Don't Say the "M" Word!
Nikki Haley attacks damning UN report on US poverty under Trump!
Whoever enters here honors me; whoever doesn’t- pleases me.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Live Yet Pre-recorded- Episode LXXV of:
Don’t Say the “M” Word!
A Silent Radio Hour: Live Yet Pre-Recorded:
“I understand people believe I'm just a statistic
I say to them I'm different”
10th grader, Antwon Rose
POW: Hey folks! We’re back! But for certain! I still have no idea what’s going on since we never really left!
J: We’re here! We’re in fear! And losing “our” rears!
D: Jonathan’s a poet and he knows it!
POW: Whatever! Let’s get right to it as time’s running short! But first, an update as to where “we” actually stand! “Mr.” SASMO, please!
Mr. SASMO: For whatever “universal” reason, “our” former location for ‘A Silent Radio Hour’ live yet pre-recorded has actually disappeared as The Spank the Monkey Café vanished into the meonic realm of “nothingness” or what the Buddhist call “emptiness”!
J&D&POW&TheRejects: What?
Mr.SASMO: Simply stated! The very ground of being!
J&D&POW&TheRejects: What?
Mr.SASMO: Firstly! Let’s listen to what Thomas Merton has to say from his work Zen and the Birds of Appetite: ‘Christianity is a manifestation of the Incarnation of God, whereas Zen is intense, inward enlightening of the divine being which the Japanese has apprehended as Nothing, and which must be supplemented, uplifted and completed by means of the manifestation of the Incarnation.’
J&D&POW&TheRejects: What?
Mr.SASMO: Simply stated!
J&D&POW&TheRejects: Right?
Mr.SASMO: The Spank the Monkey Café’s, like everything else in existence, an “incarnation” from the invisible, divine ground of being!
J&D&POW&TheRejects: Right?
Mr.SASMO: Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh. It refers to the conception and birth of a sentient being that’s a material manifestation of an entity be it a god or force whose original nature is immaterial!
J&D&POW&TheRejects: What?
Mr.SASMO: The Spank the Monkey Café has reverted to its original state of being: Immaterial! Basically! It’s still here, we just can’t see it with “our” physical eyes! Touch it with material body parts! And so on and so forth!
D: But why SASMO?
Mr.SASMO: I suppose it’s because of “our” disgusting behavior toward one another as represented here in Reject Square!
R#1: I can see that!
R#2: But can you actually “see” it?
R#3: Not paying attention guys and gals! The Café’s gone immaterial!
Mr.SASMO: And as such! We’ve no place to hang “our” hats sort to speak!
D: And that’s the “realm” that “our” waitress keeps coming from SASMO?
W: How about some Good Ole Fashioned Chinese Green Tea or GOFCGIT sold by Mother Eu-funh or Playful Phoenix, a Mom and Pop Corner Tea Store in Hong Kong, China or MEPPMPCTSHKC and popcorn?
J&D&POW&Mr.SASMO&TheRejects: Yes please!
Mr.SASMO: Perfect timing!
W: Be right back with your Good Ole Fashioned Chinese Green Tea or GOFCGIT sold by Mother Eu-funh or Playful Phoenix, a Mom and Pop Corner Tea Store in Hong Kong, China or MEPPMPCTSHKC and popcorn!
J&D&POW&Mr.SASMO&TheRejects: Thank you!
POW: So! If I’m getting this straight while leaving any semblance of rational thought at the door; “our” waitress’ coming from what you term to be the meonic realm of “nothingness” or what the Buddhist call “emptiness”?
D: I get that!
J&POW&Mr.SASMO&TheRejects: What the?
Mr.SASMO: Exactly Warren!
POW: Now that we’ve “cleared” that matter up? What about this “material” realm know as Reject Square?
Mr.SASMO: A representation of the misery brokered by the “material” powers that be! The end of the line! Humankind’s landfill/garbage heap! The place where all the “Disposable” People or DP go! The Voyage of the Damned or VD! Night of the Living Dead or NLD!
R#1: Been there!
R#2: Done that!
TheRejects: “Our” home this is!
Mr.SASMO: No disputing that folks! But it is what it is!
R#3: He’s got a point! Or as Popeye the Sailor Man states again and again: “I is what I is!” Get it!
TheRejects: Got it!
J&D&POW&Mr.SASMO: Good!
POW: So basically speaking? This’ humankind’s “Shit-Hole” or SH?
Mr.SASMO: Basically responding! Yes!
POW: Okay than! Onto today’s Episode or E of ‘A Silent Radio Hour’ live yet pre-recorded here from Reject Square in the very heart of downtown Seattle, Washington home of the mighty online retail giant Com.com in the United States of Hey Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the United Nations! Don’t Tell Me There Ain’t No Extreme Poverty Here or USHNHUSAUNDTMTANPH in: America! “Mr.” SASMO, please!
R#2: I could sure use me some of that Meonic Freedom or MF right about now!
TheRejects: Quiet! They’re broadcasting!
R#2: Sorry!
POW: “Mr.” SASMO, please!
Ambassador calls report ‘politically motivated’ days after announcing pullout from human rights council!
Mr.SASMO: Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations or UN, has launched a scathing attack on the UN monitor concerning Extreme Poverty or EP dismissing his report on America that accuses Donald Trump of cruelly forcing millions of citizens into deprivation as ‘misleading and politically motivated’.
J&D&POW&TheRejects: What the?
R#1: She’s obviously never been here to Reject Square!
Mr.SASMO: Haley, the former Republican governor of South Carolina, said she was ‘deeply disappointed’ let down, dissatisfied, disillusioned, upset while becoming saddened that the UN special rapporteur on Extreme Poverty or EP and Human Rights or HRs, had ‘categorically misstated the progress the United States has made in addressing poverty … in [his] biased reporting’.
R#3: I know how she feels! Everybody just keeps hammering the Good Ole USofA or GOUSA!
Mr.SASMO: She added that in her view: ‘It is patently ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America!” which prompted puzzlement as the investigation was at the formal invitation of the Trump administration.
J: Anyone here feeling Extreme Poverty or EP at the moment?
TheRejects: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Mr.SASMO: Instead, Haley suggested that the UN monitor should have used its voice ‘to shine a light’ on countries where governments were causing pain and suffering on their own people, such as Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. ‘The special rapporteur wasted the UN’s time and resources, deflecting attention from the world’s worst human rights abusers and focusing instead on the wealthiest and freest country in the world.’
J: Anyone here feeling that “freedom” here in the “freest” country in the world?
TheRejects: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
J: Anyone here able to rent an apartment here in gentrified downtown Seattle, Washington?
TheRejects: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
J: Go to the Super-Market or SM and buy groceries for yourself and the kiddies?
TheRejects: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
J: Enjoy a movie at the Mutil-Plex or MP?
TheRejects: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
J: And why’s that?
TheRejects: Extreme Poverty or EP!
R#2: Makes you feel kinda, Special or S!
TheRejects: [All Sarcasm Aside] Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Mr.SASMO: Haley’s remarks quickly intensified the dispute between the Trump administration and the UN Human Rights Council or UNHRC in Geneva that has been blazing all week!
R#1: We’ve been given the Human Right or HR to be hungry and without a home!
R#2: Given the Human Right or HR to be worthless to the present administration!
R#3: Given the Human Right or HR to be Disposable Garbage or DG here in Reject Square!
POW: Everybody thank the United States Ambassador to the United Nations or USAUN!
TheRejects: Thanks Nikki Haley or TNH!
Mr.SASMO: On Tuesday Haley announced that the United States or US would be pulling out of membership of the Human Rights Council or HRC, describing it as a ‘cesspool of political bias’. It marked the first time that any state has withdrawn from the council since its inception in 2006.
J: I heard Haley had an “open” mic which she didn’t realize had been left on!
POW: And what was heard from this “open” mic that’d been left on?
J: And I’m quoting from a supposed “unknown” source: ‘We don’t need no stinkin’ Human Rights or HRs in the Good Ole USofA or GOUSA!’
TheRejects: USA! USA! USA!
J: Getting down on the USofA! Everybody sing!
J&D&POW&Mr.SASMO&TheRejects: ‘Oh well, oh well, I feel so good today, We touched ground on an international runway Jet propelled back home, from over the seas to the you. S. A. New York, Los Angeles, oh, how I yearned for you Detroit, Chicago, Chattanooga, Baton Rouge Let alone just to be at my home back in ol’ St. Lou. Did I miss the skyscrapers, did I miss the long freeway? From the coast of California to the shores of Delaware Bay You can bet your life I did, till I got back to the you. S. A. Looking hard for a drive-in, searching for a corner cafúFfffe9 Where hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day Yeah, and a juke-box jumping with records like in the you. S. A. Well, I'm so glad I’m livin in the you. S. A. Yes. I'm so glad I'm livin' in the you. S. A. Anything you want, we got right here in the you. S. A.’
POW: Good times! And for more of those good times? “Mr.” SASMO, please!
Mr.SASMO: Haley makes her counterpunch to the UN monitor, the first substantive comments to emerge from the Trump administration over Alston’s devastating critique of its pro-rich and anti-poor policies in a response to Vermont senator Bernie Sanders.
TheRejects: Feel The Burn or FTB!
Mr.SASMO: Senator Sanders led 20 prominent members of Congress, including the senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker and Georgia representative John Lewis, in a joint plea calling on Trump to back the UN report and to work with them to tackle ‘massive levels of deprivation and the immense suffering this deprivation causes’.
TheRejects: Help us “Mr.” President! Help us please!
Mr.SASMO: Senator Sanders on Thursday issued a further response to Haley’s attack on the UN rapporteur. The 2016 runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination agreed with Haley that Burundi and the Democratic Republic Congo faced far worse problems, but pointedly remarked that America’s poverty was taking place ‘in the richest country in the history of the world and a time when wealth and income inequality is worse than at any time since the 1920s’.
R#1: Kinda reminds you of “our” situation doesn’t it?
R#2: How’s that?
R#3: Rejects Square and its unforgiving Extreme Poverty or EP existing just across the street from the Omnipotent, Omnipresent if not Omniscient entity Com.com! The Online Retail Giant Headquartered in downtown Seattle, Washington United States of Hey Poor People or PP! How You Like Being Pissed On Daily by Multi-National Corporations Here or TORGHSWUSHPPHYLBPODMNCH in: America!
TheRejects: Golden Rain or GR from On High or OH!
J&D: As in “Ohno!”
POW: Back to Senator Sanders if you please! “Mr.” SASMO:
Mr.SASMO: Sanders said it was appropriate for the UN to focus on America given that 40 million people in the US still live in poverty!
J&D: God damn! 40 million Americans live in poverty in “our” Great Nation or GN called: America, SASMO?
Mr.SASMO: More than 30 million have no health insurance!
J&D: God damn! 30 million Americans have no health insurance in “our” Great Nation or GN called: America, SASMO?
Mr.SASMO: And 40% of Americans cannot afford $400 in an emergency!
J&D: God damn! 40% of Americans cannot afford $400 in an emergency here in “our” Great Nation or GN called: America, SASMO?
Mr.SASMO: ‘I hope you will agree that in a nation in which the top three people own more wealth than the bottom half, we can and must do much better than that,’ Sanders said.
TheRejects: God damn you Bruce Jefferys and Jeff Bezos and all the rest of the 1% here in “our” Great Nation or GN called: America!
POW: Plenty of time for that! Continuing! “Mr.” SASMO, please!
R#2: Who’s the third?
TheRejects: Quiet!
Mr.SASMO: The sharpness in Haley’s criticisms of the UN report on Extreme Poverty or EP in the United States of Hey People! Wake-Up to the Fact the We Only Care About the Money and How Big Corporation and Rich People Can Get Their Hands On More of It Here or USHPWUFWOCATMHBCRPCGTHOMIH in: America!
TheRejects: Bezos! Bezos! Bezos!
J&D&POW: Jefferys! Jefferys! Jefferys!
TheRejects: Bezos! Bezos! Bezos!
J&D&POW: Jefferys! Jefferys! Jefferys!
TheRejects: Bezos! Bezos! Bezos!
J&D&POW: Jefferys! Jefferys! Jefferys!
TheRejects: Less filling!
J&D&POW: Taste Great!
TheRejects: Less filling!
J&D&POW: Taste Great!
TheRejects: Less filling!
J&D&POW: Taste Great!
POW: And so the battle rages on! And once again! Nothing but good times! And for more of the same! “Mr.” SASMO, please!
Mr.SASMO: It’s noteworthy to suggest that questions can be raised about whether the timing of the Trump administration’s decision to quit the UN Human Rights Council or UNHRC was motivated in part by irritation over the decision to put a “bright” spotlight on American inequality!
TheRejects: Bezos! Bezos! Bezos!
J&D&POW: Jefferys! Jefferys! Jefferys!
TheRejects: Bezos! Bezos! Bezos!
J&D&POW: Jefferys! Jefferys! Jefferys!
TheRejects: Bezos! Bezos! Bezos!
J&D&POW: Jefferys! Jefferys! Jefferys!
TheRejects: Less filling!
J&D&POW: Taste Great!
TheRejects: Less filling!
J&D&POW: Taste Great!
TheRejects: Less filling!
J&D&POW: Taste Great!
Mr.SASMO: Is it a perceived anti-Israel bias within the council? Are the on-going inclusion among its members of states with poor human rights records such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Venezuela, were clearly the main driving factors behind the pull out? Or is it apparently clear that Haley was also peeved by the directness of UN’s conclusions?
R#1: I can answer that! Class?
TheRejects: Bezos! Bezos! Bezos!
J&D&POW: Jefferys! Jefferys! Jefferys!
TheRejects: Bezos! Bezos! Bezos!
J&D&POW: Jefferys! Jefferys! Jefferys!
TheRejects: Bezos! Bezos! Bezos!
J&D&POW: Jefferys! Jefferys! Jefferys!
TheRejects: Less filling!
J&D&POW: Taste Great!
TheRejects: Less filling!
J&D&POW: Taste Great!
TheRejects: Less filling!
J&D&POW: Taste Great!
Mr.SASMO: The rapporteur carried out a 10-day tour in December of poverty hotspots in the US, from California, though Alabama and West Virginia, to Puerto Rico. He concluded that though levels of hardship had been high for decades within America, Trump was taking it to another level by steering the country towards a ‘dramatic change of direction’ that was rewarding wealthy Americans while stripping vulnerable Americans of welfare protections.
R#1; We get that all the time!
R#2: What he said!
R#3: Dido to that girl-friend!
Mr.SASMO: In a press conference on Thursday, on the eve of presenting his report on the US to the council, Alston said he had ‘no idea’ whether his investigation had reinforced or influenced the timing of the US government’s withdrawal. But he added that the move was ‘highly regrettable. I think it’s significant that of the 47 members of the council, only one has chosen to leave.’ while adding: ‘There is a fear that this is part of a broader attack on human rights and multilateralism.’
R#1: Indeed! He said a mouth-full!
R#2&R#3: Gotta agree with that observation!
POW: And I’ve got to agree that it’s time to wrap-up this Episode or E for the day! As for next time? “Mr.” SASMO, please!
Mr.SASMO: Came back next time as we develop the notion of:
A BRIGHTER AMERICAN FUTURE: A Balanced Budget Plan for FY 2019!
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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 formerly 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 will be back next time! Who knows? I’m Producer Only Warren or POW here in what’s known as “Reject Square” 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’re having to live through these nasty “happenings” 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 at the door as for the sake of TheJefferys: 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”, come back 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 known as America! Please stay safe and always watch out for those Frenzied, Extremely Agitated Regrettables or FEAR 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 TheJefferys! And so I’m pretty certain! And Good Night Irene!
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D: Jonathan?
J: Yes Drew?
D: How can people be so heartless Jonathan?
J: I don’t rightly know! But what I do know is this!
D: What’s that Jonathan?
J: Everybody sing!
J&D&POW&Mr.SASMO&TheRejects: How can people be so heartless (Amazon!) How can people be so cruel (Amazon!) Easy to be hard (Amazon!) Easy to be cold (Amazon!) How can people have no feelings (Amazon!) How can they ignore their friends (Amazon!) Easy to be proud (Amazon!) Easy to say no (Amazon!) Especially people who care about strangers Who care about evil and social injustice Do you only care about the bleeding crowd (Amazon!) How about a needy friend I need a friend(Amazon!) How can people be so heartless (Amazon!) You know I'm hung up on you (Amazon!) Easy to be proud (Amazon!) Easy to say no (Amazon!) Especially people who care about strangers Who care about evil and social injustice Do you only care about the bleeding crowd How about a needy friend We all need a friend (Amazon!) How can people be so heartless (Amazon!) How can people be so cruel (Amazon!) Easy to be proud (Amazon!) Easy to say no (Amazon!) Easy to be cold (Amazon!) Easy to say no (Amazon!) Come on, easy to be mean (Amazon!) Easy to say no (Amazon!) Easy to be cold (Amazon!) Easy to say no (Amazon!) Much too easy to say no! (Amazon!)
J&D&POW&Mr.SASMO: Something’s seriously wrong here in: America!
TheRejects: Better believe it America as they’re coming for you next!
J&D: They’re coming for you Barbara!