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2017-11-14 China-Japan-Koreas

UCLA Basketball Players Freed By China After Trump Intervenes

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-11-14 08:53|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Cheap positive publicity for Xi, with a possible upside attaboy chip for him to use in later negotiations. We get these clowns back. Trump acts like Trump. I have seen articles harrumphing about not leaving Americans detained in foreign hellholes. There is something to that, but if these guys did the crime, they need to be punished, not bailed out and feted.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2017-11-14 09:32|| 2017-11-14 09:32|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm going to have to say that Trump is making a big mistake here. I think we should have left them there.

I dunno what color these assholes were, but they were just a bunch of Entitled Western Race Retards who are gonna suffer a lot when they're older as our civilization finally goes bankrupt.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-11-14 09:36|| 2017-11-14 09:36|| Front Page Top

#3 I think these clowns (three black basketball players at UCLA) should have spent a month there, just as a reminder what a Communist country is like (sans due process).

Posted by Raj 2017-11-14 11:33|| 2017-11-14 11:33|| Front Page Top

#4 I won't believe it until I see it on BET. /sarc

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-11-14 12:54|| 2017-11-14 12:54|| Front Page Top

#5 stealing from a Louis Vuitton store in Hangzhou, China.

Idiots probably thought the goods were authentic. Heh

Posted by Frank G 2017-11-14 13:12|| 2017-11-14 13:12|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm sure the 'authentic' and 'inauthentic' goods come from the same assembly line in the same factory.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-11-14 13:19|| 2017-11-14 13:19|| Front Page Top

I think these clowns (three black basketball players at UCLA) should have spent a month there, just as a reminder what a Communist country is like (sans due process).

In a nutshell, they believed all the bullshit ladled out in history class about the main source of evil in this world being because of the Confederacy, the Nazis, and Boss Hawg and the Duke Boys, Bo and Luke. And then proceeded to steal worthless trinkets with a high price tag because of its worthless designer label.

The Party killed more people than Hitler in the process of consolidating their power, in a population of people they didn't traditionally think of as racial inferiors.

In order for me to go to UCLA, I'd need about 60,000 dollars a year.

These are entitled viciously retarded people.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-11-14 13:39|| 2017-11-14 13:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Let's see if they take a knee after this.

Posted by newc 2017-11-14 13:45|| 2017-11-14 13:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Thinking they could get away with it (not be spotted) makes me question both their innate and cognitive abilities.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-11-14 14:30|| 2017-11-14 14:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Tall and black is no way to sneak around China, son.

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-11-14 17:37|| 2017-11-14 17:37|| Front Page Top

#11 President Trump should have let due process take its course, then if he quietly wanted to intervene, then fine. These UCLA b-ball team mates needed to have a come to Xi (sus) moment.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-11-14 18:14|| 2017-11-14 18:14|| Front Page Top

#12 The all-around propaganda value of this being what it is, who's to say the "victims" weren't in on it too?

I recently read somewhere that there's a buck to be made outside a Paris LV store (Place Vendome?) from cash-clutching Chinese tourists looking to get around a two thingies per customer limit.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-11-14 19:02|| 2017-11-14 19:02|| Front Page Top

#13 I'd say they don't come home with the intended bragging rights.

Posted by gorb 2017-11-14 20:50|| 2017-11-14 20:50|| Front Page Top

#14 Considering the $ cost (delay/extra flight), the institutional "embarrassment" and Ball being involved, I'd think "STFU, idiots" would be in order

Posted by Frank G 2017-11-14 21:01|| 2017-11-14 21:01|| Front Page Top

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