Here Comes the Popper

What is it with popping all these balloons!?!  

Yes, Biden is the Balloon Man -- no arguing about it.  But man was I wrong.  I admit it, manning up!  He hates them!          

It's like a vendetta.  That gangsta aint playin.  Hatred so hot it's bad for the Planet.

Welcome to Hell, Biden.

 

Is nowhere safe from his fury?

And no one?

Hurry kids!  Run!!

Well, someone is safe...

...but he knows the danger is real!  Not just ugly...

...homicidal!

Millions terrorized!

Thousands crushed

and smothered!

 

Of course he's afraid!

...but he must destroy the enemy!

And if he can pop 99 Red Chinese balloons, he saves America!

But not just Red.  All balloons must perish!

The Popper Man comes when it's Inopportune

He always comes out by the Light of the Moon

Your Global Warming has caused a Typhoon

So here comes the Popper to pop your Balloon!

        2024       

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Balloonists of Renown

Nazca hierophants, c 200 AD (per Julian Nott)

Cyrano de Bergerac, philosopher, c 1640

Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, academician, c 1783

le marquis Francois d'Artlandes, c 1783 

James Tytler, esq., c. 1784

Letitia Ann Sage, actress, c 1786

 

Dr John Jeffries, physician, c 1786

 

Jean-Pierre Blanchard, inventor, c 1793

James Sadler, pastry chef, 1811

Sophie Blanchard, balloonist, 1819

Thomas Monck Mason, musician, c 1836

John Wise, balloonist, c 1859 

Gen Edward P Alexander, CSA, c 1862

Henry C Coxwell, aeronaut, 1862

Dr Samuel Fergusson, scholar, adventurer, 1863

Phileas Fogg, gentleman, 1873

Gaston Tissandier, meteorologist, c 1875

Salmon August Andrée, mechanical engineer, 1897

Oscar Z Diggs, salesman, regent, c 1900

Professor Fate, academician, c 1908

Baron Bomburst, autocrat, c 1910

 

Max Pruss, zepplin capt., 1937

Larry Walters, security guard, 1982

Michael Sanby, entrepreneur, 1989 

Falcon Heene, balloon boy (disputed), 2009

Joseph "Joe" Biden, politician, balloonist, c 1973 2023

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