Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told reporters she presented the medal for her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting on Thursday, but did not say if he accepted it.

“I think today is a historic day for us Venezuelans,” she said after the meeting with Trump, the first time the two have met in-person.

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      2 months ago

      I mean, what does a trophy matter in the long run if it means her country and people might be left alone by a madman? She still was the one who was awarded the Nobel and Trump can’t take that away from her.

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        She’s not doing it in the interest of Venezuela. She’s doing it so that he’ll make her the puppet leader of Venezuela. She’s not Gandhi; she’s Vidkun Quisling.

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    What a dumb bitch. I think after this the Nobel committee should retrospectively take it away from her, so that orange fuck can’t claim that he got it.

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      She got the Nobel Peace prize. Do you know who else got the Peace prize?

      Henry Kissinger.

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      I wish they would, but they have publicly stated that it can’t be transferred, shared, or revoked.

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      She’s giving up a piece of metal in the hopes that it’ll help her country. The country that she’s the rightful president of.

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    That’s like buying your boss a “best boss” mug to try to get a raise. It means nothing and your boss is an idiot.

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    Before: bribes done in secret, big scandal if journalists found out

    Now: bribes are given in front of hundreds of journalists and photographers and the receiver is smiling like a toddler getting a box of Lego Duplo

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    The committee should re-award it given that the recipient doesn’t value it.

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      Given that the Nobel Prize is basically the moral equivalent of a cracker jack prize at this point, and given that it’s guaranteed to make the Toddler in Chief choke on a McDonald’s cheeseburger, they should give it to Obama. I mean, what the fuck - after giving Kissinger one, it’s not like the committee assigning them can be said to stand for anything approaching morality. Might as well do it for the memes.

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    I get that she probably realizes he’s a simpleton and you can get a simpleton to do what you want if you give them gifts.

    But still. Have some self respect.

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      From my talking with someone who grew up under a nation with a corrupt regime, self respect is a luxury that people under such a regime cannot afford when dealing with the government.

      Small, petty, corrupt government personnel are a way of life and people just accept this sort of stuff as mundane fact of life.

      So such folks are uniquely emotionally prepared for this sort of interaction.

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    If it makes him shut up on one issue, fine. Pacifier for the big baby.

    Does not change the fact that the Nobel Prize is not transferrable.