MTG "I was allowed to believe things that weren't true"

[underpants]

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[Grokenstein]

1. "Why didn't society take care of me?"

[TexasTowelie]

2. So NOW she wants socialism?

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[Grokenstein]

5. Well, *somebody* has to take care of her!

She obviously can't handle that herself. (cf. Ayn Rand)

[PirateRo]

21. Pretty convenient argument, just blame society for her lies and lack of contemptible thinking skills

It’s never her fault.

[poli-junkie]

3. Wolf in sheep's clothing

[volstork]

13. Or is it a sheep

in wolf's clothing?

[pnwest]

16. That's kinda deep! It's true, too.

[poli-junkie]

36. She really is just a grifter -- like Trump.

They're two peas in a pod.

[lagomorph777]

44. A shit in Turd's clothing

[MontanaMama]

4. Oh dear.

The party of personal responsibility...FAIL.

[IcyPeas]

6. it's the internet's fault. it's google's fault.

[Solly Mack]

7. "allowed to believe"??? "allowed" Please. You chose to believe. You wanted to believe.

You didn't bother trying to find out otherwise.

Seriously? She's going to get away with that bullshit?

[Marie Marie]

14. Yes, who "allowed" her? Another Republican taking personal responsibility.

[Solly Mack]

15. Yes. It's how they take responsibility. It's the fault of everyone else.

[Ohio Joe]

8. "I do not believe that it's fake," Greene says of 9/11" Nor did anyone say you did...

I love how she ignores what she did say and we all know she is still a truther nutjob.

[Guilded Lilly]

9. Oh, go blow. n/t

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. That sounds like she's still under the thumb of her parents.

Mom and dad allowed her to believe bad stuff......

[Midnight Writer]

11. Gosh, now I feel bad.

Like when my wife started smoking meth, and ran off with the biker gang that was dealing to her. She told me it was my fault.

[Vinca]

12. You could sell this woman on a DNC cookbook titled "1,001 Ways to Cook Toddlers."

If she's this dumb and gullible she should find another occupation. Toilet cleaner at Mar-a-Grifto perhaps?

[TeamPooka]

17. The Republican Party allowed her to believe the lies. Just like every time a GOP poll was asked

about Obama's citizenship and told how many didn't believe he was a citizen and replied "Who am I to tell them what to believe?"
They did this time and again on this issue and many others.
About Hillary, Benghazi and so many more.
They enabled the bullshit and now they can all drown in it, hopefully.
They made it, they own it, let it kill them off.

[redstatebluegirl]

18. We need to start to just ignore this ignorant woman.

She is like Trump, she LOVES the attention, even negative attention when she can play the victim. She learned well at the feet of 45. They need to make her irrelevant.

[tblue37]

24. She is fundraising off it.

[FakeNoose]

19. So much material for Lincoln Project to groove on

Looking forward to their next effort.

After this I'm hoping somebody throws water on MTG and melts her.

[Chainfire]

20. And to think that I have thought such unprintable things about her.....

Am I one of the ones who "allowed her to believe" things that were untrue? I feel so ashamed......

Now, she has seen the light....Hallelujah! Praise Trump!

[Nevilledog]

22. Patton Oswalt's take

Link to tweet

Tweet text:
Patton Oswalt
@pattonoswalt
"I'm just a girl, standing in front of a Congress, of which only a *few* members I want murdered, asking to serve as a representative."

southpaw
@nycsouthpaw
Replying to @nycsouthpaw
Greene’s “I was allowed to believe things that weren’t true” quote comes at approx 1:08 here
Embedded video

[bucolic_frolic]

23. "Allowed?" It's like she is separated from thoughts that control her, and from reality

Lunatic RWNJ

[underpants]

25. Well i think it was the third element that drew her in instead of raising flags

Now I don’t want to dismiss sicko pdeophiles but when that’s coupled with Satanists and cannibals you know something just clicks in my brain that maybe I mean just maybe that it’s COMPLETE F’ING BULLSHIT.....

... but that’s just me

[Hermit-The-Prog]

27. OT: I heard a rumor that Putin the Poisoner poisoned you.

Or maybe it was your uppercase clone. My space laser deflector has holes in it so I'm confused more easily here lately.

[underpants]

31. I have strong support and snapped back

[Caliman73]

29. Logic and critical thinking.

We know that pedophilia exists. We know that human trafficking exists. We were made aware that there are powerful people like Jeffery Epstein that were implicated in the procurement of young, likely underage girls for sexual acts. We can know ALL of that is true and STILL have complete incredulity that there is a global cabal of pedophiles lead by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party. There is simply NO evidence to support those allegations.

No one who accepts the Q-anon conspiracies as true has the mental capacity to serve in Congress.

[Initech]

26. Then who led you to believe those things, Marjorie?

I mean those death threats and racist memes you liked and moderated on Facebook didn't write themselves.

[underpants]

33. Well....

There was the internet and the google. As you know, those things just DO THINGS.

So clearly she had no control over the situation

[Oldem]

28. I think many of us are assuming responsibility

out of kindness and a deep sympathy for Greene's having been misled. Actually, it was space aliens that fooled her.

[bullwinkle428]

30. "Allowed to believe"? ARE YOU A FUCKING TODDLER??

[underpants]

32. This reminds me of "for those who are offended" apologies

Not exactly the same but the same amount of deflection

[coti]

47. But we're supposed to feel comfortable with her owning firearms. nt

[Goodheart]

34. Yes, this is America... you're allowed to believe shit.

We have no thought police. Whatever you believe is on YOU.

[struggle4progress]

35. "Why didn't anyone realize I was talking like a kook?"

[uponit7771]

37. +1, No one likes her enough to tell her she's stupid

[Baked Potato]

38. Blame the Cartoons, now, sheesh!

[lostnfound]

39. Every interview on msnbc and cnn with GOP should mock with this statement

“I was allowed to believe...”

Does a person who says they were “allowed to believe” nonsense have the necessary judgment to be in congress?

Is she suggesting there should the thought police, who could stop her from believing something?

That statement in its absurd glory, over and over.

[maxsolomon]

43. She was saying she has the RIGHT to believe things that aren't true.

It was oddly phrased because she was referencing things she said in the past that she now knows (or believes) were untrue.

She could have said "I have the right to believe things that aren't true and discuss them with others."

Which she does. You have the right to believe bullshit; it is not a crime.

[lostnfound]

45. Ah, I see. The right to be allowed to be stupid and deluded.

And brags about it.
The GOP has devolved so much as to be unrecognizable.

[maxsolomon]

48. Well, that's my take.

Flat earthers believe lies, the difference is that they don't foment insurrection over it.

[Happy Hoosier]

40. She takes no personal responsibility for anything.

It's all stuff that happens to her, as if she had no agency.

[maxsolomon]

41. She's not saying someone permitted her to believe lies, or that she was led astray.

She's saying it's her RIGHT to believe lies; she's referencing her past acts before she was elected.

In fact, she IS allowed to believe lies AND discuss them with others. Pretty much everyone does to some degree.

That's what organized religion essentially is, isn't it? Lies the faithful believe and discuss with others?

Well, except for the one you believe in. That one is literally 100% true and anyone who says otherwise is oppressing you.

[spanone]

42. she's a victim...just like her mentor djt

[GoCubsGo]

46. Typical Republican. It's ALWAYS someone else's fault.

They take no responsibility for their own actions ever.

[ecstatic]

49. This is petty, but have y'all noticed her inability to pronounce certain words correctly?

Like cabal, for example. I guess someone else is writing her speeches or something.

And in earlier footage from 2017 or 2018, she couldn't even pronounce "anon" correctly. She called it Q-aynen.