THE TAOS TATLER.

The United Nations says everything is swell with the Uyghurs. Who are we to doubt it?

It was said during the Clinton administration that Bill Clinton was such a habitual liar he would lie even if he had nothing to gain from it; he did it just for fun.. As lamentable as that might be, it doesn’t compare in duplicity with that of the Human Rights Commissioner of the god-awful United Nations, Michelle Bachelet, who recently heaped praise on China for its “tremendous achievements” in human rights by dismantling the Uyghur concentration camps in East Turkistan. This despite compelling evidence to the contrary.

It takes a special kind of malice to tell lies like that. Unless Bachelet is even brain-deader than Joe Biden, she is sure to possess at least a few grams of intelligence somwhere, if not in her head then in the nether regions, thus is cognizant both of the utter untruth of her gushings and worse, by giving China and President Xi a clean bill of health on the matter, condemning those poor souls trapped in the hell-on-earth encampments to continued misery and certain death. The parallels here to the propaganda spewed out eight decades ago by the Nazis is frightening and prove the Big Lie is alive and well.

The only ameliorating factor of this dismal event is, it is the impotent United Nations pushing out the lies, thus has garnered little attention. Even the UN-adoring New York Times’s story on this propaganda effort reflects a noteworthy skepticism, a tone no doubt adopted lest it besmirch their sterling reputation for objectivity to do otherwise, however preferred.

UPDATE: Here’s an item that should bestow credibility at last on the UN.

North Korea to Chair UN Commission on Nuclear Disarmament.

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Adult children hating real children.

With the leaking of the Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson, which apparently overturns Roe v. Wade and its arbitrary and preposterous Looking-Glass logic–decision first, argument afterward–abortion advocates have become positively unhinged. This however is only the latest development in a movement whose initial attitude on the subject was the superficially reasonable: abortion should be an option only to save the life of the mother, descending later to the Clintonian: safe, legal and rare and finally devolving to advocates screaming: we don’t need any damn reason at all to abort, to term and beyond.

This extreme attitude as been around for some time, as witness the repeated proclamation to her charges by the Rev’d [sic] Katharine Hancock Ragsdale, President of the mercifully defunct Episcopal Divinity School.

Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Let me hear you say it: abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Abortion is . . . ad nauseum.

The charming admonition was delivered way back in 2007, so extremism has been with us for some time. What has changed is the degree of vehemence and rage of abortion advocates, to the point now where it seems for many, if not most of them, to be the overriding concern of their sad empty lives.

This vehemence and rage, especially the rage, has puzzled your correspondent for years, until now. Reading for an upcoming symposium, your Tatler came across a passage from a superb essay by physician, scientist and educator, Leon R. Kass. Published over 20 years ago in First Things, the title being L’Chaim and its Limits: Why Not Immortality?, it provides a possible explanation for the extraordinary anger of pro-abortionists.

Biological considerations aside, simply to covet a prolonged life span for ourselves is both a sign and a cause of our failure to open ourselves to procreation and to any higher purpose. It is probably no accident that it is a generation whose intelligentsia proclaim the death of God and the meaninglessness of life that embarks on life’s indefinite prolongation and that seeks to cure the emptiness of life by extending it forever (Emphasis added). For the desire to prolong youthfulness is not only a childish desire to eat one’s life and keep it; it is also an expression of a childish and narcissistic wish incompatible with devotion to posterity. It seeks an endless present, isolated from anything truly eternal, and severed from any true continuity with past and future. It is in principle hostile to children, because children, those who come after, are those who will take one’s place; they are life’s answer to mortality, and their presence in one’s house is a constant reminder that one no longer belongs to the frontier generation. One cannot pursue agelessness for oneself and remain faithful to the spirit and meaning of perpetuation.

If Kass’s cogent argument holds true, then the reason for these angry, destructive and childish baby haters’ behavior (see photo above) could be their rejection of God and the afterlife. Manifest in them, as Kass writes, is “not only a childish desire to eat one’s life and keep it; it is also an expression of a childish and narcissistic wish incompatible with devotion to posterity.” Those childish desires are found not only in young indoctrinated college students, but also in superannuated children, amplifying as age and mortality encroach. Thus we have the doddering Nancy Pelosi, whose views on abortion have become increasingly strident as death becomes an ever-closer and unwelcome neighbor.

The desire to live forever (what a ghastly prospect!) causes these twisted souls to regard new life, children in and out of the womb, as evil competitors that must be destroyed, lest they grow up (most of them, anyway) and render their haters irrelevant or worse.

Salena Zino writes:

Imagine being a parent on a budget, down to your last container of formula: You drive to four different grocery stores, two Wal-Marts, a Target and a Rite-Aid, racking up more than 60 miles in pursuit of nourishment for your child. You not only have zero luck finding anything to feed your baby; you have also used up a lot of gas.

Along that drive you likely also saw significant evidence of a drug problem — either in the gaunt, vacant faces on people walking along Main Street or the batch of new treatment centers that have popped up where they’d never been before — and you might begin to wonder: ‘When was the last time anyone in power has seen what’s going on in our communities?’

Meanwhile, it was recently reported the Biden White House spent six months coming up with the nickname “Ultra MAGA” to go after Republican candidates.

The people who run strategy for the White House seem to have forgotten how to place themselves in voters’ shoes and experience everyday problems that impact families and communities. For them it is nothing but political calculation: They went to strategy school, not governing school.

Read the whole thing.

Stories like this, concerning the troubles of working people in America, appear everyday, though Salena Zito is hands down best at it. It is glaringly apparent America’s ruling class, when it comes to the plight of the working and middle classes in this country, simply don’t care. The entirely and easily avoidable problems the latter struggle with daily amount to, at most, the slightest perturbations in the minds our Democrat elite, which may or may not cause them to indiscriminately throw scads of money at the problems and hope they go away. It’s all they know how to do.

The question then is, how did America end up with such dreadful, selfish people in charge, so utterly unrepresentative of the vast majority of the populace in this country?

Sadly, the answer at least partly lies with that same populace ignored by their leaders. Those working and middle class souls, heavily Democratic, often multi-generational, have been voting as if by rote for Democratic candidates, not just for years, but for generations: scanning the ballots or voting machines in search of the Democrat column and voting accordingly. That unquestioning attitude, along with  manifold cheating, has given us perhaps the worst people ever holding public office in Washington and elsewhere.

Fortunately, as Zito points out, that sort of lazy voting seems to be on the way out. Not finding baby formula on the shelves of Walmart or Target and paying the highest  gasoline prices in history, while our brain-dead president, following instructions, blames everything on Putin, has a way of clarifying people’s minds when it comes to voting.

Finally it is crossing people’s minds that politicians on the left simply cannot get anything done or fix any problems; they are utterly incompetent. When you combine that with brazen indifference and callous disregard, you end up where we are today.

Election day is only six months away, but that is ample time for the Democrats to screw up things even more, thus making it manifestly clear to voters Democrats are utterly unworthy of holding any public office, from the presidency to city council alternate.

It’s really very simple. Never, ever vote Democrat again. Place them in Chapter 11. The party doesn’t deserve to exist.