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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.

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”

Transporter_Room_3 ,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

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.

solsangraal ,

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

nokturne213 ,

If they can say the quiet part out loud, why can’t we?

radivojevic ,

Because of mods. Most other communities on Lemmy will let you crack jokes like that. There are two specific mods who just perm ban anyone saying that about Trump, but not about Biden

mozz ,
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I would be extremely surprised if joking about assassinating Biden was kosher with any of the mods

Passerby6497 ,

Because everyone outside of the right thinks you have to uphold decorum while they burn shit down around our ears.

mozz ,
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You’re not wrong, but not normalizing political assassinations is about quite a bit more than “decorum”

This is like saying “well this guy is doing date rapes so I don’t see why I can’t joke about raping his sister”

The answer is 0 assassinations. The answer is the rule of law. I actually 100% agree with you that most of the political left has its head in the sand about the urgency of coming to grips with what the right wants to do and stopping it, but “let’s go ahead and have the civil war then, what’s the worst that could ensue” is about the worst possible take and strategy that you could employ in response

Passerby6497 ,

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not advocating for anyone being assassinated at all. But my point still stands, in that the right has no sense of decorum and everyone else falls over themselves to tone police anything even slightly unseemly.

mozz ,
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Like I say, you're not wrong on that; I only really said anything because of the topic where it's being discussed and the implication to this event.

Somewhere between tone policing, and approving of the assassination of your opponents, the truth lies.

usualsuspect191 ,

I’d argue there’s a big difference between wishing someone to be killed, and witnessing them almost die and wishing the outcome had just been a bit different. Like, you don’t want it it happen in the first place, but have an opinion on the outcome if it did anyways.

He’s not saying “I wish someone would go out and kill Trump”, it’s “if a bullet was already flying towards Trump I wish it had hit him, especially instead of a random crowd member behind him”.

kshade ,
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He’s not saying “I wish someone would go out and kill Trump”, it’s “if a bullet was already flying towards Trump I wish it had hit him, especially instead of a random crowd member behind him”.

He said “don’t miss Trump next time”.

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

xc2215x ,

I understand Jack here.

Melatonin ,

I don’t let my kids get away with “He did it first!”

We want change? We want to see more rational and measured speech in the public forum? We want good to win over evil?

Then sure, we fight evil. But we keep our character. If we don’t, then what’s the difference if they win or we do?

Omegamanthethird OP ,
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I do not condemn people who celebrate murderers and rapists getting the death penalty. And I even feel the same way myself, although I don’t support the death penalty.

I refuse to condemn people who want him gone, even though I don’t want a system that allows it.

snooggums ,
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“Hitler should have lived to be defeated with words!”

Omegamanthethird OP ,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t want a system that allows political violence. However, I would not have been upset if they were successful in this case.

snooggums ,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

Exactly.

Trump has promoted enough violence and the Republicans have put up enough barriers to holding him accountable that we are on the precipice of a fascist toyalitarian regime. Since SCOTUS has made putting him in jail impossible for the forseeable future, his death is the second best option and I am disappointed that someone from his own side failed.

Melatonin ,

We fight evil. But not with death camps. We don’t use their methods.

Is that so hard to understand?

snooggums ,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

It isn’t hard since I am only supporting violence as a defense to violence. The leap to death camps doesn’t fit in there anywhere.

Try to keep up.

Melatonin ,

Political violence.

A whole different ball of wax.

Hey I won’t be continuing this back and forth with you because I’m pretty sure you’re not the type who will ever agree with me. So have a nice day.

snooggums ,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

Oh, then I guess nobody should defend themselves against violence if it would be seen as pOlItIcAl

PepperoniNipple ,

Dude, absolutely everything is political. Everything, since the dawn of time, 2024 years ago up to today.

Hating on black people, treating them like shit, same for gays, transexuals, women, immigrants… It’s all political. Politics is just another word for influence, influencers, people with the power to lie and fool a bunch of idiots into getting innocent people killed for stupid reasons like the ones I just listed.

Refusing to do anything about it or play this stupid game of “violence scawy, violence is not the answer” just makes you as evil as they are, because of people with mindsets like yours, millions of poor vulnerable people are paying for your comfort with their lives every goddamn day.

As a mexican, I fucking despise when I see you treat 9/11 like “the worst thing that has ever happened in human history”, or when you call yourselves “expats” instead of what you truly are, an illegal immigrant alien pos. Way more mexicans have died to americans than americans have died to mexicans, you lost our sympathy a long time ago, all of it. And seeing half pf you still voting for Trump again is just the end of it, a lot of us are openly welcoming China and Russia to come here to do whatever the fuck they want. We know you hate that, and we don’t care anymore thanks to inhumane mindsets and attitudes like yours and all of republicans’

ohwhatfollyisman ,

this comment needs to be higher. it’s amazing how little self-awareness people have when they show astonishment that only Trump can act like Trump.

well, duh, that’s why he’s a dickhead. wishing him harm only makes one another bird of the same feather.

FlyingSquid ,
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Can I wish, like Douglas Adams said of the second-worst poet in the universe:

his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain

WanderingVentra ,

Wishing harm on someone who causes other people greater harm for causing that harm doesn’t make you the same at all.

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

“It’s good that Batman has spared the Joker dozens of times, allowing him to kill thousands of people!”

Duke_Nukem_1990 , (edited )

Right??

They go low, we go high!!! (and then we die)

helios ,
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The Kyle Gass project is outta control!

art ,
@art@lemmy.world avatar

The Ballad of Hollywood Jack and the Rage Kage.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

The Ballad of the Rocker Who Rocks and Whiny Jack

MehBlah ,

Looks like jack used it as an excuse. Of course since he does live in the fluffy clouds of stardom he might really be that pretentious.

DarkCloud ,

Might also be because a senator for the local dumb dumb party wanted to kick them out. Australian officials kinda love doing that as publicity. Freaking out on American celebrities is a political game, ever since someone did it to Johnny Depp and Amber Herd… And their dogs… And private jet that didn’t bother with docking at customs.

Corkyskog ,

Wasn’t their a Simpsons episode about something like that

rimmedalpha ,

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

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.

TunaCowboy ,

Cowardly nepo baby isn’t tenacious, absolute shocker.

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