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.

    • cannedtuna@lemmy.world
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      I mean, what does a trophy matter in the long run if it means her country and people might be left alone by a madman? She still was the one who was awarded the Nobel and Trump can’t take that away from her.

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        She’s not doing it in the interest of Venezuela. She’s doing it so that he’ll make her the puppet leader of Venezuela. She’s not Gandhi; she’s Vidkun Quisling.

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        To be clear, she was praising Trump long before the events of this month. She never wanted the country or her people to be left alone, she wanted all this to happen so she could suck up to him and be installed. Did she have a hand in actually making it (the war and the Maduro kidnapping) happen? Probably not, but she was dealt the exact hand she wanted so now she can enjoy it.

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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.

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

      Henry Kissinger.

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

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            Well, Trump voters and a whole bunch of dems thought kamala was comparable to trump.

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            Hey, there’s multiple options. They could be a “stay at home and not bother” voter instead. They are the largest electoral demographic in the US after all.

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

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        Given Trump’s relation with reality and mental age, the formalism are irrelevant: in his mind if he has the shinny thing then the prize is his.

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      She’s giving up a piece of metal in the hopes that it’ll help her country. The country that she’s the rightful president of.

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

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      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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    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.

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      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

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        They gave Obama a Nobel Peace Prize based on vibes alone, in the beginning of his term. Even he was surprised, what a joke.

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          This is actually understandable when you consider him a symbol of a new era of race relations in the United States. Unfortunately, this turned out to not be the case but there was a beautiful moment of hope at the time. It seems that the powers that be want to burn the country to the ground to erase that spark of hope. That’s my interpretation of that anyway

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    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

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    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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      From my talking with someone who grew up under a nation with a corrupt regime, self respect is a luxury that people under such a regime cannot afford when dealing with the government.

      Small, petty, corrupt government personnel are a way of life and people just accept this sort of stuff as mundane fact of life.

      So such folks are uniquely emotionally prepared for this sort of interaction.