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On Sunday, the impossible finally came to pass. Joe Biden, after swearing that only the Lord Almighty himself could compel him to step down from the 2024 presidential race, suddenly revealed that he was finished. The announcement, which only came in the form of a social media post, caught his own staffers by complete surprise. Even those working in the White House only came to learn of his decision on X.

To say that this is an unprecedented situation risks underselling the uniqueness of the current moment. Not only are we in very strange territory electorally (given the announcement’s proximity to the party convention), but there is also a sense that something has gone seriously wrong with the political system itself.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the Secret Service said Tuesday she is resigning following the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump that unleashed intensifying outcry about how the agency tasked with protecting current and former presidents could fail in its core mission.

Kimberly Cheatle, who had served as Secret Service director since August 2022, had been facing growing calls to resign and several investigations into how the shooter was able to get so close to the Republican presidential nominee at an outdoor campaign rally in Pennsylvania.

The best thing any group of Republican senators has done in recent memory is chase Kimberly Cheatle down the hallway at the RNC last week.

The head of the Secret Service is an appropriate target for outrage.

She should have been gone the night of the attempted Trump assassination, and now is a symbol of the incompetence and lack of responsibility that has destroyed trust in our institutions.

In announcing he would no longer be the Democrats’ presidential candidate on Sunday, Joe Biden professed he was doing so because he believed it “in the best interest of [his] party and the country.” While Biden did not elaborate further on his reasoning, he promised to address the country later this week with more details about his decision.

The ineffectual VP isn’t worthy of higher office

Following Joe Biden’s belated withdrawal from the presidential race, the onslaught of felching flattery about his heroically sacrificial character and his administration’s astonishing, unprecedented, better-than-FDR-scale accomplishments began within minutes. From the Democratic party’s grand poohbahs and their lickspittles in the media, this fawning admiration is intended to compensate for having done nothing but insult, undermine, and leak against the President for three weeks. Now his detractors are suddenly Biden’s greatest fans. But don’t expect smarmy, unctuous if subtly guilt-ridden bootlicking from this columnist.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s ex-lover has a bright idea.

Why wait for 2024? Kamala should be president – right now!

Former San Francisco mayor and notorious playboy, Willie Brown, 90, who is 31 years Harris’s senior and dated her in the 1990s, summoned local reporters for an impromptu news conference on Sunday.

Biden drops reelection bid and endorses Soros-backed VP after mutiny by party officials and donors.

By the beginning of 2024, the Democrats had settled on a simple strategy to retain control of the Presidency and the Senate while regaining a majority in the House of Representatives. The most important element of the plan was to work with corporate media to assure that the electorate remained focused on the purported threat to our democracy™ presented by former President Trump and his “extremist MAGA” supporters.

This would permit President Biden and other Democrats seeking reelection to avoid pesky questions about inflation, the border crisis, rampant crime rates and dangerous conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. Their strategy collapsed on June 27.