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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
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 09:26 AM
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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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He got the infantino version of the peace prize- how appropriate for our delayed development toddler in chief Blues Heron Monday #1
Bravo! Prairie Gates Monday #6
He has not a happy day in his life BOSSHOG Monday #2
He's proof that money doesn't buy happiness MustLoveBeagles Monday #9
What is sadder is that money COULD buy therapy but he's too much a coward to admit needing help Attilatheblond Monday #13
Yes MustLoveBeagles Monday #14
Hence the title of Mary Trump's book - YodaMom2 Monday #11
And sadly for people like Trump, PatSeg Monday #15
The Edward G Robinson, mob boss character in "Key Largo", Johnny Rocco Walleye Monday #3
I've probably only seen that film, oh...I dunno...100 times. One of the greatest movies ever made. Miles Archer Monday #4
Unfortunately, that's all true. Hillary called them irredeemable and she was right. Walleye Monday #7
It is nearly impossible to take the FIFA Peace Prize seriously, even for the most deluded MAGA Prairie Gates Monday #5
Remember when many were hopeful that FIFA would remove the World Cup games from the U.S.? Gimpyknee Monday #8
Anybody who had that hope knows really nothing about FIFA Prairie Gates Monday #10
Nope Torchlight Monday #17
Post removed Post removed Monday #18
Again with better clarity, perhaps? Torchlight Monday #19
They would drive over a cliff rather than admit they were going the wrong way ToxMarz Monday #12
The intellectual infant doesn't even realize the classic use of flattery to manipulate him. Ol Janx Spirit Monday #16
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