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9/4/2019

Marianne Williamson Takes Bold Stand, Then Backtracks

Filed under: General — JVW @ 1:10 pm



[guest post by JVW]

No, not on immigration or reparations or health care or taxation or debt or crime or foreign policy. Consider the source.

Everyone’s favorite New Age Presidential Candidate, Marianne Williamson, sent out a pointed message earlier this morning about Hurricane Dorian, slowly winding its way through the Caribbean and up the Atlantic Coast. Not content with expecting the military to dissipate the storm through the tactical use of a nuclear weapon, our Cute Crazy Crystal Hippie Chick demanded that each of us as citizens — nay, as Human Beings — do our own part to help turn the storm away from the coast:

Marianne & Dorian

Unfortunately, some staffer or consultant must have prevailed upon her to delete her Tweet, and it was subsequently replaced with run-of-the-mill sentiment:

Where would Joe Biden be without anodyne anecdotes larded over with layer upon layer of malarky? Where would Elizabeth Warren be without a detailed federal plan for every conceivable issue that the American public might possibly encounter over the next four years? Where would Bernie Sanders be without the stagnant warmed-over red diaper baby politics of his youth? By golly, if she really believes that the power of collective thought is enough to turn Dorian away, then it’s time we all let Marianne be Marianne!

Can you see now what we’re missing thanks to those awful debate rules the Democrat National Committee imposed on its candidates?

– JVW

47 Responses to “Marianne Williamson Takes Bold Stand, Then Backtracks”

  1. This is the bread-and-circuses age where it doesn’t really matter all that much whom we elect President, since the federal government is run by the permanent bureaucracy and the federal courts anyhow. So, given that, why not elect the absolute most entertaining candidate we can think of? It’s better than someone like Elizabeth Warren or Bernard Sanders who actually have an agenda (and a horrible one at that) they want to implement.

    JVW (54fd0b)

  2. She means well, bless her heart.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  3. She means well, bless her heart.

    Yeah, I know. I can’t even seem to work up much appetite for ridicule, given how weird “normal” life has become. Maybe the joke is that she is in fact the sanest one of us all.

    JVW (54fd0b)

  4. remember today is the agonizer, I mean 7 hour climate change debates, aargh,

    narciso (d1f714)

  5. clever strategy, next stop new Hampshire,

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/mike-huckabee-joe-biden-downplaying-iowa

    narciso (d1f714)

  6. Where is that guy who worried about Guam tipping over from too many US aircraft? What else does he worry about? Get him in the debates.

    Harcourt Fenton Mudd (0c349e)

  7. If everyone on the Left put their minds together, they would probably wish the hurricane towards American soil, and jack it back up to Cat 5 for good measure.

    Munroe (732181)

  8. I know this is a depressing thing to mention (and in fact I suspect the entire 2020 election will be depressing for many of us, no matter who wins) but the winner of the 2020 election is either going to be Trump or a democrat and right now it looks like (generic democrat) has a decent shot. Can we please not encourage the crazy ones, because sometimes they win *cough*trump*cough*

    Nic (896fdf)

  9. 3… speaking of weird, opened my garage door a couple of hours ago and the police were out front and phad the park across the street from us taped off, told me to stay indoors, there was a suspicious package over there.

    Officer just came to the door and said all clear… I asked wth it ended up being, he said meh, just an inert claymore…

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  10. hank Johnson, who thinks of jewish settlers as termites, who hired the awan bros, for it services,

    narciso (d1f714)

  11. Can we please not encourage the crazy ones, because sometimes they win *cough*trump*cough*

    See the last sentence in my comment above in position number 1. Is it better to have a Democrat like Marianne Williamson in the White House, who would react to these hurricanes by clutching crystals and chanting mantras, or is it better to have someone like Elizabeth Warren who would create four new federal agencies and place hundreds of new federal restrictions on people who live and work in designated hurricane zones? Is it better to have Marianne Williamson in the Oval Office drawing up plans for a Department of Peace and an Apologize to Black People Day, or to have Bernard Sanders in there working on a 90% tax rate for incomes over $500,000 and giving consideration to confiscating all 401(k) retirement funds in order to shore up Social Security? Don’t discount the joy of having a flake in the Oval Office, provided the flakiness is enough to cause inertia in Washington.

    JVW (54fd0b)

  12. The Left… when it’s not coming for your guns, it’s thinking about confiscating the wealth you and your spouse have worked hard and saved over your working lives.

    Why, it’s almost like they can’t be trusted.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  13. It’s better to have someone who would send actual help rather than “good vibes”. IDK what Warren would actually do (probably not creating 4 new federal agencies, that’s nonsense), but I’m of the opinion that Williams would send “good vibes”. Bernie is also a crazy in my books. He shouldn’t be encouraged either.

    Nic (896fdf)

  14. how about none of the above, they are just 57 flavors of crazy, even yours and mine favorite in the pack,

    narciso (d1f714)

  15. There’s a lot missing thanks to the structure of those ‘debates’… one fella in particular is missing on several cylinders:

    In an attempt to deflect criticism on getting every detail wrong in his faked ‘war story,’ Biden says, ‘The details are irrelevant in terms of decision making…’

    O.M.G.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  16. There is more crazy and less (anyone who runs for president probably has diagnosible ego issues). IDK if Trump was your original favorite among the Republicans last time, but he was crazypants fringe candidate for me. And he won. I would’ve preferred a less crazypants fringe candidate option on the Republican side.

    Nic (896fdf)

  17. I was for cruz, but clearly even the conservatives in the party couldn’t make up their mind to endorse him early, they operated on the underpants gnome strategy,

    narciso (d1f714)

  18. IDK if Trump was your original favorite among the Republicans last time, but he was crazypants fringe candidate for me. And he won. I would’ve preferred a less crazypants fringe candidate option on the Republican side.

    He wasn’t my first, second, third or even eleventh choice, but we’re stuck with him. So it goes. In my voting lifetime, here’s what we have ended up with:

    1988 – Things are going well so let’s stick with the loyal VP who is an accomplished man and war hero.
    1992 – Enough of the Greatest Generation, it’s time for the Baby Boomers to inherit the levers of power and bring about that world the 60s dreamt of.
    2000 – Well, that didn’t work out. We’re hopelessly deadlocked. I guess the son of the Greatest Generation guy will get his turn.
    2008 – OK, this isn’t going so well. Let’s try this half-black guy who doesn’t seem to stand for anything beyond the most banal platitudes.
    2016 – Ugh, what a mess. I’m angry; this reality TV star and tabloid fixture is also angry. Let’s see how this works out.

    Do you blame me if I have come to see the entire Presidential election process as just one long drawn-out joke? At this point I now think that perhaps we ought to just appoint someone at random for the job, but since we can’t do that Constitutionally, let’s just grab an entertaining candidate and have fun while it all crumbles down around us.

    JVW (54fd0b)

  19. Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. — Exodus 28:18

    nk (dbc370)

  20. bad juju goes round
    got voodoo on my haiku
    wiccan still tickin’

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  21. well she’s more like the soothsayer, from network, right about now the debate is about how many babies will be sacrificed to the skydragon,

    narciso (d1f714)

  22. In the second place, you propitiate the sea by pouring oil and wine and singing to it.

    nk (dbc370)

  23. Do you miss the sea, nk?

    mg (8cbc69)

  24. Hard to answer that, mg.

    nk (dbc370)

  25. “When David Brooks says it, it’s profound,” she told me. “When I say it, it’s woo-woo.”

    Link. Um, David Brooks won’t be encouraging folks to channel a hurricane with their minds, which is clearly in “woo-woo” territory. Woo-Woo Williamson.

    Paul Montagu (a2342d)

  26. well brooks won’t be labeling her a cancer, like he did with someone about eleven years ago,

    narciso (d1f714)

  27. There is a really good reason why the Democrats will not nominate any sane person as their candidate. No sane person would support their platform.

    Colliente (05736f)

  28. Andrew yang wants space mirrors, and doesn’t say he won’t force you to buy an electric vehicle,

    narciso (d1f714)

  29. @20

    (I am not an idealogue) All in all, I don’t think things turned out terribly with Bush 1, Clinton, or Obama, regardless of Clinton being a creep. Bush 2 (or Chaney) was a terrible President, not because he was a bad person, but he decisions that were bad for the country, but for all the OMG!socialism talk about Obama, the only thing he really did was the ACA and while that is really ugly sausage, at least it stopped some of the hemorrhaging of money into the “healthcare” industry. Something needed to be done and the Republicans didn’t have any ideas.

    And maybe in the end the Trump administration won’t turn out to be awful in the long-term either, though I think the immigrant camps are going to be A Problem. It probably isn’t THAT important who the president is, probably the house and senate are more important, but it’s nice not to wince every time the president opens his mouth.

    Nic (896fdf)

  30. Nic, Trump would signal a huge sea change in politics, except that the democratic party is basically run by insane people. They’ve moved so far that Biden is the ‘conservative’ option. There are no Howard Deans (politics aside, executives who can run things) on the national stage.

    Trump’s real concern for me has always been that he would push the nation away from solving a lot of issues (immigration is a good example). But if both sides are stupid, most of us just don’t have much reason to waste our time stressing about it. It is funny if the GOP loses. It’s also funny if the democrats lose. There’s a silver lining every day.

    Dustin (088f72)

  31. They never should have shut out the mystic:

    Biden’s eye fills with blood during CNN climate town hall

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bidens-eye-fills-with-blood-during-cnn-climate-town-hall

    harkin (58d012)

  32. @35 It’s hard to tell how really far left the Dems are, since right now it’s the silly part of campaign season. Last time the Rs were competing for most conservative, but several of them really weren’t regardless of what they were saying. I suspect the same is true of the current crop of Dems. Bernie’s a nut, but for most of the rest it’s hard to tell.

    Biden had generally historically been center to center left on everything except gay rights and unions and the most of the country has moved significantly on gay rights in the last 30 (and esp the last 10) years. I think he’s too old for the job, but he doesn’t have much history of being crazy-liberal and he does have a lot of history of at least trying to work across the aisle, so Biden as the “centrist” option isn’t super crazy.

    Nic (896fdf)

  33. You really didnt know how far left obama was how creamer helped design obamacare, how it was warrens bogus findings supported the stimulus as well as obamacare.

    Narciso (52211c)

  34. Please, the stimulus was supported by both parties. Everyone was in a panic and nobody was really projecting out the actual results.

    Obamacare was the result of an unsustainable healthcare system. Something needed to be done and the Rs weren’t moving on it at all, so the Ds plan was the one that got through. Even now the Rs can’t repeal it because there is nothing on the R side that addresses the things in it that are popular.

    Obama wasn’t particularly far left except on healthcare. The meme that he was was a political expediency. I read across the liberal/conservative lines and you should have seen the screaming the far left did about him.

    Nic (896fdf)

  35. It’s hard to tell how really far left the Dems are, since right now it’s the silly part of campaign season.

    What you are overlooking is the damage that will be done if the Democrats go full-speed ahead with leftist promises, only to abandon them either during the fall 2020 campaign or to ignore them once safely elected. One of the reasons that the Democrat Socialists have grown in number and influence the past decade is because Obama first lost his huge Congressional majorities by lurching in their direction his first two years, then afterwards could no longer enact his leftist agenda, forcing him to settle for his nibbling-at-the-edges pattern. A Democrat repeating that in 2021 would further divide the country into the capitalist and socialist factions. It wouldn’t be pretty.

    Please, the stimulus was supported by both parties.

    Not exactly. The bank bailouts, the automotive bailouts, and the tax rebates proposed by GW Bush were supported by both parties. Obama’s “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” on the other hand, won the support of zero House Republicans and only three Senate Republicans (the two Maine ladies and Arlen Specter who then promptly switched his party registration to the Democrats). Calling that bipartisan is about as big of a stretch of the term as can be made. It’s like saying Duke’s football team was competitive with Alabama last weekend because they lost 42-3 instead of 56-0.

    JVW (54fd0b)

  36. “It’s hard to tell how really far left the Dems are, since right now it’s the silly part of campaign season”

    If this was for Minister of Silly Pandering, they’d have a lock.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  37. @40 I was counting both as stimulus, but the non ARRA R votes were mostly partisanship, you can see it in the moving of positions as Obama comes into office.

    I don’t think it would be any uglier than the current interactions. The increased split under Obama was also the responsibility of the Rs in government at the time refusing to act on things the Ds and Rs agreed on simply because there was a D as president and they wanted an R in in 4 yrs. (you see this, as above, in several Rs talking positively about the stimulus before they were yanked into shape by the R leadership.)

    (Not that this is only an R problem, it’s just that it’s been an R problem most frequently in the last 25 years. It also was useless as a Presidential strategy since it didn’t cap either Clinton or Obama at one term and just keeps leaving messes that cause problems for them later.)

    I am not generally pleased with my politicians being jerks sheerly for partisan reasons. If group A and group B have areas of substantial agreement, they should do something about those areas and not tantrum because their guy isn’t president (current house majority included 😛 ).

    Nic (896fdf)

  38. I was counting both as stimulus, but the non ARRA R votes were mostly partisanship, you can see it in the moving of positions as Obama comes into office.

    Again, I disagree. The bank and automotive bailouts were eventually repaid with interest. “Stimulus” funds were, to the typical government extent, wasted on vanity projects. Solyndra anyone? The Dems look at it as “hey, what’s a little bit of waste among friends?” while the GOP wisely thought the money could be put to more efficient use, or at the very least wasted on more worthy organizations.

    JVW (54fd0b)

  39. And I very much disagree with this:

    (Not that this is only an R problem, it’s just that it’s been an R problem most frequently in the last 25 years. It also was useless as a Presidential strategy since it didn’t cap either Clinton or Obama at one term and just keeps leaving messes that cause problems for them later.)

    The GOP is not required to walk hand-in-hand with the Dems on their big government flights of fancy any more than the Dems are required to march in lockstep with the GOP when they want to build border walls or cut taxes. When you have one side saying “the government doesn’t do enough to provide direct aid to people” and the other side saying “the government is too big and meddles in too many aspects of our life as it is” then there isn’t a whole lot of room for compromise short of stalemate. Frankly, parties don’t stand on their principles often enough for my tastes.

    JVW (54fd0b)

  40. @43 and 44 Solyndra was a total embarrassment for the DOE and they should have been ashamed of themselves for being taken in by that con job.

    They shouldn’t feel the need to work together on areas of disagreement, but when there are areas of agreement, they shouldn’t refuse because of partisan tantruming. The current immigration issue is a result of various partisan tantruming over the last 13 years so now everyone is just standing in their corners screaming. It’s dumb.

    Of course, I have no partisan principles, so I’m not bothered when the parties don’t stand on them.

    Nic (896fdf)

  41. That is the definition of a bipartisan scam, mccain feingold getting rid of the incandescent light bulb etc.

    Narciso (52211c)

  42. “… If she really believes that the power of collective thought is enough to turn Dorian away, then it’s time we all let Marianne be Marianne!”

    Williams believes in the power of sympathetic magic i.e. witchcraft. She does get a few things right as when she speaks of ‘visceral forces’ at work as the 2o2o election nears… however I take issue with her use of the adjective “dark.”

    aidan maconachy (4cdd08)


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