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Kavanaugh's bullying of Dianne Feinstein pissed me off. (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2018 OP
Amy Klobuchar was clearly a target of his bullying as well. bullwinkle428 Sep 2018 #1
Some of the Democratic senators of both genders were clearly cowed. DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2018 #4
And I doubt the decision to apologize to Klobuchar was spontaneous on his part. PA Democrat Sep 2018 #5
Kavanaugh asked the daughter DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2018 #8
Actually right after he was rude to Klobuchar someone handed him lunatica Sep 2018 #10
I missed that, but it makes a LOT of sense. PA Democrat Sep 2018 #13
He got another note a little later on 2naSalit Sep 2018 #14
I believe it. He needed to be controlled lunatica Sep 2018 #17
Great display of "judicial temperament" by Kavanaugh! PA Democrat Sep 2018 #20
We're witnessing an actual cycle of violence. He got worked up, he lashed out at Amy Cha Sep 2018 #11
He is rude and bullying to women. madaboutharry Sep 2018 #2
Kavanaugh has contempt for women. yardwork Sep 2018 #3
He has always mistreated women lunatica Sep 2018 #6
Me too. At first, I thought she blew it but she really did the right thing... let him rant. zonkers Sep 2018 #7
We're witnessing an actual cycle of violence. He got worked up, he lashed out at Amy Klobuchar, Cha Sep 2018 #9
It's her fault. Don't allow yourself to be bullied. He's the one that Thrill Sep 2018 #12
Good luck with that line of "reasoning"... Wounded Bear Sep 2018 #15
He caught her off guard. It was like a verbal mugging. DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2018 #16
He's a nasty piece of work to this day nt Cognitive_Resonance Sep 2018 #18
The republicans' bullying in general yesterday pissed me off. Initech Sep 2018 #19

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
4. Some of the Democratic senators of both genders were clearly cowed.
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 08:36 AM
Sep 2018

I don't blame them. They aren't accustomed to a lunatic yelling at them.

Senators who stood their ground

-Durbin
-Blumenthal
-Hirono
-Booker
-Harris

PA Democrat

(13,225 posts)
5. And I doubt the decision to apologize to Klobuchar was spontaneous on his part.
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 08:37 AM
Sep 2018

It occurred after a break where I am sure he was warned of the optics.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
8. Kavanaugh asked the daughter
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 08:49 AM
Sep 2018

Kavanaugh asked the daughter who volunteered the fact her father is a recovering alcoholic if she's a drunk.

What an idiot.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
10. Actually right after he was rude to Klobuchar someone handed him
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 08:54 AM
Sep 2018

A yellow page which definitely caught his attention. One of the Senators was talking to him when he looked down at the paper. He started to read what was on it and reached for his reading glasses. Whatever was written on it had his full attention.

When I saw that my first thought was that somebody was telling him he just blew it big time by treating a woman like that. So when he apologized I knew it was because of that note.

2naSalit

(86,634 posts)
14. He got another note a little later on
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 10:22 AM
Sep 2018

after crying and bullying again, I don't recall exactly when it was, but that one was on small white paper torn from a spiral-bound notebook and he looked at it, looked around, looked again and then shoved it in his pocket.

Before that, I saw someone hand him a legal pad with something which caught his attention as well. He was getting instruction or news that he blew it or was over acting or something.

PA Democrat

(13,225 posts)
20. Great display of "judicial temperament" by Kavanaugh!
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 11:11 AM
Sep 2018

A partisan, dishonest, raging bully would make a GREAT addition to the Supreme Court!

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
6. He has always mistreated women
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 08:47 AM
Sep 2018

I have no idea how he treats his wife and daughters, but he showed us he has a bad temper and uses sarcasm so I’m pretty sure he’s verbally abusive to them. He’s been under crushing pressure for the last couple of weeks and we saw the real him yesterday.

His wife didn’t look angry for him. Other women who were there for him did look outraged. His wife looked crushed, flattened, humiliated, broken.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
16. He caught her off guard. It was like a verbal mugging.
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 10:25 AM
Sep 2018

I would make a lousy senator. I would have told him to calm the f--k down.

Initech

(100,076 posts)
19. The republicans' bullying in general yesterday pissed me off.
Fri Sep 28, 2018, 10:37 AM
Sep 2018

Lindsay Graham came off as a complete fucking psychopath and Trump came off as the whiny crybaby on the playground who is screaming at kids to get off the swing.

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