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“Face twisted and contorted with hate”

This is how sick, damaged and destructive people who can never be wrong are. They will do anything to prove they can’t be wrong. For example:

Their eight year-old kid is upset and no matter how many times mom and dad assure the kid there is nothing to be upset about, the stubborn little bastard insists he’s upset. In fairness, this could be very upsetting to a certain type of parent, one who feels responsible for their child’s well-being but truly doesn’t know how to sit with upsetting feelings themselves, let alone help someone else with them. Imagine how upsetting it is to them to see their child upset! The natural thing for this type to do is escalate things until the upset person is way more upset than they are.

Now they are talking about the basic lack of courage in the child, his self-pity, his sadness, his completely irrational anger. These things are bad, each of them, and together constitute a pathetic excuse for a human personality. They are reflections of a lack of character. They are sad predictors of a miserable life of failure and blaming others for his problems. They remind the boy how angry he was as a newborn baby, furious and hostile, all the time, for no goddamned reason.

Eventually the kid starts glaring at his accusers. This reaction is what they were going for the whole time, though they couldn’t have put into words. Now that the kid is angry on top of being upset, he stares at his parents angrily. The moment is right to strike:

“Look at his face,” the father will sputter, “twisted and contorted with hate.”

My younger sister and I heard this phrase often enough that we both quoted it to each other and laughed about it, back in the years when we were still talking to each other.

To show a face twisted and contorted with hate (isn’t a contorted face always twisted, a twisted one always contorted? Isn’t the overkill of the one two punch a tell?) is different than protesting that your feelings are always dismissed, or calmly stating that as an eight year-old you need to be heard by your parents when you are upset. A face twisted and contorted with hate is the despicable face of a klansman at a lynching, a Nazi, some kind of hate-filled sick fuck who can’t be reasoned with. Certainly not the face of a child who deserves to be heard when he is upset, reassured with kindness.

My father apologized for his abusiveness the last night of his life, and it was good to hear, but the damage had long ago been done. I was close to fifty the first time my father apologized for being a monster as a father. The next evening he was gone.

We are left holding a heavy bag, full of the weighty things our parents were too overwhelmed to carry themselves. It is passed on, endlessly, until someone gets the insight to put the fucking thing down. In that moment she can finally untwist and un-contort her face and feel not a hint of hatred toward those who did their flawed human best to love her.

Handy word for disgustingly greedy

A bit of context for the current day user of this word, suddenly depressingly handy in our world of Gates, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Murdoch, Koch, Leo, Crow, Bloomberg, Kushner, Mnuchin, et als.

And a five second bit of etymology because sometimes that shit is very interesting

It must be the idea of snatching it from other people so that you can acquire and hoard 100,000 times more than you need that makes it so irresistible to these rapacious motherfuckers.

Jim Jordan, pugnacious contemnor/scumbag, Chrumpie’s choice to replace “My Kevin”

Clearly, the mad former reality TV star and very stable genius, under increasing pressure by the day, is calling the chaotic shots in the Chaos Caucus. He would like to replace his spineless Kevin with a stronger, more loyal, pugnacious, ever-fighting bantam rooster, Jim Jordan. Jordan’s claim to fame, outside of always showing up to work in shirtsleeves, is that as a collegiate wrestler he was never pinned, never lost a match, his record was something like 100-0. The crablike Jordan was born to grapple, though he took a pass at passing the bar exam after law school. Good to know your strengths and weaknesses.

Jordan tap-danced, stuttering in response to a FOX reporter’s question on live TV about how many times and exactly when he talked to the Boss on January 6th, the day Chrumpie urged the angry patriots of MAGA to fight like hell or they wouldn’t have a country anymore. Jordan later wiped his ass with a subpoena from his House colleagues, wasn’t referred for criminal charges like Bannon and Navarro, and, after the RED WAVE gave MAGA a narrow House majority, became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Now he’s the one with subpoena power, so there! This was part of his reward for his steadfast loyalty to the man he tried to help overturn American democracy back on patriotic January 6, 2021.

We know Jordan was among the loyal insurrectionist Republicans in Congress who Chrumpie told his DOJ would “do the rest”, carry out the batshit crazy plan to decertify Biden’s electoral college victory, throw it back to the states, the “Green Bay Sweep” we heard Peter Navarro discuss with Ari Melber, like it was the most normal thing in the world.

Here is the great Heather Cox Richardson quoting Liz Cheney, 99% hateful in most of her political positions, 100% on the money in regard to the danger posed by the insane wannabe dictator and his fungible, disposable, endlessly power-craving myrmidons:

Trump today endorsed Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) for the speakership. There is an important history to this endorsement. On January 11, 2021—five days after the attack on the U.S. Capitol and the attempt of some Republican lawmakers to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election—Trump awarded Jordan the Medal of Freedom without a real explanation of why he deserved it. 

On January 6, 2021, then-Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) told Jordan to get away from her because “You f*ck*ng did this!” 

Yesterday, in a speech at the University of Minnesota, Cheney explained: “Jim Jordan knew more about what Donald Trump had planned for January 6 than any other member of the House of Representatives. Jim Jordan was involved, was part of the conspiracy in which Donald Trump was engaged as he attempted to overturn the election…. There was a handful of people, of which he was the leader, who knew what Donald Trump had planned. Now somebody needs to ask Jim Jordan, ‘Why didn’t you report to the Capitol Police what you knew Donald Trump had planned? You were in those meetings at the White House.’”

She concluded: “If the Republicans decide that Jim Jordan should be the Speaker of the House…there would no longer be any possible way to argue that a group of elected Republicans could be counted on to defend the Constitution.”

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Heather raises an important question, why was Jordan given the Medal of Freedom, instead of a full pre-emptive pardon and a million dollar job in a think tank created just for him? I guess we’d have to hold a seance and ask Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh.

President Donald Trump awarded conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, at the State of the Union address on Feb. 4. The White House website says the award is for people “who have made exceptional contributions to the security or national interests of America, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”

https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/feb/05/10-fact-checks-rush-limbaugh-medal-freedom-winner/

And from the fighting cock’s Wikipedia page:

Despite his support for Kevin McCarthy in the 2023 Speaker of the House of Representatives election, including nominating McCarthy on the second ballot, Jordan was nominated on the second ballot by Representative Matt Gaetz. He received 19 votes, enough to deny McCarthy the speakership in the second round.[54] Jordan was nominated again on the third ballot by Chip Roy.[55] He won 20 votes in the third ballot, with Byron Donalds switching from McCarthy to Jordan. This was enough to necessitate a fourth ballot, but Jordan got no votes on ballots 4 through 11, as all his supporters switched to Donalds. On the 12th ballot, Gaetz nominated Jordan again. He received four votes, enough to necessitate a 13th ballot when combined with the three for Kevin Hern. He was not nominated on the 13th or 14th ballot, but received six and two votes on each, respectively.

After the House removed McCarthy from the speakership on October 3, 2023, Jordan launched a bid for the speakership.[56][57]

The name of the political party might change, but Nazis will be Nazis.

In happier times…

After only a few hours lapping at the crusty posterior of his master, shortly after the riot at the Capitol, no more worries about a deadly attack on democracy, fake smiles all around!

On second thought, McCarthy’s expression can be read as the expression of a spineless man on his way to hell. Now it’s time for him to join his fellow “Tea Party” “young guns” Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan.