Pelosi on impeachment: if the Senate exonerates Trump

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189. In order to think outside the box effectively, one must know the box one is trying to fix

inside and out. A goose disabling one of your jet engines over the Hudson river is a 'unique situation,' but you sure as hell want a Sully in the cockpit coming up with all actual scenarios to get that plane down safely. Praying is "outside the box" but not very effective.

Legislation is being produced, it's just not going to make it past a GOP Senate, and even if it does, DT is flighty and might choose to veto it anyway... like he did the shutdown. That doesn't indicate that productive legislative work isn't being done on the part od Democrats.

The thing is, this is what is called a 'wicked problem' - one with many moving parts, and fixing one might create another. Like with the situation in the Gaza Strip, there may not be a "solution" that doesn't involve someone feeling like they got screwed over, or that someone else got off scott free when they should have. I think we assume that life is like math or the scientific method - you concentrate and work hard enough, and you will find "the" answer.

I am expecting not to get everything I want out of this situation. I know that there are others who think if they don't get the outcome they wanted - or felt entitled to - that it's unacceptable, and will target their favorite Democratic scapegoat.

I would love a perp walk from the WH. I am too realistic to believe that it will happen if I "just want it enough" or "demand that our leaders accept nothing less." I see a lot of very privileged entitled straight white men here that are used to life making sense to them, and if it doesn't, then something has been 'rigged' or they are being "jerked around."

That expectation of how the world "should" work is what impels white people to call the cops when something occurs that is outside their comfort zone - it must be dangerous, sinister, or not what it seems, even if it's just black families barbequing in a public park. Or the candidate that wasn't the choice of white straight men winning an election.

Not having been the center of culture in this country for centuries, I don't get as freaked out and defensive when life doesn't go the way that suits me.