Who knew that Mary Lou Retton became a right wing nut job?

[Anonymous]

I read that sadly Mary Lou Retton is on a ventilator with pneumonia. But upon further reading, it looks like she is anti-Obama care, doesn’t have health insurance and that her daughters set up a go-fund-me to pay for her medical care (despite her being a millionaire). She is also anti-vaccine (which probably means that her “pneumonia” is really Covid), *and* she didn’t stand up for the gymnasts during the Nasser sex abuse scandal (basically said that as long as parents sent their kids to “reputable” gyms, their daughters would be safe). She opposed the reforms to better protect gymnasts and to hold abusers accountable.

Ugh. I admired her so much as a kid.

[Anonymous]

Ffs the woman in in the ICU. Why don’t you take a jog or clean your house or something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ffs the woman in in the ICU. Why don’t you take a jog or clean your house or something.

+1. She got whatever bad karma she earned. Kicking someone while theY are on a ventilator is a bad look.

[Anonymous]

I had no clue she is a nut. She made the country proud thu.

[Anonymous]

She actively lobbied AGAINST the passage of the Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act in Congress (which passed) after the Nasser Sex Abuse Scandal, which absolutely blows my mind. Screw her.

[Anonymous]

What was her reasoning for the opposition?

[Anonymous]

Didn't know/hear anything about her between her Olympic glory and recent hospitalization. Just shows some can be very athletic but also stupid. It is sad/shameful that her red family want others now to bail her out + resent/work vs. others needing help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ffs the woman in in the ICU. Why don’t you take a jog or clean your house or something.

+1. She got whatever bad karma she earned. Kicking someone while theY are on a ventilator is a bad look.

She’s a grifter too. Typical MAGA.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I read about that, it's why she doesn't have health insurance even though she has a house worth millions.

Hope she recovers and is able to get her health back.

[Anonymous]

I wish her well...but would not give to her go fund me page.

[Anonymous]

I don’t wish her ill will and hope she recovers, but I don’t think she is deserving of charitable donations either, since she is vocally anti health insurance.

[Anonymous]

I wish her a speedy recovery and good health.

But it's such a shame that someone could go from being the darling of America and a positive role model for millions of girls and young women, to being a miserable cultist who's fully bought into dogshit MAGA extremism.

[Anonymous]

I thought conservatives were all about personal responsibility, bootstraps and whatnot.

[Anonymous]

She didn’t even graduate high school. Which puts her squarely in the profile of right wing republicans who vote as such because the majority of them lack a college education. That and her gullibility.

Feel sorry for her, but her life choices, decisions, and warped ring winged mind made her bed and is literally lying (and probably dying unfortunately) in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She didn’t even graduate high school. Which puts her squarely in the profile of right wing republicans who vote as such because the majority of them lack a college education. That and her gullibility.

Feel sorry for her, but her life choices, decisions, and warped ring winged mind made her bed and is literally lying (and probably dying unfortunately) in it.

You forgot to mention that she grew up in West Virginia, seems like something you'd want to turn your nose down against.