María Corina Machado wins the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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His response was a lot more diplomatic and eloquent than that.

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Anonymous wrote:It makes me so happy to know that Trump is going to have a bad day.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hal-lel-u-jah!!!!!!!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It makes me so happy to know that Trump is going to have a bad day.

I bet at some point Trump is going to get her mixed up with Alicia Machado.

I bet he holds a press conference to say what a nasty woman she is....

Don't forget "low IQ" all his "enemies" have.

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Anonymous wrote:It makes me so happy to know that Trump is going to have a bad day.

NPR said she was a big supporter of Trump.

If that's the case then she's not fighting for democracy.

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Anonymous wrote:It makes me so happy to know that Trump is going to have a bad day.

I bet at some point Trump is going to get her mixed up with Alicia Machado.

Yup. He's going to invade Venezuela and Greenland for this, watch out.

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Anonymous wrote:I will be sick at heart if Trump EVER wins the NPP.

How can it ever be legitimately given to somebody who is unleashing the military on the citizens of his country for exercising free speech???

Even if the strongarming 'peace' deal between Israel and Hamas holds, that still doesn't justify him winning it. He has publicly told the rest of the world that they are crap, and he has publicly stated his desire to unleash military forces on civilian populations AT HOME. He's an insane despot and it would stain the Nobel Prize forever if he was given one.

A consequence of Trump and his supporters is the corruption of things that normal people would find respectable. Maybe they are looking for validation or maybe it's just nihilistic destruction. Most probably the latter.

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The White House press office weighs in:

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Anonymous wrote:Good message for Trump to ponder if he wants a shot in 2026.


Here is the Committee’s reasoning:

She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

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Ms Machado has been a key, unifying figure in a political opposition that was once deeply divided – an opposition that found common ground in the demand for free elections and representative government. This is precisely what lies at the heart of democracy: our shared willingness to defend the principles of popular rule, even though we disagree. At a time when democracy is under threat, it is more important than ever to defend this common ground.

Venezuela has evolved from a relatively democratic and prosperous country to a brutal, authoritarian state that is now suffering a humanitarian and economic crisis. Most Venezuelans live in deep poverty, even as the few at the top enrich themselves. The violent machinery of the state is directed against the country’s own citizens. Nearly 8 million people have left the country. The opposition has been systematically suppressed by means of election rigging, legal prosecution and imprisonment.

Venezuela’s authoritarian regime makes political work extremely difficult. As a founder of Súmate, an organisation devoted to democratic development, Ms Machado stood up for free and fair elections more than 20 years ago. As she said: “It was a choice of ballots over bullets.” In political office and in her service to organisations since then, Ms Machado has spoken out for judicial independence, human rights and popular representation. She has spent years working for the freedom of the Venezuelan people.

Ahead of the election of 2024, Ms Machado was the opposition’s presidential candidate, but the regime blocked her candidacy. She then backed the representative of a different party, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, in the election. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers mobilised across political divides. They were trained as election observers to ensure a transparent and fair election. Despite the risk of harassment, arrest and torture, citizens across the country held watch over the polling stations. They made sure the final tallies were documented before the regime could destroy ballots and lie about the outcome.

The efforts of the collective opposition, both before and during the election, were innovative and brave, peaceful and democratic. The opposition received international support when its leaders publicised the vote counts that had been collected from the country’s election districts, showing that the opposition had won by a clear margin. But the regime refused to accept the election result, and clung to power.

Democracy is a precondition for lasting peace. However, we live in a world where democracy is in retreat, where more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norms and resorting to violence. The Venezuelan regime’s rigid hold on power and its repression of the population are not unique in the world. We see the same trends globally: rule of law abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned, and societies pushed towards authoritarian rule and militarisation. In 2024, more elections were held than ever before, but fewer and fewer are free and fair.

This is so dumb. It’s like when they gave Obama the prize for not being
GWB.

Democracy doesn’t equate to peace as both GWB and the drone king demonstrated.

Won't it be wonderful when Pritzker or Newsom wins the NPP in 2029 for returning the United States back to a democracy as well as for not being trump!

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Anonymous wrote:Trump supporter here.

Maria is very deserving of this honor. So glad they gave the award to her. Past recipients have been questionable, at best.

I still believe Trump is deserving of this award. Perhaps next year.

Thank you. Please spread your peaceful and rational views on all the right social media channels, PP. We need Trump to believe that if he strives for a a fair peace in Gaza and Ukraine, he can win the Nobel Peace Prize at some point.

It's critical to world harmony that we keep dangling the carrot.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump supporter here.

Maria is very deserving of this honor. So glad they gave the award to her. Past recipients have been questionable, at best.

I still believe Trump is deserving of this award. Perhaps next year.

Likely next year trump will have descended to the deepest depth of Hades and reunited with his best pal Epstein.

Nobel prizes are not awarded posthumously.

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Anonymous wrote:No doubt Machado is a deserving candidate for the prize, but I also think the choice of someone fighting autocratic rule and the words of the Nobel committee about the retreat of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism is in part meant as a big FU to one Donald J. Trump.

The peace prize should be for people who advance peace, not democracy. And it certainly shouldn’t be used as an FU to anyone. This is about as serious as the Academy Awards which end up just being some political award that doesn’t actually matter anymore.

Oooo. Those grapes are doy sour they turned my mouth inside out?😲

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If only Trump would learn from her gracious response.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump supporter here.

Maria is very deserving of this honor. So glad they gave the award to her. Past recipients have been questionable, at best.

I still believe Trump is deserving of this award. Perhaps next year.

Thank you. Please spread your peaceful and rational views on all the right social media channels, PP. We need Trump to believe that if he strives for a a fair peace in Gaza and Ukraine, he can win the Nobel Peace Prize at some point.

It's critical to world harmony that we keep dangling the carrot.

He’s declared war on his own cities and people, criminalized being against fascism, and is funding and supporting the worst of the worst of humanity in kidnapping and assaulting (and now murdering) people in America. Well, and murdering dogs.

No amount of self delusion will ever trick anyone into believing that Trump is doing anything for humanity. I don’t think that even he believes it.

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Anonymous wrote:It makes me so happy to know that Trump is going to have a bad day.

NPR said she was a big supporter of Trump.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend".

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If only Trump would learn from her gracious response.

80 year old dogs don't learn new tricks. We should have known Trump 2nd term would be as much of a failure as his first term. Fool me once....