“That’s completely unheard of,” Janne Haaland Matlary, a professor with the University of Oslo and a former politician, told public broadcaster NRK. “It’s a total lack of respect for the award, on her part,” she said, calling the act “meaningless” and “pathetic.”
LOL @ the both of them.
She’s right wing trash, too, isn’t she? Why are they surprised?
Who wants to bet Machado offered Trump the Nobel Prize in exchange for kidnapping Maduro?
Too bad she didn’t poison it
The problem that far too many people always miss is that appeasing a bully or a predator only ever encourages more of that behaviour. It never discourages that behaviour.
Seems like she’s working with what she’s got, which is way less than the might of the US.
But it might prevent the bully from punching you that time. And everyone are cowards who won’t gang up to fight the bully
Giving up the Nobel prize / lunch money might not stop them from asking for more next week, but prevent from punching you today.
The award lost any respectability it might have had the second it was given to Henry Kissinger.
And her as well. She’s just Venezuelan trump.
Una vendepatrias
Hope thr sonofabitch hangs himself with it
It would be funny if the committee said that no one can have two Nobel peace prize medals so Trump can’t be nominated again.
Marie curie, Linus Pauling,John Bardeen, Frederick Sanger.
Him pushing for and then accepting someone else’s peace prize award says everything anyone needs to know about him: he’s the biggest asshole in the world and has no shame.
Don’t forget the middle part where he used the US military to kill a bunch of people and kidnap her main political foe.
I believe that if I were a past recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize I would be returning it. Not the money though, because fuck 'em, I’ll keep the money.
I think I’d sell it. Hold a big public auction for it. It makes it even more of a statement, and even more money!
Yeahbut . . . See, we already knew that. Like, almost a decade ago that was crystal clear.
For sure, as a New Yorker, I’ve known longer than that, but it still amazes me that there are people who don’t know yet.
I hold he’s afraid of dying because he’s so close to death’s door that he’s doing the prosperity gospel’s thing of trying to look good for god. He’s siphoning all the money he can, getting awards and structures built for him thinking it’s his way into heaven. Because a man like that would see holy salvation as transactional.
It’s not transferable. She gave him the gold trinket because that’s how you play Trump, but Trump doesn’t get the actual peace prize assigned to him. People in here talking as if Trump actually got it.
He’ll just go around telling everyone that’s the Nobel Prize he won for ‘liberating’ ven.
It also isn’t effective, Trump doesn’t actually respect people who grovel toward him, especially if they aren’t useful to him.
I would put this as sucking up.
Yeah sure either way he isn’t into it.
Are you blind? He needs constant praise and rewards those that do it and punishes those that don’t.
He wants it from people who are useful to him. I’m not blind.
Look at how he treated Zelensky and Machado. They come in and suck up, but he doesn’t see them as useful.
Other leaders who openly dislike him (and he dislikes back, on a political level), such as Mamdani, Sheinbaum, and even Kim Jong Un, more easily get on his good side without sucking up (they sometimes throw a little praise his way, as you’ve observed).
When you take it too far it falls flat
He wants it from everyone. Zelensky have you even said thank you once (yes I know it was Vance but Vance is just propping him up). I’m not gonna bother with this if you’re this blind. Ciao.
Why are you calling me blind? Why are you so closed minded about soemthibgbso inconsequential like “the precise amount of praise wants from each party”?
This rude behavior is ripped straight from The Everything App^TM
Well, it’s Lemmy, so you can figure out the rest.
It’s funny that he thinks this will mean people see him as the winner, in the future, and not a petty little bitch. This will literally have the opposite effect of what he’s looking for.
Wow. I’m gonna start using the phrase «on a scale from zero to Maria Corina Machado regifting her Nobel prize, how desperate and useless are you right now?»
Anyone got an article that doesn’t require agreeing to a fucking arbitration and class action waiver to read? jesus fucking christ bloomberg.
You’re right, sorry for the oversight, I added one now. (I just used Firefox reader mode.)
Why did they give it to a known trump collaborator lmaooo
Exactly. The peace prize means nothing. Hasn’t since Kissinger got it. 🤡
Because there were (and still are) real problems in Venezuela. She is a key figure in the opposition, and it’s widely suspected that the opposition party won the last election, but Maduro’s party fucked with the vote.
In a sane world that respects Democracy, it sends a statement that the popular will should be respected, and that the Maduro government was illegitimate. I don’t think the Nobel committee expected their award to precipitate armed intervention, which is the opposite of peace.
It’s even more ironic because it’s not like the will of the Venezuelan people is being honored, even now. Trump is ignoring Machado’s party (even after “accepting” that gift of the medal) and is extorting what is left of the government in Venezuela to funnel oil money into a secret bank account.
Basically, the award makes sense in a pre-Trump world, but he has changed all the rules. That last cheeseburger can’t come fast enough…
I don’t think the Nobel committee expected their award to precipitate armed intervention, which is the opposite of peace.
Then they’re idiots and the prize itself is worthless. That was clear as day going to be the promoted result. If they just wanted to promote democracy they could have easily chosen an activist in a country not in the process of being attacked or an activist that wasn’t currently encouraging war.
I don’t give them the benefit of assumed stupidity. I think they were neoliberals who were particularly concerned by the nationalized industries in Venezuela and who thought even if they found him abhorrent Trump could be a good tool to help set the imperialist-capitalist world back arright.
Then they’re idiots and the prize itself is worthless.
It’s been that way at least since they gave it to known war-monger Henry Kissinger…
Then they’re idiots and the prize itself is worthless.
I don’t think we disagree on that point…
Then they’re idiots and the prize itself is worthless.
Kissinger on line two, chief.
The same reason they gave it to Obama right before he started bombing civilians in the middle east with drones. It’s a political maneuver that backfired.
I mean, that’s kinda what you get for giving it to a loser in the first place.
Give the prize to a shit person, expect shit behaviour.
Also, Trump is a fucking spoiled toddler. He is an octogenarian Dudley Dursley.
Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Mike Teevee, and Horace Slugworth combined and aged up 125 years
