DATELINE - Philadelphia, July 7, 2016.

In what has already been the strangest, unpredictable political season, things just got weirder. Much weirder.

How we got to this time and place will be written about for generations to come. One thing is for certain - nothing, absolutely nothing is certain anymore.

Perhaps the weirdness pervading this campaign season first came to be when a pseudo-billionaire blow hard with really bad hair, stated (mainly to laughter and disbelief) that he was going to run as a Republican.

Perhaps it was a few power brokers selecting Hillary as their anointed candidate, as they did everything possible to insure her selection, including skewing DNC resources, denying access to her opponent, and placing Debbie whatshername Schultz in charge of the DNC.

Perhaps it was when a curmudgeonly democratic socialist from the left State of Vermont began to gain attention and traction among the voters, and totally screwed up the plans and schemes of the powers that be.

Or perhaps, it all started with the election of Barack Obama, who took a page out of Abraham Lincoln's playbook, and mistakenly assigned the office of Secretary of State to one of the most corrupt and self-serving individuals in American political history.

No matter how you view it, this campaign has been weird. And it just got weirder.

So, in no particular order, let's do a recap of the last two weeks.

Debbie Whatshername Schultz

In retrospect, her resignation from the DNC should have been a given. The bad blood that she created along all strata of the Democratic Party, her pathetic results in off year senate and house races, and her willingness to allow Wall Street buy tremendous amounts of influence within the Democratic Party, and more specifically, the DNC, should have signaled that her days were numbered.

But Wall Street money is like Heroin. Once you have a taste, you quickly get addicted, and in the process, you lose sight of your party's purpose and original goals. Debbie forgot that lesson, and her addiction eventually led to her resignation. Across the country, hundreds of thousands cheered at the news. One unexpected side effect is the lack of one leader of the DNC, who will have to figure out what the heck to do about the convention.

Donald Trump

The one thing even stranger than his meteoric rise, and apparent victory in his drive for the Republican nomination, is how quickly it all ended as he shocked the world and ended his campaign on June 30th. Much of the world rejoiced, but the whole world must be wondering, "What now?"

In retrospect, so many of his steps and ridiculous pronouncements seemed to reflect his hidden dream of wanting to run, but not wanting to actually win (or have the obligation to serve, if elected.) His attacks on sitting GOP governors, his idiotic and insane immigration policies, his pro-fracking, anti-environment comments, in the face of clear indications of global climate change - all of these paled in comparison to his personal issues, ones that were bound to come out at some point. The GOP must be grateful that they did come out before their convention.

Trump was never a billionaire, unless blowing hot air constitutes a massive source of income. His tax issues were not just complex, they were mind-boggling. Not only was Teh Donald virtually broke, his financial games may yet land him in prison . . . Where he might have some interesting company. More about that below.

The fact that even this blowhard recognized the crayon printing on the wall, and did the right thing by withdrawing, well, it just shows that there is hope for the country.

Hillary Clinton

Funny how things work out. The GOP had ample opportunity to find out dirty details, facts that would have derailed her campaign early on, before the caucuses and primaries even began. But, by staffing the Benghazi Committee with a bunch of village idiots, they blew it.

Luckily, a man of honor, John Kerry, came into possession of some very scary facts, and insisted that the State Department IG investigate them. Between the H Bomb-like impact of the May, 2016 IG report, and the FBI referral for criminal indictment that followed in early June, it was clear to even the most rabid Hillarian that she could not run for president, and if she did, it would have been a disaster for her, for Bill, for the Clinton Foundation, and most of all, for the country.

As more facts and connections become public, it was clear that the Teapot Dome Scandal has nothing on Hillary, in terms of how much corruption existed. Teapot Dome had to do with oil and oil reserves for the Navy. The Clinton tenure at State, and the many filthy, illegal, corrupt, and scary connections with her Foundation, the obvious exchange of arms for donations, the recently discovered disclosure of so much top secret material to the Chinese, Russians, Iranians, Israelis, and probably even to that aspiring fast order cook named Igor Yuri Plebonowski from Kiev, Ukraine, from Sydney Blumenthal's unsecured emails and Hillary's home brewed email server has done serious damage to our Intel apparatus, to our spies and sources abroad, and even to our onetime allies, as even their own secrets were disclosed - solely because Hillary deliberately chose to ignore the rules for her own benefit. Those leaks led to the loss of US lives, as secret missions were blown because of Hillary's hubris.

The question about her future is now limited to whether she will accept a plea bargain, and how long her sentence will be. But as a political family? The Clintons are dead. Lucky for us. What was amusing, but for the swirl of facts and ugly disclosures of her misdeeds, was even in her resignation speech, she failed to face up to how she, and she alone, was the cause of her own demise. She was the one who traded her powers as SexState to enrich her Foundation. She was the one who promised Wall Street complete protection and cooperation in her secret and expensive speeches. She was the one who basically had an open book for our rivals and enemies to read at will by using a private, unsecured email server. She was the one who tried to cover up her crimes and misdemeanors by scrubbing 30,000 private/State/criminal emails most of which the FBI has reconstructed.

One can only wonder how Hillary will look in an orange jumpsuit.

GOP Convention

This one will be strange. Now that Donald Trump withdrew, the scrambling going on by former GOP candidates would cause a Tyson Food egg farm to spontaneously create the largest omelet in the universe.

Here is the race card as of today:

Definitely back in the race:

Rick Sanitorium
Sarah Palin
Ted Cruz
Marco Rubio

None of them seem to be getting any traction.

Possibly running:

George Pataki
Mitt Romney
Tom DeLay
Mike Hucksterbee

Mitt has the support of the money's interests, and that alone might be enough to push out the freak show that would be created in a Santorum-Cruz-Rubio-Palin competition.

Never say never

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At least the political pundits are having a field day, trying to figure out who else might run. Each day brings new guesses, many or most clearly wrong, and each night brings cable and news program discussions of a kind that cause the writers at the Onion to become jealous.

"Hysteria" probably best reflects what Prebus and his crew are experiencing. The party elders must be going mad, too. They had just made their peace with Teh Donald, and he up and quits.

Not only do they risk a repeat of the crazy primary season with 17 candidates, all unelectable for one or another reason, the hard, cold fact is that none of those running or possibly considering a run, have any apparatus in place for a national campaign. Certainly, that thief and liar Trump left no organization, because he never tried to build one. There are no pieces to pick up and adopt as one's own. It was as though he knew he would never complete his run.

So, the GOP faces a convention in which the only certainty is uncertainty. Not only as to who can win the votes to gain the GOP nomination, but uncertainty as to who the GOP's opponent will be in November.

Weird does no begin to describe it.

Democratic Convention

This, too, is a mess. Bernie has 48% of the pledged delegates, but the rumors are that the super delegates now blame Bernie for Hillary's mistakes, and are refusing to support him at the convention. Joe Biden, along with John Kerry, Dick Durbin, Milli Vannilli and Donald Duck have also been promoted in advance of July 25th.

Oddsmakers believe that Sanders might prevail, but a hard core of Clintonista loyalists have planned to make his effort miserable. Hillary's resignation did not help matters at all, being both accusatory and petty at the same time.

When Trump and Clinton were the presumptive nominees, the most popular response was, "Stop the world. I want to get off!" Now that both are gone, who the heck knows what will happen?