Those out there on the right were so incensed at the Trump Baby Balloon, which flew to commemorate the Combover Crybaby’s visit to Britain recently, and especially that the OK for it had come from London Mayor Sadiq Khan - in other words, one of those Scary Muslims™ - that some of them decided to crowdfund their own balloon. This would depict Khan wearing a yellow bikini. Because of a banned Tube advert.
And so it came to pass, as the Guardian has reported. “A blimp of Sadiq Khan wearing a yellow bikini is to fly over Westminster on Saturday morning in response to the Donald Trump baby balloon that the London mayor permitted in July … A crowdfunding campaign has raised more than £58,000 for the blimp, which references the bikini-clad ‘body-shaming’ adverts Khan has vowed to ban on the tube”. There was more.
“Organisers says they want to highlight the rise in violent crime in London this year …Yanny Bruere, a self-described free speech advocate, is behind the Make London Safe Again campaign”. But Khan, far from being offended or moving to ban the protest, simply shrugged “If people want to spend their Saturday looking at me in a yellow bikini they’re welcome to do so. I don’t really think yellow’s my colour though”.
The Mayor wasn’t fussed. Nor were many others. So when Battersea bedroom dweller Paul Watson of InfoWars sniggered “How many of the same idiot leftists who reacted to any and all criticism of the Trump baby balloon with ‘ooooh triggered!’ are now getting triggered by the Sadiq Khan bikini balloon?” the answer was generally “Meh”.
Walter Mitty-lite Raheem Kassam tried “Brilliant work by @YannyBruere to put together this @SadiqKhan blimp to fly over London. I hope @realDonaldTrump sees that Londoners are striking back in his honour”. Trump’s got his plate full right now, sorry. So he wasn’t listening to Katie Hopkins’ “Dear @POTUS - You’ll love this great work by @YannyBruere - demanding Sadiq Khan #MakeLondonSafeAgain. Khan does NOT speak for TRUE Brits” either. And the turnout was lamentable.
As Adam Bienkov of Business Insider told, “Spotted at today’s rather pitiful Sadiq Khan blimp launch in Parliament Square - a handful of known far-right extremists and a couple of people carrying inflatable pigs with Khan masks on”. Graham Lithgow added “Word is this protest is about free speech and making London safe again - but to my untrained eye, it just looks like a few blokes standing around awkwardly holding a weird balloon for no apparent reason”. And then came the questions, and the problems.
More than £50,000 had been raised, which led Mike Stuchbery to ask “That Sadiq balloon, factoring in design, deployment & planning costs couldn't have cost more than 10 - 15k... ...so where's the rest of the money gone?”. Then it got worse. A lot worse.
“The ‘tweets were taken out of context.’ @YannyBruere, the organiser of a 29ft, bikini-clad @SadiqKhan balloon defends tweets some have described as anti-semitic” told Sky News. Yes, just when the far right didn’t want to be reminded of one of their specialities, they get a clown claiming “Jews run the world”. A dubious crowdfunding and anti-Semitism to boot.
Plus nobody cared about their foolish protest. Still, nice day for it, eh?
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Khan's response was brilliant, exactly on target.
ReplyDeleteRipping the piss out of the nastzis drives them up the wall, across the ceiling and down the other wall. An endless circuit.
The blockheads never learn. Which is why laughing in their face never fails. They still haven't recovered from the sight of softshite Bozo the Clown suspended from a zip wire, kecks round his knees, fat legs exposed, all while waving flags. After that, even a squadron of blimps won't rescue the nastzis.
Bring it on, I say, bring it on.
One thing has become clear recently. Right-wingers and Brexiters don't have a sense of humour. They seem to have thought and hoped that he would ban it from flying. The thought that he would just laugh it off just didn't occur to them.
ReplyDeleteA very accurate portrayal of this useless individual, it seems to have absolutely nothing between it's legs
ReplyDeleteThe Sadiq balloon was only going to cost about £18,000, but the people behind it preferred to pay a higher bidder as this more costly company would be able to avoid paying tax on it and they wanted to support this fine example of blatant capitalism.
ReplyDeleteThen there was the £10,000 agent's fee for the person doing the negotiation.
A solicitor became involved when he pointed out they'd need to be very careful with the wording when applying for permission to fly it. The solicitor's advice surgery lasted half an hour, adding a further £3,750 to the overall cost.
A PR agency said they could get the story covered by the tabloids, because they've got chums working in the press. They charged £6,250 in alcoholic beverages for their 'professional expertise'.
The remaining £20,000 disappeared in what has been called 'an accounting error'. A spokesperson for the project said this was 'the sort of mistake any person might make when adding up figures in a column'... or 'a perfectly acceptable human error, just as everyone is capable of losing things from time to time - like pages and pages of detailed reports into 'alleged' child abuse carried out by MPs etc'.
Anon 17:28 – Having never seen him wearing a bikini it is a little difficult to assess how accurate it is, but being an inflatable the makers probably didn’t want to start rumours by over endowing it. Are we supposed to be impressed by your confessed intimate knowledge of the contents of Khans trousers?
ReplyDeleteI guess this is where politics fuelled by left/right wing echo chambers has led us. Each of the extreme sides only sees the worst of each other and expects certain behaviours to happen such as left wing ‘triggering’.
ReplyDeleteI class myself as right of centre, but ‘moderate’, which allows me to listen to all sides and see that both left and right have useful ideas to contribute.
The extreme left and right seem content with knocking shit out of each other, like the Lilliputian Little-Endian and Big-Endian factions.