Nobel SPURNS Trump. Gives Peace Prize to Venezuelan Anti-Authoritarian Activist

NYT:

The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who built a powerful social movement and has been living in hiding since last year, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

Ms. Machado emerged from Venezuela’s political sidelines and corralled the country’s fractious opposition behind her before the 2024 election. That followed years of political apathy in Venezuela, where the government of President Nicolás Maduro crushed protests and arrested dissidents, helping to spur an enormous exodus from the country.

I win! I read the list of known nominees a few days ago and guessed Machado would win the Peace Prize. She deserves it more than many on the list, and awarding her is also a big MIDDLE FINGER to Trump.

Have we declared war on Venezuela via Truth Social yet?

^yes. Do keep up.

Sorry Diaper Don

The only person who thought Donald Trump had a shot at it was Donald Trump.

Trump never lets things go. Someone will pay for this. And it could be Rubio! He was one of the ones who nominated her in August of last year for this year's Nobel peace prize.

(The deadline for this year's nominations was January 31st. I forget which idiot nominated Trump by that deadline. The committee then takes eight months to decide a winner. Intervening events can of course determine their decision which is why Trump stupidly thought his peace deal would get him the prize. All the other tyrannical shit he did during that time he apparently thought the committee would ignore! LOL)

The Nobel Prize Ceremony in December might now be facing an insurrection, in the name of Peace.

Has he called her low IQ yet?

[quote]Does this mean war?

I strongly advise Ms. Machado to stay off boats.

Venezuela - you in danger, gurl

Good choice. We’re already at war with Venezuela!

It's kind of a fiendishly ingenious choice, because T-Rump at least nominally vilifies Maduro and Venezuela, so he can't get as mad at an anti-Maduro choice as he'd like to. But then again, the winner is anti-authoritarian, so it's still a poke in his eye (and an encouragement for the rest of us anti-authoritarians).

Angry Trump goon Steven Cheung claims that the Committee "chose politics over peace." I guess the MAGA line is that opposing Maduro is politically incorrect when Trump wants something. How flexible of them!

[quote]But then again, the winner is anti-authoritarian, so it's still a poke in his eye (and an encouragement for the rest of us anti-authoritarians).

And the Nobel chairman pressed home the eye-pokes by often mentioning growing authoritarianism in his speech.

I am shocked.

R13: Choosing Obama showed that the Committee knew how to make a dig at a certain slice of US politics.

Can an invasion of Norway be fr behind?

Ha!

HaHa!

Hahahahah!

Trump just changed is "Venenuzelian" plans: No more war on "Venenuzela", but that opposition leader must be arrested for stealing what should have been his and Pam Bondi is already on it. He's also requested a photo of Maria Machado and depending on her skin color, he's going to tell (or not) that she's "Low IQ". And above all, the selection was rigged!

Invasion is too damn good for those libtards, R18.

Nuke 'em and show 'em who's the boss in these here parts.

Wait for him to come up with his own prize. It’s what North Korean dictators do.

She is a direct descendant of one of the grandees of Spain and (I think) Simon Bolivar. Plus lots of other LATAM luminaries I didn’t recognize. All in her bio in Wikipedia.

For Chavez, she would be no threat. But Maduro is vulnerable to a member of the VZ elite.

He is the antithesis of what the Prize should be. Who does the man unite? He uses chaos, fear and lies to divide and intimidate. He pushes world leaders out of the way for a photo op. He's a racist pig. What the fuck was this man expecting?

[quote]Angry Trump goon Steven Cheung claims that the Committee "chose politics over peace."

Angry Trump goon Steven Cheung should listen to his boss:

I for one am shocked. When I hear peace I automatically think of that orange thing

Merry Christmas.

[quote]...democracy activist Maria Corina Machado and President-elect Gonzalez are peacefully expressing the voices and the WILL of the Venezuelan people with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against the regime.

[quote]These freedom fighters should not be harmed, and MUST stay SAFE and ALIVE!

Per Trump @ R25, he can only welcome the signs of a healthy democracy vigorously expressed at the next No Kings marches.

Bibi and Trump will each award the other a Peace Prize of their own devising, funded by some billionaire.

As consolation.

Trump to announce the American Peace Prize! And THIS prize WILL. HAVE. BELLS!!!

This is a win for both BiBi and Trump. How on earth can Machado be called anti-authoritarian?

This is who Maria Corina Machado really is:

She helped lead the 2002 coup that briefly overthrew a democratically elected president, and signed the Carmona Decree that erased the Constitution and dissolved every public institution overnight.

She worked hand in hand with Washington to justify regime change, using her platform to demand foreign military intervention to “liberate” Venezuela through force.

She cheered on Donald Trump’s threats of invasion and his naval deployments in the Caribbean, a show of force that risks igniting regional war under the pretext of “combating narcotrafficking.” While Trump sent warships and froze assets, Machado stood ready to serve as his local proxy, promising to deliver Venezuela’s sovereignty on a silver platter.

She pushed for the US sanctions that strangled the economy, knowing exactly who would pay the price: the poor, the sick, the working class.

She helped construct the so-called “interim government,” a Washington-backed puppet show run by a self-appointed “president” who looted Venezuela’s resources abroad while children at home went hungry.

She vows to reopen Venezuela’s embassy in Jerusalem, aligning herself openly with the same apartheid state that bombs hospitals and calls it self-defense.

Now she wants to hand over the country’s oil, water, and infrastructure to private corporations. This is the same recipe that made Latin America the laboratory of neoliberal misery in the 1990s.

Machado was also one of the political architects of La Salida, the 2014 opposition campaign that called for escalated protests, including guarimba tactics. Those weren’t “peaceful protests” as the foreign press claimed; they were organized barricades meant to paralyze the country and force the government’s fall. Streets were blocked with burning trash and barbed wire, buses carrying workers were torched, and people suspected of being Chavista were beaten or killed. Even ambulances and doctors were attacked. Some Cuban medical brigades were nearly burned alive. Public buildings, food trucks, and schools were destroyed. Entire neighborhoods were held hostage by fear while opposition leaders like Machado cheered from the sidelines and called it “resistance.”

She praises Trump’s “decisive action” against what she calls a “criminal enterprise,” aligning herself with the same man who cages migrant children and tears families apart under ICE’s watch, while Venezuelan mothers search for their children disappeared by US migration policies.

Machado isn’t a symbol of peace or progress. She is part of a global alliance between fascism, Zionism, and neoliberalism, an axis that justifies domination in the language of democracy and peace. In Venezuela, that alliance has meant coups, sanctions, and privatization. In Gaza, it means genocide and the erasure of a people. The ideology is the same: a belief that some lives are disposable, that sovereignty is negotiable, and that violence can be sold as order.

If Henry Kissinger could win a Peace Prize, why not María Corina Machado? Maybe next year they’ll give one to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for “compassion under occupation.”

Every time this award is handed to an architect of violence disguised as diplomacy.

But real peace is not negotiated in boardrooms or awarded on stages. Real peace is built by women organizing food networks during blockades, by Indigenous communities defending rivers from extraction, by workers who refuse to be starved into obedience, by Venezuelan mothers mobilizing to demand the return of children seized under U.S. ICE and migration policies and by nations that choose sovereignty over servitude.

That’s the peace Venezuela, Cuba, Palestine, and every nation of the Global South deserves.

IOW, they gave it to Trump rather than giving it to Trump, which might piss him off even more, now that I think about it.

Steve Cheung has his head so far up Trump’s ass he can taste the orange face paint.

R33 - Wow - that's pretty far.

If Trump starts an American alternative to the Nobel Prize he will name it the Trump prize. I could see this happening.

Fat baby gonna cry now and smear shit on the walls.

And the Trump Peace Prize goes to….ME! —Trump

Sorry but I dont get why his name is in the same sentence as Nobel prize. His delusions of getting it notwithstanding.

They will give the prize next year to Trump - Melania, that is - for negotiating directly with Putin.

Luv the smell of tantrums in the morning.

Amen.

Eat dirt, Lumpy. Better yet, take a dirt nap.

The Russian / Cuban / Iranian trolls have entered the chat @r31.

[quote]Sorry but I dont get why his name is in the same sentence as Nobel prize. His delusions of getting it notwithstanding.

Because Trump won't stop talking about it, and the media covers everything Trump says like it's valid and reasonable. It's called sane-washing. They do the exact opposite with Democrats by treating everything that they advocate for like some crazy fantasy that would never happen, like universal healthcare or free college tuition, even though most other developed countries have those things.

TL,DR: The media is complicit.

Keep the “Nobel Peace Prize” out of Lumpy’s mouth.

Not everything should be a transaction. Helping to bring a war to an end because it will save lives and allow people to begin to rebuild their lives is the decent humane thing to do. That alone should be the reason to do it not because you're trying to win a prize.

I've directed Pam, our great attorney general, to immediately indict the Nobel Prize committee for being mean to me. THIS MUST STOP!!!

He should get a participation prize AND a parade just like my son received playing in his elementary school-era soccer league.

Effective immediately, he’s rescinding the Israel-Hamas peace plan: “It was a joke, folks!”

Did the early years of GL ever really touch on the Bauer’s ethnicity or was it just to give them more depth? Were the Bauers introduced before the TV version or after?

Sorry about R51. The phone glitched.

#50 wins. The 'ceasefire' (lol) was Turd's ignorant, deranged, last minute attempt to get that Peace Prize. His handlers probably couldn't convince him it was impossible.

Kick the dog.

If you're a sincere humanitarian, you aim for a peace accord between all parties.

If you're a transactional thug, you pressure some parties into a "deal."

To Donald Motherfucking Trump:

You don't get the Nobel Peace Prize when you give Netanyahu the go-ahead to commit genocide on the Palestinians, drop bombs on Iran, send troops into American cities and send people to El Salvadoran gulags.

Eat shit, Trump.

[quote] They will give the prize next year to Trump - Melania, that is - for negotiating directly with Putin.

You get an STD for sleeping with someone (or a wad of money on the dresser), not a Nobel Prize.

He deserves nothing less than the Piece of SHIT Prize!

[quote]to be fair, in Trump’s mind there probably isn’t a difference between a Nobel Peace Prize and a People’s Choice Award.

Ay caramba gordo gringo.

Now the Orange Septic Tank says the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize called him to say HE should have gotten the award instead of her - or something to that affect.

The winner of the Peace Prize is actually in hiding due to the current regime trying to eliminate her - yet she took time to call that Piece of Shit?

This president is the most revulsed man on the planet, bar none.

R61 I’m a scientist who had a colleague with narcissistic personality disorder (actually, I had several), and he sometimes said the same thing when he didn’t get the prize for science. Is there an instruction manual they all read?

Leaders who send the military to invade their own country’s cities don’t get the Nobel Peace Prize

"Suck it loser!"...

Is there any confirmation that Machado even called Trump, never mind what she said?