Posted on 08/08/2024 7:07:44 AM PDT by Starman417
On New Year’s Eve 1999 I was tending bar at Outback Steakhouse in DC. As midnight rolled through each time zone celebrations from each city were shown on TV. At 6:00 I looked up and what I saw would change my life. It was Paris and I was captivated. Everything seemed to be outlined in lights. The bridges, the Eiffel Tower, the walks along the river, the Louvre… seemingly everything. I was enchanted and turned to a friend and said “I have to go there…”
Five months later I was standing on one of those bridges I’d seen on TV. It was my first visit to the city and it was the most beautiful place I’d ever been. I remember standing on a bridge near the Louvre, staring at the Eiffel Tower and saying to myself “I have to live here someday.”
The next day I would meet my future bride in the form of my guide in the gardens of Versailles. I spent a week in the city and easily had the greatest week of my life. I would go on to visit France a dozen times over the next 20 years and experience much of what the city and the country had to offer… and I would eventually live there too.
The celebration that I’d seen on that night in the bar had been a carefully choreographed effort to show the world, on the biggest stage, the beauty of Paris, the glory of France and invite the world to visit. It worked for me and tens of millions of others. In 2002 France would become the world’s number one tourist destination, a position it has held for most of the quarter century since. Tens of millions of tourists would visit Paris and France and their billions of Euros make up 10% of France’s GDP. That celebration might just have been the most effective advertisement in human history.
Now, jump ahead a quarter century when Paris is hosting the Olympics. The event began ten days ago with what was essentially a three-hour commercial in front of one of the largest worldwide television audiences possible, with upwards of 1.5 billion people watching.
And what did France do with this once in a lifetime opportunity? Showcase French culture? Showcase the most beautiful city in the world? Showcase the bridges or the buildings or the sculptures or the parks? The Sun King - Louis XIV, Victor Hugo, or Baron Haussmann, the father of the city we know today? Umm… not exactly.
While there were tiny glimpses into some of that, the reality is that the opening ceremonies were a celebration of everything but the grandeur of France. From an early ménage à trois hookup in the public library to the despicable mocking of the Last Supper by a cast of deviant trans characters to what looked like one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse sitting in front of the Eiffel Tower, almost the entire thing was a giant middle finger to face of culture in general and Christianity in particular. And don’t be fooled by the Olympic Committee’s “apology” if anyone was offended. Nor by the designer Thomas Jolly’s disingenuous claims that the feast was based on a Greek festival featuring Dionysus, the god of wine and the father of Séquana, the goddess of the river Seine. In the same piece TheWrap quotes an Olympics producer stating: “Thomas Jolly took inspiration from Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting to create the setting…Clearly, there was never an intention to show disrespect towards any religious group or belief … [Jolly] 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.”
Despite the denials, the opening ceremonies were clearly an attempt to push LGBT deviancy into the mainstream of world consciousness – in a way that it could never have reached viewers in most of the world otherwise – and do so while mocking the faith of Christians, the one faith the left feels safe in mocking.
Rush Limbaugh used to say “Politics is downstream from culture”. He talked about it in the context of schools, Hollywood and the media acting as the bleeding edge of ideas that the left was trying to inculcate into America, and that eventually legislation would follow. There is no better example of this than gay marriage a decade ago and today’s trans ideology and its attendant child mutilation demands.
What we saw on Friday was an attempt to use this traditionally – by design – apolitical venue showcasing human achievement, human competition and most of all human spirit, as the camel’s nose in the world’s tent for the homosexual / transsexual agenda.
And that right there is the crux of the problem.
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We were there before things got messy.
It was great!
Bringing in the Islamic invasion forces is suicide for France. And USA and canada and…..
Anybody knows this.
Anybody.
The people need to rise up and get the traitors out from positions of power. And repatriate the dangerous element back to their own countries
I believe Andrew Breitbart, not Rush who was the first to say, ‘politics is downstream of culture’.
Paris is about to get Bud Lighted.
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