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She just sucks, and instead of trying to improve herself decided to hop on the conservative hate train to attack the trans woman. The three top spots were all cis women.
It's not only attacking one of the most vulnerable demographics in the country, but it's attacking one of the most vulnerable demographics in the country over the most pettiest bullshit I can imagine. She's upset because she didn't get 5th place.
It's not even that; she got fifth place. She's upset that she had to share fifth place with a trans woman. I also feel the need to point out that it was her last competitive event, so it's not exactly like competitive swimming is a vital component of her life that she kept doing moving forward. She's just a vile, terrible person who realized she could make a career as a right-wing grifter.
Whi h she genuinely lost, but it was close enough the judges had to check slow-motion, so she was wronged.
It's one of the most stereotypically conservative / republican grievances I've ever heard.
It's not the people at the top keeping the actual glory and/or money that are the problem. And it's not that you suck. The problem that other rando who is just a bit more disadvantaged in life than you but who is about to catch up to the amount of stuff you have!
Dead on. But I mean, hey- you've got to pick the bad-faith arguments you can win, right?