So we saw what a cold sober Bret Kavanaugh is like. Pretty much an angry white privileged ass.

[Augiedog]

So can you imagine what he is like if you fill him up with alcohol?

Good grief.

[snacker]

1. Exactly.

[calimary]

2. Exactly.

[NurseJackie]

3. I don't believe he was sober. I think he had a shot or two to get him through.

[Grasswire2]

6. I, too, believe he had some alcohol in him.

And he revealed himself to be a very mean bully. He re-traumatized millions of people, I would wager. He did me.

[NurseJackie]

8. Me too... on a different level.

Not rape or sexual abuse... but I survived an abusive first husband (now dead). His death pretty much ended it for me (drank himself to death) but watching today's testimony and hearing the stories was a vivid reminder of what I went through (even if on smaller scale, it was continuous).

[Grasswire2]

10. I survived an abusive husband.

An alcoholic, but also a pathologic narcissist.

I was re-traumatized this week, and especially today when Kav was ranting.

I know too well the knot in the stomach when he has been drinking. The wariness. The fear.

I was married far too long to the bully.

[renate]

13. I'm so sorry for what you went through. The walking on eggshells, the constant fear

I'm so glad you survived.

That mercurial, intemperate, unpredictable roller coaster of anger and self-pity we saw today must have triggered a lot of bad memories in a lot of people, even people who weren't sexually assaulted.

If he gets onto the Supreme Court, he is going to be utterly loathed and despised by a huge percentage of the population for a long time. He is a motivation to vote like Gorsuch was not.

[Grasswire2]

16. Kavanaugh seemed not to know how awful he seemed

The nose running, the twisted face, the interrupting, the fear and loathing.....he almost seemed to be outside himself. And then toward the end, he looked almost disoriented, dazed. It was very weird. Especially following Dr. Ford's self control.

[bdamomma]

4. a powder keg

ready to assault women. what a fucking ass. They even went after Sen. Feinstein.

[Iliyah]

5. He's crazy just like his master.

[WhiteTara]

7. I'll bet he is one mean drunk

I would not want to be in a room with him sober, much less when he's drinking. He scares me.

[LibDemAlways]

9. I would be willing to bet he had at least one stiff

drink before he showed up today. He was too unhinged in his opening scree to be entirely sober.

[Grasswire2]

11. Me too, sister.

He scares me, too.

[WhiteTara]

15. I think I need to drop everything and stand on a corner

and ask people if they are registered to vote. I get a few random people every time I go out; but I don't really like the world so I stay in my garden as much as I can. But if Chrissy (as she is known to her old classmates) can buck up, so can I.

[Sancho]

12. I wonder if he was completely sober...

but he is clearly capable of violence.

[tblue37]

14. Do we know for a fact that he was cold sober? Maybe he was hung over, or maybe

he chose to be just a little bit lubricated for his day in the hot seat.