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Nobel Peace Prize

#1 Post by Seenenough » Wed Sep 09, 2020 10:21 am

This one is bound to irritate those with TDS.

DONALD TRUMPPublished 1 hour ago
Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian official, citing Israel-UAE peace deal
Nomination was submitted by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament

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#3 Post by ian16th » Wed Sep 09, 2020 11:30 am

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#4 Post by Undried Plum » Wed Sep 09, 2020 11:55 am

Tybring-Gjedde is an utter arsehole. His politics are somewhere between Therbovn and Quisling.

The Nobel Peace Prize was so totally discredited by its award to Obama that it's no longer worthy of intelligent discussion.

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#5 Post by Pontius Navigator » Wed Sep 09, 2020 1:05 pm

For a different reason I looked up the Times Man of the Year. It included Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Trueman, Johnson, Nixon and Kissenger. Amongst such luminaries Trump for Nobel seems reasonable.

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#6 Post by ExSp33db1rd » Thu Sep 10, 2020 4:17 am

The Nobel prizes are awarded to those who are, rightly or wrongly, considered to have benefitted the Human Race in their respective spheres of influence, whereas A "Man of the Year" is merely noteworthy during any specific year, for perhaps being evil as well as, maybe, beneficial, so go for it Trumpers.

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#7 Post by Woody » Thu Sep 10, 2020 7:32 am

This is going to do wonders for certain members blood pressure :ymdevil:
The Nobel Peace Prize 2012 was awarded to European Union (EU) "for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe."
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#8 Post by OFSO » Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:20 am

Thanks, W. The earthquake just reported from the S of France was a certain dear friend turning over in his grave.

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#9 Post by Woody » Thu Sep 10, 2020 2:34 pm

OFSO wrote:
Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:20 am
Thanks, W. The earthquake just reported from the S of France was a certain dear friend turning over in his grave.
I haven’t mentioned Yasser Arafat yet :((
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#10 Post by FD2 » Fri Sep 11, 2020 12:24 am

Extracted from Douglas Murray's opinion piece on the nomination:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/0 ... eace-prize

There are times you can almost hear the Left-wing aneurysms happening. Such a moment occurred this week when it was announced that Donald Trump’s name had been put forward for the Nobel Peace Prize. Cue outrage, shock, denial, grief, rage, and a number of less elevated emotions. ~X(

Of course the fact that the President has been put forward for the prize does not mean that he will win it. His name has been proposed by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament for the conservative Progress Party. Tybring-Gjedde is suffering something of a backlash himself, being described as “far-Right” by media around the world trying to simultaneously feign any knowledge of Norwegian politics and discredit the Trump nomination. X(

In fact there are good reasons to nominate Trump for the prize. And if you stand back and survey them they are obvious.

The first is the fact that we are still here. When Trump took office his opponents in the Republican party, as much as among its opposition, claimed that the President was going to get everybody on earth killed several times over. A number of his subsequent foreign policy engagements were held up as examples of this. But most of these exchanges remained purely verbal. His high-risk to-and-fro with Kim Jong-Un did not lead to a nuclear exchange but to one of diplomacy’s strangest friendships. Although North Korea remains an international pariah, and the President walked away when the North Koreans pushed too hard, the initiatives and search for peace were considerable and historic.

The same goes for other parts of the world. Before Trump, American presidents had repeatedly got their country’s military stuck in various Middle Eastern quagmires. Trump ran for office promising not to get his country into any more such unwinnable wars and he stuck to that promise. When they have come, his interventions have been short and sharp. In January this year, when he ordered the killing of Iran’s top terror-general, Qasem Soleimani, many people predicted the arrival of World War III. Pundits competed to make comparisons with the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. But World War III did not kick off. The Iranians blustered for a time but seemed rightly deterred by a US President who uses the military as a sharp stick rather than as a tool for getting stuck in quicksand.

Of course it is not enough to simply avoid conflict; one of the criteria for being awarded the Nobel must surely be to prevent, stop or reconcile conflicts. In all of these areas Trump and his administration have had notable successes. Just last week his diplomats brokered a historic agreement between Kosovo and Serbia. The deal normalised relations between the two countries for the first time since the bitter war of the Nineties.

But perhaps the achievement that is most historic, and over which the Nobel Prize should most seriously be considered, is the Trump administration’s brokering of another historic normalisation deal. That is the agreement signed last month between Israel and the United Arab Emirates – the most significant diplomatic success since the 1994 peace treaty signed between Jordan and Israel.

There is no reason why the Gulf States should not have thriving relations with Israel – other than that for decades they have been told that to do so would in some way betray the Palestinian cause. In fact, the Palestinian leadership has for decades demonstrated that it has no interest in peace, turning down deal after deal whenever it has been on the table. The Trump administration realised something that previous administrations failed to act on, even if they also realised it. Which is that if normalisation is to occur, it cannot rely on the intransigent and corrupt Palestinian leadership. The UAE-Israel deal recognises this and recognises that there are many other areas of cooperation that are possible without having to wait for the Palestinian cartel.

For many people the idea of Trump winning the Nobel Prize is fantastical. But Trump’s predecessor – Barack Obama – was awarded the prize in the first year of his presidency. Before he had actually done anything. The award to Trump might be unlikely, but in the long history of Nobel prizes it would be far from being the most undeserved.


I have copied the whole article in case anyone gets stuck with the paywall. So there we have it in the run up to the election. Someone whose personal character leaves a lot to be desired but hasn't started any wars (yet) and his opponent Joey B who has kowtowed and kissed 'ass' with any fashionable cause which might win him votes. :ymdevil:

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Re: Nobel Peace Prize

#11 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Fri Sep 11, 2020 3:39 am

I would certainly support Trump's nomination for an Ignoble Piece price. Anybody with a syrup like that deserves one.

Hairy stuff man. What a Barnet! =))

Being serious, probably the most troublesome recipient of the Nobel Peace has, to my mind, been Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma.
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#12 Post by Undried Plum » Fri Sep 11, 2020 5:13 am

Now that Chump has been nominated, I hope the Prize goes to yon wee Swedish lassie.

She represents everything good in the same way that Herr Drumpff represents everything evil.

The last really good nominee/winner I can think of was Wangari Maathai. For five consecutive years I lobbied every member of the Norwegian Parliament to have her nominated. Until I heard that Obama had won, I was lobbying all of Stortinget for Willie Smits to be nominated. Then when the Obama absurdity occurred, I stopped.



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