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damn I'd forgotten what the full quote was
The full quote is so much worse than the abridged version, yikes
WHAT? You mean Jeffrey Epstein's Best Friend who is Kidnapping Children with Unmarked Masked Individuals and taking them to Undisclosed Locations while giving the EXACT same Billionaires on Epstein's List access to This Knowledge DIDNT get the Peace Prize? It's those DAMN LIBRULS FAULTS!
Now watch as the US gov. announces a new award called the "Trump prize" which they claim to be much more prestigious than the Nobel prize, and is only awarded to the staunchest of bigots and pedos.
You've predicted the next article from the Onion that ends up coming true.
It is scary that it sounds so real....
I know he’s full of shit, but does anyone know what “eight wars” he supposedly stopped?
The 8 wars Trump claims to have ended
Israel and Iran
Rwanda and Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Thailand and Cambodia
India and Pakistan
Egypt and Ethiopia
Serbia and Kosovo
Rwanda
Gabon
NBC had to stop carrying the show "The Biggest Loser" because it was clear in 2015 both who accurately held the title and would continue to for the next decade.
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LOL there was never any chance of him winning it.
On top of all the utter ridiculousness of...well, EVERYTHING now, one would be hard-pressed to make this picture look like more of a deranged evil person than it already does. He looks, acts, and talks like all the worst parts of humanity, and he was put into the most powerful position on the planet. TWICE. I can't even.
Because the most powerful country in the world is evil. He's the best to fund a genocide in order to build on cheap real estate using slave labor.
the most powerful country in the world is evil.
I can't disagree. The thing is, with how complicit every other supposedly democratic government in the world is being about it, none of them are much better.
How could the peace prize have gone to a guy that indiscriminately and extra-judicially murders people in boats for attention... along many other reasons.
Worked for Kissinger.
And Obama. The prize is a sham.
- Threatens northern and southern neighbors with whom your nation had shared peaceful relations for centuries with invasion
- Doesn't get Peace Prize
- Shocked Pikachu face
The fact that it went to a Venezeuelan woman is going to absolutely enrage him.
That particular Venezuelan woman was one of the leaders of the coup attempt against Chavez in the early 2000s and has been an opposition leader ever since. What makes this complicated is that she welcomed sanctions and coup attempts by the US, including during Trump's first term and she even pleaded to Netanyahu to liberate Venezuela with military force (wasn't able to find a better source since search results are very award focused right now).
She has close ties to Israel's Likud party, and wants to open the Venezuelan embassy in Jerusalem after Chavez ended diplomatic relations after their assault on Gaza in 2009 and likened Venezuela's struggle to the one of Israel.
From the will of Alfred Nobel outlining who is to receive the prize:
and one part to the person who has done the most or best to advance fellowship among nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and the establishment and promotion of peace congresses.
I'm wondering how the committee is squaring this requirement with her calling for "the use of power" by external forces.
A far right Venezuelan woman.
Peace prize is a joke.
It's pretty easy to look good when your opposition is Maduro. American interference aside he's created a refugee crisis and is indisputably running a dictatorship, which even other socialist leaders recognize.
That said...
"This immense recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is an impetus to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom," Machado said in a statement.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70821201ego
Yeesh, gotta hope that's a translation error
Hope she's not a fan of sport fishing.
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What a spoiled child. Like a kid that fucked up at schools and was still allowed to graduate. The ultimate participation trophy. A life where no actual consideration, effort, or sacrifice need be made and still be handed everything.
Fuck that guy.
Came here to post this story. Anyway, it's amazing that this is not The Onion.
Loses? He was never eligible to win it in the first place. You can nominate a goldfish to win a mountaineering award all you like, but that doesn't mean it going to happen.
Yeah, this is a weird way to frame this story. Did he also "lose" at Jeopardy and the NLDS? Just because he said he wanted to win doesn't mean he was either nominated or considered.
Nominations were in January, he never had a chance. All for attention
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He'll create his own Trump Peace Prize, and he'll be the first recipient. Additional prizes will be available for anyone willing to "donate".
This is so fucking dumb that I can actually see him doing this tbh
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What a loser; they just gave that thing to Obama as soon as he got elected and Trump has gotten elected twice and has been campaigning for the prize for months now, asking everyone he knows to nominate him but they gave it to a woman opposition leader from Venezuela instead. Hopefully he’s really hurt by this.
Someone who is both foreign and female? Oh he's gonna be PISSED
I like this for him. His greasy little heart is under so much pressure, after all...
Guess we're invading Norway, huh?
The winner is a Venezuelan politician, so perhaps Trump will launch that war he wants with Venezuela to go retrieve "his" medal from them.
Launching a war to go retrieve his Nobel PEACE prize. This stuff writes itself lol
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There's a lesson to be learned here behind just idiot presidents and Nobel prizes. In almost every situation, Regime change if more effective is spear headed internally by an opposition leader rather that forced by an external power.
Oh man. Donald j Trump, the current president of the United States, that raped children with his best friend, Jeffrey r Epstein, list the nobel Peace prize. What a shame.
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