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(131,018 posts)Or just an accumulation of karma?
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Mike 03
(18,690 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
(114,366 posts)So, I'll just say nothing more.
Mike 03
(18,690 posts)to death. Only a week between diagnosis and death here. I agree, it's a terrible, awful way to go.
LisaM
(29,671 posts)It was terrible.
That is all.
stopbush
(24,851 posts)She was 71.
PJMcK
(25,090 posts)Considering her role in President Clinton's bogus impeachment...
Ah, never mind.
stopbush
(24,851 posts)Especially when it comes to people dying in old age.
maxrandb
(17,480 posts)Even for right wing nut jobs.
Now, I hope Rush Limbaugh dies after 50 years of shitting in his pants.
enid602
(9,736 posts)I heard she choked on a ham sandwich.
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PatrickforO
(15,488 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
(297,343 posts)Life is over
pandr32
(14,307 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
(335 posts)sponsored by a GOP donor.
If you're going to betray a friendship, that's a low ROI
CatWoman
(80,308 posts)pandr32
(14,307 posts)But then, she was a right winger.
klook
(13,624 posts)-- Linda Tripp, quoted by ABC News.
Who knows? Maybe she took the coronavirus toilet challenge.
pandr32
(14,307 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,674 posts)Rip
BigDemVoter
(4,705 posts)She was always one giant asshole . . . .
Tommy_Carcetti
(44,572 posts)Buckeyeblue
(6,410 posts)Dem4Life1102
(3,974 posts)John Goodman.

kpete
(72,903 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
(25,666 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)MagickMuffin
(18,358 posts)irisblue
(37,711 posts)Hekate
(100,133 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
(13,624 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
(52,282 posts)Not best dad, but hope for some happy memories
.
bronxiteforever
(11,212 posts)XRubicon
(2,241 posts)dalton99a
(94,943 posts)Ilsa
(64,491 posts)Glorfindel
(10,175 posts)Sincerest condolences.
blogslut
(39,196 posts)Aquaria
(1,076 posts)cally
(21,876 posts)Its hard when both of our parents die.
Greybnk48
(10,741 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
(77,083 posts)Like it's not stressful enough. Take care!
Dennis Donovan
(31,059 posts)StevieM
(10,580 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
(59,448 posts)n/t
LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)As a human being.... awful.
Jamastiene
(38,206 posts)I could not resist.
Glorfindel
(10,175 posts)Thanks for saying it, Jamastiene!
Behind the Aegis
(56,150 posts)appropriate virtual socially distanced
Jamastiene
(38,206 posts)Virtual, safe
Historic NY
(40,110 posts)she made secret recordings w/o the knowledge and consent of the party.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/tripp073199.htm
dem4decades
(14,240 posts)XRubicon
(2,241 posts)Behind the Aegis
(56,150 posts)donkeypoofed
(2,188 posts)Buh-bye.
Aquaria
(1,076 posts)With great pleasure.
KatyMan
(4,353 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
(4,413 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
(27,165 posts)"At the time, Donald Trump, then freshly divorced from Marla Maples, described Tripp as 'evil personified.' "
Let's see what he says now.