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The piece ran under an illustration of a black spatula dripping sinister goblets of melting plastic, against a background of bilious green.

Color is a bilious miasma, golden tones sliding into flashes of brightness that collapse into queasy hues.

The canvas, 5 feet square, imposes the sentiment in a stack of crisp white words over snow-covered mountain scenery, the sky a sallow yellow fading upward into bilious green.

Washed in an unappetizing sludge of grayish green, the movie aims for serious and settles on bilious.

One wonders if he will feel such humiliation was worth it if, two years from now, he loses the speaker’s gavel after the American electorate recoils from voting for this warped, bilious brand of Republicanism.