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- May 7, 2025
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So... Machado, from Venezuela tried to pander to Trump by giving him her Nobel Peace Prize. He accepted the prize of course. Let that sink in while I ramble...
Firstly... you can't give away anything but the physical memento of the Nobel Prize. It's literally in the rules of the thing... you can't pass it on, period. You win it and the honor is yours forever... you can't transfer that. Like winning an Oscar, you can sell the statue but you still won the Oscar. the owner of the statue didn't retroactively win the Oscar just for possessing the trophy.
Talk about a participation trophy... Trump accepting it is crazy. I mean, I know he has an ego and wants a prize... but, this is one of the saddest things I could imagine a person wanting to be a part of. This is worse than actually thinking you deserved the prize and losing... having an actual winner give you their trophy, and you pretending as though now you are the winner!
This is worse than an honorary degree. Honorary degrees from universities have always been laughable to me... and a slap in the face to people who genuinely earned their diploma... but at least an honorary degree is bestowed on you by a credited university and it is a title that belongs to you. i.e. you get something real, even if the degree is symbolic only. Being given someone's Nobel Prize plaque, or whatever, has zero significance at all. You literally have nothing you didn't have before... except that thing... maybe there is some gold in it that is worth something. I don't know.
And this isn't one way embarrassment either... Machado... she is trying to gain favor with Trump... since we kidnapped Venezuela's leader... Machado hopes to have Trump endorse her as leader... by bribing him with this gift... this sad meaningless gift... That's now how you prove you are worthy of leading your people... and, what's worse, by all accounts Trump doesn't have any thoughts about endorsing her as a leader... probably wouldn't just because she is a woman, but outside that, I gather he has zero fucks to give about considering her no matter what gift she might give.
And... if you ever thought Machado was deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize... and maybe she was, I don't know... but IF you actually won that prize and gave it to Trump of all people, in order to curry pathetic favor from a pathetic man... the whole damn thing probably makes Nobel spin like a top in his grave and wishing there was a revocation clause where they could retract a prize from someone so dumb and undeserving that they would give it away so easily to so undeserving of a person.
I could go on and on... but this isn't (by far actually) the dumbest or worst thing to happen this week... probably wasn't the worst thing to happen on the day it happened.
You think, though, you've seen it all... and new sad and stupid keeps happening. Nobody knows who should wear the "I'm with Stupid" t-shirts anymore... they need to just make "I'm the stupid" shirts in all sizes for everyone.
Firstly... you can't give away anything but the physical memento of the Nobel Prize. It's literally in the rules of the thing... you can't pass it on, period. You win it and the honor is yours forever... you can't transfer that. Like winning an Oscar, you can sell the statue but you still won the Oscar. the owner of the statue didn't retroactively win the Oscar just for possessing the trophy.
Talk about a participation trophy... Trump accepting it is crazy. I mean, I know he has an ego and wants a prize... but, this is one of the saddest things I could imagine a person wanting to be a part of. This is worse than actually thinking you deserved the prize and losing... having an actual winner give you their trophy, and you pretending as though now you are the winner!
This is worse than an honorary degree. Honorary degrees from universities have always been laughable to me... and a slap in the face to people who genuinely earned their diploma... but at least an honorary degree is bestowed on you by a credited university and it is a title that belongs to you. i.e. you get something real, even if the degree is symbolic only. Being given someone's Nobel Prize plaque, or whatever, has zero significance at all. You literally have nothing you didn't have before... except that thing... maybe there is some gold in it that is worth something. I don't know.
And this isn't one way embarrassment either... Machado... she is trying to gain favor with Trump... since we kidnapped Venezuela's leader... Machado hopes to have Trump endorse her as leader... by bribing him with this gift... this sad meaningless gift... That's now how you prove you are worthy of leading your people... and, what's worse, by all accounts Trump doesn't have any thoughts about endorsing her as a leader... probably wouldn't just because she is a woman, but outside that, I gather he has zero fucks to give about considering her no matter what gift she might give.
And... if you ever thought Machado was deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize... and maybe she was, I don't know... but IF you actually won that prize and gave it to Trump of all people, in order to curry pathetic favor from a pathetic man... the whole damn thing probably makes Nobel spin like a top in his grave and wishing there was a revocation clause where they could retract a prize from someone so dumb and undeserving that they would give it away so easily to so undeserving of a person.
I could go on and on... but this isn't (by far actually) the dumbest or worst thing to happen this week... probably wasn't the worst thing to happen on the day it happened.
You think, though, you've seen it all... and new sad and stupid keeps happening. Nobody knows who should wear the "I'm with Stupid" t-shirts anymore... they need to just make "I'm the stupid" shirts in all sizes for everyone.
