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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