The incident occurred during the comedy duo’s recent performance in Sydney, Australia, during which Gass made a birthday wish onstage: “Don’t miss Trump next time.” While video showed attendees responding with laughter, the comment garnered the attention of right-wing politicians in Australia, who proceeded to call for Tenacious D’s deportation.
Taking the high road is swell, but also fuck off, Karen. Kyle Gass is a comedic rock’n’roller whose job includes improvising jokes for laughs. Maybe this joke wasn’t funny, but it’s a damned joke. Same joke, by the way, that I’ve heard from a few friends and seen on half a dozen blogs.
The MAGA crowd, including elected members of Congress, the Senate, Donald Trump, and J D Vance, constantly talk about arresting, imprisoning, shooting anyone who says or does anything they don’t like — and they’re not joking.
The hypocrisy is astounding.
It’s a fucking joke, while the MAGAs literally threaten violence on a daily basis and they are serious about it.
The MAGA crowd, including elected members of Congress, the Senate, Donald Trump, and J D Vance, constantly talk about arresting, imprisoning, shooting anyone who says or does anything they don’t like — and they’re not joking.
Yeah… And that’s one of the things that make them the problem. So maybe let’s not also be the problem?
Australia has a pretty documented history of banning artists who upset their governments/censors. It’s possible that Jack Black was just on damage control to keep playing drama-free shows in a beautiful country. Are we even entirely sure that it was TD’s solo decision to cancel the tour entirely?
What really frustrates me is the both sides where they compare this to stuff actual government offcials on the maga side do. These are not equivalent. no member of tenacious D holds office. no actual official democrat holding office says anything like what theirs do. Their reps represent the far right. dems at best rep a bit left of center and thats like bernie and they are still never nasty.
If Trump does win the election and the Supreme Court gives him his Enabling Act on day 1, it’s not a good idea to have any association with those about to be disappeared.
That’s not the right approach. That’s the subservience and compliance they want from their political violence. We need to be ungovernable, they can’t take us all, we need to ALL be the person they want to arrest!
Associate freely, don’t let them take your constitutionally enshrined freedoms away.
