Machado must feel like a complete fool about now

[CatWoman]

she certainly looks like one.

[vapor2]

1. I would never ever relinquish a Nobel , especially to a needy petulant toddler

[boonecreek]

2. Not to mention,

IIRC the Nobel also comes with a sizable monetary award.
Bet they make her give that back.

[Klarkashton]

4. Maybe she will give that to trump too. She's desperate

To get assassinated by the military I suppose.

[TexasTowelie]

6. They won't.

I saw it discussed elsewhere that she gets to keep the monetary award regardless of what she did with medal itself.

[boonecreek]

16. Yeah, I got it wrong.

Unblock also pointed that out. If I post an inaccuracy, please let me know.

[relayerbob]

23. This assumes she didn't give that to Trump also

[unblock]

10. What she does with it is of no concern to the Nobel committee

Just as football players who win the Super Bowl are free to gift or sell their rings. The nfl doesn't care if it winds up in the hands of someone who bad at football or hates football or whatever.

[boonecreek]

11. OK, good to know.

Thanks for the correction.

[iemanja]

14. No. They already said they don't rescind prizes

[boonecreek]

20. Yep, made an incorrect assumption.

Like the saying says, "When you assume, you make an ass out of u and me."

[Blues Heron]

28. The Olympics can and does rescind medals though, your not completely off base

[iemanja]

36. I made no "assummption"

I corrected your factually false assumption based on my knowledge of the actual words of the Nobel committee.

“Regardless of what may happen to the medal, the diploma, or the prize money, it is and remains the original laureate who is recorded in history as the recipient of the prize,” the committee said. “Even if the medal or diploma later comes into someone else’s possession, this does not alter who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nobel-prize-committee-says-machado-decision-to-give-trump-award-doesn-t-change-who-won/ar-AA1UntPg?ocid=BingNewsSerp

You made a false statement, preceded by the phrase "I bet," which constitutes as assumption or a guess. It's also an astoundingly false claim given the widespread news coverage of the Nobel committee's remarks.

[boonecreek]

41. I meant that I made an incorrect assumption. nt

[Skittles]

3. she is disgusting

[Prairie Gates]

5. She's an oil company stooge and incapable of shame

[johnnyfins]

19. THIS

[johnnyfins]

21. The fact that she gave away a Nobel Peace Prize

Tells me all I need to know about her character.

[karynnj]

30. We don't know her motivation

Maybe she thought that flattering Trump would cause him to support her or other opposition members. After all, how often has flattery worked? Not to mention, what other card did she have to play?

Here, I doubt it will. He believes he earned the award for stopping 6, 8, 10. or more wars. In addition, he wants the oil and is perfectly ok with Maduro's VP.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Yup.

[carpetbagger]

8. No choice.

She needed to make the effort to curry favor with the administration in an attempt to get them to reject continuation of the Chavez/Maduro government.

America is by far the fool, we made the circus, she's just correctly barking like a seal.

[mr715]

9. Henry Kissinger won a Nobel Prize.

They make lots of mistakes.

[tritsofme]

12. She is in a desperate situation for her country. I don't condemn her for any of this.

[Wiz Imp]

26. Give me an F'in break

She is every bit as evil as Trump and MAduro. She doesn't give a damn about the people of Venezuela. She just wants power. Good Grief!

[tritsofme]

29. That's pure nonsense.

In desperate situations, you work with power as it exists or you guarantee failure.

[Cirsium]

34. right winger

She is an extreme right winger.

[róisín_dubh]

40. I have zero sympathy...

For right wing nut jobs who throw their lot with the US. They should know their own histories, but all they give a shit about is power for themselves and the elites.
The rest of the population can pound sand, or better yet, die for all she and her ilk care.

[Cha]

13. She Should. Kowtowing to the PEDO

Rapist.. Groveling.. Doing his Bid, bowing and scraping.. and what did it get her?

[Polybius]

38. It might get her installed as Venezuelan leader

Time will tell.

[flashman13]

15. I'm not agreeing with Trump here, but judging by her actions, I'm not quite sure she is oppostion leadership material.

[UTUSN]

17. All the resistence in Venezuela/Cuba care about is overthrowing whomever - fine - but it amounts to

interfering with our U.S. politics.

[littlemissmartypants]

18. Who? They're both dead to me.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

22. She, like the GOP, could not have found a more despicable person on the planet than Donald Trump.

If she was going to gift the Prize, was there no decent person she could find? WTF.

[Wiz Imp]

27. She is a horrible human being just lie Trump

[relayerbob]

24. FYI, Machado is a far right politician

Don't be fooled by her opposition to Maduro, she's in the same camp as Orban, Trump, etc.

[eppur_se_muova]

25. I kind of doubt it. She probably felt she had no power to change anything, unless she pulled a spectacular stunt ...

... especially one to placate Trmp.

She's probably shrugging and saying, "Well, it was worth a try. Nothing I can do now."

[peggysue2]

31. I blame Machado as much as Trump for this nonsense

When are leaders going to accept that there's no placating Agent Orange, a malignant narcissist, who thrives on these acts of undeserved obeisance? It's all about dominance, getting his way, pretending he's the Emperor of the World. Did Machado think he would really do a 180, declare her the rightful president? All she did was humiliate herself.

I winced when I read a number of democratic states did not join other NATO allies in defending Greenland. For fear of offending Trump, the most offensive person in the Universe.

It won't help them in any way, shape or form. You do not appease a bully. It's merely a signal of weakness that someone like Donald Trump absolutely revels in.

[SunSeeker]

32. Yes, it totally backfired. The flood of memes mocking his acceptance of the medal humiliated him.

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Which of course pissed him off, and put him in no mood to show gratitude towards Machado. If anything, he is now angry she left him as the butt of jokes over her medal.

Yes, I get why she did it. She was desperate after Trump dismissed her as "not respected" and let Maduro loyalists remain as Venezuela's leaders. So she tried one last desperate attempt to hit it out of the park, appealing to his pathological ego. But Machado swung and whiffed so bad she hit herself with the bat.

[Jack Valentino]

33. WELL, she's no worse than every Republican in the U.S. congress,

but without receiving any of the 'benefits' of being such---


I think she was just desperate to try to improve conditions in her country,
and smart enough to recognize that she could give Trump the thing he seemed to want most,
but could not earn on his own.....

but failed to recognize that Trump feels nothing about 'loyalty'
except for that which he demands from others---

likely she was not well-informed about how many friendly politicians
that Trump has left dead in the road after the Trump Bus
ran them over...

[Fil1957]

35. I understand why she did it, but the Nobel Committee should rescind her prize, so that this crap

doesn't happen again in the future. Let her keep the money and the medal, they'll be too hard to get back anyway. Just cross her name off the list, or put an asterisk by it, or something to indicate that she dishonored the prize she had received.

[Hassler]

37. It's not like it is the most obvious own goal ever

[D_Master81]

39. No she doesnt

Her giving Trump the peace prize medal was an investment. She knows if she did him a favor she is more likely to get his backing to take over the country eventually