(10-02-2023, 11:08 PM)Sneakers Wrote:

(10-02-2023, 08:11 PM)mikesez Wrote: Most people are able to state their disagreement without having to delve into the personal history of the person they are disagreeing with.  If you had any friends you would know that.

Also I own a house and two cars.  I've negotiated many times, just like most people my age.

Sorry, I should have said competence, not experience.   Congratulations on your Prius, I hope you got a better deal for it than Biden got for Griner.  

P.S.  I do have friends and a couple of them are actually Democrats!  Can you believe it?  Even they recognize what a terrible trade it was.  I'm surprised that someone with your vast negotiating experience can't see that reality.

I agree that it wasn't a great deal to trade someone who had like 15 years left on their sentence for someone who had 9, especially when Griner's sentence would have only been like a month if she was a Russian citizen. It's not fair or right.
Biden could have left them both in jail waiting for a better deal, or he could have imposed additional economic sanctions, then offered to remove them in exchange for the prisoners. No guarantee that either tactic works, though. 
My buddy at work, I thought he got a bad deal on his house. He thought so too.  "I should have waited until the market cooled down" he said at the time. He bought in 2020.  Look at him now.
In any case, even if Biden did negotiate poorly, it has nothing to do with kneeling or being black or being gay.

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