Whether you want to believe it or not...from a pretty smart guy commenting on Sundance’s thread...:
===>
Clinton and Bloomberg are longtime friends. Steyer is a Podesta friend/Clinton ally. Clintons people are on the convention committee (including Podesta).
Bloombergs campaign, like Bidens, is a proxy, just in a different way. Hes already pledged to spend the money, whomever the nominee will be, and I think its because hes never planned to be the one. That Clinton getting in (or winning) seems so, utterly fantastical does not make it less true: the play here is Clinton.
In a planted Op-Ed in The Hill, shes already been floated as VEEP to add gravitas to the ticket, and was quoted as being excited to jump on board with whomever gets the nomination (really? Clinton excited to run as #2? No one buys it its seeding the concept.)
Chaos is also the best, if not the necessary state-of-play for Clinton to parachute in. First as VEEP a stabilizing force. Then its just a re-shuffle to put her at the top of the ticket. VEEP probably then goes to Warren, thinking it placates the progressive wing (it wont).
Bloomberg has no real pitch on the democrat side (neither did Biden) and he has the feel of a pop-up candidate. His constituency is pure donor class and astroturf. Hillary has a narrow band of dead-enders and a pitch: I beat Trump once in the popular vote, I can do it again, and Im eager to settle the score.
What really matters is she still owns the party. Thats how she got her people on the convention committee, which only matters if theres going to be a need to control it. Shell take it in broad daylight, with Bernie people (and others) eyes wide open. Clintons and the DNC dont care. Thats what narrative engineering is for.
Ive been telling my family this for months. After tonight, I finally won a convert. And shes PISSED. A long way to go yet, but this might turn out to be that moment that once you see, you cant unsee.
Joe as veep made sense. Assassin insurance.
Piaps as veep is a death wish, making the suicide option actually believable.
seems to me that sundance is getting more and more carried away on a day by day basis with his convoluted and unlikely theories ... i think he’s run out of real stuff to write about ...