(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Superman was Adopted [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-04-28 Can you believe we made it to Congress? Some of America’s most iconic music, politics, and sports heroes were adoptees. Some were chosen more traditionally, like professional wrestler Ric Flair (Wooooooo). Two presidents were adopted by stepfathers, Bill Clinton and Gerald Ford. Others were adopted in a familial way by grandparents, like Simone Biles. My own story is of a baby raised by a great-grandmother and her son. I raise this subject because of a disgraceful display of stupidity for the sake of cruelty by Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene yesterday in a hearing with Teacher’s Union Head Randi Weingarten. Following a harangue where Greene accused or blamed Weingarten for damaging children’s psyche because of Covid-19 and being supportive of Greene’s Twitter suspension, she finished with these words. “…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.” Earlier in the hearing, Greene answered with a mocking “by marriage, I see” to Weingarten responding that she was a mother to her wife’s child to Greene’s inquiry. Her words might seem pretty benign compared to what we have heard in other hearings. Unfortunately, Greene appears to have another agenda. On other occasions, Rep. Greene made it clear how she feels about non-biological parents, “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—as reported by Newsweek in July of 2022. Republicans have been decrying the lack of decorum by Democrats in state houses around the country and recently silencing representatives in Tennessee and Montana. The Moore v. Harper case—is in the hands of the Supreme Court. The case centers around the gerrymandered voting map North Carolina’s Supreme Court found illegal. The conservative movement wants to give independent legislatures the right to appoint electors, thereby silencing the people’s vote. California Democratic Representative Robert Garcia called for the second reprimand of Greene in two weeks. The safe Georgia Republican district that affords Greene the license to be a public menace will turn a deaf ear to her comments as they have done with her anti-Semitism, racism, and anti-American activities surrounding the January 6 insurrection. The rumors that Greene is vying for the second rung on the Trump ladder are straightforward. The attack on Randi Weingarten’s motherhood is an insult and a slap in the face to the millions of successful children chosen and loved by their adoptive parents. Like the DeSantis fight with Mickey Mouse and Vivek Ramaswamy’s inane revision of race and guns in America—being loud and wrong, as my childhood friends would say, they believe pays dividends. Actor Dean Cain once apologized for Hollywood rejecting Mr. Trump and has made numerous appearances on Fox News kibitzing with the home folks about gun ownership and pro-life. It’s a funny thing Marge, Superman, was adopted too. Continue to Vote for Change [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/28/2166336/-Superman-was-Adopted Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/