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Jack Black cancels Tenacious D tour and places future projects on hold after Kyle Gass comments on Trump (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Jack Black announced on Instagram that he's cancelled the rest of the Tenacious D world tour and placed future projects on hiatus.

This happened after his bandmate Kyle Gass sparked controversy by commenting on the recent Donald Trump assassination attempt.

At their recent Sydney show, Kyle Gass was given a birthday cake and asked to make a wish for his 64th birthday, to which he said "Don't miss Trump next time."

In his later statement, Black said he was "blindsided" by his bandmate's comment and condemned any calls for political violence.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Advocating shooting someone is just "mean things" now?

I understand the sentiment, but it doesn't all fall under the same umbrella. Saying he has small hands and advocating that someone shoot him dead are not the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I understand your sentiment as well, but it gets old seeing so much hand-wringing about advocating violence against a fascist who advocates violence while giving his violent followers a pass. "Oh, that's just how they are! We have to coddle them or they'll kill people! But you're terrible!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, Trump was mid-speech "here's how we're going to deport every single just-minding-their-own-business brown family from our country" when he got shot, too.

Not that that was why he got shot, but it does make all the handwringing funnier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Apparently turning his head to check his immigration notes saved his life. This is how we know there is no god.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I get that its a heavily inappropriate thing to say right now, but at the end of the day it's an edgy joke, and while ending the tour because of security concerns (and pr concerns) makes sense, cutting all professional ties with the guy seems a bit extreme, especially since he's already apologized

[+] [email protected] -8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Having an effigy of a beheaded Trump is more of an edgy joke (Kathy Griffin in 2017). Wishing an assignation attempt that actually occurred to have been successful is a little different.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm talking about Kyle Gass here, was it him or Kathy Griffin that did the effigy? That's a lot more than making a joke about a possible president thats more than likely going to fuck up the entire world hadnt dodged a bullet, but again, if it wasnt, and were just talking about a joke, Once again its not inappropriate enough to end an entire lifetime relationship over, especially after he apologized and owned up to it being inappropriate

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Did he actually end a relationship? Or just cancel the tour? I would argue that if he would have died and actually become a martyr it would be much worse. I also don't think of he does actually win the whole world is going to be f'd up. Thats mostly just rhetoric. Will he suck? Yup. Will he be there next putin that has unlimited terms? No chance.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

If you think another Trump presidency isnt going to seriously have a negative effect on the world, I do not have the energy to engage with you on this