It's like fucking Putin and the Superbowl ring.
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What…? Didn’t know about this. Need to search web
Holy shit. What a piece of work…
... I had forgotten about that.
Someone gave putin a superbowl ring? Is putin an american football fan?
He stoles its from us
He was allegedly being shown the ring when he simply walked it out of the room and didn’t return
Allegedly (wasn’t there myself)
I honestly don't know how the Onion is going to beat this.
Heck, I don't know if future students of history are actually going to be able to believe the history books about this decade, should they be written with any sort of accuracy... Reality's jumped the shark.
Of course they will. Political leaders in the past have done many many bizarre things.
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It means nothing because it can’t be given to anyone other than whose won it. Like you can’t give the medal of freedom to Oscar the Grouch.
We really should, though. Dude needs a win.
He helped teach the world to read, if Oscar doesn’t deserve it who does?
I would. Oscar's the freeest muppet, he lives by his own rules. (And his garbage can is bigger on the inside, so that includes the laws of physics)
JFC, how pathetic this guy is.
That's not how medals work, asshole.
Who would have thought a guy practically in the Silent Generation would have pined for a participation trophy? Such a loser.
Not even a participation trophy. I have recieved exactly 1 trophy in my life. It was a 1992 participation trophy for playing 1st grade basketball as mandated by the school.
But I DID play the season of basketball. I DID participste.
Show me where trump has participated in acts that promote peace.
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Participation award.
Say what you will about participation awards, but at least their recipients actually participated in the activity in question. I don't know what this is.
It's a bribe.
I theorize he is trying to get into heaven (???) and he might believe that the only thing that could cancel out all his sins is to become the Nobel Peace Prize winner (???) through violence (???)
None of this makes any sense if you don't have severe dementia.
It is because Obama got it before. It is not that deep
Well boy howdy, do I sure hope he gets to test that hypothetical assumption real soon.
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haha oh man what a loser
Trump discovers a new level of loserdom daily.
And now he has no use for her. Goodbye.
This is more pathetic than getting sports trophies off of Freecycle and claiming you "won" all of them. What a pedophile loser!
Donny, i understand you. I once bought myself a #1 dad mug at the thrift shop. i don’t even have kids.
lol. It actually happened?
What the fuck is this timeline?
Well that thing is null and void now
I feel like her sacrificial decision to give him this (ultimately meaningless) symbolic token in exchange for the potential of peace for her country is showing why she deserved the Peace Prize in the first place. If handing it over makes Trump chill the hell out about working with Venezuela's succession, it will have been worth it.
(This situation is obviously batshit insane and it's pathetic that he's extorting her, but at least she's trying to use all her resources available to manipulate this mad king and sue for peace - if this Nobel Prize was driving his hatred, it's best to sacrifice it I guess. Especially since the actual honor is non-transferrable LMAO)
Or she's just selling out and kissing ass in hopes that the invaders will install her as a puppet and grant her money and power.
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This is not pathetic at all.
I thought right-wingers hated participation trophies for all kids, even the dregs. Hypocrite.
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C’mon, boomers. Lecture us about participation trophies again.
I'm sure this was a difficult choice.
It's basically this, and hope that it buys enough goodwill with Trump to let you take over the government there, or you keep it and let the US operate the government as a puppet state.
Ultimately, if this pays off, the medal is a pretty cheap price to pay all things considered
The medal doesn't even mean anything. It's like buying a purple heart at an auction; doesn't make you a veteran. Of course, Trump would never understand that.
It's a gold trinket. Everyone has clued in this is what you do with Trump.
Be a puppet state either way, she just wants to signal that she'd be an enthusiastic puppet.
Her entire legitimacy at this point consists of being recognized by Western organizations and now grovelling to a hostile foreign power. She'd be the worst type of puppet.
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Should have made a fake one with a little radioactive bit inside.
I mean who would check ?
Airport security would detect that. Radio-isotope poisoning is a favorite of the Russians, I'm sure the White house has multiple layers of detection set up for exactly that kind of thing.
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Donnie wins the biggest boy prize.
can it be revoked?
eta: I did the google and apparently it can't be revoked, but I'm sure history will award it an asterisk.
It's not his. He's just proud to be holding onto someone else's award. Which is somehow the most pathetic thing I think I've ever heard. It's like being a cuck for the actual holder.
It's not transferrable. He gets the gold trinket, that's it.
It can't be revoked or transferred, he just has the physical token. He's an idiot.
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He can put it next to his "World's Greatest Dad" mug which I'm sure he thinks is real, valid and earned rather than something to soothe his fragile ego
The Nobel organization should rescind her award and give it to someone else. Now he just has a gold necklace and not an official Nobel Prize.
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