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Prairie Gates

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5. It is nearly impossible to take the FIFA Peace Prize seriously, even for the most deluded MAGA

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 10:26 AM

Dec 2025

The best I've seen right wingers come up with is that it is an ironic comment on Obama's Nobel prize, and that "left academics on the Nobel committee" would never give Trump the prize he deserves, so he is making fun of them. Oh, they also say that "all awards are 'made up,'" a truly goofy argument that they have borrowed from the now standard "all currency is made up" dogma of the crypto-bro podcast-sphere. The idea that Trump and Infantino cooked up this prize ironically as an ingenious comment on the Nobel Prize is, in any case, a hard argument to make when Trump seemed so genuinely please and honored by the completely bogus award.

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OLD MAN YELLS AT BALLROOM: "...even his own supporters are seeing through the cracks..." [View all] Miles Archer Dec 2025 OP

He got the infantino version of the peace prize- how appropriate for our delayed development toddler in chief Blues Heron Dec 2025 #1

Bravo! Prairie Gates Dec 2025 #6

He has not a happy day in his life BOSSHOG Dec 2025 #2

He's proof that money doesn't buy happiness MustLoveBeagles Dec 2025 #9

What is sadder is that money COULD buy therapy but he's too much a coward to admit needing help Attilatheblond Dec 2025 #13

Yes MustLoveBeagles Dec 2025 #14

Hence the title of Mary Trump's book - YodaMom2 Dec 2025 #11

And sadly for people like Trump, PatSeg Dec 2025 #15

The Edward G Robinson, mob boss character in "Key Largo", Johnny Rocco Walleye Dec 2025 #3

I've probably only seen that film, oh...I dunno...100 times. One of the greatest movies ever made. Miles Archer Dec 2025 #4

Unfortunately, that's all true. Hillary called them irredeemable and she was right. Walleye Dec 2025 #7

It is nearly impossible to take the FIFA Peace Prize seriously, even for the most deluded MAGA Prairie Gates Dec 2025 #5

Remember when many were hopeful that FIFA would remove the World Cup games from the U.S.? Gimpyknee Dec 2025 #8

Anybody who had that hope knows really nothing about FIFA Prairie Gates Dec 2025 #10

Nope Torchlight Dec 2025 #17

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Again with better clarity, perhaps? Torchlight Dec 2025 #19

They would drive over a cliff rather than admit they were going the wrong way ToxMarz Dec 2025 #12

The intellectual infant doesn't even realize the classic use of flattery to manipulate him. Ol Janx Spirit Dec 2025 #16