
Well, the ingrate had a come to Jesus moment
And watch the Left call her a traitor to their cause of destroying America
No, she had a come to the facts of reality moment. A come back to Earth moment. A come back to reason moment.
Jesus is in his Supernatural Eternal Utopia enjoying his 2,000 year coffee break.
This is called the patience of God, and is employed so that many people can come to a knowledge of the Truth.
There is, in reality, no coffee break. The things which are visible speak of those things which are invisible and eternal. There is only one reason you fail to make the connection – suppressing the Truth in unrighteousness. And you are the poster child for that. May God’s patience have a perfect work in you, THX. May you not know God’s reprobation.
All the little hints of people trying to reason with you, to no avail, are a testament to your reprobation. But, as long as you live, there is hope.
You really are getting worse. The article is not about you or your insane hatred and obsession with Christianity.
It’s about an ungrateful American who simply saying what she has been told to say. Reason has nothing to do with it.
Please go away.
In the real world it is called a come to Jesus moment. Nice try, loser.
Is she for real, or is this an example of “patriotism” like the Democrats post-9/11 that lasted for less than 48 hours? We shall see.
I wonder about that myself.
Is it in that Machiavelli (most under appreciated historian ever) The Prince manner?
Hard to make an exact quote, but ”it is best that a ruler appear religious, but not adhere to religion”
Use religion and patriotism for great optics, but be a realist in the end. Kinda sorta thingamajigy. If you get my point.
The Judeo-Christian, Muslim, Marxist, and Nazi morality of altruism and self-sacrifice for others will certainly lead to cynicism. The only way to stay alive with that anti-reality morality is to cheat on it as much as you can and pray nobody catches you doing it.
The itch must be driving you crazy at this point. Can you bend over even lower in service to your Objectivist God?
” can and pray nobody catches you doing it.”
Who are you praying to?
Just funnin you, I get your point.
/\ thinks Nazism was about altruism.
Where did we fail with you, THX?
Altruism literally means “otherism”, that man has a moral duty to sacrifice himself for others. Altruism means that man must become a sacrificial animal.
“Hitler declared war on September 1, 1939:
As a National Socialist and a German soldier, I enter upon this fight with a stout heart! I ask of every German what I myself am prepared to do at any moment: to be ready to lay down his life for his people and for his country. If anyone thinks that he can evade this national duty, he will perish.”
Hitler does not say he is embarking on a quest to conquer the world. Rather, he asks every German to ‘lay down his life’ for his country. Anyone who tried to evade the duty to lay down one’s life, would ‘perish.’
“In declaring war, Hitler tells everyone what will happen. What he said would happen, eventually did happen. Germans died for Germany and Hitler acted to bring about the death of anyone he imagined refused to die for Germany. In his declaration of war, Hitler articulated the core of Nazi ideology: either die for Germany, or we will kill you.” – Richard A. Koenigsberg
If morality comes from rationality, you will have to show that risking everything to save Jews during the holocaust was immoral. Saving these Jews was clearly both irrational and deeply, morally good.
Go ahead. Your turn. Another chance to use reason and not spout your unsupported cult clap trap.
Redeem yourself.
Moral action is contextual. Morality comes from rationality and rationality comes from the freedom to be able to observe the facts of reality, think about the facts of reality, and then act upon the conclusions of your reasoning about those facts of reality. Where no freedom exists to act upon your rational conclusions, no morality is possible. Under a totalitarian dictatorship such as Nazi Germany the freedom to reason and act is terrorized and paralyzed, the best a man can do is to bootleg virtue when and if he can. Force and reason are opposites just as force and morality are opposites, moral action ends where a gun begins.
Here you say, “Important words like “freedom” and “free will” are words requiring clarification and context. A discussion such as the one you raise is impossible without it.”
And here you say, “If morality comes from rationality, you will have to show that risking everything to save Jews during the holocaust was immoral. Saving these Jews was clearly both irrational and deeply, morally good.”
You’ll have to clarify and be precise, who, when, and where risked everything to save which Jews? WW2 was a catastrophic emergency ultimately caused by the irrational moral code of altruism and self-sacrifice not by rational selfishness.
Should a person risk everything to save the life of another? Should a free country risk everything to end a dictatorship? That all depends on the context of the situation. It is certainly immoral by a rational moral standard to sacrifice your life for a complete stranger, your life should be as precious to you as the stranger’s life is precious to him. By what rational moral standard can the stranger claim that his life is more precious than yours and that you SHOULD die for him?
“Should a person risk everything to save the life of another? Should a free country risk everything to end a dictatorship? That all depends on the context of the situation. It is certainly immoral by a rational moral standard to sacrifice your life for a complete stranger, your life should be as precious to you as the stranger’s life is precious to him. By what rational moral standard can the stranger claim that his life is more precious than yours and that you SHOULD die for him?”
At least we know we can’t count on you when the chips are down. At least we know you would have done nothing for the Jews in Europe.
*I don’t recognize any such absurdity as service to my country. I recognize a moral responsibility to my freedom and liberty and the freedom and liberty of those I love.* — THX
I have said it before and I’ll say it again….you would walk over a dying person in the street in service to your Objectivist god. That is how heartless and desensitized you are.
Morality is contextual. Which dying person should I risk my life for, which dying person are you talking about? Adolf Hitler, Ted Bundy, Osama Bin Laden, the 19 9/11 hijackers?
I would certainly risk my life for some people but not for others.
Like most people I’m guilty of sins of commission and sins of omission, the guilt was caused by my unwillingness to think clearly, precisely, calmly, rationally. I allowed my emotions to rule over me, I became the puppet of my passions or sentimentality, instead of calmly thinking, gently reasoning, about the situation.
I have been generous and kind where I should never have been at all because I allowed emotion to overrule my reason. And I have been guilty of cruelty because I allowed emotion to overrule my reason. Had I been dedicated to rationality in all those cases I would be living with far fewer regrets and remorse than I currently am.
All of my guilty regrets in life and remorse are due to emotional impulsiveness or unreasonable sentimentality. If only I had known how to think rationally then!
Greiner will need more than the pain and suffering of her imprisonment to sustain her new found patriotism. A “sense” of right and wrong is not enough to know what is right and wrong with precision.
One of Donald Trump’s greatest faults is that he is profoundly un-intellectual, he acts through his sense of life like a man-child. It’s simply not enough to achieve non-contradictory consistency.
“Just as an individual’s sense of life can be better or worse than his conscious convictions, so can a nation’s. And just as an individual who has never translated his sense of life into conscious convictions is in terrible danger—no matter how good his subconscious values—so is a nation.
This is the position of America today.
If America is to be saved from destruction—specifically, from dictatorship—she will be saved by her sense of life….
A sense of life is not a substitute for explicit knowledge. Values which one cannot identify, but merely senses implicitly, are not in one’s control. One cannot tell what they depend on or require, what course of action is needed to gain and/or keep them. One can lose or betray them without knowing it.” – Ayn Rand
”One of Donald Trump’s greatest faults is that he is profoundly un-intellectual, he acts through his sense of life like a man-child. It’s simply not enough to achieve non-contradictory consistency.”
Is Trump a man-child? Or is that just the card he is allowing people to see in order to believe they know the rest of the cards in his hand?
Or maybe, the perception of Trump, is the perception that the ”media” is trying to make.
They want to define who he is, and then criticize him based on their fake definition of him.
Both scenarios are plausible.
I certainly wish you had a “sense” of right and wrong, because, if you did, you would know enough to know what is right and wrong when it comes to your obsession with people of faith.
Basically you would know when to shut up.
No one cares what Rand thinks on this matter either.
I’m sure Greiner will not care what you think of her sense of right and wrong.
You have no sense of right and wrong.
I am also sure Donald Trump will not be sitting around wringing his hands over what you think of him either.
Trump ’24 MAGA
America First.
THX 1138, I may be alone here, but I admire your persistence and conviction. I rarely thumb’s you up, but sometimes I do.
As a one time would be Objectivist who checked out of the movement in favor of a nondenominational belief in God, I’d like to point out that Ayn Rand herself felt America will not ultimately be destroyed. She never could give any concert answer as to why exactly. Only that she felt it would not be. I share her belief.
Even though things do not look too hopeful right now. As I continue to wince at the Christian declarations that “Jesus is coming back any second now to save America from the commies, thanks to Donald Trump.”
Talk about not making any sense.
And while you may not appreciate this, I for one do not believe Ayn Rand burns in hell. I am sure she earned her trip to heaven or enteral reward or whatever for fighting the good fight while here.
Peace.
Thanks Mike, your comment is greatly appreciated.
As I’ve commented before, if and when Objectivism becomes the dominant philosophy guiding America and the West, even the whole world, this will not mean that religion will disappear or be legally outlawed. Magical thinking is primordial, we are born magical thinkers, and it can take a lifetime or more to become consistent rational thinkers. Magical thinking is the human default mode and Objectivism is not for everyone.
It simply means that most religious people will become more rational and reasonable about their religious beliefs or mystical experiences. Even Muslims, especially Muslims.
There do seem to be legitimate, personal, mystical experiences like the Near Death Experience. What do the NDEs really mean, what are they really? Do they really mean consciousness survives bodily death? I don’t know.
The fact still remains that this life is fully real, we are here in real mortal bodies, that experience pain, suffering, or happiness and flourishing. How do we live this life before it’s over successfully by pursuing our personal happiness?
Ooops, sorry MATT. Thank you Matt, not Mike.
” if and when Objectivism becomes the dominant philosophy guiding America and the West”
Had to laugh at that one. As always you are completely delusional.
If Ayn Rand was optimistic about America’s future by the end of her life (early ’70’s) then there is reason for all of us to be optimistic. I just hope that she was right.
It didn’t last for 48 seconds, my friend. That is one of the occurrences that woke me up. No one on the left that I knew cared if I lived or died that day right there in NYC because their hatred of America removed from them any normal humanity. . All they did was hate and rant.
The rest of the city was patriotic and that lasted and still continues.
She is a traitor and probably always will be.
As I’ve said, ALL elected officials in DC should be required to attend the Navy’s SERE School..(Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape)…
Basically, Prisoner of War training.
Especially if they have the power to send our treasured young people into harm’s way.
Good for her, seriously. Maybe more anti-Americans need to spend time in a Russian prison to understand why this country is worth respecting and saving.
So, even the thoroughly confused can clearly discern the beauty of the National Anthem– “o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave”– from the perspective of a Moscow jail.
Glad to see someone learned their lesson and has come to appreciate the freedoms of America. Many don’t realize how good they have it here. Maybe some more would come to be thankful for what they have if they spent some time in the gulag.
Bingo… Nailed it.
Is that Basketball player ”person” male turning into a female or is still male but now thinks its a Lesbian, either way Old Joe will do all he can for such people as that is the ”Soul of America” as he called Dylan whatsitsname of Bud Lite Fame, rather than try and get an actual American, Caucasian Heterosexual, out of Prison in Russia because HE is the wrong Race and sexual identity .
When this tall Basketball Player ”person” starts speaking at Schools and Universities about ”her/them/them/whatever about their renewed love of America and admits just how wrong it is to not stand or pay respect to the Flag otherwise empty words are cheap.
I am just curious as it is normal to be even by the youngest children…if this person is male or female. No one will answer me. I don’t mean to be rude.
According to Wokism the individual can create his own reality simply by wishing it. As Brittney can click her heels and become female or male, you can click yours and make Brittney become male, female, or Judy Garland if you wish.
When you wish upon a star makes no difference who you are…
How come we have to bow to the transgender magical thinking but they don’t have to bow to opposing magical thinking?
Gee T., you get to create your own Objectivist reality simply wishing it and forcing it on everybody. A few words from Ayn and Lenny and magically we are all infused with your twisted world
Her height makes her very unusual among women, but that isn’t a tipoff to believe her to be anything but a biological female. If there are other “tells”, then there’s some reason to wonder.
And she is not married, because marriage is between a man and a woman.
Is that according to Sharia Law, Hindu Law, Mosaic Law, or Christian Law?
Objective Law defends the right of two, adult, individuals to voluntarily enter a non-violent, non-fraudulent, binding, contract.
As a heterosexual I find homosexuality absurd, an affront to biological reality, as absurd as walking upside down all your life, but the government has no right to pass a law that upside down walkers may not enter a marriage contract.
OK. It’s the end of the weekend. Did you accomplish anything over the last two days except committing a lot of word salad to this page.
Only one person kind of agrees with you. And boy did you suck to him fast and furiously.
Not exactly a great track record.
You can learn a lot when you are taken out of your woke world and wake up to reality. I doubt if she will ever visit Russia again. She will most definitely NOT be traveling anywhere with her stash in her hand bag. She learned her lesson. It’s time to forget about her.
It’s a shame that she had to go through such a terrible experience, but if the result is her becoming a patriotic American, or at least a citizen who doesn’t hate her country, then there is a bright side. But I blame her teachers for never teaching her the good things about America in the first place. Her father certainly must have done so, and she should have listened to him and not to the loons who presided over her classrooms all her life.
That’s called “Learning the hard way” 🙂