Average voters casually following the impeachment melodrama of the last have likely asked themselves: What the hell just happened? What was this all for?

Democrats in Congress are pretending that their stall in the process is about negotiating a "fair" trial, but they know they have no say in how the Senate trial goes because they're not in power, just as Republicans had no say in the House impeachment investigation went because they weren't in power there.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declining to send the two impeachment articles to the Senate nothing but an acknowledgment of the absolute powerless state Democrats are now in and of the waste of time that impeachment always was.

And this is why Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, can't say when the trial will take place or even whether Pelosi is being smart in withholding the impeachment articles.

Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press, moderator Chuck Todd asked Warner if the charges approved by House Democrats should be immediately sent over to the Senate for trial. Warner rambled about the "oath to be impartial jurors" that senators have to take, reiterated that Democrats want to call in witnesses and subpoena documents (not going to happen), and laughably suggested that hearing from witnesses and seeing more documents might actually move Democrats to acquit the president.

"This could actually exonerate the president," said Warner. "But you’ve got to be able to have that information and these individuals come forward."

Yeah, okay.

We know what happened with President Trump and Ukraine. We've seen the transcript of his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. We've heard from the ambassadors and bureaucrats who had concerns about it.

And yet, still, public support for the impeachment remained at about 50% — it dropped lower than that among independent voters — and Republicans in the Senate aren't going to convict Trump over a delay in military aid for a tiny country called Ukraine.

Todd then asked Warner if he thought Pelosi's impeachment "strategy" was "good."

His answer: "I’m gonna let the speaker decide."

In essence, no, her strategy isn't good, and the impeachment show is dead.