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Apparently, the Paris Olympics opening event was a ratings darling:

https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/601735-olympics-opening-ceremony-criticism/

The opening ceremony for the Olympic Games in Paris on Friday has sparked global public outrage over a show filled with apparent parodies of Christian religious symbols.

Netizens argued that several parts of the ceremony mocked universally recognizable works of art associated with Christianity. One such performance featured transgender performers appearing to re-enact ‘The Last Supper’, the renowned painting of Christ and his apostles by Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. Users on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram alike lambasted the performance as “disgusting” and “outright blasphemy.”

Many public figures were among those criticizing the display, including Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who said that it was “extremely disrespectful to Christians.”

The repeated presence of transgender individuals and drag queens at the ceremony appalled many users. For instance, three drag queens were among the torchbearers who carried the Olympic flame as it made its way to Paris. Some netizens accused the organizers of catering to wokeism and argued that the Olympics should not be turned into a pride parade or a drag show.

https://www.rt.com/news/601808-slovakia-paris-olympics-degeneracy/

Slovakia’s deputy prime minister, Tomas Taraba, has announced that he will not represent his country at the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics.

Taraba was among the many who slammed Friday’s opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Games as highly disrespectful to Christians.

“I was supposed to represent Slovakia at the closing ceremony, but for the normal world, this Olympics will forever remain a symbol of degenerate decadence, which abused the beauty of sport and turned it into progressive political theater,” the Slovakian official wrote on his personal Facebook page. “Therefore, I decided not to participate in the closing ceremony.”

Taraba also pointed out that the “disgraceful” opening ceremony is now being removed from the internet by the International Olympic Committee.

“The insults to Christianity and the decadence presented have reached such a level that they have offended the whole normal world, which understands the difference between culture and garbage,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/youll-never-work-in-this-town-again

Did we just witness the suicide of Wokery? I think you saw what’s called, in the argot of progressive thinking, the “queering” of the Olympics. That was some spectacle. First, Death on a Pale Horse came galloping down the Seine River so that no one would miss the point of the symbolism to follow: the beheaded Marie Antoinette portrayed singing in the window of a flaming palais (revolution anyone?). . . . Then, a tableau vivant of DaVinci’s The Last Supper “queered” to-the-max with a tattooed land-whale in the Jesus seat offering a Satan hand-signal among the swaying drag queens, plus one child ostentatiously in the mix (say, whu?). . . followed by a blue Dionysus crooning about nudity (“Nu”) on a giant fruit platter, with his ball-sack clearly on display among the cherries and nectarines. . . . It rained. . .tant pis. . . . The power went out and Paris ceased to be the City of Light. Finis. . . .

Not all of Western Civ was amused by these. . . antics. Many complained that the show portrayed Christianity in a less than favorable light. Ya think? The next day, the Paris-24 organizing committee offered the world an apology of sorts. Spokesperson Anne Descamps explained that the idea was “to celebrate community tolerance.” Or, shall we say, to test it? Apparently, it flunked the test. Director of the extravaganza, Thomas Jolly, said (translation), “Our intention was never to be impertinent.” Of course, he lies, and of course it is the foundational premise of those in the Satanic fold to lie about everything. (Just as America’s Democratic Party lies about everything.) Within hours, sponsors revolted and pulled their support for the games altogether. Lord knows what the BRICs nations make of all this. Probably something like pity. ...

Now, one might ask, was July 27, 2024, the start of the revolt against progressive Woke-ism? It’s hard to imagine what kind of public spectacle the Left could come up with to beat the Olympic opener. Maybe human sacrifice, say Hillary Clinton eating a parboiled toddler in front of three thousand shrieking cat-ladies at the Democratic National Convention. Has it come to that?

It’s hard to escape the feeling now that our own reign-of-terror, the Woke-Marxist psychopathocracy, has played out its string. A month of garish events and revelations has left the USA a hot mess: the momentous Supreme Court decisions, the debate horror show, the attempted assassination of Mr. Trump and the many loose ends still hanging from it, the (probably) coerced election withdrawal of “Joe Biden” and the shocking discovery (to many) that he’s only partly still there, and the elite selection process that “nominated” Kamala Harris — these strange doings have rocked the American Zeitgeist. The artificially-induced rapture that attended the apotheosis of Veep is sputtering out as the internet explodes with memes putting her clueless vacuity on laughable display.

We’re informed (in great detail here by Naomi Wolf) that the Veep’s handlers haven’t even bothered with the required Federal Election Commission filings to be a candidate (nor has “Joe Biden” submitted his official withdrawal paperwork). So, you can surmise that the whole thing is another Democratic Party prank, leading to more shenanigans as the August 19 Convention cometh.

Do you think the repulsive Olympic opener was unconnected to what has been going on in our country? And do you doubt that the tide is now going out on all that?

https://words.mattiasdesmet.org/p/yes-the-olympic-ceremony-was-about

The most remarkable thing, above all, is that the fact-checkers and woke enthusiasts indeed did not see that it was about the Last Supper. They even mocked those who did see it, claiming they were lost in illusions and delusions. The more someone is gripped by totalitarian thinking, the more he accuses those who think differently of madness. In itself, it remains one of the most remarkable effects of the phenomenon of mass formation: the enormous narrowing of perspective accompanied by a radical blindness to anything that does not align with one's own fanatical beliefs (and the aggressive attack of it). ...

What it is about, however, is that globalist institutions use symbolism, as seen at the opening ceremony of the Olympics and the Eurovision Song Contest, to situate their essence in mockery and perversion. That is precisely the function of a ceremony of a major social event: it represents what the essence of a society is, it represents the principles that support the social system. And that is certainly a good reason to protest and refuse to participate in the globalist ideology. More so: those who fail to protest, neglect an ethical duty. ...

And we can add the reaction of the producers of the opening ceremony. They confirmed in an official statement, contradicting the artistic director’s claims, that the particular part of the ceremony indeed parodied The Last Supper. ...

For now, the mainstream remains silent. That’s notable: their inability to admit mistakes. That is, in itself, human, but it is quite pronounced among representatives of the dominant narrative (an inability typical of totalitarian systems). The corona crisis stands out in this regard. Every crucial aspect of the dominant narrative has now proven to be wrong: the origin of the virus, the mortality of the virus, the effectiveness of the measures, the effectiveness of the vaccines, the (supposedly non-existent) side effects of the vaccines, and so on, name it and the dominant narrative got it radically wrong.

No one can really doubt that anymore. But how many fact-checkers and mainstream journalists have you heard admitting that they have radically suppressed the Truth in the name of Truth? How many have you heard apologize for degrading people to second-class citizens based on pseudoscience and fake news? We can only conclude: those who crown themselves as Ambassadors of Truth and profile themselves lavishly as fighters against fake news and disinformation suppress the truth with a stream of fake news and disinformation.

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Wow, even Iran is condemning the Olympics' blasphemy against Christians:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/29/french-telecoms-network-hit-by-vandalism-after-railway-arson-attacks.html

https://www.malone.news/p/sexual-fetishes-grooming-and-the

https://slaynews.com/news/paris-olympics-ticket-prices-slashed-organizers-struggle-fill-empty-seats/

The organizers behind the “woke” 2024 Paris Olympics are slashing the ticket prices for the event as they scramble to fill rows of empty seats.

Photos and video coverage from the Olympics have been highlighting the large numbers of empty seats, reportedly provoking panic among the organizers. ...

Additionally, many people have been put off the Games by the event’s divisive opening ceremony.

Olympic organizers put on a blasphemous performance during the opening ceremony.

It featured, among other things, a drag queen-inspired parody of the Last Supper.

Patrick says

https://slaynews.com/news/paris-olympics-ticket-prices-slashed-organizers-struggle-fill-empty-seats/

The organizers behind the “woke” 2024 Paris Olympics are slashing the ticket prices for the event as they scramble to fill rows of empty seats.

Photos and video coverage from the Olympics have been highlighting the large numbers of empty seats, reportedly provoking panic among the organizers. ...

Additionally, many people have been put off the Games by the event’s divisive opening ceremony.

Olympic organizers put on a blasphemous performance during the opening ceremony.

It featured, among other things, a drag queen-inspired parody of the Last Supper.

https://nypost.com/2024/07/30/sports/paris-olympics-admitted-opening-ceremony-drag-show-was-based-on-last-supper/

A Paris 2024 Olympics spokesperson admitted the controversial drag show version of “The Last Supper” seen in Friday’s opening ceremony was indeed inspired by the iconic da Vinci mural — despite attempting to vehemently deny it following fierce backlash.

“Thomas Jolly took inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting to create the setting,” an Olympics spokesperson admitted to The Post in a statement on Saturday, referring to the opening ceremony creative director.

“He is not the first artist to make a reference to what is a world-famous work of art. From Andy Warhol to ‘The Simpsons,’ many have done it before him,” the statement continued.

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Olympics in Russia, half america acted like dumb clowns complaining about small bathrooms. but yet there was very respectful ceremony and proceedings.

Paris is satanic shit show… Americans feel right at home. guys wtf is going on in our nation?

Another meme that became reality.

So far in this Olympics:

Drag Queens mocked the Last Supper
Swimmers got physically sick from swimming in the polluted Sienne
A Vollyball player is suffering brain damage from the Tryouts against a M2F opponent spiking the ball at her head
A female boxer lost to a "female" contestant who was rejected as a Male by the International Boxing Association in their 2024 international meet.

Candidate Valentina Gomez for Missouri SecState gives her highly sophisticated take on this issue:

Another Bolshevik/Globalist BellyFlop Production. And yet, the fiat printing presses keep printing.

https://t.me/greatreject/63591

Ceffer says

Another Bolshevik/Globalist BellyFlop Production. And yet, the fiat printing presses keep printing.

https://t.me/greatreject/63591

People with money go where they want. I don't want to go to Paris. Ever. I don't care about the history because it's shitty anyway. I also don't care to physically watch the Olympics in person OR on TV. Especially summer. There's better things to do and places to go if you're going to cross an Ocean to get there.

I also don't want to go to a powder keg of shit, Europe. We're a few years away from Poland (NATO) getting hit and an all out world war happening. If it isn't already happening.

I'm also guessing they overpriced airfare and lodging in Paris and people just said no. Either way, not on my bucket list to visit given the times and it's the fucking Olympics. Female pole vaulting would be the only thing I'd watch. If you know you know.

Are some elements trying to convince the public of divine intervention? Trump's assassination and now this?
The pervs get zapped?