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Tenacious D’s Newcastle show postponed after comment about Trump assassination attempt

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.

Rayspekt ,

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?

theacharnian ,
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Free speech, you snowflakes.

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

Grayox ,
@Grayox@lemmy.ml avatar

The Tenacious D movie is insanely funny, cant recommend it enough.

puppy ,

You mean to say that right wing politician can’t take a joke without getting offended? What a bunch of snowflakes. Man up, facts don’t care about your feelings!

tigeruppercut ,

So who actually postponed the show? One senator got his balls in a twist, but it doesn’t seem like anything official’s been done yet.

tobogganablaze ,

They (themselves) have now completely canceled the rest of the tour:

www.9news.com.au/…/74fb229f-dbef-45a4-8b72-107417…

Blackbeard ,
@Blackbeard@lemmy.world avatar

cAnCeL CuLtUrE11!!! fReEzE pEaCh!!!@

bolexforsoup ,

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

Don_Dickle ,

Now that is the truth. Also nice comparison with the Hindenburg

FlyingSquid ,
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That’s a deportation-worthy statement?

unexposedhazard ,

Land of the free, freedom of speech, lmao

RaoulDook ,

Yes Newcastle, Australia - the land of the free as it was always known

Norgur ,
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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

girlfreddy OP ,
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Pamper?

Pampers?

Norgur ,
@Norgur@fedia.io avatar

I got a toddler at home. I'm very familiar with their product range :P

Cheradenine ,

As far as immigration goes (even temporary) Oz still has the equivalent of moral turpitude regulations. They can be quite strict. They can also just say they don’t like the cut of your jib.

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison denied Djokovic was being singled out and said no-one was above the country’s rules. But he added that Djokovic’s stance on vaccination had drawn attention.

www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-59889522

Note that this is only an example of a famous person running afoul of Australian immigration. Anti vaxxers are of course assholes and morons.

Varyk , (edited )

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.

Album ,
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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.

Varyk ,

I remember them copying the truck convoys and other dumb American stunts.

WhatAmLemmy ,

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

Varyk ,

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

Plopp ,

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

Varyk ,

Are they? I haven’t read many articles about their recruitment numbers.

I feel like they’ve been steadily crawling out from under rocks, but I don’t know if the base itself is growing.

bassomitron ,

They absolutely are growing. They’re heavily targeting youth to indoctrinate, as well:

euronews.com/…/why-is-the-far-right-gaining-popul…

pbs.org/…/examining-the-warning-signs-of-online-e…

Varyk ,

Online extremism makes sense, and targeting the vulnerable makes sense, I’m more curious about the specific growth by numbers versus the numbers before, as far as we have them.

I’ll look into it.

So many socially progressive policies grow more popular according to general population polls, I can’t help but feel like the loud and proud conservatives are making it seem like there are more than their actually are.

Even in Europe, before Trump was a twinkle in he conservative eye, there were plenty of alt-right movements, they just weren’t socially acceptable.

I was in a tiny town in Austria one week and the bar patrons were complaining about some local fascist event/gathering that they were all embarrassed about, or so I was told.

comrade19 ,

Babet is a weird little dude. He preaches during an empty chamber and puts it on his social media as though he makes a difference about conspiracy theory enquiries.

Varyk ,

Wow, that is odd.

victorz ,

Gotta lick that boot eh

ProvableGecko ,

Australian government is like that

AllNewTypeFace ,
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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.

einkorn ,
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Maybe he did miss Trump and wants to really meet him at the next opportunity? 🤔

tobogganablaze ,

Based!

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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.

Babet, a United Australia party senator, demanded the federal government deport the band after Gass appeared to joke about Donald Trump’s attempted assassination at a Sydney concert on Sunday.

Video from the event showed Gass being presented with a birthday cake and told to “make a wish” as he blew out the candles.

“I call on the prime minister Anthony Albanese to join me in denouncing Tenacious D, Jack Black and band member Kyle Gass, and I call on the immigration minister Andrew Giles to revoke their visas and deport them immediately,” Babet said on Tuesday.

While conservative and pro-Trump accounts online were heavily critical of Gass’s comment, Tenacious D did receive some support from others.

Black has publicly criticised Trump previously, and recently appeared at a celebrity fundraiser for Joe Biden.

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