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Originally Posted by SenorKeeed
OK, I guess that as far as transparently bad faith political grandstanding goes it was perfectly cromulent bad faith political grandstanding. But folks ITT seem to be falling for it, talking about HOW UNCOMFORTABLE Kavanaugh looked and whatnot. Obviously lying and evasive! When he reacted exactly how any SC nominee would and should act if he had no idea wtf Harris was talking about. Which I suppose means Harris' grandstanding worked? Good job I guess.
Well to be honest, Kavanaugh should have just been like "yeah I did it, what now?"
What was the worse that could happen? Was he going to recuse himself from some future Trump Mueller thing that ends up in front of SCOTUS? lolno. Was the GOP not going to approve him? lolno.
Seems like you defeat Harris's grandstanding by simply admitting you talk to Trump's lawyer about his potential criminality. There would zero actual consequences. Kavanaugh's mistake is the exact mistake Democrats make when talking to right wing trolls deploying bad faith arguments: he's assuming there's some unwritten set of rules and some unbiased audience who gives a **** about any of this and is trying to cover his tracks. There's not going to be any accountability here, Kavanaugh could literally high-five Trump while Putin bodyslams Merrick Garland in the Rose Garden and be like "yep we did it!!!," do the DX "Suck It" gesture to the assembled media then walk arm in arm into the White House to plan how Kavanaugh will vote on important issues in front of the court and nothing would happen. Why is he bothering to evade this ****? Just be like yeah whatever I talked with em, Trump's lawyers and I talk all the time about the Deep State conspiracy against him and the Fake News out to get him. Harris doesn't have a meaningful follow up of any consequence.