The angels forgot to pray for us
It seems like only a few months ago that New Age crank Marianne Williamson was Jacobin’s favorite Very Serious candidate for the Democratic nomination. Alas, wishful thinking does not work any better for presidential campaigns than it does for curing AIDS, and Williamson has been decisively outflanked in the crackpot fake-Democrat conspiracy theorist sweepstakes by the even worse Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. So the grift has dried up before it could really get going:
Democratic primary challenger Marianne Williamson raised $920,000 in her latest quarterly disclosure — but her campaign is on the hook for a fair bit of money.
Williamson’s campaign reported about $270,000 in unpaid debts, according to financial reports filed Saturday. That was more than twice the $105,000 it reported in cash on hand.
The low fundraising haul comes after the author-turned-long-shot candidate told volunteers on a Zoom call this week that the campaign needed to increase its donations. Williamson said she couldn’t continue investing personal funds into the campaign. The latest disclosure shows that she’s now spent $220,000 on her presidential bid.
Eee-yow, going into her own kick for more than two hundred grand! Talk about getting high on your own astrological charts. Remember, kids, unless you have Yang-level assets always fund your rube-running vanity campaign with other people’s money.