"... despite never smoking cigarettes, and will have to have part of her left lung removed. Griffin, who was placed in psychiatric hold after her suicide attempt, says she developed her addiction to cope with the backlash she endured after posing with a bloody effigy of then-President Donald Trump in 2017."
I'm sorry to hear all that and wish her well.
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Tina writes:
I’m sorry when anyone is sick, or addicted, or suicidal, or has lost a family member. Politics-wise, I apply that rule ecumenically.
But would Kathy Griffith be the same? Because she has spent decades calling people like me a Nazi and wishing people like me dead and even symbolically enacted murder.
I’ve worked in politics for over 30 years. There are dirtbags galore on both sides of the aisle. See, for example, LBJ, whose behavior is recognized today as sexual assault — of his own male aides and secret service agents protecting his life. I’ve met Matt Getz over an entire evening event, and he’s an unabashed piece of garbage too.
I was a Democrat — Blue Dog but Dem to the core, for the first decade of my political life. I retreated for a while and spent the last 20 years as a non-libertarian social conservative. I think I have as good a perspective on making generalizations about liberals versus conservatives as anyone. I’ve known hundreds of both.
When I was a Democratic lobbyist, the conservatives (whom I encountered and opposed regularly) were without exception always both civil and kind to me. Now that I’m a conservative, I’ve experienced non-stop abuse from liberals I meet and even some I have known a long time. There are heartening exceptions, but the difference is night and day. I don’t think pills were Griffin’s problem. She has always been vicious. And no sentient adult doesn’t know that Adderall and its proxies are just prescription meth.
Libertarians come in so many flavors I can’t begin to categorize them, let alone generalize about them.
RB writes:
"Is there any way for Trump to wish her well (not necessarily that he would) without coming across as taking advantage of her situation -- viewed as a backhanded way to show he's above her taunts? He may very well desire to express some sincere goodwill but realizes it would all turn out wrong..."
I'll say:
Of course, there is a way: a private handwritten letter or a typed letter on his stationery that he signs by hand. With no publicity whatsoever.
Mike writes:
"You wrote "Of course, there is a way: a private handwritten letter or a typed letter on his stationery that he signs by hand. With no publicity whatsoever."
"Do we know that he *hasn't* done this? I doubt that Trump would tell anyone that he had, for the reason RB gave. Would Griffin tell? I suspect that she would be too embarrassed to make it public."
I'll write:
I don't think "too embarrassed" fits Kathy Griffin! She's known for blabbing about everything, including what anyone else would hide. I think if she probably would talk about the letter and find a way to be funny about it. That's what she does. But she probably wouldn't talk about it until she could make it all very funny. It's not embarrassment that will stop her.
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