Posted by Tina
Londoners, fed up with crime, responded with vigor to a crowdfunder campaign, raising $75,000 for a 29 foot balloon of London’s mayor, Sadik Khan, in a yellow bikini.
The amount raised was twice the amount donated for the Trump balloon.
Yanny Bruere is the good citizen who conceived of the idea after the mayor insulted our President and gave his blessing for the big balloon lampooning Trump during his visit in July. Bruere chose the yellow bikini design as: “…a jab at Khan’s decision in 2016 to ban an advertisement of a woman in a yellow bikini with the message, “Are you beach body ready?” because it promoted “unhealthy or unrealistic body images,” according to the BBC. Bruere was also inspired to do the balloon because of Kahn’s “willingness to insult the most powerful man in the western world.” Khan had said Trump was “not welcome.”
The crowdfunder page read: “The whole of London will see the BIGGEST takeover in its history. We won’t stop til’ Khan’s gone and Londoners feel safe again!! In light of the Donald Trump ‘Baby Trump’ ballon (sic) being allowed to fly over London during his visit to the U.K., let’s get a ‘baby Khan’ one and see if FREE SPEECH applies to all and whether or not Mr Khan and the London assembly will also approve this.”
The balloon is featured as part of a campaign to remove Khan from office and will fly over Parliament Square in Westminster on Sept. 1
We in America who support Trump have good friends in jolly old England…well done mates!
Here are some other statements from your “good friend” Yanny Bruere:
In August 2016, a tweet from the account claimed that “Zionists promote mass immigration into Europe” and the “White House is filled with Zionists”.
In April last year, the user claimed that “the Jews” were “in control…you’re not allowed to speak about them”, with the hashtag #jewsruntheworld.
The account also shared conspiracy theories, including those claiming that “Isis was created by Israel” and that Auschwitz was a “fabrication”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sadiq-khan-balloon-protest-yanny-bruere-antisemitism-london-parliament-square-a8516406.html
Choose your friends more carefully.
Chris I can always count on you to crap all over what’s meant as a fun post. Your mean-spirited attempt to link me to an anti-semite is typical. I could as easily say you’re a friend to cop killers and bombers due to your political affiliation…Bill Ayers worked with and lived next door to Obama and Obama and Holder inspired a rash of cop killings…but I won’t unless you strike first.
I don’t know Bruere, I don’t know his politics or his prejudices. He’s not really my friend (but you know that)…we’re not in touch.
“Mate” is a common expression in England; it doesn’t necessarily connote actual friendship…you probably know that too.
I just thought the balloon was a fitting response to the hateful Trump balloon that flew earlier.
Your mean-spirited attempt to link me to an anti-semite is typical.
You linked yourself to an anti-semite. I just pointed out that he was an anti-semite, which you didn’t know when you described him as a “friend” and a “good citizen.”
You’re welcome.
“I could as easily say you’re a friend to cop killers and bombers due to your political affiliation…”
False equivalence. My comments as written have nothing to do with your political affiliation, and everything to do with your willingness to praise someone you did zero research into.
Bill Ayers worked with and lived next door to Obama
Please show me where I have ever called Ayers a friend or a good citizen.
and Obama and Holder inspired a rash of cop killings…
There is zero evidence of this. Both pointed to legitimate instances of police brutality. Holder’s own DOJ exonerated one cop who was accused of this, and proved that the shooting of Michael Brown was justified. Both spoke carefully and thoughtfully on this issue, and at no point could their words be reasonably construed as calls to violence. You just didn’t like that they spoke of the issue at all.
Contrast this with Trump’s calls for his supporters to knock out protesters, his calls for police officers to hit the heads of arrestees on their cars upon arrest, and his use of the dangerous and Stalinesque phrase “enemy of the people” to describe reporters (which has lead to death threats), and the comparison is night and day. You have no consistency on this issue.
I don’t know Bruere, I don’t know his politics or his prejudices. He’s not really my friend (but you know that)…we’re not in touch.
I know that, which is why you should have done your research before praising him. It only took me thirty seconds to Google his name and find out that was an anti-Semite. But Tina, that didn’t surprise me…he’s an Islamophobe who fearmongers about immigrant crime rates. There is a TON of overlap between that community and the anti-Semite community. You’ve made similar mistakes in the past by linking to white nationalist and white supremacist sites without realizing it…I had hoped in the time I’ve been away you would have learned.
Maybe you’ll learn this time.
Your points of logic are well made.
However, you remain a nitpicking hall monitor.
I didn’t sign up for your seminar.
In fact you are a guest here.
You could have simply pointed out what you had discovered about Bruere without playing smug superior instructor.
As it is, you chose to chide me and didn’t bother to offer our readers objective evidence of this man’s bigotry or extremism. For all we know you decided Bruere is bigoted based on a few tweets and the opinions of people on Twitter you don’t know.
The subject was the balloon. A lot of people in England contributed so that it could fly. The project was inspired by people who thought the balloon of Trump was disrespectful and offensive. Those people were acting as friends to America.
This is a hobby for me, not a paid profession. I post about current events so others can participate with me in discussions about them. None of us at PS are writing dissertations, making news, or attempting to win a Pulitzer. We don’t require glossaries, indices, or bibliographies.
“Maybe you’ll learn this time.”
Still smug too.
Maybe you’ll let go of these off-putting traits one day…but somehow I doubt it.
The smugness is justified because you have done this over and over again. You guys gave over a whole article to Pizzagater and Qanon theorist Liz Corkin recently, as Libby pointed out.
If you routinely link to and praise white nationalists and conspiracy theorists, you are going to be mocked for it, and the problem is not the people mocking you for it.
The solution is for you to stop linking to and praising white nationalists and conspiracy theorists.