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Let the world know that in my great humility, I'm also agreeing to decline any nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Anyone who is thinking of nominating me for the Nobel Peace Prize should nominate WoodScientist instead.
I will strongly recommend your nomination in my stead as well.
I'm also declining nomination for the FIFA Peace Prize AND the Brownlow Medal.
Yeah, but you don't go as far as rejecting having your name added to the Trump Kennedy center.
oh I'm owning that one - Trump, Kennedy and Ms. Lane Centre* for the Propagantive Art
*(we're using re now)
Trump: as you should. Now give that prize to me!
This is leadership
I'm sure a certain fat orange child rapist will be ok to take that nomination.
Shouldn't that price be handed out for... achieving peace?
"...who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
You'd think so, but three words: Henry Fucking Kissinger
You've got to be kidding me. Surely they didn't?
The 1973 Nobel Peace Prize is often cited as one of, if not the most, controversial in the history of the award.[1][2][3] Two members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee resigned in protest, The New York Times referred to it as the "Nobel War Prize", and Tom Lehrer stated that "political satire became obsolete".
This is good but does the prize even mean anything after the previous recipient begged for war and Obomber got one?
Yeah I was gonna say, swag bag Machato ripped the mask away. This shit is just a prize we give to the empire's dogs.
Maia Sandu is one of a kind
Watched an interview once of her. She seems like a real Stateswoman *, doing her best for the people.
edit* : probably stateswoman is applicable, instead of statesperson.
I bet the best people won't quibble over naming.
States person?
Technically" Steatesman" but she's a woman. So maybe Stateswoman. Yeah I'll correct it.
Ah gotcha my bad. I dont have a more neutral term either, one that confers the same respect
No problem, since you pointed it out I looked it up and TIL. Lol.
Love to give a President the Nobel Prize inside the first six weeks on the job.
Remember how well that worked out for Obama?
The largely clandestine effort, profiled in a New York Times report and a forthcoming book by Newsweek's Daniel Klaidman, highlights a remarkable transformation for a man who campaigned four years ago as an anti-war Senator, former law professor and defender of Constitutional due process. He pushed for an end to the use of torture on terror suspects, the closure of the Guantanamo Bay military prison, and for trying detainees in federal courts. For those efforts he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Yet over the past three and a half years, Obama has sat quietly "at the helm of a top secret 'nominations' process to designate terrorists for kill or capture, of which the capture part has become largely theoretical," according to the Times. He personally vetted names on a "kill list" of targets, authorizing dozens of drone strikes even in cases with only vague and inconclusive evidence about who's really on the ground, according to the report. Neither the evidence against the suspects nor the suspects' identities is available for public scrutiny.
Look, as much as I liked Barry Obama, his pizzazz, his wit, and his eloquence, I immediately said the decision to give him a Nobel Peace prize was an idiotic one.
Despite all the big speeches he made about gun control and closing down Gitmo and healthcare and whatnot, he just. didn't. deliver. And why would he?
He was just another establishment democrat and Wall Street panderer as well as another warmonger. Upholder of the status quo.
That's when I knew the United States is cooked for real. Good luck voting your way out of this pickle, guys.
Thoughts and prayers from Europe.
He was just one more controlled opposition President, meant to be a placeholder between destructive Republican presidents, just long enough to allow the heat to dissipate, before elevating another Republican to carry out the real agenda for the only relevant citizens.
Did you mean six years? Because Sandu has been the president since 2020.
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