27D chess

 

- Do you play red or blue? 

Ron Unz is a far right alt-media personality (und so weiter), but the article linked below is quite interesting. About half of it is a summary of a recent piece by longtime GOP strategist Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal, arguing that Trump is losing the electorate even on his central campaign promise: putting an end to illegal immigration. The Greenland shenaningans were even less popular.

Unz then points out that America´s most important pod caster, Joe Rogan, seems to be fed up with Trump. More people follow the Joe Rogan Show than read newspaper or watch CNN. Rogan (who usually sounds like a somewhat left-leaning independent) may have played a role in Trump´s re-election, since he interviewed Trump on his show. Could Rogan´s criticism lose Trump the midterms? 

Unz wonders aloud whether Trump might be going literally insane. He isn´t the only one. And yes, it´s Trump´s bizarre craving for the Nobel peace prize which triggered those reactions (same on my end). The article also references some less important people on the far right who are fed up with the Donald.

As I said, interesting.   

Is Donald Trump playing 27-dimensional chess? Probably not.

Fredspris i vår tid

 

Jag erkänner att jag faktiskt tycker det här är lite underhållande. Visste inte att Trump var *så* fåfäng och inbilsk. Många av hans knäppare utspel handlar om att trolla medierna och "own the libs". Men när det gäller fredspriset verkar han faktiskt mena allvar?! Och så är det ju dråpligt att Norge - som antagligen gav Machado utmärkelsen just för att hon är allierad med Trump - misslyckades med sin lilla manöver. Manövern var alltså att ge priset till Trump utan att ge priset till Trump. 

Och i en *viss* mening är det väl kul att se hur förvirrade högen och mitten har blivit sedan Trump, istället för att följa spelboken och den sedvanliga dramaturgin, har låtit den kommunistiska regimen i Venezuela sitta kvar vid makten...

But OK, I got a terrible sense of humor! 

Machado: Erbjöd Trump min fredsprismedalj

Norge: Fredspriset kan inte delas med Trump

Just in: Trump actually got the peace prize!

 

Check your news feed. Trump actually got the peace prize. Or *a* peace prize, at any rate. LOL.

And yes, it´s the first time it´s being awarded, so presumably it was the consolation prize for not getting the "real" peace prize (you know, that Norwegian one).  

Freedom fighters

 

LOL. What did I tell you? 

Venezuelan freedom fighter dedicates Nobel Prize to Donald Trump

It´s all politics

 

Can I be honest? I didn´t even know until now (as in 2025) that governments and other political actors can actually *nominate* candidates for the Nobel peace prize. But if so, the prize is all politics. It´s little different from a US primary election.

Speaking of which...

The decision to give the peace prize to the Venezuelan opposition leader is obviously a political choice and with outmost probability based on very careful diplomatic calculations. They can´t give Trump the coveted award since the Donald is simply too controversial in the hallowed halls of the New World Order, sorry, rules-based international order. But they cannot *not* give him the prize either, since the United States is still a great power. And Trump is, shall we say, somewhat erratic. So you don´t want him too angry.

The solution? Trump is currently in a serious conflict with - surprise - Venezuela. And the globo-liberalism don´t like Maduro either. I mean, he´s a Communist dictator allied with Russia and Iran. And, I suppose, Key-Ubah. Problem solved. The Norwegian Parliament sub-sub-committee gave Trump the Nobel peace prize without giving Trump the peace prize. Win-win.

Of course, the prize is widely believed to have been compromised long ago. Henry Kissinger, anyone? Or that North Vietnamese guy, if you don´t like Reds. And what about Barack Obama, who got the award while the US was fighting two bloody wars (one of which was later stopped by...Trump)?

So it´s hardly news that there´s something rotten in the kingdom of Norway. Still, I wonder if they might have forgotten to take one thing into consideration: Trump´s reaction...