[FULL BAND IN, DARK DRIVING SWING] [SUNG LOW CONTRALTO, STRONG MELODY] Stephen Miller fear distiller takes a stranger makes a threat Feeds Breitbart white-nationalist reading then pretends we’ve all just met Nine hundred emails pushing race & immigration through the door VDARE links Camp of the Saints because apparently hate needed more [MELODY LIFTS] He doesn’t need to say “superior” when the reading does it first [MUSIC HOLDS] [DRY MID-ALTO SPOKEN] Superior breeding? [HUSKY LOW-ALTO SPOKEN] Very vintage. [DRY MID-ALTO SPOKEN] Is it genetic? [LONG PAUSE] [HUSKY LOW-ALTO SPOKEN] Oh dear. [BAND HIT] [SUNG LOW CONTRALTO, SWING OPENS] An industrious little menace neat as pins & twice as cold Take a prejudice make policy & suddenly it looks controlled Call the migrant an invasion call compassion being weak Make a human into a problem— [BREATH] then make cruelty sound chic Give the panic letterhead give exclusion office space Every ugly little impulse looks respectable in a case [VERSE 2, GROOVE PUSHES] Washington gave Stephen access staff security & keys [MUSIC HOLDS] [DRY MID-ALTO SPOKEN] Security again? [HUSKY LOW-ALTO SPOKEN] Not that secure is he? [DRY MID-ALTO SPOKEN] And all that staff. [HUSKY LOW-ALTO SPOKEN] Compensating? [BRASS STING] [SUNG LOW CONTRALTO, MELODY RETURNS] Families split asylum narrowed travel barred with legal ink Cruelty doesn’t cease to be cruelty just because you make it think— [BREATH] it has procedure forms in triplicate & somewhere safe to file Dehumanize then bureaucratize then call the whole thing style At the Garden Stephen spared us all the work of reading signs America is for Americans and Americans only [MUSIC HOLDS] [DRY MID-ALTO SPOKEN] Subtle. [HUSKY LOW-ALTO SPOKEN] Wasn’t trying. [SNAP TO 4/4] [DRY MID-ALTO SPOKEN] Very brave— [HUSKY LOW-ALTO SPOKEN] Men. [BACK TO SWING] [DRY MID-ALTO SPOKEN] His wife went off to work for Musk. [HUSKY LOW-ALTO SPOKEN] Then Musk appeared black-eyed— [DRY MID-ALTO SPOKEN] Don’t. [HUSKY LOW-ALTO SPOKEN] I was only— [DRY MID-ALTO SPOKEN] Never verified. [HUSKY LOW-ALTO SPOKEN] Shame. [BAND STING] [SUNG LOW CONTRALTO, SLY] Big strong crackdown big strong borders big strong masculine display— [DRY MID-ALTO SPOKEN] Low-T staff situation? [HUSKY LOW-ALTO SPOKEN] Different song. [DRY MID-ALTO SPOKEN] Same overcompensation. [BAND FLICK] [SUNG LOW CONTRALTO] Anyway— [VERSE 3, HARDER GROOVE] Miller pushed for three thousand arrests every day— [BREATH] not three thousand violent men Three thousand people without legal status was enough to count them in That’s the point of setting quotas: once the number is the prize People stop being people they’re the thing you optimize Workplace courthouse restaurant wherever someone might be found Put a target on the spreadsheet then go hunting for the count [MUSIC HOLDS] [DRY MID-ALTO SPOKEN] Three thousand people. [HUSKY LOW-ALTO SPOKEN] Every day. [DRY MID-ALTO SPOKEN] That explains the number. [HUSKY LOW-ALTO SPOKEN] Finally. [BASS KEEPS MOVING, MELODY DARKENS] [SUNG LOW CONTRALTO] Then America sent two hundred fifty-two to CECOT A mega-prison already known for allegations of abuse Human Rights Watch & Cristosal heard the men who came back out: beatings sexual violence disappearance [BREATH] torture [TRUE SILENCE] Funny— no [BREATH] Nothing funny about that [MUSIC HOLDS] [DRY MID-ALTO SPOKEN] Not gossip. [HUSKY LOW-ALTO SPOKEN] Not this time. [DRY MID-ALTO SPOKEN] Very brave— [HUSKY LOW-ALTO SPOKEN] Men. [FULL MELODY RETURNS, COLD & ELEGANT] [SUNG LOW CONTRALTO] So what’s wrong with Stephen Miller? Why keep asking what went bad? He showed you what he read He showed you what he wanted He showed you who made him mad [MUSIC HOLDS] [DRY MID-ALTO SPOKEN] Wrong question. [SUNG LOW CONTRALTO] Quite. [FULL BAND BUILDS] He took racial panic made it policy took exclusion made it scale Took a frightened little grievance gave it badges beds & jails An industrious little menace can be nasty on his own Give that menace state machinery— [BREATH] now the cruelty has a home He kept asking for more levers more authority more keys [MUSIC CUTS] [HUSKY LOW-ALTO SPOKEN] And people kept handing them over. [LOW BASS PULSE] [SUNG LOW CONTRALTO, FINAL MELODIC HOOK] Stephen Miller fear distiller never hid the recipe So maybe stop asking what’s wrong with Stephen— [DEAD STOP] [DRY MID-ALTO SPOKEN] Ask who keeps giving him the keys. [END COLD]
