cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41381866
Donald Trump has said it would be “an honor” take Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize if she offered it to him, as he prepares to meet the exiled politician next week.
Machado has been in hiding due to persistent threats on her life, emerging only briefly in Oslo after a three-day mission in which she was smuggled out of the country with the help of the U.S. military for the Nobel ceremony.
Julian Assange files complaint against Nobel Foundation over Machado prize
Nothing says peace prize like one taken from a person for invading their country.
For him, acquisition is the same as earning it. Technically, it’s receiving the prize. In his eyes, there is no difference.
This is how he has gotten everything in life. Sex, money, fame. Born with a silver spoon right up his ass. This only tracks, should surprise absolutely no-one.
Well the notion of earning something has always been 100% foreign to him all his life, it’s a concept that never even intersected with his needs and wants, so yes, i think you’re accurate
I fully expect her to give him her medallion, and then he will expect people to complement him on “my Nobel Prize, which I earned fair and square, unlike that lying Obama, who rigged the vote to get it”. Anyone who doesn’t acknowledge that he is now a Nobel Prize winner will be sent to CECOT.
She will do this, expecting Trump to endorse her to run Venezuela, but he will deport her instead.
It’s going to be like the gulf of america…he’s going to sue papers into his alternate reality…
“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.” - Tom Lehrer
Tbf, she didn’t deserve it either.
Why not?
she was begging trump to invade venezuela and claimed if she’s in charge she will move the venezuelan embassy to jerusalem. she’s a full on neocon zionist
Um. Nah. I don’t agree with you. I will give you that she is an opportunistic politician.
But this “neo whatever zionist”, nah. She’s part of the old school Venezuelan political system that was in place prior to Chávez/Maduro. Whether that’s good or bad, I’ll leave to others to decide.
But does she want peace and freedom for Venezuela? Has she done more and sacrificed more than you or me combined to make that happen? Absolutely.
Kinda of two-faced of you to criticize her for receiving the nobel prize given your comment history.
She addressed the far right European movement Patrios of Europe. This movement is endorsed by people like Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orban, Milei etc major players of today’s world pushing world actively to extreme right, bigotry, sexism, anti-immigration and anti-muslim policies etc you name it. The slogan of this group is “Make Europe Great Again”, that should tell you all you need about this group.
She congratulated Netanyahu on his “decisive actions” in the “war” in Gaza, declared that “the struggle of Venezuela is the struggle of Israel,” and has promised to move Venezuela’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, which would violate international law.
I don’t know how much she has done for Venezuela, can’t comment on that but if you work with groups that are actively pushing the world to shit, I find it hard to believe that her own goals for her own country can be that good. Far right politics is generally about power and personal gain at the expense of masses.
I also don’t know if she is actively a zionist but she has no qualms about supporting zionist and far-right agendas so she can get some bit of political power in her corner of the world. I wouldn’t let her walk past near the nobel peace prize. Not that that prize has any credibility any more.
No better satire than reality these days.
I feel like we are living in a world were rich and powerful people are playing some stupid video game that at this point doesn’t make any god damn sense and the rest of us are just NPC’s forced to bear witness to their stupid antics.
The obsession with Greenland feels like a game of risk. Same for putin’s endless waste of human life.
Time to stop handing out the peace prize, it’s clearly not having the intended effect. Hand out prizes for evil instead, with medals made of cobalt 60. Would have more positive impact.
I personally prefer the idea of a Peace Prize which ensures peace by agreeing on people to take out and putting them into their own worst nightmares. Putin dies by Polonium, but only after several times being told he had ingested polonium, only to find out it was something less-deadly, but much more lastingly unpleasant, like dioxins. By the time they actually give him polonium, they can just not tell him and let him find out for himself. Trump gets to watch as his name is scrubbed from every book, every plaque. Full Akhenaten treatment, only acknowledged as a void in space where a legacy could have been. Every act, undone. Every precedent, removed. Complete Damnatio Memoriae. For the rest of his short life, he is acknowledged only by his prisoner number or, for variety, merely looked at with a sneer of disgust and a plugged nose. That sort of thing.
he will die by novichik in corticosteroids, his current favorite weapon of choice.
I considered it, but Novichok is too quick.
Let’s hope he doesn’t grab her by the pussy.
