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    But they did give it to one of his Venezuelan toadies as a consolation prize. I wonder if that was intended to piss him off even more.

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        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

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          Look closely - how does she still looks good for people. She just dedicated her Nobel price to Trump. It might just be conspiracy lol.

          It’s also indisputably true that the US sponsored coups and engaged in economic warfare for over 20 years, and Machado is right there working with the US against Venezuela. How is that peace? So, how DOES she look good? Is it something with your eyes? Or maybe with the words you read that you allow to program your mind? Like brainwashing? Like, how even the Nobel committee thinks she is a good person? How can people have a good opinion with her?

          And more importantly, how can you have a democracy when people are this brainwashed? How do you defend against it? How should Venezuela defend itself against this hybrid war?

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      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.

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        Yep, calculated to enrage him but in specifically a way he’d have to be a huge, hypocritical manbaby to cry about.

        So the meltdown will be epic, obviously.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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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      Joke falls flat.

      Dude became president of the wealthiest most greedy nation on earth. As a greedy fuck he won the best prize possible. And now there is a god damned cult following him, and stacked the supreme Court in his favour to gain him complete immunity.

      He is a piece of shit, but that does not sound like losing.

      Losing sounds like the Democrats.

      But sure sure he’s the biggest loser. 34 felony charges and dude ends up in the White House a second time.

      I wish I could lose so hard

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        See, this is where you misunderstand what a loser is.

        A loser isn’t someone that lost something or failed at something. Most people fail at things in life, it’s crucial to growth, and everyone loses things eventually…that’s just life.

        Trump isn’t a loser in this case because he didn’t win the prize. He’s a loser because of how desperately and embarrassingly he campaigned to get it in the first place. That’s biggest loser behavior.

        Another great example of how Trump is the biggest loser is how he has all of the world leaders over for an event to the white house, and he shows off his closet full of red baseball caps.

        The dude reaches new depths of loserdom daily.

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          That doesn’t make sense? I Wich I was half the loser Trump was. I don’t know what I’d do with all the billions.

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            Look man, by wanting to be like Trump, you’re already halfway there.

            Elon Musk is a huge loser too. I mean, can you imagine being the richest guy in the world and paying to pretend you’re a top gamer? Big, sweaty loser vibes.

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            This comment made me think how differently we can think of a winner. I guess in America, it means money. But it can also mean being a human being others aspire to be.

            I guess it depends on what we think is the goal of life. Is it to gather money?

            Obviously its a goal for everyone to have some money so its not a problem in daily life to buy what we need.

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        By pitting US against US while in office, he already lost. This cannot end well for him.

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          Seriously, why?

          I mean, he’s never been in the vicinity of any consequences for his many horrible actions and crimes, so why is this so bad for him?

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        It is not just him, but all his followers are losing too.

        They just are such big losers that they don’t understand it.

        So that just makes it seem like Trump is winning.

        And him as a leader is making the US a loser too.

        We’ll see in a couple of decades how History paints him. Like one big loser that kept trying to grab power.

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          I agree that history will not me kind, but the thing is he won’t be alive to see that AND he’s deluded/demented so it won’t matter what happens in the future or about his legacy.
          Basically unless he sees consequences before he dies then he’s won.

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            Fascist regimes don’t usually end that well for the fascist at the center of them. Time will tell with this one. He has the advantage of advanced age on his side.

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          What praise? He getting away with his crimes. America is a fucking joke

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            Calling someone a winner would be praise. He fails at anything he attempts unless it’s spreading hatred and violence and he even fails at that often.

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              So then why is he president? Why has he not been in jail for his crimes.

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              “He fails at anything he attempts”

              Dude is twice president of the United States.

              He very much succeeded at that.

              I don’t accept your interpretation of praise. We very much are not saying the same thing. I have no praise, or any other type of respect for him. Let me be clear about this. Winning the lottery by rigging the results and getting away with it is not praise.

              Saying he succeeded at something is not praise, it is facts. Simple facts.

              Why are you ignoring the absolute insanity of rewarding him for his disgusting personality and beliefs by ignoring his much he is winning from the chaos and inhumanity he creates and represents.

              “He’s actively making the world a hellscape for most people, while doing everything he wants without consequence, but he’s the biggest loser of all time so it’s cool because we can feel like we are a superior to him. So that’s all okay” is how the joke hits for me and is why I commented. It’s just not funny man take this more seriously or you, his natural enemy I’m assuming, are going to continue to be bent over and fucked dry and bloody with a smoker on your face because you are going high and he is going low.

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    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!

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    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.

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    The deadline for proposing a Nobel prize candidate closed in January, this year. Trump was never even in the running. Which makes his constant whining about it even more pathetic.

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      I love how they were desperately racing all week to get some sort of concession in Gaza by the end of the week, before they’d make the Nobel announcement on Friday. Meanwhile, they’d already decided on Monday, so he was just blowing his time and energy in a totally wasted effort.

      Now the world-class sore LOSER gets to throw a world-class tantrum for the next year as he makes another run at it. Maybe he’ll focus his energy on solving conflicts around the world and actually get some accidental good out of his pathetically desperate clawing for validation in the form of ratings, polls, and awards.

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        I dont think its wasted effort i think its very intentional to make his supporters feel like he was snubbed by the international community.

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    It’s like 2 bullies against one weak kid. One bully stands by and watches the other nearly beat the kid to death. The one standing by thinks himself a humanitarian when he says “Hey, that’s enough. You kill him and we’ll both be in big trouble.”

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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”.

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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.

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    He didn’t earn those elections. His political and corporate backers paid for him to win. They paid to rig the elections and blanket campaign ads in front of all the rural poorly educated morons in America.

    Cheeto Mussolini never earned anything in his life. He was given a fortune from his father, which he squandered and ruined every business, he laid his hands on.

    The fact that people are arguing about democracy and voting and how this piece of shit got in the office really shows that they missed the greater issue in America. Corporate powers want everyone to fight against each other over social issues, cultural issues, and anything else that distracts people from understanding who is actually in charge.