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"The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution to formally proceed with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
The measure details how the inquiry will move into a more public phase. It was not a vote on whether the president should be removed from office.
This was the first test of support in the Democratic-controlled House for the impeachment process.
The White House condemned the vote, which passed along party lines.
Only two Democrats - representing districts that Mr Trump won handily in 2016 - voted against the resolution, along with all Republicans, for a total count of 232 in favour and 196 against."
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 01 2019, @09:12PM (5 children)
No, he has not.
1) Nothing whatsoever has been meaningfully done about reunification or actually settling peace between the Koreas.
2) Nothing whatsoever has been meaningfully done about denuclearizing North Korea. Just a lot of noise where Trump has been pacified and can be "in love" with Kim while Korea continues it's proliferation effort.
He uses instability as a bargaining tactic, which is stupid given the characters he is dealing with. And he doesn't have the brainpower nor does he rely on the tools of statecraft. That's about as loose cannon as it gets.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday November 02 2019, @02:39AM (1 child)
Not gonna happen any time soon. There was too much time the two societies diverged in values.
Has been, what, almost 30 years already and the inner reunification of Germany is still a thing in progress [wikipedia.org].
Bottom line: if you expect any American president to do it or consider them a failure, all American presidents will be a failure.
"Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best. Otto von Bismarck"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @08:19PM
Other American Presidents have not presented themselves as capable of solving the NK issue, or rather, presented that they're now succeeding where past ones failed. (Not without a success like Nixon actually going to China. Trump going to NK wasn't that because there is no substance behind the gesture.) Or actively PR'ing themselves that they have "made it happen" when they literally haven't done shit that's meaningful. Other Presidents much more meaningfully show the packed fist of why an NK attack is suicide for NK (i.e. joint military exercises). They use economic tools that work to constrain NK and they use diplomatic tools to get China to make sure NK still heels on the necessary level (oops! harder to do in a trade war!)
Bottom line: Other Presidents haven't tried to claim what Trump is falsely claiming he delivers, nor have other Presidents been taken in by NK's political maneuvering the way Trump has been completely suckered. And Trump doesn't even realized he's been played - he still personally thinks he's winning that one. Because THEY know Trump and Trump refuses to pay attention to what his experts can tell him about Kim. Just like all the others he is losing because he doesn't understand. Trump may or may not understand dealmaking (I think he understands how to con others and profit-by-weasling, not to make deals) but even if we give him that bit he does not understand diplomacy except in the "If I bully them they'll give me something good for me and I'll let them have something I don't care about" sense. Not dealmaking, really, and surely not the art of the possible which diplomacy is.)
Anyway...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 02 2019, @06:56AM (1 child)
2) Nothing whatsoever has been meaningfully done about denuclearizing North America.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @08:21PM
Show me where denuclearizing the United States has been on the table in relations with NK, then we'll talk.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday November 09 2019, @10:34PM
He's functionally near-illiterate, talks like a 4th grader, refusing to read anything more complicated than single line paragraphs and bullet points - and even then he can't retain much.
He clearly has dementia. And to add insult to injury, before it used to be his hair that was the brunt of jokes; now it looks like large chunks of his face have worked lose from the underlying flesh.
He's unstable, and never been a genius. It would take a genius to keep all his lies straight, and a stable genius would be smart enough not to need to lie in the first place.
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