Get ready for Donald v Hillary - the rematch

I was checking out some of those disreputable sites, where folks just make shit up. That's in contrast to the legit sites, where highly paid consultants, experts, and expert consultants just make shit up.

So here's what I'm hearing. There's a school of thought out there posits that the most viable candidate for the Dems 2024 is... Hillary!

Go figure!

I would have thought they can wind up the Bernie wind-up toy once again and do better than Hillary, but Bernie's pied piper routine always gave the big donors the willies... as in, what if he's serious about all that socialist talk?

The so-called squaddie radicals have already shown themselves to be unprincipled careerists, but they'd never have a chance against Trump anyway.

Nor would Sleepy Guy and/or his stunned side-kick. What a study in incompetence that loser is!

And Trump seems to be the forgone conclusion as the GOP candidate, which is again, a searing indictment of America's education system and culture at large...

Or at least it would be, if we were talking about democracy.

But we're not; we're talking about Democracy Theatre, which is a completely different kettle of fish.

The producers figure Donald-Hillary is the best bet for max pay-per-view uptake.

They're probably right!

Guardian predicts Donald Jr White House run in 2024

There's a remarkably sympathetic review of Donald Trump Jr's new book on view at The Guardian, which is normally a seething nest of Trump-hating pseudo-progressives.

The reviewer, one Lloyd Green, goes so far as to draw a parallel between Trump Jr's bashing of progressives in his book, with Obama's recent remarks on "wokeness."

Fair enough, but commentators on  US politics should have more to chew on these days than who might run in 2024. It should be obvious by now that the elected president of the United States is not in fact in charge of the joint.

If it's not the elected president, who is it?

That's a question that deserves an answer long before we speculate about who might be running in 2024.