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The latest show on Tenacious D’s Australian tour has been postponed after senator Ralph Babet demanded the pair be deported following an apparent joke about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

American comedy rock duo Jack Black and Kyle Gass were due to perform in Newcastle on Tuesday evening, but the show – part of the band’s Spicy Meatball Tour – was cancelled without notice on Tuesday afternoon.

Concert promoter Frontier Touring said on social media that it regretted “to advise that Tenacious D’s concert tonight at Newcastle Entertainment Centre has been postponed”.

Video from the event showed (Kyle) Gass being presented with a birthday cake and told to “make a wish” as he blew out the candles. Gass then appeared to say “don’t miss Trump next time” – just hours after the shooting at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania that left the former president injured.

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[–] [email protected] 469 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Unbelievable how every right winger shows up anytime a conservative white dude “just tells a joke and gets attacked by woke” but when the shoe is on the other foot they explode like the fucking Hindenburg

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[–] [email protected] 272 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (14 children)

Kyle is a cool guy.

How bizarre that an Australian politician is getting his panties in a twist over American politics.

I'm aware of the cultural absorption by other countries of American culture, but it really seems subordinate and pandering of politicians from other countries to emotionally invest themselves in American issues.

Almost as bad as the pandering, subservient American politicians themselves.

[–] [email protected] 178 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The fascists are infecting the whole world with their brain rot via the internet. Nowhere is immune.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 4 months ago (5 children)

The fascists were already there, they're just not hiding anymore.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (4 children)

True, but they're recruiting new members faster than before.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The Aussies have an extreme right wing thing going on and that group just absolutely fucking loves trump cuz he's the fast-fasch king.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Murdoch empire transcends borders

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[–] [email protected] 212 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I'm sure the people upset about Kyle Gass's statement were JUST AS UPSET when Republicans joked about Nancy Pelosi's attempted Assassination!

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 4 months ago (13 children)

Since google puts twitter feeds at the top and that cesspit is full of idiots i decided to check lemmy to see if i was alone in thinking this is a huge over reaction.

Pretty safe to say that people of lemmy are my people.

Personally i see it as a joke, maybe one in bad taste. Maybe one that shouldn't have been said. But a joke none the less. Its certainly interesting to see how the right react when the shoe is on the other foot.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago (30 children)

Literally my first thought was "who the fuck cares"

Whether you find a joke funny or not, or in poor taste, or whatever... "WAAAAAH I GONNA KICK YOU OUT OF THE COUNTRY BECAUSE WORDS HURT" is not the appropriate level of response.

And besides, I thought these fucks were all about being tough, growing a thicker skin, getting over it etc

Suddenly it's not the same when it's one of theirs in the crosshairs this time? Or I guess iron sights, if I read correctly.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

He’s a comedian for fucks sake. He’s supposed to make jokes. Whether dark or not. I’m so tired of manufactured corporate outrage

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is a taste of what’s to come if Trump is reelected. Mocking Dear Leader in good taste or bad becomes a punishable offense. Freedom of Speech goes out the window, disrespecting snowflakes in office is not allowed.

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

CANCEL CULTURE!!!!

PS: Elon Musk and the rest of the hypocrites can stuff their opinions about how to react to assassination attempts after the way they responded to Nancy Pelosi's husband being attacked.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (25 children)

as always, they're based.

i don't think that idiot killing him would accomplish anything but don't pretend it would've been a sad day if we lost a SELF-PROCLAIMED WANNABE DICTATOR.

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Babet is a known far-right crank who rode in with the antivaxer movement. He represents not even mainstream culture-war conservatism (the Liberal Party, currently in opposition, does that), but what Australians refer to as “cookers”: the fringe of conspiracy theorists and aggrieved boomers whose brains have been devoured by the Murdoch media. The kinds of people who smuggle horse dewormer to treat their wind-turbine syndrome.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Man everyone just gonna roll over for trump. Are we still expecting the justice system to hold him accountable?

[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Seems like it. Everyone is being told to stop the harsh criticisms of Trump because it's what fueled the political violence. Dont fall for the gaslighting. He's a fucking fascist and we should still treat him as such.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah it's normal when he calls for political violence that results in "Hang Mike Pence!" chants, but when he's the target of it, somehow it's now bad.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 months ago

Happy Birthday Kyle

Keep on rockin! 🤘

[–] [email protected] 84 points 4 months ago (4 children)

That's a deportation-worthy statement?

[–] [email protected] 86 points 4 months ago (7 children)

In a country that has neither got anything to do with Trump nor with the shooting... Someone needs to pamper a certain voter demographic, I'd say

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 4 months ago (17 children)

I'm sure all the fans that wanted to go to the show will be very thankful to the senator for cancelling the show at the last minute for political reasons. Free speech must not be allowed in Australia

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 months ago (12 children)

As an Australian, I'm sorry for how backwards and retrograde this country is.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm so glad I watched that video clip that was fucking legendary. HAPPY BIRTHDAY KYLE.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago (18 children)

Can't make jokes without getting deported from Australia?

Politics really is just a show for morons.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean, it used to be that you got deported to Australia for spicy comments about the ruling class.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If I didn't know better, I'd say they are trying to cancel Tenacious D...

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Oh no political violence is so bad!

Go tell that the bombed out kids in Afghanistan and to all the innocents from all over the world. Cry me a river, cause I won't shed a tear over a self proclaimed wannabe dictator. You get what you sow.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I might not be a fascist, but I will fight for your right to be one!

This is where we are at, we are doomed.

At least I'm a minority that will definitely be hunted first so I won't get to suffer for long.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Did I fucking read that right that Jack Black said "all creative plans are on hold"? Does he want to disband Tenacious D over this?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I fucking love you Tenacious D.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

Well. Half of Tenacious D. The other half is making posts on his Instagram like this:

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That reads like a PR firm posting for him

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

“First Amendment rights for me, but not for thee.”

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (7 children)

This was in Australia, who don't have a First Amendment.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Tenacious D ... ixie Chicks

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Man, I gotta go out and buy their album to support these guys.

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