"The sneering still photos of Kavanaugh will never disappear no matter what happens to him."

[highplainsdem]

Tweet from Jonathan Alter:

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The sneering still photos of Kavanaugh will never disappear no matter what happens to him. After he talked to Trump, he threw off a nice guy rep of 30 years. Ultimately, as Trump will learn someday, history gets the last laugh if you act nasty. @howardfineman

The Howard Fineman tweet he was responding to:

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Intensely theatrical moments clarify themselves over time, like a lost wax process in which only the statue remains. A day later, what’s left of the Senate hearing is #DrFord’s humbly offered vividness (the boys’ derisive laughter) — and #Kavanaugh’s furiously contemptuous sneer.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. I thought that Kav overreacted a little much, and more was lashing out at those who ...

finally called him on his bluff. Kind of like when a dangerous animal is trapped in a corner...

[shanny]

5. He was playing to an audience of one (they all were, the pukes)

and acted as that one would have him act. But perhaps it wasn't enough.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Once again, something Trump has touched is turning to crap.

Kavanaugh was informed that in order to keep Trump's support he'd have to come across as "strong" - that is, angry, insulting and aggressive, like Trump himself. It was reported that Trump loved his performance. But if Kavanaugh had ignored Trump's advice, restrained himself and behaved in a calm, measured way (like Dr. Ford), he'd have been a lot better off. As a result of his assholish, entitled frat boy behavior he's getting slammed by everybody but the hardest-core GOPers. He trashed whatever nice-guy reputation he had cultivated over the years because Trump wanted him to drop the mask and be an asshole. But if it all backfires and the confirmation vote fails, Trump will act like he never knew him.

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. Kavanaugh was already crap

Trump and the Senate Republicans are turning him into "Weapons Grade Crap".

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. True. But now his reputation is crap, and it wouldn't have been if

he hadn't got all full of himself, allowed himself to be nominated in the first place even knowing he had a whole graveyard's worth of skeletons in his closet, and then behaving the way Trump wanted him to - like a belligerent, entitled douche. If all that hadn't happened he could have continued as a judge on the D.C. Circuit, a very good job, and none of this would ever have been known. He could have gone to all those chi-chi D.C. cocktail parties for the rest of his life and not an eyebrow would have been raised. It's like when Dr. Ronny Jackson didn't have the good sense to turn down Trump's ridiculous offer of the VA job, knowing he wasn't qualified, and now his reputation is crap, too.