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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAt the rate things are going for us vs trump, I believe they will be giving him a Nobel.
To me, the entire world seems to be upside-down enough to do it.
CrispyQ
(41,098 posts)erronis
(24,533 posts)so all the fake christians can worship his holy blubber.
(Until they decide on some other con artist to anoint.)
Ocelot II
(131,231 posts)But fortunately it isn't.
Walleye
(45,436 posts)republianmushroom
(22,702 posts)Xavier Breath
(6,674 posts)At this point it wouldn't surprise me in the least. He seems to get pretty much whatever he wants.
C Moon
(13,737 posts)scipan
(3,104 posts)Solly Mack
(97,269 posts)Ocelot II
(131,231 posts)was extremely controversial even at the time. Kissinger himself considered turning it down, saying "I would say that anything Lê Đức Thọ is eligible for, there must be something wrong with it." Thọ, in turn, did decline the prize, stating that "such bourgeois sentimentalities" were not for him, citing the fact that the Paris Peace Accords had not yet stopped the fighting in Vietnam. Two of the members of the Nobel committee resigned in protest, and later on the remaining members expressed doubt about the award. After the fall of Saigon Kissinger tried to return the prize but the committee declined his offer. The award to Kissinger and Thọ was an ongoing embarrassment for the Nobel Committee and I doubt they will make any similar mistake again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Nobel_Peace_Prize
Solly Mack
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