Yesterday at the White House, Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado, who was awarded the prize late last year, gave her medal to the POTUS in recognition of what she described as his committment to Venezuela’s freedom. This came after Trump greenlit an American operation that has seen Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro arrested and taken to the U.S.
I swear I recently read that Machado was opposing dicktater. What the fuck happened? The fact she seems to be coddling him makes me question why she even got it in the first place.
edit1: you can’t write this stuff… she literally got the prize for, “her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” I guess she is like every other power tripping fuck that gets a whiff of money.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2025/machado/facts/
edit2: I can’t find any news on her opposing him, I must have hallucinated that. It seems this peace prize thing was to schmooze him into backing her, I guess.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5671488-trump-machado-venezuela-opposition-leader/
She actually looks like Heath Ledger’s Joker, who just blew up a hospital and wiped off the makeup
Do you literally not remember all the times world leaders have lined up to award Trump awards & praises to try to get their way? That’s just sensible foreign relations by world leaders who understand the type of shallow, transactional idiot Trump is. Without insight about Machado, how does this look any different to you?
Are my edits not showing up or something? Someone else commented what I had already edited in.
I misremembered a story about Machado, then I linked an article that corrected me. I never said this looked different, just that you can’t make this shit up and compared her to literally everybody else.
Your question
pretty much did unless you’re assuming that peaceful pragmaticism[1] is incompatible with a peace award (in which case, that’s daft as hell).
by trading meaningless trinkets to bid one’s time with a geopolitical threat (with a 4 year term) & minimize conflicts that you’re in no position to win & will hurt your people ↩︎
Again, see my edits. My initial comment was based on something I remembered incorrectly, and then I corrected myself.
Your edits address nothing I wrote. That you think they should (when they really do the opposite) indicates poor reading comprehension.
She’s a neoliberal. Neoliberals are NOT opposed to dictatorships. They are opposed to anything other than neoliberal capitalism. They are opposed to authoritarian socialist systems, but they absolutely will also oppose a democracy that they consider to be not capitalist enough. Friedrich Hayek, one of the architects of neoliberalism was very clear on the matter:
There’s no need to attack her appearance. Her actions describe her nature just fine.
I will absolutely attack a narcissist’s appearance, that’s one of the only things they actually care about
I think what you saw was that Trump didn’t support her (still doesn’t it seems). I recall her coming out hard for Trump when he kidnapped Maduro.