Venting The Nobel Peace Prize in the News (Sadly so many things said about the world today)

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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.

 

[InvasionOfPublicity]

This has also been on my mind since seeing the news. Honestly, its just more evidence about the sad state of the world today. Sometimes I feel like it's beyond repair.

 

[Hollowman]

I saw a pic of him receiving it. He had the biggest dumb smile, such a douche.

 

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This has also been on my mind since seeing the news. Honestly, its just more evidence about the sad state of the world today. Sometimes I feel like it's beyond repair.

It's the totality of it all too... I feel like when I was growing up there was corruption and stupidity... but it felt like there was at least some honesty and intelligence too. I mean, I remember a time when there were people I disagreed with but I could at least believe they were intelligent and believed in what they said. It's the whole thing where I believe our founding fathers assumed that people in this country would mostly want what was right/best for the most people... and would fight for that... and debates would happen when each side wanted the same goal BUT disagreed on how to get there... and the checks and balances would be enough to keep the riff-raff and corruption from getting a foothold.

Now it's somehow gone topsy turvy... and the riff-raff has all the power on both sides and they neither agree on the goal OR how to get there and fight constantly... meanwhile the checks and balances actually hinder the handful of decent people who actually want to turn things around for everyone. It's pretty fucked up. Like, you wouldn't write a movie with characters this poorly written/developed and storylines so thin and disjointed.

I saw a pic of him receiving it. He had the biggest dumb smile, such a douche.

Yeah. That pic... it says SO much. How happy, I mean genuinely happy, that seemed to make him. The nonsense of it. Randomly, I was in the grocery store today. A woman was pushing her cart and had two young toddlers in there. Those kids were so happy and were smiling and saying "Hey!" to literally everyone... and they were so excited whether people said hey back to them or not. I did... but those kids... as happy as they were... looked sad compared to how damn happy Trump looks in that pic... and there's literally almost nothing real about the image in that pic, and certainly nothing worthy of generating that kind of glee.

Fuck this timeline/universe/reality!