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Jack Black axes tour over bandmate's Trump comment

Jack Black has said he’s cancelled the rest of the Tenacious D world tour after his bandmate Kyle Gass sparked an outcry with a comment about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

The comedy rock group were on stage in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday when Gass was asked to make a wish after being presented with a cake for his 64th birthday.

He appeared to reply: “Don’t miss Trump next time.”

Gass also split with his agent following the incident.

rimmedalpha ,

Since when has Jack Black have a problem with political violence? Brought to you by City Hall

PepperoniNipple ,

Batman was a massive imbecile when he said he doesn’t kill bad people because “then the amount of murderers would stay the same.”

Absolute dogshit, dogwater mixed with diarrhea fucking argument. Because of people who think like that with pride, a lot of poor innocent people are dying every day and I get to see it first-hand; middle and upper-class people do not, and they never will because they don’t live in the streets as much as we do

ArcaneSlime ,

That always got under my skin a bit too. Like, I get it, due process and all, but if you catch a guy about to bomb the city with some poison gas or something just go ahead and take him out while we can still legally call it self defense.

And on that note: no guns? Well excuse me Bruce but some of us don’t have infinite wealth from our dead parents to go gallivanting around the east training with this and that obscure ancient ninja order, some of us are too disabled even if we were financially capable. You telling me that I should just let some henchman dressed like a clown kill me because I’m not rich and able bodied?! I think he just wants job security tbh, the batty bitch.

That said? Favorite comics the big two release, loved TAS, loved Beyond, not big on superheroes but I like him because he’s ostensibly human, I like the detective nature to some of the stories, yadda yadda. Not my favorite super hero though, of course that would be The Flaming Carrot. Ut!

Shizrak ,

They printed a rebuttal to that in one of the punisher comics.

“Kill two”

HeyJoe ,

I guess trump is the only one allowed to make disrespectful comments about other people that almost die and it is just ok.

Organichedgehog ,

So you don’t think it’s ok for trump to make disrespectful comments about other people that almost die? Hmmmm

PythagreousTitties ,

So you have no reading comprehension? Hmmmm

Organichedgehog ,

Bet you can’t explain to me how I’m wrong about his comment lol

Explain to me how he didnt imply that it’s not ok for trump to do it.

Or maybe you’re the one with terrible reading comprehension?

PythagreousTitties ,

The comment is criticizing the fact that Trump can seemingly say and do whatever he wants and gets away with it. While if anyone else does it they’re called out on it.

Organichedgehog ,

So you think the implication of the original post was “everyone should be able to make disrespectful comments about people that almost die and it’s ok”?

Or is the implication “it’s not ok for people to make disrespectful comments about people that almost die”?

This isn’t complicated, those are the only two interpretations of the original comment. Only one of them is a realistic interpretation, and it - along with a lot of comments in this thread - are overtly hypocritical.

Don’t think I’ll win over you or the hypocrite-hivemind, and I don’t particularly care. Later.

PythagreousTitties ,

Cool overdramatic story, bro

Organichedgehog ,

Uhhh what lol

Explaining how reading works = overdramatic

Is English your native language?

Fapper_McFapper ,

It’s clearly not yours.

Organichedgehog ,

The “NUH UH, YOU!1!” response is exactly what I’d expect from someone with such a tenuous grasp on the English language

PythagreousTitties ,

Look man, you’re obviously trying way too hard to argue with someone. It’s not going to be with me, I couldn’t care less what you think.

Brush up on your English lessons and chill the fuck out.

Organichedgehog ,

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    Eccitaze ,
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    Ah, so you’re a literal 90s-era troll.

    Organichedgehog ,

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    PythagreousTitties ,

    Is that why you stopped learning English?

    Organichedgehog ,

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    PythagreousTitties ,

    Oh, are you at the “repeat the same thing over and over” phase of your little temper tantrum?

    Organichedgehog ,

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    PythagreousTitties ,

    Couldn’t means could not.
    I could not care less.

    Keep missing every ball, bud. At least you’re good at something.

    Organichedgehog ,

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    iAmTheTot ,

    No, it’s not okay. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Criticizing the language Trump uses but then praising Kyle would be hypocrisy.

    mozz ,
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    Who the FUCK is downvoting this

    Dragging the whole US down into a landscape where political assassination is acceptable is exactly the right’s goal. As soon as it’s normalized even a little bit, that little tail which currently has a handful of right-wing nuts with pipe bombs and hammers who is actually acting on it is gonna grow to encompass a huge, MASSIVE number of Facebook uncles

    And then I can guarantee that all the people who are celebrating this will no longer be celebrating

    knightly ,
    @knightly@pawb.social avatar

    Good.

    Politicians should be terrified of the monstrous political movement they’ve created and/or worked alongside.

    If they didn’t want to fear for their lives, then they should have worked for the benefit of the people rather than the shareholders.

    mozz ,
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    Your idea that the violence will wind up mainly directed against anyone other than the politicians working for good outcomes, and vulnerable ordinary people both in and out of the US, is unfounded.

    knightly ,
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    That seems to be your idea, I don’t recall suggesting anything like that.

    mozz , (edited )
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    I feel like this is one of those “output only, no input” conversations

    I am suggesting that the people who will be “terrified” and “fear for their lives” will be working people trying to organize a better future, and politicians (such of them that even exist) that are aligned with working people. And that the people working on behalf of the shareholders will be A-ok, mostly speaking, because they’ll be the ones whose followers are doing most of the politician-shooting, and have plenty of money to organize good security for themselves.

    You can read “How Democracies Die” or “On Tyranny” for a lot more in depth characterization of how it often plays out historically speaking. I get what you’re saying but I think it is a comically rosy picture of how violent revolutions against oppressive political movements turn out in reality.

    crazyminner ,

    I mean it already has? It just happened?? How is it unfounded?

    mozz ,
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    Random political violence by the right just happened

    The idea that that can be consistently relied upon to aim also at the right, and productive of some useful political output in terms of justice for working people, is what I am saying is unfounded

    tlou3please ,

    I don’t think he’s saying either are okay, just pointing out the double standard. That’s how I read it anyway.

    homesweethomeMrL ,

    I like how they managed to shoehorn Musk in there. Thanks BBC, very, uh, relevant.

    Track_Shovel ,

    Journalism has devolved into buzzword salad. Facts optional

    TunaCowboy ,

    Cowardly nepo baby isn’t tenacious, absolute shocker.

    Varyk ,

    I guess because…uh…I don’t know, other then black just wanting out of the band, this doesn’t make a lot of sense.

    He said he was “blindsided” by the comment.

    Blindsided? Aren’t they friends?

    Blindsided? By a sentiment I imagine people had been making jokes about since it happened?

    Evilcoleslaw ,

    Blindsided because he didn’t think Kyle would say something that could legitimately hurt JB’s image and thus the rest of his career, which is clearly the priority over Tenacious D.

    Varyk , (edited )

    Right, although he explicitly talks about being blindsided by the politically violent nature of the comment, it sounds disingenuous

    Tenacious D has a 9-minute song on their first album about comedically overthrowing the government where the ultimate joke is that they assassinate each other simultaneously

    glimse ,

    I wouldn’t want to share a stage with someone actively encouraging the assassination of a political figure - even if I agree with the sentiment…

    I talk to my friends about wishing he was gone but I don’t want to be around him if he’s shouting about it at work, either.

    Transporter_Room_3 ,
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    Never thought I’d see the day where, when it comes down to it, JaBles shows he has no spine and folds like the cheap suit his character wore in school of rock.

    CaptainKickass ,

    Today we are all Kyle Gass fans

    xc2215x ,

    I understand Jack here.

    snue ,

    he didn’t cancel the tour - they did. Kyle Gass is as much a member of the band as Jack Black is

    FlyingSquid ,
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    Jack Black sure makes it sound one-sided.

    www.instagram.com/p/C9e5msPpC3y/

    snue ,

    You’re right about that - he doesn’t say ‘we’ once in that statement

    normally, people dismiss Gass a lot when talking about Tenacious D, but that statement really seems like it was only Jack’s decision

    thanks for telling me

    NineMileTower ,

    Last week Kyle quit the band Now we’re back together Misunderstanding Didn’t understand It doesn’t matter Now we’re back together again

    FlyingSquid ,
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    I so want this to be an epic version of that song.

    solsangraal ,

    they followed up the way they were “supposed to,” but they know low key everyone’s even more of a fan now

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