To almost nobody's surprise, when the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 was announced, it did not go to (checks notes) a convicted felon. Or an adjudicated rapist. Or a former game show host. Or a serial adulterer. Or to a person unable to pronounce acetaminophen.
Instead, as has been the case for most of the one hundred twenty-four years that Nobel has been handing out a prize for Peace, it went to someone who deserved it. For example, this year it went to María Corina Machado Parisca. If you aren't as familiar with Maria's work as you are with the bungling assaults of the Cheeto currently pretending to run our country, allow me to correct that.
She got her prize “for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy” in her native Venezuela. Which is not to say that a former casino owner and alleged pedophile couldn't win the Nobel Peace Prize, but it would be what some insiders would call "a stretch."
It probably doesn't help that the alleged pedophile in question has seen fit to deploy troops under his command into cities he has decreed to be dangerous, making them more dangerous because of all those guys with guns running around. He changed the name of the Department of Defense back to the Department of War. Then there's the little matter of him moving his country from democracy to dictatorship. Not a good look for someone openly campaigning for a prize based on making significant contributions in the preceding year to "fraternity between nations," "the abolition or reduction of standing armies," or "the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
Kind of the opposite, actually.
Then there was all the whining. Not just from his pointy-headed band of supporters, but from the candidate himself. Like when he stood up in front of the United Nations and announced, “everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize.” Later in this same rambling address he let this one fly: "Not only is the U.N. not solving the problems it should, too often it's actually creating new problems for us to solve. The best example is the number one political issue of our time, the crisis of uncontrolled migration. It's uncontrolled. Your countries are being ruined. Your countries are going to hell."
While it's true that the United Nations does not hand out a Peace Prize, the organization has been the recipient of several Nobel Peace Prizes over the years.
Stupid, angry and jealous is a pretty awful combination, and our boy has all three in boatloads. Hey, and speaking of boatloads, do you suppose they should give any sort of award for blowing up ships that may or may not have been carrying drugs from a foreign country? And that country just happens to be Venezuela, the home of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Maria Corina Machado Parisca? The woman who said, “I dedicated this award to the Venezuelan people and President Trump because I believe that’s absolutely fair. We, the Venezuelan people, are absolutely grateful to President Trump for the way he has supported democracy and freedom in the Americas.”
Ms. Machado was elected to the presidency of her country last year, but the nutjob dictator currently in charge of Venezuela has been maintaining his hold through fear and intimidation.
Sound familiar?
Maybe he could get some sort of award for releasing the Epstein Files.
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Oh, the sweet irony. It was funny to hear his people call it "The Noble Prize." As if they had never heard of it. What’s the opposite of the Nobel? That's the one he deserves.
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