It's like bribing and appeasing a toddler at the same time.
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What a dumb bitch. I think after this the Nobel committee should retrospectively take it away from her, so that orange fuck can't claim that he got it.
She got the Nobel Peace prize. Do you know who else got the Peace prize?
Henry Kissinger.
So did Obama, right before he ordered a bunch of strikes.
If you think Obama is comparable to Kissinger then you might be a Trump voter.
Don't be campist. Kissinger was obviously worlds worse, but Obama killed an insane amount of civilians with drones and claimed that because they were military aged males they were actually combatants. He double tapped to kill first responders and assassinated a US citizen with a drone strike and no due process. Just because the Republicans are far more evil doesn't make Obama's rampant war crimes any less awful.
Yes…”before” is a pretty important qualifier.
The Obama prize can be viewed as an aspirational prize: rewarding rhetoric that was a drastic change from the typical US hawkish rhetoric and policy that had been increasing since Reagan. They ultimately got it wrong…very very wrong…but at least it was based on something.
Kissinger, on the other hand, was tantamount to a war criminal and everybody knew it.
Giving it to Machado just tells us that the prize is fully corrupted, considering her violent rhetoric. Not just that - but the notion that she was promoting democracy is laughable, given her statements about installing a regime that would be resistant or immune to leftist political victories.
I wish they would, but they have publicly stated that it can't be transferred, shared, or revoked.
It just can be physically handed to Trump to keep forever 😉

I gotta say, solid contender for most pathetic image of 2026.
It’s beyond parody, it’s apocalyptically stupid, it can’t be ridiculed because it’s self-ridiculing in a way that’s never been done before. Merely looking at this image makes you dumber. It’s a vortex, a black hole of stupidity and hubris.
And it's just mid January...
Yeah, it feels very disorienting honestly, like we just lived through a year in 2 weeks, heh.
This will age as well as this picture:

Kontext: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/19615/chamberlain-after-the-munich-agreement/
That’s like buying your boss a “best boss” mug to try to get a raise. It means nothing and your boss is an idiot.
Quit enabling the pedophile god dammit. Now you're a pedophile by association, Maria, you fucking idiot.
this is so embarrassing for everyone involved, yikes.
Even for the Nobel Price Committee to some degree. I will be interested in what their reaction will be.
They already said that the price is given in the moment and cant be regifted or removed because later acts.
So in a way Trump is just as much nobel price winner as much as my cousing is Olympic ski jumping gold metalist. He bought the metal from auction, but it does not mean he earned it.
Before: bribes done in secret, big scandal if journalists found out
Now: bribes are given in front of hundreds of journalists and photographers and the receiver is smiling like a toddler getting a box of Lego Duplo
I bought a superbowl ring, that means I am now a superbowl champion.
If it makes him shut up on one issue, fine. Pacifier for the big baby.
Does not change the fact that the Nobel Prize is not transferrable.
The committee should re-award it given that the recipient doesn't value it.
Given that the Nobel Prize is basically the moral equivalent of a cracker jack prize at this point, and given that it's guaranteed to make the Toddler in Chief choke on a McDonald's cheeseburger, they should give it to Obama. I mean, what the fuck - after giving Kissinger one, it's not like the committee assigning them can be said to stand for anything approaching morality. Might as well do it for the memes.
What an embarresment for the Nobel Institute.
The Nobel institute was already kind of an embarrassment with what they've been doing for the past decade.
The Nobel peace prize is just a sad affair
I get that she probably realizes he's a simpleton and you can get a simpleton to do what you want if you give them gifts.
But still. Have some self respect.
Venezuelan is proper fucked if this is the opposition they have.
They are all losing their masks. The weakness and demagogy of Maduro's leadership, american entrism in the opposition, the failure of international institutions etc . We are all fucked, the values we've grown up with and that we studied in school were LIES
fuck I swear this is pathetic enough to cause an integer overflow or something
Did South Park do this as a bit already?
It basically demeans everyone...the Nobel committee, tramp (blissfully unaware), her...
Look at his smile, he actually thinks he won something. what a pathetic little bitch.
He's the kind of kid that they invented participation trophies for, just so he wouldn't throw a tantrum at the awards ceremony, and scream "CHEATER!" at everybody, when everybody knows he was ALWAYS the cheater.
Thank you Trump for attacking the brave people of Venezuela like I've been asking the US and Israel to do for years before I got this Peace Prize. Socialism is the work of the devil, and I claim to be a progressive!
If anyone still thinks the "opposition" is not entirely subservient to western interests at this point, they will never learn otherwise.
I'm not going to suggest that they'd be better off with Maduro, but surely they could come up with someone better than Trump's asshole licker.
This is just naked manipulation. I would be ashamed if someone tried it on me, but what do you know, Trump completely laps it up. She's a sly and calculating operator, I will give her that.
We truly do live in a clown world.
She also loves Israel, go figure.
Not sure what this nobel peace prize is supposed to mean at this point.

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