THE TAOS TATLER.

A depressed teenager is persuaded by “experts” to change her sex and pays for it with her life.

Note: this essay was published earlier and your sometimes technically challenged Tatler, with the assistance of WordPress, managed to delete a substantial part of it. With the help of recovered memory he has restored it, though it may not perfectly resemble what was lost.

Public schools in this country have been on a downward slide for over half a century. For a good number of those years it has simply been rising incompetence and declining standards and discipline; ever increasing spending per pupil with increasingly dismal results. As bad as that is, poor proficiency in math and English can be remedied and made right, provided parents are willing to take on what the schools can no longer do.

In the last few years though a far more ominous trend has appeared. Whereas before the problems with our schools were primarily the fault of incompetent teachers and their union protectors, now we are seeing a preponderance of peripheral staff, i.e., “professionals” with worthless graduate degrees, who have little regard for the welfare of their charges or the rights of their parents. Our schools today are not only ineffectual, but can actually be dangerous.

From The Epoch Times:

A grieving California mom says her severely depressed teen daughter was encouraged to leave her family, go into foster care, and begin taking cross-sex hormones before she developed unbearable pain and killed herself by laying down across the tracks in front of a train.

Abigail Martinez, 53, alleged school staff at Arcadia High School—without her knowledge or consent—encouraged her daughter, Yaeli, to join an LGBTQ club that met at the school during lunchtime.

She blames a school psychologist and other school staff, the Los Angeles County’s Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS), a transgender student and her mother, and the LGBTQ club for “brainwashing” and coaching Yaeli on how to get hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery instead of recommending treatment for her depression.

“They were doing all this secretly,” Martinez said. “I didn’t even realize that my daughter was going to this club because they don’t report to you what they’re doing at school to keep them ‘safe’ from their parents, according to them.”

Not only was young Abigail the victim of malpractice by the the slew of organizations and agencies of the Los Angeles school system (and their like can be found in schools everywhere), but her mother was treated like a criminal for simply refusing to call her daughter by a male name and trying to stop the pumping of male hormones into the poor girl’s body. For this, she was accused of child abuse(!) and was only permitted to visit her daughter, now in foster care, for “one hour, one week under supervision,” permitting her sadistic tormentors to further their quackery undisturbed, until she could be tormented no longer. There is much more to this story and reading the whole thing, if you can stomach it, is highly recommended.

The nightmare described above is not uncommon in our public schools today, where basic skills are secondary to wokeness. The proponents of the latter are a vicious, driven lot, far more concerned with ideology than the learning of math or English. To drive the point home, look at the photo below of young Abigail Martinez and her adoring mother and consider what has been done to them: one has been murdered, the other has been put through living hell, from which she is never likely to recover.

Thus is the state of so many of our country’s public schools today. There never was a great need for them and since they now do more harm then good, they ought to be abolished and replaced with, by those who need them, vouchers with which parents may choose where and how their children are schooled. Not only will that result in a far better educated populace, it will save billions if not trillions of the public’s money.

A poem in free verse by Kamala Harris.

The significance of the passage of time, Right?
The significance of the passage of time.
So when you think of it, there is great Significance to the passage of time . . .
There is really great significance to the Passage of time.

Copyright 2024 Oxford University Press.

The real reason Kamala Harris’s staff is fleeing?

The estimable Roger Kimball recently wrote a think piece that he himself admits may be far fetched, but seems less so each day. In it he speculates Democratic leadership, desperate about the coming cataclysm in 2024, are scrambling to come up with ways to remove, before the election, the two mental cyphers that are the President and Vice President.

Ron Klain, the real president of the United States, plus his staff, are comfortably and firmly entrenched in their powerful jobs. They want to keep those jobs, so if Biden goes Harris must go too, for if she were to run for president in 2024 she would lose by an even bigger margin than Biden. Hence it behooves Klain to get rid of her first.

Which brings up the title of today’s little offering: there are now ten former members of Kamala Harris’s staff enjoying spending more time with their families. That their former boss is a harridan of the first rank and utterly ignorant on just about everything cannot be denied. Still, the jobs these former employees had were likely very well paid and could hardly have required much work; since when has the Vice President’s job been regarded as challenging? If the VP doesn’t have much to do, how much work is there for the staff? Regardless the unpleasantness of the boss, it just doesn’t add up so many of her staffers quitting quitting so soon.

No, your Tatler suspects the real reason so many top members of Kamala’s staff are bolting is they know or sense their boss will be out soon. They probably figure it’s better to flee now than to wait until their boss is brought down and they are brought down with her. No wonder they’re running for the door. Expect more to do similarly.

A pretty girl is like a melody.

They are indeed “laughing at us” (as no doubt their counterparts at CBS and ABC are) when making Lia Tomas, the shemale Ivy League swimmer, look more ladylike. It is not a laughing matter though, but another example of the transformation of this nation into a Stalinist woke republic, where laughter is banned, save for public shaming and executions.

While it might seem your Tatler is over reacting to a seeming peccadillo on the part of NBC, we must understand what is behind it. They did a digital makeover on the creature that is Lia Thomson in order to further a lie, that (s)he is a woman, despite having the obvious features of a man, e.g., powerful build, male genitalia, a lower speaking voice (a baritone, in your Tatler’s estimation) and, in this case, manly facial hair. NBC realized that and applied a digital depilatory to his face. Not yet satisfied, they also plucked his eyebrows, gave him daintier lips and generally made him into an adorable co-ed.

NBC’s mission is to persuade so-called “low-information voters,” i.e, those who get most of their news from television, a substantial number even today, to accept this creature as a woman. Studies show that this demographic is likelier to favorably judge political candidates by their looks. Lia Thomas is not a politician (yet), but a totem for the powerful forces in this country that want to destroy it by turning upside down all morals, logic and virtues that have been the hallmarks of Western Civilization.

Your Tatler was asked not long ago what would become of Lia Thomas after he’s moved on from college fame. He doesn’t have much to look forward to. Though an Ivy Leaguer and presumably possessing at least some brains, he doesn’t realize he is but a pawn of the radical left and once no longer useful to them, will be dumped. Just ask Cindy Sheehan.

The President opened his mouth again.

From PJ Media:

Joe Biden embarrassed himself (yet again) on Thursday, proving once again that he should never try to riff during a public speech.“I just want you to know, I may be Irish, but I’m not stupid,” Biden quipped during the Annual Friends of Ireland Luncheon. “I married Domenic Giacoppo’s daughter.”

As it happens, the man who just insisted that he isn’t stupid confused his wife’s father and grandfather.

First Lady Jill Biden was born to Donald Carl Jacobs and Bonny Jean Jacobs…

Correction, Mr President: you were stupid and for a long, long time. Now you’re an imbecile and sadly headed downward.

Two-and-a-half years to go: Deus adiuva nos omnes.

A Ukranian woman plays her piano one last time before quitting the wreckage of her home.

(After false start, Chopin: Etude No. 1 in A-Flat, Op. 25.)

Whether coincidence or not, the pianist’s choice of Chopin is telling, as the composer was half Polish and much grieved by the brutalization of that Slavic nation by more powerful oppressors, including Russia.

Has anybody looked around Turtle Bay recently?

Remember the United Nations? Or, if you are younger, have you heard of the United Nations? Believe it or not, once upon a time the UN was regarded as a big deal. By “regarded,” that is to say it was the great darling of the old-time liberal elite in this country, who actually believed the toothless organization could bring about world peace (seriously). Formed in the aftermath of World War 2, the UN originally comprised 51 countries whose purpose was the prevention of future wars, a preposterous idea even then, as included in that gathering of the world’s peace loving nations were the Soviet Union and the entire Eastern Bloc (each of the latter having its own vote, in addition to their superiors, the Soviets).

Nevertheless, for years the UN was the institution the United States and other western powers immediately turned to when there was trouble in the rest of the world, despite its only major “accomplishments” being the Korean and Persian Gulf Wars. Thus, for example, when Iranian revolutionaries invaded the American embassy in Tehran and took the entire staff hostage in 1979, the Carter administration chose not to take military action, rather to bring the matter before the UN. Your Tatler remembers hearing daily reports coming out of the UN about the arguments, resolutions, vetoes etc. (by the Arabs and commies of course) until after several long weeks, the UN finally managed to accomplish something: a resolution signed by all nations urging that “both sides show restraint.” Our ambassador at the time, Andrew Young, as well of course, the media, hailed that as a victory.

Nothing much occurred in the UN after that concerning the Iranian crisis, except for the vetoing of any measures with teeth in them. The crisis finally came to an end with the election of Ronald Reagan, who indicated he would take firmer action on the matter (joke at the time: Q. What’s black and glows in the dark? A. Tehran, the day after Reagan takes office).

Your Tatler could bore you to death (and himself) with a colossal list of failures the UN has chalked up over the years. Let it suffice to say the organization has little to show to for its credit.

Yet still, even up to a few years ago, the UN always would get some kind of mention as the various crises emerged over the decades even if just pro forma. Not so now. Though one might think the ignoring of the institution began with the Trump Administration, this writer seems to recall it began toward the end of President Obama’s reign. For all his flaws, he must have come to the conclusion many others did long before, the UN is impotent and just not worth wasting time on. Should Donald Trump become president in 2024, he would be wise to simply pull the US out of the UN, which would effectively kill it. It won’t be missed.