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(115,943 posts)Or just an accumulation of karma?
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Diagnosed "less than a week ago" according to the UK Daily Mail.
EDIT TO ADD LINK.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8201623/Monica-Lewinsky-tweets-wishes-Clinton-sex-scandal-whisteblower-Linda-Tripp-dying.html
EXCLUSIVE: Linda Tripp, the Clinton sex scandal whistleblower who secretly recorded private phone calls with Monica Lewinksy, dies at age 70 'after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer less than a week ago'
hlthe2b
(102,490 posts)So, I'll just say nothing more.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)to death. Only a week between diagnosis and death here. I agree, it's a terrible, awful way to go.
LisaM
(27,848 posts)It was terrible.
That is all.
stopbush
(24,397 posts)She was 71.
PJMcK
(22,065 posts)Considering her role in President Clinton's bogus impeachment...
Ah, never mind.
stopbush
(24,397 posts)Especially when it comes to people dying in old age.
maxrandb
(15,378 posts)Even for right wing nut jobs.
Now, I hope Rush Limbaugh dies after 50 years of shitting in his pants.
enid602
(8,661 posts)I heard she choked on a ham sandwich.
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PatrickforO
(14,602 posts)I remember that a member of Clinton's administration committed suicide and his note lamented how Washington DC had become a place where people had their entire lives destroyed by innuendo just for kicks.
I remember how utterly, horribly mortified and humiliated Monica Lewinski must have been when this dirt bag chose to have her proverbial fifteen minutes of fame at Lewinski's and Clinton's expense.
And yet...I extend the same wishes to the dirt-bag Tripp as I would to anyone else: May she have eternal rest, be enfolded in the love of the divine, and be able, in love, to learn those things she did not learn on this earth.
malaise
(269,253 posts)Life is over
pandr32
(11,637 posts)She was nothing more than a traitor who attempted to topple a president. I wonder what she got out of her service to the other traitors who signed her up.
scrabblequeen40
(334 posts)sponsored by a GOP donor.
If you're going to betray a friendship, that's a low ROI
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)pandr32
(11,637 posts)But then, she was a right winger.
klook
(12,173 posts)-- Linda Tripp, quoted by ABC News.
Who knows? Maybe she took the coronavirus toilet challenge.
pandr32
(11,637 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,022 posts)Rip
BigDemVoter
(4,158 posts)She was always one giant asshole . . . .
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,226 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,505 posts)Dem4Life1102
(3,974 posts)John Goodman.
kpete
(72,038 posts)My dad died this a.m. (natural causes)
Not the best dad ever, but since my mom died, he had grown tremendously.
makes it SO much harder
Fuck Linda Tripp
whatever
IcyPeas
(21,930 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,976 posts)irisblue
(33,046 posts)Hekate
(90,958 posts)Speaking from sad experience, it's hard to lose a parent, regardless of your relationship with them.
Be at peace.
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)I'm sorry to hear of your loss. The world becomes a different place when we lose our parents.
Peace.
klook
(12,173 posts)My mom died last year, and my father a few years earlier. I still see and hear them both so clearly in my mind, at various ages and in all kinds of situations, good and bad. I don't believe in an afterlife, but I am comforted that they have become, in Kurt Vonnegut's phrase, "unstuck in time" in a way, and that they continue to exist in the hearts and minds of those who knew them.
I wish you peace and comfort. Give yourself time.
question everything
(47,564 posts)Not best dad, but hope for some happy memories
.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)XRubicon
(2,213 posts)dalton99a
(81,671 posts)Ilsa
(61,710 posts)Glorfindel
(9,740 posts)Sincerest condolences.
blogslut
(38,021 posts)Aquaria
(1,076 posts)cally
(21,599 posts)Its hard when both of our parents die.
Greybnk48
(10,180 posts)I've been an orphan for a while and I know, it sucks. Stay strong.
KitSileya
(4,035 posts)My condolences, and I hope you get the support you need in your time of grief.
ProfessorGAC
(65,334 posts)Like it's not stressful enough. Take care!
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)She wasn't. She was the one who illegally taped Monica Lewinsky and then gave her name to the Jones lawyers. Then she went to Ken Starr before anyone had even testified.
Linda Tripp's goal was to set up Bill Clinton's impeachment. The was also the goal of Ken Starr and the Jones lawyers.
Today we can see that what was called a vast right-wing conspiracy at the time was actually the beginning stages of a fascist movement.
Blue Owl
(50,546 posts)n/t
LakeArenal
(28,863 posts)As a human being.... awful.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I could not resist.
Glorfindel
(9,740 posts)Thanks for saying it, Jamastiene!
Behind the Aegis
(54,038 posts)appropriate virtual socially distanced
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Virtual, safe
Historic NY
(37,457 posts)she made secret recordings w/o the knowledge and consent of the party.
[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/tripp073199.htm|
dem4decades
(11,316 posts)XRubicon
(2,213 posts)Behind the Aegis
(54,038 posts)donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)Buh-bye.
Aquaria
(1,076 posts)With great pleasure.
KatyMan
(4,216 posts)Only say good things about the dead. Linda Tripp is dead. Good.
KitSileya
(4,035 posts)Not even my worst enemy. My sister succumbed to it in early March, 2 years and nine months after diagnosis, and, yeah, no one deserves that regardless of what they have done in their lives. I hope her family find the healing and support they need in their time of loss.
PlanetBev
(4,104 posts)Linda Tripp was a holdover from the Bush 43 administration. Whenever a new administration takes over, they need to clean house and make sure there are no loyalists left over. Hopefully the lesson has been learned.
Sounds Machiavellian, I know, but you gotta burn down the village.
kskiska
(27,051 posts)"At the time, Donald Trump, then freshly divorced from Marla Maples, described Tripp as 'evil personified.' "
Let's see what he says now.