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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told reporters she presented the medal for her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting on Thursday, but did not say if he accepted it.

"I think today is a historic day for us Venezuelans," she said after the meeting with Trump, the first time the two have met in-person.

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[–] MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 197 points 2 months ago (5 children)

It's like bribing and appeasing a toddler at the same time.

[–] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 months ago

More like bribing someone who is known as a child rapist.

[–] Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

You know what they say. It's easy as bribing a toddler.

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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 103 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 86 points 2 months ago (2 children)

She got the Nobel Peace prize. Do you know who else got the Peace prize?

Henry Kissinger.

[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So did Obama, right before he ordered a bunch of strikes.

[–] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

If you think Obama is comparable to Kissinger then you might be a Trump voter.

[–] butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social 35 points 2 months ago

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.

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[–] MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world 28 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] Cyclist@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I wish they would, but they have publicly stated that it can't be transferred, shared, or revoked.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It just can be physically handed to Trump to keep forever 😉

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[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 86 points 2 months ago (7 children)

SAD

I gotta say, solid contender for most pathetic image of 2026.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

And it's just mid January...

[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it feels very disorienting honestly, like we just lived through a year in 2 weeks, heh.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 65 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 63 points 2 months ago

Quit enabling the pedophile god dammit. Now you're a pedophile by association, Maria, you fucking idiot.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 59 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this is so embarrassing for everyone involved, yikes.

[–] Eril@feddit.org 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Even for the Nobel Price Committee to some degree. I will be interested in what their reaction will be.

[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 months ago

Boot licker.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago

Fascist sycophant.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 34 points 2 months ago

So pathetic for the both of them

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

FIFA peace prize in shambles…

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I bought a superbowl ring, that means I am now a superbowl champion.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 10 points 2 months ago

Doesn't matter, because Trump doesn't know. Even if he did it wouldn't keep him from claiming it was "his" Nobel Prize. "It was given to me, so it's mine., see? All mine."

[–] rarsamx@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The committee should re-award it given that the recipient doesn't value it.

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 months ago

I don't have enough vomit for this, can I borrow someone else's

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

"Fascism arises from the collapse of legitimacy of liberal institutions"

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago

fuck I swear this is pathetic enough to cause an integer overflow or something

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Venezuelan is proper fucked if this is the opposition they have.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

corruption is the cancer that took Venezuela long ago…

[–] RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did South Park do this as a bit already?

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[–] mar10sanch32@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

"You can grab them by the peace prize... They let you do anything"

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 12 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Nobel committee is a joke

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It basically demeans everyone...the Nobel committee, tramp (blissfully unaware), her...

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Trump Steak Bag

"Thank you for your Nobel Prize, here is a bag of Trump steaks from 1999"

[–] NChiwana76@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So foolish, she knows not who she deals with. I guess I cannot fault her for trying though but appeasement of a megalomaniac rarely works out.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

First, the prize, like most such prizes, is a popularity contest, merit be damned.

Second, as everyone knows, except perhaps Trump, the statue is worthless without the intent behind it. She gave him a paperweight, probably cheaper than whatever gift she would have given otherwise.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean, some idiot gave him a purple heart last time and he thought it was pretty cool.

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[–] matthewm05@ttrpg.network 8 points 2 months ago

She also loves Israel, go figure.

Not sure what this nobel peace prize is supposed to mean at this point.

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