Don't Say the "M" Word!
On Toddler Torturers: There Are Some Lines That Simply Can’t Be Crossed!
Whoever enters here honors me; whoever doesn’t- pleases me.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Live Yet Pre-recorded- Episode Thirteen of:
Don’t Say the “M” Word!
A Silent Radio Hour!
“I understand people believe I'm just a statistic
I say to them I'm different”
10th grader, Antwon Rose
“De l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace!” [“Audacity, audacity, always audacity!”]
-Georges Danton
“The power of the powerless!”
-Vaclav Havel
NO MORE!
TheBecka: Welcome back cherished listeners! Cheerfully! We have just one story for you today! On Toddler Torturers: There Are Some Lines That Simply Can’t Be Crossed! So why am I saying ‘Cheerfully?’
J: Why’s that Becka?
TheBecka: Truth be told Jonathan! This story’s so sad! So terribly heartbreaking! Incredibly distressing! Horribly miserable! That frankly! I wish I’d called in sick today! But hey! We don’t do that here! We play-through-the-pain! Therefore! On with the show!
J&D: Becka! Becka! Becka! Playing-through-the-pain you betcha!
TheBecka: Gee! Thanks you guys! Hey then! Front and center! Warren, please!
On Toddler Torturers: There Are Some Lines That Simply Can’t Be Crossed!
By Abby Zimet, Further columnist
WAR: This just in! Secretary of Cruelty Kirstjen Nielson: ‘I Put Kids In Cages and Then Lie About It’ Well listen up! She’s now out! Why? She just ain’t that tough enough? Jonathan, please!
J: Let’s let El Presidente Donald Trump hear us! Loud and clear!
WAR: Lock & load!
D: Everybody singing!
J&D&TheBecka&WAR&TheSASMO: ‘I would walk ten miles on my hands and knees Ain’t no doubt about it baby, it’s you I aim to please I’d wrestle with a lion and a grizzly bear It’s my life baby but I don’t care Ain’t that tough enough [TheDonald]? Ain’t that tough enough [TheDonald]? Ain’t that tough enough [TheDonald]? Ain’t that tough enough [TheDonald]? For you baby I would swim the sea Nothin’ I’d do for you that's too tough for me I’d put out a burnin’ building with a shovel and dirt And not even worry about getting hurt Ain’t that tough enough [TheDonald]? Ain’t that tough enough [TheDonald]? Ain’t that tough enough [TheDonald]? Ain’t that tough enough [TheDonald]? I’d work twenty four hours, seven days a week Just so I could come home and kiss your cheek I’ll love you in the mornin’ and I'll love you at noon I’ll love you in the night and take you to the moon Ain’t that tough enough [TheDonald]? Ain’t that tough enough [TheDonald]? Ain’t that tough enough [TheDonald]? Ain’t that tough enough [TheDonald]? I’d lay in a pile of burnin’ money that I’ve earned And not even worry about getting burned I’d climb the Empire State, fight Muhammad Ali Just to have you baby close to me Ain’t that tough enough [TheDonald]? Ain’t that tough enough [TheDonald]? Ain’t that tough enough [TheDonald]?’
TheSASMO: Doubtfully so!
WAR: Now as to her sudden demise? We’d love to celebrate except? She was apparently tossed because she wasn’t sufficiently horrifying! She didn’t kidnap quite enough terrified children! Jail a significant number of innocent parents! Give wholesale abuse to sufficiently basic Constitutional tenets! Spew out an adequate amount of repugnant lies! Take on ample draconian methods! Give out fewer mylar emergency blankets! In short! She just didn’t stop the flood of brown-skinned misery at the border! But hey! She tried her best but it just wasn’t enough for TheDonald! Happily to say though! Her status reportedly rose after she used tear gas on fleeing families!
J: Too little! Much too late!
WAR: Also! We seem not to be much up for partying because? Given the current trajectory of our national horrors! We’ll most likely be getting much worse!
D: Say it an’t so TheSASMO!
TheSASMO: Sorry Drew! I can’t! And that’s even given the reality that I work for Amazon.com!
INSIDE THEAMAZON!
BEZOS! BEZOS! BEZOS! All praise to TheBEZOS!
OR
INSIDE THE TRUMP
WHITE HOUSE!
TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! All praise to DONALD TRUMP!
WAR&TheSASMO: Taste great!
J&D: Less filling!
WAR&TheSASMO: Taste great!
J&D: Less filling!
WAR&TheSASMO: Taste great!
J&D: Less filling!
WAR&TheSASMO: Taste great!
J&D: Less filling!
TheSASMO: Good times!
TheBecka: Enough! Warren! Continue please!
WAR: That was made abundantly clear Monday! When! After Trump earlier ditched his ICE nominee because: ‘We want to go in a tougher direction!’ If that’s indeed possible! Also! He fired Secret Service Chief Tex Alles who reported to Nielsen and whose ears were evidently not to Trump’s liking. Whereas! Fox News reported that El Presidente Donald Trump gave this speech:
El Presidente Donald Trump [Better Known as: “TheDonald”]: ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest– For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men– Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me!’
TheSASMO: Incredible!
WAR: Speaking of which! The changes are part of a “near-systematic purge…”
TheSASMO: We have those all the time at TheAmazon!
INSIDE THEAMAZON!
BEZOS! BEZOS! BEZOS! All praise to TheBEZOS!
OR
INSIDE THE TRUMP
WHITE HOUSE!
TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! All praise to DONALD TRUMP!
WAR&TheSASMO: Taste great!
J&D: Less filling!
WAR&TheSASMO: Taste great!
J&D: Less filling!
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J&D: Less filling!
WAR&TheSASMO: Taste great!
J&D: Less filling!
TheSASMO: Good times!
TheBecka: Enough! Warren! Continue please!
WAR: The changes are part of a “near-systematic purge” of the Department of Homeland Security orchestrated by the sick, twisted-sister! Nazi Stephen Miller! Who reportedly plans to oust several others deemed inadequately cruel in hopes of expediting the removal of all those irksome! Tired! Poor! Huddled “brown” masses yearning to breathe free air! Indeed! Hoping to achieve his own personal Final Solution!
J&TheSASMO: Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!
J: Good show! A bloody good show!
TheSASMO: Chip, chip! And cheery-Oh!
WAR: In her resignation letter! The enormously brutal! Terribly malicious! Insightfully nasty! Truly unkind! Properly vindictive! Mercilessly spiteful! Ms. Nielsen! She wrote that “ripping” toddlers away from their parents was “the honor of a lifetime.” Adding insult to injury! Ms. Nielson stated for the record: “I can say with confidence our homeland is safer today,” declaring, “historic efforts” in order to “defend our borders (and) uphold our laws and values.” She also briefly lamented the “discord in our nation’s discourse” that her noble efforts sparked, evidently forgetting that a racist demagogue’s obsession with punishing poor, brown, voiceless people for a fictional crisis was behind them!
J&TheSASMO: Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!
J: Good show! A bloody good show!
TheSASMO: Chip, chip! And cheery-Oh!
WAR: In truth! Richard Wolffe writes that Nielsen was: “the worst among all the charlatans, sycophants and moral sellouts surrounding Donald [“THE”] Trump.”
TheSASMO: And that’s saying something! And please remember!
J&WAR: TheSASMO works for Amazon.com!
INSIDE THEAMAZON!
BEZOS! BEZOS! BEZOS! All praise to TheBEZOS!
OR
INSIDE THE TRUMP
WHITE HOUSE!
TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! All praise to DONALD TRUMP!
WAR&TheSASMO: Taste great!
J&D: Less filling!
WAR&TheSASMO: Taste great!
J&D: Less filling!
WAR&TheSASMO: Taste great!
J&D: Less filling!
WAR&TheSASMO: Taste great!
J&D: Less filling!
TheSASMO: Good times!
TheBecka: Enough! Warren! Continue please!
WAR: Whereas! She oversaw “the two greatest scandals of the entire human misfortune that is the Trump presidency!”
J: The misfortune that we must all answer for!
WAR: A death toll of 3,000 after Hurricane Maria! Not to mention the thousands of separated! Traumatized children who will continue to suffer in the future!
D: The children never forget!
WAR: She also turned the country’s second largest national security agency into “a vastly expensive and vastly immoral catastrophe” whose anti-immigrant prison-industrial complex now spends more on the border than the combined budgets of all our law enforcement agencies but together! Taxpayer money that could be spent on alleviating suffering in the countries so many are fleeing!
J&D: Immigrants!
WAR&TheSASMO: Refuges!
J&D: Immigrants!
WAR&TheSASMO: Refuges!
J&D: Immigrants!
WAR&TheSASMO: Refuges!
J&D: Less filling!
WAR&TheSASMO: Taste great!
J&D: Less filling!
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J&D: Less filling!
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J&D: Less filling!
WAR&TheSASMO: Taste great!
TheSASMO: Good times!
TheBecka: Enough! Warren! Continue please!
WAR: But as so often happens! When a now-banished Trump low-life! Or! A think Bush and Kissinger! Or any other administrative low-life! Rightfully leaves the scene of their crimes! The white-washing! Rationalizing swiftly begins!
TheSASMO: And keeping your scorecards!
WAR: Forget crying kids in cages! The gulag in El Paso! The comic-book villain’s tirade: “We need a wall!” Because? The sending of abused women back to likely death! All the contemptible lies! Hey! All of this really gets the Trump’s voter base’s juices flowing!
J: It’s orgasm time!
TheSASMO: Donald “lite” on-tap! Just another Super Bowl Commercial!
J: At $1 million smackers a pop!
WAR: Truly! In a newly revisionist telling! The New York Times recounts the hardships Nielsen faced as she fought off early morning calls from a furious Trump demanding more faster! Crueler! Now! And screw the law!
TheSASMO: This’ America! The land that I love!
D: Stand beside her!
WAR: And guide her!
TheBecka: Through the night with a light from above!
J&D&TheBecka&WAR&TheSASMO: From the mountains to the prairies To the oceans white with foam God bless America, my home sweet home God bless America, my home sweet home!
J: Can you dig it?
WAR: But still! She did as she was told! But the ugly repercussions remain!
J&TheSASMO: Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!
J: Good show! A bloody good show!
TheSASMO: Chip, chip! And cheery-Oh! God! At times! How I miss TheAmazon!
INSIDE THEAMAZON!
BEZOS! BEZOS! BEZOS! All praise to TheBEZOS!
OR
INSIDE THE TRUMP
WHITE HOUSE!
TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! All praise to DONALD TRUMP!
WAR&TheSASMO: Taste great!
J&D: Less filling!
WAR&TheSASMO: Taste great!
J&D: Less filling!
WAR&TheSASMO: Taste great!
J&D: Less filling!
WAR&TheSASMO: Taste great!
J&D: Less filling!
TheSASMO: Good times!
TheBecka: Enough! Warren! Continue please!
WAR: In an appalling truly horrific court filings! Trump’s lawyers said it could take up to two years to track down thousands of families illegally separated! Why? Because the Trump administration’s not just evil! It’s ineptly stupid if not hopelessly bungling! They don’t even know how many children over the 2,800 documented were stolen from their parents! Or how to find them!
D: And some American voters “voted” for this man? This con-artist!
J: Far too many Drew! Far too many!
WAR: Now for those languishing here! Kris Kobach! The possible new racist “immigration czar” has proposed confined “camps” of mobile homes to process migrants! Let’s hear his words of wisdom: “Then, as soon as they’re done, they’re on the next plane home!”
TheSASMO And can you believe? Three House Democrats were illegally denied entry to a prison camp for up to 3,200 migrant kids to oversee conditions violating a law Trump just signed! And oh yes! Another migrant just died!
WAR: The consensus response to these atrocities! Kirstjen Nielsen! Who will forever be the woman who put kids in cages! Belongs in one herself inside the Hague! Along with Trump and all those Republican politicians supporting him! Barring that sweet justice though! And given that war criminals historically often find their slimy way into right-wing think tanks! Universities! And other lucrative positions!
TheSASMO: From ‘Restore Public Trust’s’ “Trump Administration Separation” campaign argues that Nielson and all those others of her ilk should not be allowed to “seek refuge in America’s boardrooms or corner offices!”
WAR: In a letter to Fortune 500 firms! Taglines proclaims: “Don’t Let Hate Into Your Boardroom” and “There Are Some Lines That Simply Can't Be Crossed!” Whereas! Over 30 advocacy groups joined in urging companies not to hire! Contract with! Or seat on boards anyone involved in Trump’s border cruelties!
TheSASMO: It’s a call to “Cancel Kirstjen Nielsen” and “make her a permanent pariah” This will hopefully be echoed in a grassroots pledge! Signed by about 100 people to date! Not to participate in! Associate with! Or in any shape! Manner! Or form! Support any public event held by any organization that might employ Nielsen!
J&D: BOYCOTT!
WAR: Many of those signing concede they’re unlikely to be in that position! Nonetheless! We must all argue: “people with power need to be held accountable for how they use that power!”
TheSASMO: And however far from the belly of the beast? “There is a lot of evil around to refuse to cooperate with!” Specifically! “Actions have consequence!” Indeed! “People who commit crimes against humanity should be shunned and excluded from polite society.”
TheSASMO: A picture says a thousand words!
TheBecka: And that’s Good Night Irene!
J&D: Bye now!
NO MORE!
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To our cherished listeners out there hopefully believing that “our” ‘A Live Silent Radio Hour’ which’s live yet pre-recorded at The Spank the Monkey Café in the heart of downtown Seattle, Washington of the United States of Here’s Still Hoping for the Fifth Aeon to Finally Come and Save Us All Here or USHSHFAFCSUAH in: America which’s quickly Slipping Into Darkness or SID! Hopefully, we’ll be back next time! Who knows? Now listen! I’m Becka formerly known as Reject # 2 now known as TheBecka! I’m here in what’s known as The Spank the Monkey Café where we’re now broadcasting live yet pre-recorded and so many thanks once again to “our” cherished listeners who are anticipating another Episode or E of ‘A Live Silent Radio Hour’! We’re so sorry that you have to live through these nasty “happenings” taking place daily here in America! I mean to say! Really SORRY! But I wish to thank all of you for tuning in once more while again leaving Any Semblance of Rational Thought or ASRT at the door as for the sake of TheDonald: How in the hell can you listen to silent radio? Never understood that one but hey folks! We’re back! (Inspirational Pause!) And please cherished “LISTENERS” return once again next time to hopefully Find-Out-the-Facts or FOFs concerning the nature and cause of our Collective Delusion or CD as we Tell Our Tale or TOT of Misery or M here in a land formerly known as America! Please stay safe and always watch out for those Frenzied, Extremely Agitated Regrettables or FEAR “Neo-Liberals” who see their own reflection in the Mirrored Sunglasses or MSs of those who would Un-Naturally or UN ridicule our Blessed Way of Life here on Silent Radio or SR! And please! Make sure to thank TheDonald! And so I’m pretty certain! And Good Night Irene!
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D: Jonathan?
J: Yes Drew?
D: We need to cry for the children!
J: Drew?
D: Yes Jonathan?
J: We all need to cry for one another!
The Post Meeting Social or PMS:
TheBecka: And that’s ‘Cry for me Argentina!’ Once again! Good Night Irene!
J&WAR&TheSASMO: And this being Silent Radio!
D: Let us take a moment of silence in honor of the voiceless children who have no say whatsoever in this matter!
The Sounds of Silence!
D: Jonathan please!
J: In remorseful remembrance of those who suffer and have no voice!
J&D&TheBecka&WAR&TheSASMO&Any One Who Cares About “OUR” Democracy: ‘Hello darkness, my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone ‘Neath the halo of a street lamp I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light That split the night And touched the sound of silence And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never share No one dared Disturb the sound of silence “Fools” said I, “You do not know Silence like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you” But my words like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the wells of silence And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was forming And the sign said, “The words of the prophets Are written on the subway walls And tenement halls” And whispered in the sounds of silence!’
NO MORE!