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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
The recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been announced, and the winner’s initials are not DJT. The Peace Prize this year goes to María Corina Machado, who is a leader of the opposition to leftist dictator Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. Machado, according to the Norwegian Nobel top dogs, “keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”
That’s good. That’s an altogether noble thing to do. But noble doesn’t necessarily mean Nobel. Machado, for all her courageous work, is not a world-historical figure, as she herself is fully aware. Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee, was able to get Machado on the phone before the announcement that she had won the prize was made, and said that “it came as a surprise” to the recipient herself.
Edmundo González, another Venezuelan opposition figure who has worked with Machado and is now living in Spain in exile, also got the Nobel laureate on the phone, and posted a brief video of their conversation, in which she said, “I am in shock. I cannot believe it.”
Frydnes, however, did his best to give the impression that there was no reason to be shocked, explaining, “She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for 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.”
Nevertheless, the whole world knows that the primary reason that María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize is because she is not Donald Trump, and is a reasonably plausible recipient whom Nobel wonks think will help them deflect criticism that they’re a hopelessly politicized organization that would never dream of honoring Trump because the globalist socialist elites consider him to be the focus of evil in the modern world.
After all, Maduro is a leftist leader, right? And Machado opposes him, right? So you see? The Nobel committee isn’t afraid to pick people who oppose the left!
Sure. But Trump was right when he saidlast February, “They will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s too bad. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me.” He couldn’t get it this year for the Gaza peace deal, as the deadline had already passed, but he could have gotten it for the Abraham Accords and other achievements of his first term. He was also right when he said Thursday that Barack Obama “got a prize for doing nothing… He got elected, and they gave it to Obama for doing absolutely nothing but destroying our country… Obama was not a good president.”
Indeed, and even the far-left USA Today admits that Obama got the Prize “less than eight months into his presidency, when he had achieved little in terms of concrete peace-related policymaking.” He was just a symbol of the kind of leader the international left loved most, far-left and non-white, and so he got the prize.
The politicization of the Nobel Peace Prize has been evident for years. Yasser Arafat won it in 1994 for telling Bill Clinton what he wanted to hear during the concluding of the Oslo Accords, and then going home and resuming the jihad against Israel. Jimmy Carter won it in 2002, when he was 78 years old and doing nothing but nattering on about a passel of leftist causes. Al Gore won it in 2007 for promoting the left’s cherished climate change fantasies. Other recipients, meanwhile, were obscure before they received the prize and are even more obscure today.
There was a time, however, when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on a more straightforward basis. President Theodore Roosevelt won it in 1906 “for his role in bringing to an end the bloody war recently waged between two of the world’s great powers, Japan and Russia.” Over a century later, however, Trump brought about an end to a bloody war, at least for a time, and the Nobel committee snubbed him.
President Woodrow Wilson got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919 “for his role as founder of the League of Nations,” but Trump, even though he brought Arab states together to make peace with their most hated enemy, Israel, got nothing.
Trump was right. He could get every nation on earth to beat its swords into plowshares and pledge never to make war again under any circumstances, and the Nobel Peace Prize would go to a plumber in Lagos who always had a ready smile. The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize demonstrates nothing other than that the left still has hegemony over the international culture.
Remember they gave one to two Terrorists Arafat and Mandela plus to Scam artists Gore the Bore and Americas 2nd Worst President Obama
Question. How half a dozen of Quisling offsprings can honor anyone?
Socialim corrupts decency.
The Nobel Prize, like the words “racist” and “Nazi”, has little meaning anymore. The left has polluted the prize just like the language.
They gave one to GoreAl for writing a glossy paper book, and one to Yessir Imarat for killing Jews.
The Nobel peace prize represents hatred and loathing of Western Civilization and belongs in the dumpster.
I see this a little differently. The Trump administration is going hard for regime change in Venezuela, and giving the Nobel to an opposition figure delegitimizes Maduro on the world stage. This seems more like part of a color revolution tactic to achieve a Trump policy objective rather than a snub. The bonus being that everyone can see clearly deserves the Nobel and that will also play to his favor with public support.
Gordumb, are you always a stupid asshole?
Kudos to Machado for stating afterwards that Trump deserved the award over herself. Unfortunately, the Nobel Peace Prize is as legitimate as winning an Oscar in Hollywood.
I believe they gave The Prize to Obama for what he said he would do, but didn’t, Al Gore got it for propagating a hoax, Arafat got it for a hand shake, Jimmy Carter got it for sending (free of charge) billions of gallons of peanut oil to Africa making it so expensive I couldn’t afford it (Did I mention, Jimmy and brother Billy owned a peanut plantation).
So for my money, that prize means as much as the one I got in kindergarten for being the last one left in musical chairs.
Those who won a Peace Prize hat were Controversial Aung San Suu Kyi, Kissinger, Arafat , The European Union
I don’t mind her getting the prize (if she’s not assassinated), but I do believe this was an intended snub of someone who is not a communist like they are, President Trump.
This woman is one of the beter winners in recent memory, imo.
…and she is a Trump fan, and will likely vote for him to win next year’s prize.
Can’t believe I’m not fully endorsing something Robert Spencer is saying, though I agree that the chances of the Nobel Committee wanting to award President Trump the Peace Prize are small for political reasons. After all, he didn’t simply get elected, like Barack Obama 🙂 .
But their deliberations preceded what Trump is accomplishing in the Middle East, and it is still not certain that the Gaza War has ended, let alone seeing a new day for an expanded Abraham Accords. Machado is a richly deserving recipient, calling to attention the destructive dictator Maduro in Venezuela and, by extension, those others extant in this world still.
If Trump pulls off a Middle East renaissance (I’m not betting against it, and I am praying for it) next year’s prize is his, whether or not the Nobelistas want to.
I agree with RYwoodview. Although the Nobel Peace Prize is strongly biased to left-wing politics, the decision is largely based on events in the year leading up to its decision. The Hamas War On Gaza has not yet ended, Machado deserves the prize, and this is a good time to give it to her.
Even if Trump had been or ever is offered the Nobel Peace Prize he should turn it down. I would NOT want to follow in the footsteps of
1 – Yassir Arafat for stealing and banking in Switzerland $1B in aid to Palestine
2 – Algore for inventing Gore Bull warming
3 – Obama for NOTHING
4 – Nelson Mandela for setting South Africa on course to become Zimbabwe under Mugabe.
This is not just a snub, an ‘up yours’ to President Trump but to the 80 million Americans who voted for him. It must be said that the elitists of the world hate Trump, but also rightist America. They are doing their best to take down the last remaining bastion of freedom on the planet. The Islamic Immigration Jihad is assisting them in this demonic effort, as are all the trans insanities, woke Governors, Mayors and their army of DEI/Woke lawyers and puppets.
Maranatha, come Lord Jesus. (This year).
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Rev. Roy………..<
The Nobel Prize means as much as a steamy pile of raccoon shit on your front porch.