Saudi Arabia wants to run the UN Human Rights Council. Also places want ads for more executioners

The United Nations is one of the most worthless organizations on the face of the Earth. That's not hyperbole. It's just a simple fact. It's a grotesquely hypocritical money pit that exists mostly in an effort to redistribute global wealth and legitimize the planet's worst actors.

If you need evidence of this, look no further than the UN's "Human Rights Council." The HRC is one of many laughable UN bodies which like to regularly chastise the United States for our monstrous human rights abuses. The fact that nations like China, Russia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, and Congo sit on the council is, apparently, not some kind of ironic performance art bit. The UN actually expects people to take this seriously. Yes, it's ridiculous, but then so is the annual amount of money the United States pours into the UN so it can tell us how evil we are for recognizing a person's right to own a shotgun. As the Washington Free Beacon reports, the insanity will continue, as Saudi Arabia (yes that Saudi Arabia) is pressing for the HRC's leadership position:

Saudi Arabia is making a bid to head the United Nations’ Human Rights Council (HRC) just days after it posted a slew of new job openings for executioners who would help carry out beheadings amid a massive uptick in state-sanctioned killings in the country. Saudi Arabia, which has come under increasing criticism from human rights groups for an uptick in the number of executions in the country, has been a member of the U.N.’s top human rights body since 2014, along with Russia, China, and Cuba.

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It is now making a bid to assume lead control over the HRC after 2016, when the presidency rotates to a new nation. While the HRC has often been dismissed for hosting nations with some of the worst human rights records in the world, its importance in the coming year could be critical to how the international community deals with atrocities in Syria and other Middle Eastern nations. Right now, Germany runs the show, but their tenure is up at the end of the year. In December, elections will be held and a new nation will take over. The Saudis are pushing to make sure they grab the top spot.

The presidency will then rotate to a member of the U.N.’s Asian bloc, which includes Bangladesh, China, the United Arab Emirates, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, the Maldives, Pakistan, South Korea, Qatar, and Vietnam. Human rights experts say that Saudi Arabia is not fit to lead the body, particularly amid a rise in executions under the newly crowned King Salman.

Given that Saudi Arabia is fond of beheading criminals, flogging writers, and discriminating - severely - against women, we'd say "not fit" is a bit of an understatement. After all, this is a country that routinely kills, imprisons, tortures, and chemically castrates gays. ...And despite all this, they're already a Human Rights Council member nation. Oh, and they've been executing so many people that they've found themselves in the midst of an executioner shortage. So if you know of anyone looking for work....

On Monday, Saudi Arabia put out advertisements seeking eight new state executioners. These individuals would be responsible for beheading criminals and “performing amputations for those convicted of lesser crimes,” according to Fox News. David Weinberg, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and lead author of recent report on Saudi human rights abuses, said the autocratic nation would make of mockery of the HRC.

Of course, that's just it. There's no way to make a mockery of something that's already this big of a joke. The fact that the UN allows the existence of the HRC under its umbrella is already a piece of Kafkaesque absurdity. That the Saudis want to run it? Sauce for the goose.