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      24 days ago

      It’s just unfathomable to me that she thought it was a good idea to give it to him.

      She won it for her work in promoting democracy, then she uses it to bribe someone to help her subvert democracy.

      I cant help but feel like the Nobel committee really chose the wrong person.

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        She won it by grifting. Just because someone is against an oppressive regime doesnt make them good nor democratic. The same with Navalny or for a less recent example Stauffenberg.

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        If a “democracy” laureate can turn the Nobel medal into a gift to Donald Trump to secure leverage, it exposes the prize as elite propaganda, not a meaningful moral measure. And it reveals Machado’s “pro-democracy” image as branding for regime-change patronage, where legitimacy comes from foreign powerbrokers rather than Venezuelan popular sovereignty.

        She was never pro democracy, look into her past and support for American coups. She’s a right wing fascist, like the lot of them.

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          Should he not have attacked Al Qaida? Or is it just the drones you object to?

          And how many drone strikes did Trump order, and what was the noncombatant death toll of those?

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        She’s a member of the corrupt kleptocracy that Chavez kicked out. The fact that Maduro was a shit leader doesn’t mean that the faction that had been driven out of power was any better.

        I cant help but feel like the Nobel committee really chose the wrong person.

        They really should shut that shitshow down. It’s doing more harm than good.

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        She’s trying to buy her country back with a hunk of metal. It’s understandable.

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    He got what he wanted. Why bother to remember who gave it to him? Its amazing how so few people understand what a narcissist truly is.

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      narcissist

      Yeah, but it’s that plus dementia. Fucker’s basically 1 step away from mixing up camel and rhino on cognitive tests.

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        He has been this way for his whole life. Sure now he can’t mumble a consistent lie but the root cause of trumps cruelty is narcissism. A utter lack of empathy. Its why people like him think empathy is bad. It interferes with their cruelty. Not realizing if no one had empathy they would have been finished a long time ago.

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    I am once again begging people not to post a headline that starts with “Trump, 79,” that doesn’t end with. Well. You know

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    Not surprising. During the run up to the election he got Nicky Jam to shill for him on stage and appeared to get him mixed up with Nicki Minaj…

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      There are several knowledgeable people who are quite convinced that he is in the late stages of dementia, some saying he has months left to live.

      So that’s a glimmer of hope.

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    Ah shit. It’s Corina Machado! I was going to say that even I don’t remember since l don’t remember for example who won the price for biology.

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    Clearly her name is Maria Southamerica. While she was in the US, after gifting Donnie his special award that he earned, she flew to California to meet with Tim Apple.