Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told reporters she presented the medal for her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting on Thursday, but did not say if he accepted it.

“I think today is a historic day for us Venezuelans,” she said after the meeting with Trump, the first time the two have met in-person.

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      The Nobel institute was already kind of an embarrassment with what they’ve been doing for the past decade.

      The Nobel peace prize is just a sad affair

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    Thank you Trump for attacking the brave people of Venezuela like I’ve been asking the US and Israel to do for years before I got this Peace Prize. Socialism is the work of the devil, and I claim to be a progressive!

    If anyone still thinks the “opposition” is not entirely subservient to western interests at this point, they will never learn otherwise.

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    I get that she probably realizes he’s a simpleton and you can get a simpleton to do what you want if you give them gifts.

    But still. Have some self respect.

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      From my talking with someone who grew up under a nation with a corrupt regime, self respect is a luxury that people under such a regime cannot afford when dealing with the government.

      Small, petty, corrupt government personnel are a way of life and people just accept this sort of stuff as mundane fact of life.

      So such folks are uniquely emotionally prepared for this sort of interaction.

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    She also loves Israel, go figure.

    Not sure what this nobel peace prize is supposed to mean at this point.

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    Before: bribes done in secret, big scandal if journalists found out

    Now: bribes are given in front of hundreds of journalists and photographers and the receiver is smiling like a toddler getting a box of Lego Duplo