Roundybout Posted 13 hours ago Posted 13 hours ago 35 minutes ago, JDHillFan said: I'm glad we moved on from LatinX. Such a stupid idea.
B-Man Posted 4 hours ago Posted 4 hours ago The Upside of Losing: Why NOT Winning the Nobel Peace Prize Is One of Donald Trump’s Greatest Victories SCOTT PINSKER Hey, yesterday we told you point-blank that this would happen. For all the hype, lobbying, and breathless anticipation, Donald Trump never had a prayer of winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Those Oslo eggheads would rather gouge their own eyeballs out with corkscrews than give “literally Hitler” their most prestigious political award. Even after “literally Hitler” singlehandedly brought the war-savaged Middle East to the precipice of peace! Awards aren’t living, breathing entities; they’re inanimate objects, subject to the whims and wishes of their masters. In the case of the Nobel Peace Prize, it’s a political prop — a tool for powerless, neutered, ineffective European elites to act like bigshots on the global stage. It’s not an award that celebrates what you’ve done. If it was, Donald Trump — who’s now on the verge of his FIFTH peace deal in the Middle East alone! — would’ve won it years ago. Furthermore, if it were based on actual accomplishments, Barack Obama certainly wouldn’t have won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for (checks notes) “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy between peoples.” (Translation: “Nice speeches.”) [snip} The world will still be bracing for how Trump processes losing out. An early test will be the president’s planned trip in the coming days to Egypt and Israel to celebrate the peace deal. Without the luster of a Nobel, the US president may lose interest during the critical first days of implementing the accord. Equally, with US forces massed in the Caribbean off Venezuela, there is no Peace Prize that might cause Trump to hold back. [emphasis added] And there you have it, boys and girls: Bloomberg buried the lede that unmasks the scam. As Americans, we approach the world with the can-do bravado of a superpower. Sometimes, that gets us in trouble (cough, Iraq War, cough). But it’s who we are. To paraphrase the Gipper, we are masters of destiny — not victims of fate. From walking on the moon to kicking (the real, actual) Hitler’s arsch in World War II, America is a nation of dreamers, deliverers, and doers. Once we decide to do something, one way or another, it’s gonna get done. Bet against us at your own peril. Western Europeans don’t think like that. They’re anti-Viagra: A weak, flaccid collection of guilt-ridden countries, still limply hanging their heads in shame for the (many) sins of colonialism, imperialism, and racism. History has taught them that taking bold, decisive action almost never works out, national self-interest leads to war, and it’s safer to stay on the sidelines and deliver nice-sounding speeches that echo the group consensus: global warming will destroy the planet, racism is the root cause of global injustice, capitalism is unfair and evil, blah-blah-blah. And so, the Europeans rely on a series of diplomatic “carrots and sticks” to influence the handful of countries that actually matter — the Nobel Peace Prize included. It’s both a stick and a carrot. But I’m glad he didn’t win. Imagine the PR fallout if Trump won: We’d have 24 hours of celebration (plus furious condemnation and/or teeth-gnashing from everyone on the left). And the gala where President Trump received the trophy would be lots of fun, too. It'd be a cool photo-op. But over the long term, his critics on the left would use the award as a noose around his neck — tugging, strangling, and shaming him for “disgracing” such a prestigious honor. There’d be talk about him being the first-ever Peace Prize recipient to have his award revoked. And every other Nobel winner — no matter the category — would have an elevated profile to air their angry, unrepentant anti-American grievances. They’d use it to wield leverage over our country. Addition by subtraction is a very real thing. Today, NOT winning the Nobel Peace Prize is one of President Trump’s greatest victories, because it reinforces how empty, shallow, and meaningless the Nobel Committee is. Donald Trump isn’t diminished; they are. He’s grown even larger while their carrots and sticks keep shrinking. https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/10/10/the-upside-of-losing-why-not-winning-the-nobel-peace-prize-is-one-of-donald-trumps-greatest-victories-n4944708
Recommended Posts