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Considering his approval rating is still in low 40s, and not 0, tells you volumes about the average American mind.
That was my main learning from the last election: The difference between Americans and Europeans truly is much greater than I'd ever expect. I really thought that it was impossible for Trump to get elected again. Everyone was warned, yet they wanted him back.
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Trump taking the peace prize from Machado is a page out of Putin's playbook when Putin stole a superbowl ring from Bob Kraft, the owner of the Patriots. US secret service had to get involved and tell Kraft to drop the issue and let Putin have it. https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/heres-how-vladimir-putin-... > "I took out the ring and showed it to [Putin], and he put it on and he goes, 'I can kill someone with this…
That moment actually has a better Trump analogy, the time Trump stole the FIFA Gold Club World Cup trophy and FIFA had to eventually decide to make a statement that they were giving it to Trump - which is unlike anything that’s ever happened before for a FIFA trophy. https://www.reddit.com/r/football/comments/1lzzsmc/trump_kep...
> Doing my sad job of having to defend Trump (sadly):
> He did not "kept" for himself. FIFA that decided to keep it in the white house
> It is normal for champions to receive and keep a replica during and after the awards. Happens, for example, in the World Cup, Champions League and Libertadores.
> Probably, FIFA will take the trophy back eventually and keep it in Switzerland just like the WC one.
> This is political tabloid click/ragebait.
Many in Norway and Sweden distanced themselves from the Nobel Peace Prize at the time it was awarded to Machado because it was obvious it was such a bad decision. Julian Assange even filed a criminal complaint in Sweden last month to try to stop the Swedish Nobel Foundation paying out over $1 million dollars to her, arguing it's going against Alfred Nobel's will, and they have a responsibility to respect his will. He…
To be fair, it's not the first extremely questionable Nobel Peace Prize award, for example, Henry Kissinger. While not nearly as egregious, Barack Obama was a bizarre choice, too.
I could collect Olympic gold medals and nobody thinks I won them.
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To be fair, it's not the first extremely questionable Nobel Peace Prize award, for example, Henry Kissinger. While not nearly as egregious, Barack Obama was a bizarre choice, too.
I cannot recall Obama doing one single thing for peace internationally? Which conflict did he help stop?
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I cannot recall Obama doing one single thing for peace internationally? Which conflict did he help stop?
I need to note that my understanding of geopolitics have changed since then, but I recall thinking that putting John McCain and Sarah Palin as VP in the White House would have spread political and physical wildfire over the whole world, not quite unlike the situation we have now. From that perspective I considered the Obama Peace Nobel fully earned just by virtue of getting elected.
“The political party I don’t like might have done bad things, so even though my guy did bad things, he stopped the other guys from doing bad things by winning. So it’s deserved”
My god.
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You guys are idiots. I got an entire TV network to tell everyone I’m the fastest 100m sprinter in the world so that title should belong to me.
I just revised all the footage from the birds in your area and couldn’t find any proof of your claims. Lying to the Bird Intelligence Agency is a Feral catcrime.
Got to hand it to Trump. He hit 3 birds with this one - He de-legitimized yet another European/International institution, while simultaneously using the same to bless his war of aggression. And he got half a nobel out of it too.
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YouTube videos are not citations. Just went looking for the video and couldn't find it thanks to YT's useless search function. I was forced to endure ten minutes of his hack journalism. More proof he is a mouth for hire. He said the exact opposite about FIFA when they gave Trump a peace prize.
Since when is Jimmy Kimmel a journalist? He hosts a late night talk show.