Mother Jones Just DOESN’T UNDERSTAND Why Kavanaugh Is Acting So Differently Now

The libs at Mother Jones are legitimately SHOCKED that Brett Kavanaugh isn’t crying in court.

No, I’m not kidding.

A very different Brett Kavanaugh survived his first oral arguments https://t.co/I1nzlcxrlh pic.twitter.com/LT8LhvBxfm

— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) October 9, 2018

“There were no tears or rants” reads the tagline.

UHHHH. MAYBE BECAUSE HE’S NOT BEING ACTIVELY CALLED A GANG RAPIST OMG.

And get this – HE ACTUALLY SEEMS KINDA GOOD AT THIS.

Kavanaugh seemed to have spent the long days awaiting his delayed Senate confirmation vote boning up on the cases on the docket. He was prepared with questions and engaged with the minutiae of the obscure criminal cases the court heard on Tuesday. The trio of cases involved the Armed Career Criminal Act, a law first passed by Congress in the 1980s that imposes a stiff mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years for defendants convicted of a firearms offense if they’ve previously been convicted of three or more violent felonies or drug crimes.

But don’t get them wrong – he wasn’t as good as the HILARIOUS Sotomayor.

It wasn’t a standout performance, compared with the witty jokes coming from his fellow justices—Justice Sonia Sotomayor went so far as to pinch Justice Neil Gorsuch to make a point about violent crime, prompting laughs from the courtroom audience. But it wasn’t the sobbing, raging Kavanaugh last seen in public defending himself in the Senate from allegations of sexual assault, either.

These people are a joke. This is so freaking DUMB.

If there was awkwardness on the bench for Kavanaugh, given the allegations made against him, at least one of his fellow justices seemed to be working hard to overcome it. As the newest justice, Kavanaugh sits at the far end of the bench, next to liberal Justice Elena Kagan. Kagan is acutely aware of how divisive Kavanaugh’s confirmation has been. Just last week, she told an audience at Princeton University, “This is really a divided time. Part of the court’s strength and part of the court’s legitimacy depends on people not seeing the court in the way that people see the other governing structures in this country.” She didn’t mention Kavanaugh by name but said it was critical that the court retain its reputation as a neutral body and not an extension of the “terribly politically polarized process that we live in.”

Kagan seemed to be trying to uphold that image of a neutral, collegial body on Tuesday. She leaned over several times to chat and laugh with Kavanaugh before oral arguments kicked off. After they were over, she shook his hand. Kavanaugh seemed grateful and, according to Sahil Kapur from Bloomberg News, turned to her and mouthed the words “thank you.”

OMG KAGAN ACTED LIKE A FREAKING HUMAN BEING. HOW BIG OF HER.

Leave it to Mother Jones to write an article about how Kavanaugh DIDN’T CRY on his first day, and how AWESOME liberal Obama-appointed judges Sotomayor and Kagan are.

Waiwaitwait. You cannot be so dumb as to think his anger was his normal-even-when-I’m-not-accused-of-gang-rape personality.

There’s noooo way. https://t.co/ePb5NPLEhZ

— Emily Zanotti (@emzanotti) October 10, 2018

Oh, there’s a way.

It’s like they expected Kavanaugh to leap over the bench, grab the Crier’s gavel and fling it at one of the attorneys.

He wasn’t different. He was same the guy who ably served on the DC Circuit for 12 years. https://t.co/Z21GGP6Nqa

— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) October 9, 2018

Riiiight.

This is funny… but I legitimately think that’s what these morons were expecting.

Not too bright, are you, Ms. Mencimer? First, Kavanaugh didn’t “sob” and he didn’t “rage”.  That only happened in your distorted little head.  And let’s have someone falsely accuse YOU of some crime and see if you remain stoic. I’ll bet not.  https://t.co/pwduwWiK1s

— Rob Wade #Authentic (@RobertCFP) October 10, 2018

The Mother Jones crowd literally “sobs” and “rages” if someone mentiones the biological components of sex and gender. So year. SPARE ME.

So, he basically acted as he has for his entire judicial career when he WASN’T being called a rapist and sexual predator by dishonest, agenda-driven, unhinged Democrats?

Weird.https://t.co/8eJCiGJLtv

— BonkPolitics (@BonkPolitics) October 10, 2018

This is so freaking pathetic.