Put her Nobel prix in a fancy frame and presented it the Pedophile Protector, and what did she get back? A red Maga cap, a custom sharpie, and a few other china made trinkets. What she didn't get was support at a chance to run Venezuela, because it was always about the oil and it had nothing to do with Democracy and them fancy high ideals...When will people learn not to %^cK with a conman? I hope a future administration will pry his grubby, stink, rotten, paws off of it and send her her medal back so she could pass it on to her grandchildren dem...
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Maria Corina is a real real Jennyass
Fri, Jan 16, '26 at 8:27 AM
The irony of ironies...Delcy Rodriquez finds greater favour with Donald.
Maria should be very happy with her exchange of gifts.
Fri, Jan 16, '26 at 9:38 AM
@Larr Pullo
A Nobel Peace Prize Isn’t a Gift—And Democracy Shouldn’t Be Sold Like One
“When Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado walked into the White House on Thursday, she came bearing the gift US President Donald Trump has long coveted: a Nobel Peace Prize.”
It’s also a revealing one, not because a Nobel can be “given” (it can’t), but because it frames diplomacy as tribute. The Nobel becomes shorthand for something else: validation, flattery, and a made-to-measure storyline for a leader who has always craved ceremonial recognition.
Machado’s defenders will call it pragmatic. Venezuela’s opposition is confronting an entrenched authoritarian state; it needs leverage, attention, and U.S. pressure that actually bites. Trump is a megaphone and, potentially, a policy lever. If praising him opens doors that help free political prisoners, tighten accountability, or force negotiations with real guarantees, then the temptation is obvious.
But there is a price to courting power through ego.
Democratic movements survive on credibility. They ask citizens to endure intimidation and deprivation in exchange for a promise: that politics can be governed by rules, not personality; by rights, not fear. When a pro-democracy leader appears to dangle a Nobel-shaped bauble before a figure widely associated, fairly or not, with admiration for strongmen and transactional dealings, the message blurs. The struggle starts to look less like a defence of democratic principle and more like a bid for patronage.
That blur is not abstract. It gives the Maduro government an easy narrative of hypocrisy, foreign puppetry, and opportunism, and it risks splintering the opposition’s own coalition between “realists” and those who fear the cause is being repackaged to suit Washington’s domestic theatre. Venezuela’s democratic case is strong enough to stand on its own: human rights, free elections, institutional restoration. It doesn’t need to be sold as a trophy for someone else’s legacy.
If the “gift” offered is merely access, then say so plainly. But it could cost something harder to regain: moral clarity.
Why María Corina Machado...why?
Sarge