The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics has been panned as a rain-soaked mess, plagued by terrible audio, bizarre acts and a woke ‘Last Supper’ parody that has left Christians fuming. The Mailhas more.
Hundreds of thousands of spectators watched 6,800 athletes, covered in plastic ponchos, attempted to keep spirits high as they travelled down the river Seine in a huge flotilla of 85 boats.
Performances from Lady Gaga and approximately 3,000 dancers, acrobats and actors were hard to hear over the sound of rain, with viewers slamming it as “the worst Olympic opening ceremony in memory”.
Gaffes with country names, the mounting of the Olympic flag and bizarre scenes, such as a headless Marie Antoinette singing, peppered the display last night as sport begins in earnest this morning.
But among the various artistic tableaus, named after French values such as freedom, fraternity and equality, it was the Last Supper-style performance in ‘festivité’ – or party – scene which caused the most controversy.
Complete with models, dancers, fashion icons and drag queens from the host nation, the performance took place on a bridge over the capital’s river around a table, which also doubled as a catwalk.
At the centre was a woman in front of DJ equipment with a golden halo-style crown, surrounded by several drag queens and dozens of dancers and performers. …
What have men in dresses mocking Christians at a fake last supper got to do with the Olympics?
Why has every European and US "event" become a predictable platform to mainline minority fetishes into the lives of a bemused majority?
Although also hampered by hard-to-hear music, many young people… took to social media to praise the tableau, which aimed to echo the atmosphere of a nightclub and featured dancing and lip-syncing on the soaking-wet stage.
But others were less impressed, accusing organisers of creating a “woke” parody of the Last Supper – a painting by Leonardo da Vinci depicting Jesus’s last meal with his disciples.
Tesla and SpaceX owner Elon Musk… wrote on X – formerly Twitter – that the performance was “extremely disrespectful to Christians”.
He added: “Christianity has become toothless.” …
As the long line of boats filled with athletes made its way down the Seine, an embarrassing moment saw South Korea labelled North Korea by the announcers. …
Social media users were critical of the ceremony, with one writing: “France is doing good but it’s getting nowhere near the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony.”
Another used a picture of Rishi Sunak on a podium read: “Stop the boats” to describe how they felt about the water-bound parade.
— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) July 27, 2024
Stop Press 2: Gareth Roberts has written a savage review of the opening ceremony for the Spectator, that includes the following gem:
It was all very decadent, yes, but not in the way it thinks it was. Because this wasn’t French at all, but a display of American cultural imperialism, the goading and the power display of wokeness, establishing the new sacred – transgenderism, multiculturalism – and repudiating and mocking the old. Daring you to object. Director Thomas Jolly apparently said beforehand of his opus, ‘I wanted everyone to feel represented’. This is a telling remark. Because ‘everyone’ doesn’t actually mean everyone, it means only the narcissistic elements of newly sacralised minorities. Nobody else exists.
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Come on then, let’s have the names of those that campaigned for the retraction.
Maybe they need to hear a bit from those who aren’t happy with their mafiosi tactics.
They need a taste of their own medicine. It’s the only way to deal with bullies.
In a way “free speech” is not the issue. It’s not a question of the researchers “voicing whatever opinions they like,” but of “reporting whatever reality they discover.” To be forbidden to tell the truth is the sign of an entirely worthless society.
Forget “the truth”, how about just your honest opinion?
Nobody can live up to the standard of always nailing the truth.
In fact that’s the wonderful benefit of free speech, it is pretty much the only reliable system for approaching the truth and what is real.
But,———– “It isn’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It is what you know for sure just ain’t so” ——-Mark Twain. ———-In the official science of climate change you only get into trouble if you don’t comply with the polemic. Which only reveals one thing. —-This isn’t and NEVER was about science. It has little to do with the climate.
For its part, BBVA justified its recent large payment to Hood by noting “his ability to synthesise complex scientific models and studies and explain them in simple terms”.
Translation: he can create the tall tales they want from made up data and is good at political propaganda.
Seconded
As a strange coincidence, he’s also fluent in the language used by the Chinese ruling in both speech and writing. According to the people who recently named him their price bull this marks him as one of the foremost environmental journalists and communicators of his generation and he has experience in international reporting to address issues that have ramifications and impacts across the globe.
Unsurprisingly, the guy is also a babyboomer past retirement age (67) and hard-working to ensure that no other generation will ever again enjoy anything he took for granted during his life.
^^
Chinese ruling class, the language bein Mandarin Chinese
But the problem is that we can read about this tyranny here, but we won’t see it on mainstream news, so the public have no clue what is going on. Even on GB News the presenters are not well enough informed to interrogate all the climate activists they bring on, like Jim Dale (meteorologist) who said the other day that the heat waves in Europe “had climate change written all over them”. None of the presenters could respond because they are not well enough informed. The easy answer to Mr. Dale would have been that since everything that happens is now claimed to have “climate change written all over it” how can Dale and all the other alarmists ever be wrong? There is no way to falsify all their absurdity, and so they get away with claiming every imaginable thing and get away with it by calling it “science”. ——–NOPE It isn’t science. Computer model projections about the future are not evidence of anything and are NOT science. Even the IPCC admit that they cannot see a human signal in the data. They cannot tell the difference between changes due to humans and natural changes. But ofcourse Climate Change is pure POLITICS, and that is why alternative views must be crushed. You won’t see this in non politicised science. Can you imagine papers about black holes being withdrawn because they went against orthodoxy?
Look folks, global warming is going to happen, even if it is an artefact of perverse publishing conditions and globalist riches.
An excellent article.
Alimonti is the new Galileo.
And Springer is the new Torquemada.
Johns Hopkins, not John Hopkins.