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sl8

(16,128 posts)
Tue Jul 16, 2024, 07:28 AM Jul 16

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

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/16/tenacious-d-newcastle-show-postponed-donald-trump-shooting-assassination-comments-ntwnfb

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

Australian senator Ralph Babet demands the duo, Hollywood star Jack Black and musician Kyle Gass, be deported over the latter’s comment

Josh Butler and Daisy Dumas
Tue 16 Jul 2024 03.20 EDT

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.

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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. 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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Tenacious D's Newcastle show postponed after comment about Trump assassination attempt (Original Post) sl8 Jul 16 OP
Babet is a right wing loon. ForgoTheConsequence Jul 16 #1

ForgoTheConsequence

(4,915 posts)
1. Babet is a right wing loon.
Tue Jul 16, 2024, 08:06 AM
Jul 16

Sad that this venue capitulated to him. I thought conservatives were against "cancel culture"?

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