What exactly did Trump do? Do you honestly think anyone in China gives a damn about Trump, or any American president really, asking for leniency towards Americans imprisoned there? Xi Jinping's presidency has been marked by his aggressiveness towards corruption. Everyone from previously high-ranking politicians to billionaires have been imprisoned, even executed. There's no reason to think Xi did anything to ensure the release of the players because of Trump. Here's what (likely) happened:
>Staffer told Trump basketball players are held in China >Trump mentions it in passing to Xi >Xi diplomatically says he'll "make sure they're treated fairly" but doesn't do anything
Wow, it's fucking nothing. It's not like Trump went there to pick them up. It was a coincidence he was even down there.
The fact that they were UCLA basketball players, American, and that this put an international spotlight on China's justice system probably had far more to do with them being released.
Trump doing the bare minimum of what he was supposed to do as President does not deserve a thank you from LaVar. The son thanking him should have been good enough. Clearly he was "grateful" for whatever Trump "did".
Trump cared enough to write like 3 xbox hueg tweets about him.
Asher Morris
So you open your post stating that China harshly punishes anyone but then go on to say that they were not going to jail anyways? So it didn't matter if trump did anything?
Serious question, are you that lavar nigger? because you sound as retarded as him and are unable to string together coherent thoughts.
Nathaniel Sanders
Christ, you're english is terrible.
Justin Ward
>Do you honestly think anyone in China gives a damn about Trump
Trump was the first ever president to dine in the forbidden city. Must be a (((coincidence))) since (YOU) tell us, that nobody cares about Trump in China.
Fuck off, shill. And kill yourself immediately.
Adrian Kelly
My point is that Xi is not about special treatment, so the idea that he appealed on the behalf of Trump, or, even worse, directed the local government to release the players is a BS assumption.
Aiden Morgan
He helped get them out of China?
Luis Howard
the jew on the left beware his lies.
Logan Fisher
Because he doesn't like niggers.
Caleb Thompson
Go test out that theory and shoplift in China. Tell us if you get off Scott free.
Hudson Allen
Was there really something bad about my writing there? This is sincere. I'm schizophrenic and have thought disorder and currently on meds.
Brandon Davis
Trump should have let those niggers rot in jail.
Tyler Edwards
>poorly written dissertation designed to glorify the political opinion of a literal basketball ape who probably can't spell his own name saged
Lincoln Reyes
Xi is not about special treatment when it comes to handling corruption in the billions in his own party, he could care less if some nigger from American goes home for stealing a fucking iPhone, he has a country to run it changes nothing you impotent fucking fool, it's a small gesture of good will to an administration that's threatening a lot of bullshit and probably will follow through with it
Kevin Bennett
For sure. The Chinese are known the world over for their empathy and tolerance. Those basketball-americans were sure to be released based on the understanding that the Chinese have of their impoverished and oppressed status. Without a doubt, if Blimpfk had kept his nose out of their business, there would be a parade and national holiday celebrating the bravery of these melanin heros.
Nicholas Russell
and if it were any other president, the nigger would be left to rot in a gulag until his death
Joseph Lopez
LaVar Ball is very intelligent. You do realize he is playing the media like a fiddle right now, right? Big Baller Brand has gotten 3+ million dollars in free exposure because of this situation according to a marketing agency.
Jacob Allen
take a look at a profile shot of him and try to find the frontal lobe
Benjamin Morgan
Trump wouldn't have done or said shit if they were not released.
Jason Wilson
>trump does X DAS RAYSISS >trump doesn't do X DAS RAYSISS
this is why we want you dead
Daniel Rivera
That they are UCLA students is more significant.
UCLA holds more international students than any other university. They are BIG money for the university. They are concerned about their brand in China.
That gave the Chinese a lot of leverage in negotiating the players' release. UCLA could ensure the local government that they would harshly punish the players.
Mason Turner
>Do you honestly think anyone in China gives a damn about Trump If they didn't they wouldn't have signed a quarter of a trillion dollar deal with him.
Holy shit you're fucking dumb lmao
Julian Flores
This situation has nothing to do with Trump being racist.
I don't even think Trump is a racist. He's worse. He's an evil man willing to stimulate racial tensions if he believes it will help him politically. That is how he got elected--pandering to conservative racism and xenophobia. Even now with his recent attack of basketball and football it is clearly racial.
I am not liberal or Democrat. I am an unaffiliated moderate. Freedom is what's important.
Brayden Butler
>He's an evil man willing to stimulate racial tensions if he believes it will help him politically. You're literally describing Obama.
>"if I had a son he would have been Tryvon"
Holy shit you're fucking dumb lmao
Dylan Peterson
Clearly you haven't spent any significant amount of time in China. Harsh punishment in the US is akin to a slap on the wrist in China. Harsh punishment from a non-government body would be somewhere along the lines of how to deal with a toddler that's having a tantrum.
Had Trump not stepped in, the best outcome for those niggers would have been losing 10 years of their lives and contracting tuberculosis. Worst case would be that the local government grand stands and makes examples of the niggers by locking them up indefinitely "pending trial".
Robert Harris
You sound like a huge fag...can you go back to Salon now please?
Asher Lopez
This tbqh. Not to mention that the Chinese are super nationalistic and extremely racist towards blacks. Parading them about as an exhibit would've been pretty useful to the government.
Michael Morales
That doesn't make any sense. The President commenting on race issues is not automatically a political maneuver.
Racial tensions in America did not help Obama. They hurt him. From the day he was elected to the day he left Obama had to fight against the perception pushed by white, racist conservatives that he had something against white people, despite being raised by his white mother, grandparents, and having white friends most of his life before he went to Chicago.
Obama is a good person. I can tell that he actually cares about people. Even when Trump appears to be doing something good, it is always self-serving. Bill Gates talked about how Trump didn't give to charity. There have been numerous stories about how Trump has lied about giving charity or otherwise. Trump once walked on the stage of a charity event and sat in a chair reserved for someone else even though he didn't donate just to look like he did. Trump can't even pretend to be a good person effectively. He's a narcissist.
Julian Wilson
The Chinese are concerned about how they look to the international community. This situation put a spotlight on them and it wouldn't have looked good for them to detain American university students at all.
Oliver Campbell
>That doesn't make any sense. That's because you're a subIQ moron. >The President commenting on race issues is not automatically a political maneuver. Inserting himself in the middle of a racial moment saying the victim would have been his son wasn't a political pull for sympathy? How dense can you possibly be?
>Racial tensions in America did not help Obama. They hurt him. Wrong. BlackLivesMatter helped Obama more than anything and all of a sudden made anyone nonblack the bad guys.
>racist conservatives Actually, the KKK were created by Democrats who went around killing black and white Republicans. They just couldn't never clean up their mess and started blaming their problems on the Republican, kind of like Obamacare of today.
Eli Hill
>Be guarantee'd 100% of the black vote >Doesn't help him
Kayden Phillips
lol at going on a shoplifting spree in China on a US passport.
Symptomatic of a group that think they can get away with anything if they whinge hard enough.
Lucky that captain racist put in a good word with Bao Bao, otherwise they'd be putting iphones together for the next 20 years.
Jacob Ortiz
Obama spoke on the issue because it was probably the biggest story that year. I really don't see where you going with the political "sympathy" angle. You'll have to explain to me what political benefit he was expecting.
Nonblack people are considered the enemy by who? You're vastly overstating the effect of BLM. Most people find them annoying.
>The KKK were created by Democrats That's why I said conservative. Also, demographics of the parties changed. You need to look up the southern strategy.
Oliver Mitchell
That is bullshit, China is still corrupt as fuck, you just need to be officially sanctioned to be corrupt now or get executed.
Also, Xi is all about making China seem better than it really is. This is just a publicity stunt. Sure he could have just let these nigs rot in prison for the next 10 years and no one would have given a fuck. But by releasing them he's making himself and China look magnanimous, and you fell for it.
Blake Bell
I'm sort of pissed at trump to not ensure justice
Blake Torres
Your primary writing voice is really pretty solid. The only kind of weird thing is this secondary voice whispering random shit about warhellrides, whatever that means.
>You need to look up the southern strategy. No, you need to look up who in the parties actually switched. Less than 2% of politicians "switched sides" as you put it, and to then to suggest entire party ideologies swapped is pure ignorance.
Obama was a joke and was voted as the worst president since WW2.
You have Xi's gameplan all wrong. He's not "aggressive towards corruption" - he's aggressive towards corrupt people who aren't in his party / inner circle. Insectoid Prime is as corrupt as they come.
Cooper Flores
Fell for that "they swapped places" bullshit eh?
Want to know why people hate the dems? They're unable to be honest about their party's history. Do have to thank you fuckers for convincing them to keeping aborting their own children and staying on welfare. They're pretty much a permanent underclass and guaranteed to vote for the dems until they destroyed themselves.
Angel Taylor
The mature thing to do would be to not intervene and let them go through the local processes.
Bit rich to demand that other people respect your country's sovereignty and then to intervene and request that your misbehaving citizens abroad get a free pass on criminal conduct.
Levi Butler
This is how the South voted in 1920.
If you don't believe in the Southern Strategy, what is your explanation for the fact that the modern day south is blood red?
Levi Jackson
Immigration has always been the #1 key factor in voting. Why do you think democrats push so heavily for open borders and disregarding all rule of law for the land.
They don't care about immigrants. They care about votes.
Ryder Powell
Because they saw what the dems were turning into. The dems were speaking out of both sides of their mouths to get votes to the detriment of all involved.
Y'all are just shit.
Josiah Reyes
LaVar Ball is an idiot. The sports player could've been in jail in fucking Asia far away from his home for a long time. Fucking idiots
Ryder Campbell
Not everybody's a disrespecting pleb like OP. Whether you like it or not, the dude is still your president . now Neck yourself, faggot
Henry Reed
Tried listening to this. Couldn't even understand what he was talking about. After a couple of minutes I gave up trying.
Ryder Johnson
There is a special site for you to hang out on, now go back
Leo Russell
You are wrong. Democrats were a nationalist collectivist party, now they are an internationalist party. This push to the left is the cause of the change on the electoral map. The core Republican values have changed little since they were founded -- disregard the neocons -- freedom of speech, right to life and property.
Michael Bell
>you're a bigot if you wouldn't fuck a gay friend >you're a bigot if you don't have gay friends >you're a bigot if you're not gay >if you are gay, you're a misogynist I don't generally advocate for killing people, but I'm just about prepared to make an exception for progressives.
Kayden Morris
Oooh free exposure, big fucking woop di doo, no nigger is going to pimp out some gear with a gay ass logo like big baller brand, this will come and go like fubu n southpole
Levi Carter
Lavarbal is a mongrel that should be hung with you next to him
Dominic Jackson
Doesn't matter what anyone thinks of Lavar Ball, this is purely about race and "being in his place" for Trump, if these were white kids, or Tom Brady's or somebody, he would never have demeaningly asked for that thank you. It's about making him subservient, because 1 he's a racist, and 2)everyone who voted for him his too.
