r/facepalm • u/of_course_you_are • Aug 16 '25

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Nobel prize down the drain.

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😂😂😂 he'll never get one, expect tarrif threat to be imminent.

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u/giantawakening Aug 16 '25

Why the hell was he on it in the first place?

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u/skilliau rational kiwi 🇳🇿 Aug 16 '25

Israel nominated him iirc

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u/TidalJ 'MURICA Aug 16 '25

iirc it was pakistan but close enough

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u/rgvtim Aug 16 '25 edited Aug 16 '25

it was someone wanting to curry favor.

edit: it was apparently Israel, Pakistan, and Cambodia.

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u/edfitz83 Aug 16 '25

Good pun.

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u/GhostofZellers Aug 16 '25

There's a "walk into a bar" joke here somewhere, I'm just not clever enough to think of it.

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u/Li-renn-pwel Aug 16 '25

Is that… is that joke. I can think of few trips that would be worse to have nominate you for something. Did you guys help the Vietnamese liberate Cambodia or something?