Johnson decries Olympic opener for mocking christianity

[BelemNole]

Perhaps these morons should have gotten an education instead of trying to ruin everyone else’s.

Speaker Johnson blasts Olympics for mocking Christians, Last Supper

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Saturday blasted the opening ceremonies of the Olympics for mocking the Last Supper with a recreation that featured performers in drag. “Last night’s mockery o…

thehill.com

Dearest Gentle Reader,

I’m about to step on some toes in regard to the Opening Ceremony at the Paris Olympics.

The headless woman was Marie Antoinette. She ruled over France and was found guilty of treason, conspiracy, and stealing from the country.

Sound familiar?

Also, it was not the Last Supper. It was a depiction of an ancient Greek Bacchanal… because, you know, the Olympics are ancient and Greek. Surprise!

And if you didn’t know, a Bacchanalia is an uncontrollably promiscuous, extravagant, and loud party. The parties often spanned several days which honored the god of wine, Bacchus (the blue guy covered in grape vine). He is also known as Dionysus, the Greek god of fertility, later known as the god of wine and pleasure.

And finally, it was not Death on a pale horse. It was Sequana, Goddess of the Seine, the River in which the boat precession took place. She was meant to be the representation of the Olympic spirit and of Sequana.

If some of you weren’t so busy trying to end the Dept. of Education, you might know this.

Loosen the clutch on your pearls.

Yours truly,
Lady Francis
-Marla Francis
••••••

“Paris is back on its feet, jubilant, flamboyant, creative and open. Free,” - Thomas Jolly, the artistic director.

 

[torbee]

Because he’s dumb.

Dearest Gentle Reader,

I’m about to step on some toes in regard to the Opening Ceremony at the Paris Olympics.

The headless woman was Marie Antoinette. She ruled over France and was found guilty of treason, conspiracy, and stealing from the country.

Sound familiar?

Also, it was not the Last Supper. It was a depiction of an ancient Greek Bacchanal… because, you know, the Olympics are ancient and Greek. Surprise!

And if you didn’t know, a Bacchanalia is an uncontrollably promiscuous, extravagant, and loud party. The parties often spanned several days which honored the god of wine, Bacchus (the blue guy covered in grape vine). He is also known as Dionysus, the Greek god of fertility, later known as the god of wine and pleasure.

And finally, it was not Death on a pale horse. It was Sequana, Goddess of the Seine, the River in which the boat precession took place. She was meant to be the representation of the Olympic spirit and of Sequana.

If some of you weren’t so busy trying to end the Dept. of Education, you might know this.

Loosen the clutch on your pearls.

Yours truly,
Lady Francis

••••••

“Paris is back on its feet, jubilant, flamboyant, creative and open. Free,” - Thomas Jolly, the artistic director.

 

[RagnarLothbrok]

Perhaps these morons should have gotten an education instead of trying to ruin everyone else’s.

Speaker Johnson blasts Olympics for mocking Christians, Last Supper

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Saturday blasted the opening ceremonies of the Olympics for mocking the Last Supper with a recreation that featured performers in drag. “Last night’s mockery o…

thehill.com

Dearest Gentle Reader,

I’m about to step on some toes in regard to the Opening Ceremony at the Paris Olympics.

The headless woman was Marie Antoinette. She ruled over France and was found guilty of treason, conspiracy, and stealing from the country.

Sound familiar?

Also, it was not the Last Supper. It was a depiction of an ancient Greek Bacchanal… because, you know, the Olympics are ancient and Greek. Surprise!

And if you didn’t know, a Bacchanalia is an uncontrollably promiscuous, extravagant, and loud party. The parties often spanned several days which honored the god of wine, Bacchus (the blue guy covered in grape vine). He is also known as Dionysus, the Greek god of fertility, later known as the god of wine and pleasure.

And finally, it was not Death on a pale horse. It was Sequana, Goddess of the Seine, the River in which the boat precession took place. She was meant to be the representation of the Olympic spirit and of Sequana.

If some of you weren’t so busy trying to end the Dept. of Education, you might know this.

Loosen the clutch on your pearls.

Yours truly,
Lady Francis
-Marla Francis
••••••

“Paris is back on its feet, jubilant, flamboyant, creative and open. Free,” - Thomas Jolly, the artistic director.

Well, all I can say is thank god it was Christianity that was mistakenly thought to have been being mocked and not Islam.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Musk chiming in didnt help matters.

 

[95Hawk]

I sure wish Christians could catch a fair break in this world.

 

[BelemNole]

Musk chiming in didnt help matters.

When has it ever?

 

[Tom Paris]

Snowflakes.

 

[torbee]

The funniest thing about the pearl clutching is the French could not give a shit less about how Americans reacted to THEIR opening ceremonies.

 

[TennNole17]

Post 2 is an exact repeat of post 1. BOTS!

 

[RicoSuave102954]

It was embarrassing they allowed such a POS display to take place. I'm such it was allowed to placate to the Islamic scum who have taken over much of Europe and to curry favor with the limp wrist generation.

 

[billanole]

Because he’s dumb.

Dearest Gentle Reader,

I’m about to step on some toes in regard to the Opening Ceremony at the Paris Olympics.

The headless woman was Marie Antoinette. She ruled over France and was found guilty of treason, conspiracy, and stealing from the country.

Sound familiar?

Also, it was not the Last Supper. It was a depiction of an ancient Greek Bacchanal… because, you know, the Olympics are ancient and Greek. Surprise!

And if you didn’t know, a Bacchanalia is an uncontrollably promiscuous, extravagant, and loud party. The parties often spanned several days which honored the god of wine, Bacchus (the blue guy covered in grape vine). He is also known as Dionysus, the Greek god of fertility, later known as the god of wine and pleasure.

And finally, it was not Death on a pale horse. It was Sequana, Goddess of the Seine, the River in which the boat precession took place. She was meant to be the representation of the Olympic spirit and of Sequana.

If some of you weren’t so busy trying to end the Dept. of Education, you might know this.

Loosen the clutch on your pearls.

Yours truly,
Lady Francis

••••••

“Paris is back on its feet, jubilant, flamboyant, creative and open. Free,” - Thomas Jolly, the artistic director.

Those poor people are such chronic victims. Johnson shows up as the cliche “American tourist in Paris” from afar.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

The funniest thing about the pearl clutching is the French could not give a shit less about how Americans reacted to THEIR opening ceremonies.

More precisely, how American Evangelicals reacted.

 

[tumorboy]

The funniest thing about the pearl clutching is the French could not give a shit less about how Americans reacted to THEIR opening ceremonies.

Heck if some Americans were offended. They’re thinking mission accomplished.

 

[ihhawk]

I thought it was just a freak show…

 

[TunzaHawk]

And folks freak out when some Muslims can’t take light hearted criticism.

 

[millah_22]

Soft

 

[tumorboy]

I thought it was just a freak show…

French freak show.

 

[Funky Bunch]

 

[ihhawk]

Wait, why are they apologizing ? Are they just ignorant too?

https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/paris-olympics-opening-ceremony-1af9cbd1

 

[gohawks50]

I had a FB friend that shared the Death on a horse conspiracy.

 

[millah_22]

Why would liberals do this!?!?!

 

[tumorboy]

And folks freak out when some Muslims can’t take light hearted criticism.

Christian’s generally won’t blow something up in response. Similar to teasing someone on the playground. Pick your targets carefully.

 

[tumorboy]

I had a FB friend that shared the Death on a horse conspiracy.

What’s the conspiracy. Need a decent chuckle.

 

[tumorboy]

Why would liberals do this!?!?!

Kinda looks like blasphemy.

 

[speak34]

 

[SeaPA]

The initial response to the whining was probably "Eff your feelings"

 

[gohawks50]

What’s the conspiracy. Need a decent chuckle.

Maybe not a conspiracy, but certainly of the belief that it was Satan inspired.

The opening of the Olympics with the pale rider moving down the Seine. It took the Hindustan Times to say what every believer saw!

"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat upon him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with the sword, and with hunger, and with death and with the beasts of the earth."

Book of Revelation

Anyone who claims that this year's Olympic displays were innocent is blind. Death oriented and Satanic

 

[billanole]

Maybe not a conspiracy, but certainly of the belief that it was Satan inspired.

The opening of the Olympics with the pale rider moving down the Seine. It took the Hindustan Times to say what every believer saw!

"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat upon him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with the sword, and with hunger, and with death and with the beasts of the earth."

Book of Revelation

Anyone who claims that this year's Olympic displays were innocent is blind. Death oriented and Satanic

Not sure if serious.

 

[BelemNole]

Wait, why are they apologizing ? Are they just ignorant too?

https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/paris-olympics-opening-ceremony-1af9cbd1

Yes - “ we are sorry you’re all too dumb to understand our show and got your panties in a wad.”

 

[BelemNole]

 

[Tiny Hands Trump]

I sure wish Christians could catch a fair break in this world.

They are the real victims.

 

[Scruddy]

They were absolutely making fun of Christianity down to that blimp of a creature wearing a halo crown in the center. The olympic community apologized for it (kind of) earlier even. I'm sure the lefties loves the man with his nut sack out near a child. This is your branding.

 

[ThorneStockton]

Wait, why are they apologizing ? Are they just ignorant too?

https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/paris-olympics-opening-ceremony-1af9cbd1

Did you read it? It's one of those: not our intent to offend, sorry if you were.


“There was never an intention to show disrespect to a religious group,” a Paris 2024 spokeswoman said. “If people have taken any offense, we are, of course, really sorry.”

 

[ThorneStockton]

The comment section of that WSJ is something. So many victims, so many comments about Islam. Probably many of the same people who complained about having to be PC years ago and cancel culture just recently. The same folks who adore Trump for finally telling it like it is.

Zero self awareness.

 

[Joes Place]

I thought it was just a freak show…

It was a Greek show, Cletus.

Go read a history book, and learn a little bit outside of your MAGA bubble.

 

[Joes Place]

Wait, why are they apologizing ?

Because folks like you are snowflakes.

 

[Joes Place]

Did you read it?

Of course not.

He cannot read past a 'headline' and what someone else tells him to think

 

[noleclone2]

Our nation is struggling with the willful ignorant and anti intellectualism

 

[ThorneStockton]

Our nation is struggling with the willful ignorant and anti intellectualism

I saw it described as "glorified ignorance" in a column the other day. It's not the only aspect of the evolution of the GOP, but it's significant and easily observed.

The Republican Party’s Elite Conundrum​

Donald Trump loves to show off how smart he is. “I’m, like, a smart person,” he boasted on one occasion. “I went to an Ivy League college, I was a nice student,” he said on another. “I’m a very intelligent person.” And perhaps most memorably, “I’m a very stable genius.”
But the dopey language he chooses, along with his disheveled, unpresidented grammar — both intentional and inadvertent — belie those assertions. It’s impossible to forget that this is the same guy who spells little “liddle’,” capitalizes at random and blunders out the occasional “covfefe.”

Trump is shrewd enough to know that Americans don’t like a guy who acts smart. So if his fumbles are strategic, it’s not entirely dumb. On the left, people think emphasizing intellect and elite schools betrays unfair advantage in a multiple-intelligences, equitable-outcome world. On the right, your average MAGA Joe bristles at anyone who comes across as a coastal elite or too smart for his own good.

In its recent populist incarnation, Republicans downplay any whiff of intellectualism by avoiding big words in favor of Kid Rock fandom and trucker hat slogans. In MAGA world, glorified ignorance actually serves as a qualification for higher office (see: Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene), empowering more effective rage against “the liberal elite” and “the ruling class.”

This puts those Republican politicians saddled with inconvenient Ivy League degrees in an awkward position, like the guy who shows up in a tux for a rodeo wedding. In order to stay in office and on message, they must reject the very thing that propelled their own careers.

Remember, Ron DeSantis once eagerly joined one of Yale’s secret societies and told classmates he’d dreamed of attending Harvard Law. He founded a tutoring firm offering “the only LSAT prep courses designed exclusively by Harvard Law School graduates.”
But once in office, he made a show of distancing himself from his academic credentials.

“I viewed having earned degrees from Yale and Harvard Law School to be political scarlet letters as far as a G.O.P. primary went,” DeSantis wrote in “The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival.”

His Ivy League brethren, Ted Cruz (Princeton, Harvard Law), Josh Hawley (Stanford, Yale Law) and Tom Cotton (Harvard, Harvard), take similar pains to wash off the taint of East Coast academia with good-ol’-boy cred.

This is in sharp contrast to the intellectual pretensions of earlier Republican leaders, who would highlight, say, the “historian” Newt Gingrich’s Ph.D.

The latest standard-bearer for regular-folk Republicans is a down-home J.D., now JD — no periods, dude — who went to Yale Law School only with the help of student loans and side jobs. What’s more, JD Vance first got a humbler degree at Ohio State through the G.I. Bill. At the Republican National Convention, Yale barely came up.

And in one of her very first moves as an aspiring second lady, Usha Vance, who attended Yale as both an undergrad and a law student, made clear she would like to be referred to as Mrs. Vance, rather than Ms. The implication being: dutiful wife first, fancy Ivy League lawyer second.

Gone is the bushy-tailed Vance who wrote in “Hillbilly Elegy,” “The coolest thing I’ve done, at least on paper, is graduate from Yale Law School, something 13-year-old J.D. Vance would have considered ludicrous.” The up-and-comer who, in thrall of Yale’s “aura,” confessed that he “wanted to go to Yale more than any other school.”

The Vance who emerged as a MAGA politician is one who, after reaping the benefits and connections of an elite graduate education, turned around and gave a speech in 2021 called “The Universities Are the Enemy.”

“How ridiculous is it that we tell our young people to go to college, to get brainwashed?” he asked the crowd, going on to quote Nixon: “The professors are the enemy.” For Vance, the biggest takeaway from his Ivy League education is the monumental chip on his shoulder.

In politics as in life, brains aren’t everything. Politicians have long achieved high office based on ambition, hubris, cunning and a certain degree of ruthlessness more so than on account of their intellect. Nor does an Ivy League degree equate with excellence.

But it’s nonetheless dispiriting to see a major political party give lowbrow boors pride of place over the high-minded. It also puts Republicans in an awkward position vis-à-vis their new national opponent. Should Republicans frame Kamala Harris as some kind of lightweight bungling her words and laughing her way weirdly to the Oval Office, it risks not only playing into racist and sexist stereotypes, it will also further cement the flagrant hypocrisy of their own party.

After all, the Republican Party has turned ignorance into a point of pride.

 

[Mister_Man]

Musk chiming in didnt help matters.

Typical MAGA.