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And all she had to do was look straight ahead and say "No" - hasn't working for Trump taught her how to lie convincingly?
The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America
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And all she had to do was look straight ahead and say "No" - hasn't working for Trump taught her how to lie convincingly?
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Checking dates it would appear that the decision to award the Prize to Obama was made after the election but before he took office so I agree that Obama was awarded the prize for being "Not Bush".
by Øyvind Tønnesson / Nobelprize.org Peace Editor, 1998-2000
The Nobel Peace Prize has frequently caused controversy. One reason is that many Laureates have been contemporary and highly controversial political actors, another is that the Prizes in many instances, have increased public focus on international or national conflicts. In the latter case, the awards have often been seen by local authorities as “interference” in national matters.
Controversies and criticisms
www.nobelprize.org
One might compose a persuasive argument the Nobel committee shouldn't "abuse" their limited power this way.
A perhaps equally persuasive argument may counter that.
This argument aside, though it would be premature to sing Trump's Middle East peace praises here today, particularly with Trump dispatching military troops to Portland and Chicago, there is room for cautious optimism for the desperate People of War-ravaged Palestine.
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It takes a particular kind of government to gaslight you about a fire while standing in front of the flames with a gasoline can. Today’s White House “ANTIFA roundtable” was a pageant, a reality-TV set piece tuned to the Stephen Miller attention economy, where the goal isn’t governance but spectacle, not law but the performance of “law and order.” The cast list featured the usual chorus of aggrieved influencers and political appointees telling one another they are very brave, very persecuted, and very close to uncovering a sprawling left-wing terror hydra funded by NGOs, homeless-services nonprofits, and, naturally, the media. The villain, “ANTIFA,” was invoked like a magic spell that makes due process disappear and federal troops appear.
“It should be clear to all Americans that we have a very serious left-wing terror threat,” Trump intoned, before musing that “the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be jailed.”
“Everything we are doing is very lawful. What they are doing is not lawful,” he declared, even as he entertained a question about suspending habeas corpus to deal with so-called “insurrectionists.”
Pam Bondi chimed in: “ANTIFA is a domestic left-wing terrorist organization… This is not activism. It’s anarchy.”
And the president nodded along when one participant suggested designating ANTIFA as a foreign .....
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Continuing with a theme
Good morning! María Corina Machado has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her relentless fight for democracy in Venezuela. Silenced, barred from running, forced into hiding under threat of assassination, she kept organizing, resisting militarization, and pushing for a peaceful transition. She embodies courage and sacrifice in their purest form.
Donald Trump, meanwhile, spent the year lobbying like a petulant child demanding dessert, pestering ministers, boasting at the UN that “everyone says” he deserves it. He got nothing. And that’s the point: Machado won for being everything he isn’t. She risks her life for democracy; he risks democracy itself for applause. She builds coalitions; he burns institutions.
And it is especially fitting that Machado is Venezuelan, because even as she is honored for resisting authoritarianism, Trump is ordering U.S. strikes that literally blow up fishermen off her country’s coast, extrajudicial killings that international observers have already denounced. While she defends life and democratic principle, he treats human beings as ....
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Good morning! María Corina Machado has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her relentless fight for democracy in Venezuela. Silenced, barred from running, forced into hiding under threat of assassination, she kept organizing, resisting militarization, and pushing for a peaceful transition. She embodies courage and sacrifice in their purest form.
Donald Trump, meanwhile, spent the year lobbying like a petulant child demanding dessert, pestering ministers, boasting at the UN that “everyone says” he deserves it. He got nothing. And that’s the point: Machado won for being everything he isn’t. She risks her life for democracy; he risks democracy itself for applause. She builds coalitions; he burns institutions.
And it is especially fitting that Machado is Venezuelan, because even as she is honored for resisting authoritarianism, Trump is ordering U.S. strikes that literally blow up fishermen off her country’s coast, extrajudicial killings that international observers have already denounced. While she defends life and democratic principle, he treats human beings as ....
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BREAKING: Obama breaks his silence on Trump losing the Nobel Peace Prize to a Colombian woman, and throws MAJOR shade at Trump in the process.
Obama didn’t even have to mention Trump’s name to make his intentions perfectly clear to everyone. All the former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner had to do was simply post a heartfelt congratulations to this year’s Nobel winner, María Corina Machado of Venezuela.
“Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela,” Obama wrote in a post on X. “It should inspire those engaged in similar struggles around the world - and remind those of us lucky enough to live in America that we have a solemn responsibility to constantly preserve and defend our own hard-won democratic traditions.”
With Trump openly — and embarrassingly — campaigning to be awarded the same accolade that his predecessor was given, his anger and disappointment that the prize instead went to someone else — a Latina woman, no less — makes his loss a particularly sore point.
Obama’s reference to defending America’s ”democratic traditions” made it obvious that he considers Trump’s recent attempts to deploy National Guard troops to cities run by Democratic mayors an assault on those traditions.
Being called out, even obliquely, by the Black man who outshines him in intelligence, class, and statesmanship, is the worst psychic injury imaginable for Trump, and it’s a slight that he only brought upon himself with his own overwhelming narcissism.
Like Obama, we congratulate María Corina Machado for her win and laud the Nobel committee that awarded her the prize for their courage in ignoring the political pressure to succumb to Trump’s naked ambition.
Obama didn’t even have to mention Trump’s name to make his intentions perfectly clear to everyone. All the former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner had to do was simply post a heartfelt congratulations to this year’s Nobel winner, María Corina Machado of Venezuela.
“Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela,” Obama wrote in a post on X. “It should inspire those engaged in similar struggles around the world - and remind those of us lucky enough to live in America that we have a solemn responsibility to constantly preserve and defend our own hard-won democratic traditions.”
With Trump openly — and embarrassingly — campaigning to be awarded the same accolade that his predecessor was given, his anger and disappointment that the prize instead went to someone else — a Latina woman, no less — makes his loss a particularly sore point.
Obama’s reference to defending America’s ”democratic traditions” made it obvious that he considers Trump’s recent attempts to deploy National Guard troops to cities run by Democratic mayors an assault on those traditions.
Being called out, even obliquely, by the Black man who outshines him in intelligence, class, and statesmanship, is the worst psychic injury imaginable for Trump, and it’s a slight that he only brought upon himself with his own overwhelming narcissism.
Like Obama, we congratulate María Corina Machado for her win and laud the Nobel committee that awarded her the prize for their courage in ignoring the political pressure to succumb to Trump’s naked ambition.
