Women dressing up like the characters from Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale” to protest everything Trump-related (especially Vice President Pence) is old news, but the handful who have shown up to silently protest Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings are the subject of a fawning puff-piece by CNN.
A silent protest with a very loud message: Stop Kavanaugh https://t.co/eZ0mxlV2pI pic.twitter.com/RNnhmfI7i8
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 6, 2018
No, the message is that they're whack jobs. https://t.co/wwRaloNlp5
— Saving Ferris (@StreetDoc_67) September 6, 2018
I thought it was look, we eat crayons https://t.co/1pkh3D4ozZ
— G.I. Jim (@Qtastic3) September 6, 2018
We're a little early for the Thanksgiving pageant and we've lost our preschool class? https://t.co/86xIdpEzPr
— Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) September 6, 2018
We don’t know how many handmaids are at the Kavanaugh hearings — of all the photos CNN ran, none showed more than a dozen gathered in one spot — but writer Kelly Murray certainly took the opportunity to wax poetic:
A group of protesters bearing a message as stark as their red and white costumes are opposing Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
They stood in silence Tuesday, the first day of the hearings, lining the walkways and atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building, their austere silhouettes evoking the dystopian persecution portrayed in the novel-turned-Emmy-award-winning Hulu drama “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
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Although he has vowed to uphold the Constitution and be impartial, many fear Kavanaugh, in this lifelong position, could tilt the American legal system to the right for an entire generation.
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Barf.
A silent protest with a very loud message: The left is unhinged https://t.co/Z6oTsZ2h9L
— Do_Right.Stay_Right (@KarlOfMarl) September 6, 2018
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) September 6, 2018
Literally, the ONLY amplification of this foolish & meaningless stunt is @CNNPolitics and other media that politically agree with these protesters. https://t.co/SqtqOV3mRW
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) September 6, 2018
Is the very loud message that you're all out of ideas?
— Brett Wright (@BrettTheBrit) September 6, 2018
A silent protest with a very STUPID STUNT message: Stop Kavanaugh
FTFY @CNN https://t.co/882As6sSYC
— Top (@topsecretk9) September 6, 2018
Stop dressing up in costumes. Unless you are 6. Or it’s Halloween.
— kerry (@SenKerry) September 6, 2018
A stupid, pathetic impotent protest with a very tiny message
At least it's silent unlike the clown show of screamers in the hearing room past couple days
Both pathetic though https://t.co/kpjCp6MTGo
— DaveinTexas (@DaveinTexas) September 6, 2018
A silent protest with a very loud message: we on the left have completely lost our minds.
— Remus Remington (@RzNBA23) September 6, 2018
A simple two word tweet: You can’t. https://t.co/emuuDsI1Gu
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) September 6, 2018
Is this an apple or a banana? https://t.co/tXZBwE4xZi
— The H2 (@TheH2) September 6, 2018
Check back tomorrow for CNN’s interview with the man dressed as a penis to stop Kavanaugh.
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Alyssa Milano's "Strawberry Shortcake" protest of Brett Kavanaugh inspires HILARIOUS photoshops https://t.co/Z1m4Cr5dFw
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 20, 2018
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