When You Can Be Called "Ugly" And It Has Nothing To Do With Your Physical Appearance
Marjorie Trailer Greene is easily the most hateful personality in Congress...and no, that's not a compliment
Jackasses come in many shapes and sizes, like this one that resembles a large pile of horse shit.
Since “narcissistic” was too big a word for you, how about “asshole?” Do you understand “asshole?”
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I’ll begin by saying this will be the last time I’ll write about Rep. Marjorie Trailer Greene (R-GA). I’ve never been a member of the Dorothy Parker School (“If you don’t have anything nice to say about someone, dear, come sit here next to me.”), so I’m running out of ways to say “f**k off” without actually saying it. And I’m growing tired of devoting time, energy, brain cells, and column inches to this troglodytic pile of horse shit.
Yes, she’s a worthy winner of the semi-regular “Golden Flaming Asshole” Award.
The reason I’m even addressing Greene is because of the subject matter, which is her belittling non-biological parents at a House hearing.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) says that women who are stepmothers are not real mothers, because they are not a child's "biological" parent.
The Georgia Republican delivered that claim during a congressional hearing on Wednesday to a woman who happens to be the head of the nation's second-largest teachers' union, and who also happens to be a lesbian: Randi Weingarten.
"Miss Weingarten," Rep. Greene asked, "Are you a mother?"
"I am a mother by marriage," Weingarten replied. "And my wife is here with me. So I'm really glad that she's here."
"By marriage," Greene noted. "I see."
At this point, anyone with half a brain could see that Greene was winding up for something ugly and off-topic. She was talking to a lesbian and a stepmother, someone who, to Greene’s twisted and malevolent worldview, presents a sizable target.
Greene was clearly looking for a reason- no matter now how cruel or mean-spirited- to denigrate Weingarten and her accomplishments.
Greene sternly told Weingarten, "you have no business advising the CDC what the medical guidelines were for school closures, because now we have a nation of schoolchildren who suffered because of it. The problem is people like you need to admit that you're just a political activist. Not a teacher, not a mother and not a medical doctor."
Weingarten, who never professed to be a medical doctor, is both a mother and a teacher.
Many over the past 24 hours have taken Greene's attack as an attack on parents who adopt, and on adopted children.
They are well within their rights to do so.
Despite her professed Christian faith, Greene is a divorced adulteress and is in no place to lecture anyone on family matters. And yet she believes her status as a Congresswoman gives her license to do precisely that- even if she’s doing so in the most offensive manner imaginable.
Hypocrite much??
In July 0f 2022, just after the U.S. Supreme Court revoked a woman's right to choose – a move supported by the right who insisted adoption is the answer to unwanted pregnancies – Greene referred to adoptive parents as "fake," as Newsweek reported.
"Children are in the greatest danger in America today because traditional family values are being destroyed—the idea that mom and dad together, not fake mom and fake dad, but the biological mom and biological dad, can raise their children together and do what's right for their children," she said.
Part of the reason this got under my skin is that I’ve been a step-parent. I understand the difficulties and the challenges that the role poses. A step-parent has all the responsibilities of being a parent but often gets little of the credit that accrues to parents. I was OK with that because it was never about getting credit for anything. I was a step-parent to two teenage boys, ane I was fortunate to see them go off to college and become adults. Their mother and I eventually divorced, and I’ve lost touch with them, but my time as a step-parent is something I’ll always treasure.
Families come in many forms, not always of the nuclear variety. That can be for any number of reasons. I love my family, but I’m closer to my wife’s family than my own. Part of that is proximity, but there’s more to it than that. Family is often where you find it and what you make of it, and sometimes the closest and most loving families are the ones you make for yourself.
A nuclear family may be preferable in some respects, but it’s not the only version that can effectively support a child. There are many different ways to love and support a child, and many people can provide that love and support. Sometimes it doesn’t matter who or how, only that a child can have love and support in their lives. So what if it’s not of the nuclear variety? Why does that have to matter so much when so many nuclear families are so screwed up?
Rep. Greene may be ignorant and arrogant enough to believe there’s only one “right” way to create a family. Still, she doesn’t understand that “family” can exist anywhere there’s love, concern, and willingness to support others.
"I don't tweet politics nor usually care about the rantings of a moron. But as part of a family where we are blessed to have adopted members, her referring to non-biological parents as 'fake mom and fake dad' is too offensive to ignore," wrote Philadelphia sports radio host Glen Macnow, as Newsweek noted.
And now, Congresswoman Greene is again declaring non-biological parents not real parents – and not parents at all.
U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) unleashed on his Republican colleague.
"My mom and dad adopted me at birth and they are my parents. Fuck you and your bigoted questions," he tweeted at Rep. Greene.
"Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn’t think you’re a mother if you adopt children. I am adopted and this hurts. I love my mom," tweeted a political science student.
"I was adopted at 3 days old. I only have one Mother as far I’m concerned. She raised me, nurtured me & is my best friend to this day. She is 94 & the roles have reversed. Giving birth alone does not make you a mother. I am highly offended by Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ignorance," wrote a Twitter user.
"As the single mother of adopted daughters, yet one more reason to find Marjorie Taylor Greene a poor excuse for a human being," wrote another.
"If my mother were alive today, she'd cross the street twice to kick Marjorie 'Tuesday' Green's ass. She was not a 'biological' mother. Rather, she was a loving woman who adopted my brother and I, gave us a home & a life. That's a mother," wrote a tech CEO.
Non-biological parents can be as real as any biological parent. What matters is their love and commitment to a child. Any two people with functional plumbing can make a child. It takes mature, committed adults to raise that child. Hopefully, those people will be the biological parents, but sometimes it doesn’t work out that way.
I was fortunate to be raised by my biological parents, but it wasn’t always sunshine and kittens. I spent the better part of 18 years at war with my father. He’s gone now, and I’ve long since made peace with him and my childhood, but a biological family is no panacea. It doesn’t guarantee that a child will grow up feeling loved and supported; sometimes, it can be quite the opposite. I and my three younger brothers all grew up to be reasonably productive and well-adjusted members of society. If you look at parenting as a results-oriented undertaking, I suppose you could say my parents did pretty well with what they had to work with.
Things could’ve been a whole lot worse.
My point is that sometimes families work from birth. Sometimes they don’t. And sometimes families have to be created from whole cloth. It doesn’t matter, as long as they’re made from love and the willingness to do the right things for the right reasons.
As for Marjorie Trailer Greene, perhaps if she wasn’t so concerned with demonstrating her asshole bona fides, she might be open to recognizing that her narrow view of “family” could stand some updating. And she might come to see that perhaps she’s not nearly as bright as she believes herself to be.
Of course, when you’re a poster child for the Dunning-Kruger Effect, you believe you’re f*****g brilliant, even though the rest of the world knows you’re as dumb as a post turtle. Then again, Greene has an endless capacity for being self-owned.
From here on, though, I’ll leave it to others to point out her moronic tendencies. I’m sick of what’s becoming blindingly obvious.