Riley Gaines tied fifth with Lia Thomas in a national swim meet final in 2022, and never in the history of sport has a fifth place been leveraged to such depths.
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The Internet Is Speechless After AOC Just Read Riley Gaines FOR FILTH
When anti-trans swimmer Riley Gaines—who infamously turned a fifth-place finish into a national crusade against transgender athletes—tried to bait her online by saying that they were responsible for “destroying |America| within,” AOC shot back: “Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn’t have come in fifth.”
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