Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s first Senate hearing Tuesday devolved into bouts of histrionics from Democratic senators and liberal activists in the audience alike — and many Americans weren’t having it.

Even before President Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh on July 9 to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, Democrats were plotting how they could best stall, resist and otherwise prevent the confirmation process from going forward at all.

Democratic senators claimed Kavanaugh’s nomination at least should not be considered until after the November midterm elections occurred, thus giving Democrats a chance to retake the majority and effectively block the confirmation altogether.

The Democrats interrupted the hearing’s opening proceedings dozens of times; and numerous activists and hecklers in the audience were removed from the room throughout the morning and afternoon.

Although liberal activists applauded the senators’ stalling tactics, other Americans condemned the hysterics.

Here are 20 of the most incredible reactions to the first Kavanaugh hearing’s outlandish proceedings:

1.) “Those screaming, yelling totally insane idiots want to run this country, God help us all if that happens … It is even impossible to imagine.” — LifeZette reader

2.) “OK, here it is: You are a manager and you need to hire someone; you have plenty of applicants that have given you 100 percent of the information you asked for, you also have one applicant who has given you 7 percent of the information you asked for.

“Now before you even begin the interview process, would you toss the applicant who only gave you 7 percent of what you wanted like 99 percent of manager would do, or would you interview the guy and hire him? I believe the senators said ‘I don’t have enough information to even interview this guy so I no, I will not hire him.’ See so simple for the majority of people but such a conundrum to Republicans, Why?” — LifeZette reader

3.) “Dems: ‘This is a mockery of the norms.’ So true! It is indeed a mockery of norms, never before have the parties ever requested just about every sheet of paper on a nominee. What is the matter, Dems? Are you all now just awakening to the idea that nominees should have to produce their entire career in paper before questions? What a load of BS.” — LifeZette reader

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4.) “It’s funny, the Democrats didn’t read the [2,000 page] Affordable Care Act, but now they want to read 440,000 pages of documents on Kavanaugh.” — LifeZette reader

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5.) “This is such a joke … the Democrats think they run the world … beginning to wonder about that myself.” — LifeZette reader

6.) “Waste of time and my tax dollars. They didn’t want to speak to him initially. They haven’t read what was provided to them. They said they would vote against him basically no matter what his responses were. Why have this circus at all?” — LifeZette reader

7.) “The Dems continue to show just how classless and un-hinged they are after their candidate, ‘Crooked Hillary,’ spent half a billion dollars with the help of the media [and] still lost the election.” — LifeZette reader

8.) “The Senate Dems should be ashamed of their TV performance in the Kavanaugh hearing this morning. What a bunch of hypocrites. I’m disgusted by their behavior.” — LifeZette reader

9.) “Those loud Democrats shame themselves and the American people.” — LifeZette reader

10.) “The #GOP have been working toward #Kavanaugh confirmation ever since #Trump stole the presidency. They orchestrated #JusticeKennedy resignation to push to beat the expected #BlueWave in November. Premeditated sabotage of democracy …” — Twitter user

11.) “If Brett Kavanaugh is truly the right person, then let his record speak for itself … Release all of his records and give the Dems time to review them. What are you afraid of??? Stop hiding Kavanaugh documents! Stop rushing Kavanaugh through the process!” — Twitter user

12.) “All of this circus around Brett Kavanaugh makes me think judicial appointments should be removed from the president and Senate. An independent panel should be in charge of them, ideally made up of equal parts red and blue, so a majority requires bipartisan support.” — Twitter user

13.) “What a waste of time. Kavanaugh will not be taking any of your ‘rights’ away. This country is not run by mob rule!” — Twitter user

14.) “Watching C-SPAN for the hearings on Kavanaugh. I am all the more concerned how some of these people ever got elected to our Senate. Radical, disrespectful, anger-infused and in several cases stupidity, presented comments.” — Twitter user

15.) “Judge Kavanaugh is just another partisan Republican hack devoted to promoting and embedding the conservative ideology into the law.” — Twitter user

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16.) “Huh, so wait … Now the Democrats are interested in finding documents? Let’s make a deal; we’ll give you more docs from Kavanaugh in exchange for the clean FISA warrants and all of Hillary’s missing emails!” — Twitter user

17.) “Kavanaugh hearings began today, it’s time to #VoteNo to a country of back-alley abortions, #VoteNo to a country restricting who can marry, #VoteNo to the merging of church and state, and #VoteNo to an appointee who would solidify Trump’s authoritarian control over the democracy.” — Twitter user

18.) “Everyone in the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing room must be sweating to death with all that hot air spewing from the Dems. Such hyperbole and accusations by people who defend the partisan actions of Kagan, Sotomayor and Ginsburg.” — Twitter user

19.) “Kavanaugh should tell the Democrats that unless they treat him decently he will leave these proceedings. He came there to answer their questions regarding his fitness for the Supreme court. He did not go there to be harassed, nor to kiss their a***s.” — Twitter user

20.) “The Democrats have so little on Kavanaugh that they resorted to actually asking him to ask for a postponement of the hearing. You can’t make it up.” — Twitter user

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