re: Nobel Prize nominations
there's like 3000 people who can nominate anyone they want for the Prize in each of the fields, and the main committee includes a number of Norweigen Parliament members, which iirc led to some random dude being nominated like 80 times over the years by some royal noble until he died or something
what made the Obama prize funny was that he wasn't even in office when he was formally nominated, and leaks suggested he wasn't even elected yet when his first nominations came in, and that the Committee initially responded by saying it wasn't an award for the future or anything like that but for Obama's speeches he had made during his Presidential campaign, wonderful speeches!
but the prize has always been goofy, the Kissinger win has the distinction of also being the only instance where it's been refused by a winner, he won jointly with Le Duc Tho who refused to accept it on multiple grounds and pointed out that peace hadn't been achieved in Vietnam, merely that one of the belligerents had simply outlined a slow withdrawal from the conflict

since they had never awarded Ghandi when he died they simply refused to give an award that year... they gave out i don't know how many awards for the joke Kellogg-Briand Pact and for the League of Nations... they've given out a whole swath of awards for Palestine/Israel related things to great success, and earlier kept giving them to South Africans... the last time they gave out an award for improving peace in Korea it was revealed to be a big ass scandal and essentially bribe to the Norks... anti-nuclear weapons folks have won a large number of times and were never heard from again... the EU win lol
who takes it seriously enough to be fretting that Trump might win, the only time anyone hears about (and thus cares about) the winners are when they're controversial!
clearly they should give it to King Jong-un, Donald Trump, and Dennis Rodman for eliminating all war forever in Korea, and Vladimir Putin for not only making Trump's peace possible, but ending ISIS

while issuing a statement condemning Hillary Clinton for her failures in diplomacy
