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ShazzieB

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23. Gross!

Reply to Eyeball_Kid (Reply #18)

Thu Feb 4, 2021, 11:45 PM

Feb 2021

Eww. Eww eww eww eww. 🤢

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"I was allowed to believe." Why did she say it this way? [View all] halfulglas Feb 2021 OP

Antifa made me do it! dchill Feb 2021 #1

It's weasel words. Word salad with the specific Phoenix61 Feb 2021 #2

Passive voice. Same as "mistakes were made" SoonerPride Feb 2021 #3

Passive voice was absolutely deliberate. ShazzieB Feb 2021 #26

Yes, "allowed to believe" PatSeg Feb 2021 #36

We logical lefties really have a hard time understanding the illogic of the reTHUGS. abqtommy Feb 2021 #4

Implication: not my fault. Passive voice. Mistakes were made. eppur_se_muova Feb 2021 #5

As well it should bother...us. SkeezerRedux Feb 2021 #6

Welcome to our DU family. niyad Feb 2021 #10

It's their fault because they allowed it. lunatica Feb 2021 #7

Remember Flip Wilson and "the devil made me do it." badhair77 Feb 2021 #8

Narcissists I_UndergroundPanther Feb 2021 #9

Yes. n/t Eyeball_Kid Feb 2021 #14

I assume she must mean 'by my mommy and daddy, when I was a little girl' mr_lebowski Feb 2021 #11

I saw a video clip today of Greene. Eyeball_Kid Feb 2021 #18

Heard about that. That's totally normal behavior for a grownup woman mr_lebowski Feb 2021 #20

Gross! ShazzieB Feb 2021 #23

There is a perfectly logical, benign explanation for her behavior in this instance. retread Feb 2021 #38

This was in the long-distant past of 2018 muriel_volestrangler Feb 2021 #30

Great synopsis :) mr_lebowski Feb 2021 #33

Because she represents the party of "personal responsibility"? Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2021 #12

Greene is looking more like a sociopath Eyeball_Kid Feb 2021 #13

From what I've been reading about her from Ilsa Feb 2021 #19

+1 area51 Feb 2021 #37

I am the victim. KentuckyWoman Feb 2021 #15

"Why didn't anybody tell me I was crazy?" struggle4progress Feb 2021 #16

Passive speech. MTG CHOSE to believe the nonsense. Ilsa Feb 2021 #17

Gaslighting 101 Cosmocat Feb 2021 #21

Assholes like her never admit they were wrong. The wrongness is somebody else's. RockRaven Feb 2021 #22

It's been called "the past exonerative tense" Denzil_DC Feb 2021 #24

Recall how she said what she was looking at online (Qanon conspiracy theories) were things she was Solly Mack Feb 2021 #25

If she's so weak and susceptible to such things kskiska Feb 2021 #27

Her crazy arse let her believe it. CentralMass Feb 2021 #28

Very peculiar word choice. 3catwoman3 Feb 2021 #29

Blame shifting. moondust Feb 2021 #31

I have always Karma13612 Feb 2021 #32

Willy Geist asked if her Mommy and Daddy allowed her to believe that stuff. lagomorph777 Feb 2021 #34

God is in control. nt wiggs Feb 2021 #35