On the Nobel Peace Prize

We are a laughingstock.

We are a nation which re-elected a man who has so little self-regard, so little self-confidence, that he demands prizes he does not deserve and would never merit in order to fill in that hole in his soul which will always be a gaping, gnawing darkness, consuming him until there is nothing left.

This is what the so-called President of the United States sent to the Prime Minister of Norway:

I know I'm preaching to the choir here. But, the Norwegian government has no control over to whom the Nobel Committee awards the peace prize. Trump has not stopped eight wars. He is, in fact, using the military in ways that it hasn't been used since, well, his first regime. This vile, brittle man wants accolades and admiration in a dark negative of what he sees DEI as being. 

This is all, of course, due to a man better than him in every way, former President Barack Obama, having won it in 2009. Anything that n-word wins Trump must win. His entire political career has been a response to this superior man winning the things which Trump knows, in the depths of what passes for his soul, he would never and will never deserve. He seeks these prizes as validation, a validation he can't get from his sycophants. He desires the world's great and good to recognize him as one of them; they don't, because he is nothing but a louche used car salesman from Jamaica, Queens, with a ludicrous low-class accent.

It's a truism that many of those who seek power do so to compensate for some deficit in themselves. They seek approbation to fill in a deep well of need: need to be accepted, need to have their genius recognized, need to revenge themselves on a world which has scorned them. And, most of the time, they are not geniuses, and are scorned for perfectly valid reasons. 

That any world leader would write such a letter is beyond belief. But this is Trump. He is a bottomless pit of desire. He desires that which he cannot earn legitimately. In life you have choices. You are the master of your fate. And what Donald Trump has chosen is to be the worst person possible. And yes, it is a choice. It is a decision. And he has given himself over to the Shadow. But I think, in what passes for his soul, he knows that this will be his downfall. So, like some medieval lord knowing that his actions are going to consign him to, at the very least, a long stint in Purgatory, he seeks out some form of indulgence so that he can fool the Deity into thinking he's not as bad as he's made out to be.

Don't get me wrong. The Nobel Committee can make mistakes. We've just seen it, as it awarded the prize to a woman who then gifted it to Trump in an act which will go down in the annals of sycophancy. If she is remembered at all, it will be as a mere cur who did not in any way deserve this prize. But it has made no mistake in spurning Trump. Of all the things this man does not deserve, the Nobel Peace Prize ranks among the higher echelons. He deserves no honor, no badge of merit. He is ineluctably unredeemable, condemned to the darkness.

We as a nation might be sundering all our alliances out of a narcissist's collapse. Combine that with his dementia, and we have someone living in his own bubble with control of the world's most deadly nuclear weapons. And this was chosen by a majority of voters, either by actively voting for him, voting third party, or keeping their useless asses at home. What a sad epitaph that would be for our country.

But today, I want to close on this. Two of those recipients who deserved their prizes, for the did advance the causes of peace and justice. The man against whom Trump measures himself, and fails. And the man whom we celebrated yesterday. Our species is not done yet, as long as we have men and women like them.

Be strong, dear friends. The weak will not inherit his earth.