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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,406 posts)
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 01:21 AM Feb 2021

Here's how Jared Kushner and Stacey Abrams got nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

On its face, being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is a prettay, prettay big deal. Most people -- myself included -- have never been nominated.

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Here's the thing: Being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is a LOT different than actually winning it. Mostly because a whole lot of people can nominate you to be in the running.

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"These nominations will be submitted by members of national assemblies, governments, and international courts of law; university chancellors, professors of social science, history, philosophy, law and theology; leaders of peace research institutes and institutes of foreign affairs; previous Nobel Peace Prize Laureates; board members of organizations that have received the Nobel Peace Prize; present and past members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; and former advisers of the Norwegian Nobel Institute."

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In Kushner's case, he was nominated by pro-Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz for the work he did on Middle East peace while a member of the Trump administration. (Dershowitz was eligible to nominate Kushner as a professor emeritus of Harvard Law School.)

Abrams was nominated by Lars Haltbrekken, a member of Norway's Socialist party, for her work on voter registration and rights.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/here-s-how-jared-kushner-and-stacey-abrams-got-nominated-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/ar-BB1dinYV?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP

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Here's how Jared Kushner and Stacey Abrams got nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2021 OP
Dersh? sheshe2 Feb 2021 #1
IKR - Dershowitz??? Marie Marie Feb 2021 #2
Hm... sheshe2 Feb 2021 #3
Tee Hee. Hard to tell who fell further from grace- Marie Marie Feb 2021 #4
I know. sheshe2 Feb 2021 #5

sheshe2

(84,010 posts)
1. Dersh?
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 01:36 AM
Feb 2021

The dirt bag, I had my underwear on, honest I did, nominated Jared? Seriously?

I can't stop laughing here.

I am Suuuure he will trump Stacey and BLM for that nomination....if pigs could fly.

sheshe2

(84,010 posts)
5. I know.
Tue Feb 2, 2021, 02:25 AM
Feb 2021

Hugs.........going to bed. Way to much snow shoveling today. Just finished the last for the night.

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