Anyone remember the 2011 White House Correspondents Association Dinner during which Obama joked about the tough decisions Trump made as the host of The Apprentice. Trump was clearly pissed.
If looks could have killed. The man has no normal sense of humor unless it involves others’ misfortunes.
Supposedly that event was a factor in him running for president.
And, yes, he is unable to laugh at himself.
No, I mean I’m not hear to obey the orders you seem to believe you have the authority to dictate.
Stranger
Here’s a list of the Nobel Peace Prize winners. Which ones do you consider to be promulgators of mass murder? There are some, but it’s not remotely half of them:
Honestly it only takes one to seriously mar the award imo.
So you took a sardonic comment clearly intended to metaphorically illustrate that the Nobel Peace Prize is often awarded for reasons that have little to do with peace and somehow feel justified in ordering me to literally provide a mathematical proof of its absolute truth?
Stranger
Eh, what would be the point? They can nominate him, and there’s no more cost to actually doing so than there would be to lying and then not doing it. And even among the throngs of self-serving weasels, there have to be a few True Believers.
Would a “No Prize” suffice?
I think the first rule of Nobel Prize Club should be that anyone who publicly announces that they “deserve” a Nobel Prize will never ever be awarded one.
The “VLADIMIR, STOP!” Peace Prize is awarded in recognition of performative bluster masquerading as conflict resolution.
TIL I can nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize! There are other Dopers who can, too.
Who, or rather, whom, should we nominate?
The White Stripes.
Stranger
Is that in order of preference?
Ed Zotti!
So what are the criteria for being on the list able to nominate? From your three examples I guessing there is but one: Breathing.
What’s the point in doing anything metaphorically? All you’re saying is that the Nobel Peace Prize isn’t as good as it should be. It’s not true that half of the time it’s wrong. All of the Nobel Prize categories are flawed. They have lots of the standard flaws. They don’t award prizes to women, blacks, or non-European ancestry people as much as they should. They are awarded too much to people at European and and North American institutions and not enough to those at other parts of the world. They are awarded only to the person in the higher academic position and not to the one below them in that university who did the more important work. There are various people who are clearly at the top of their fields who haven’t won a prize. The fact that they can only award the prize to three people a year means that frequently they fail to award it to someone who was just as important as the three who won it. All the Nobel Prize categories aren’t very good. Everyone should consider the Nobel Prizes as being like the Oscars. They’re interesting to look at once a year but not worth considering in the long term as the best choices for any sort of greatness.
From the Nobel Peace Prize website:
@Railer13 already posted the criteria in post 21. Basically, it’s any university professor in a variety of fields, any holder of high government office in any nation, and the members of a few specific international organizations. Boebert is a “member of a national assembly”, and Vance and Noem are “ministers or cabinet members”. Trump himself, as a head of state, could also make nominations, for anyone but himself.
I mean, none of those people should be in any sort of high government position, but they are.
What is the point in continuing to hassle me about this and demand I answer to your satisfaction? If you have a problem with me, take it up in The Pit or else knock it off.
Stranger