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.

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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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Based!

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

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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.

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He also claimed that he went into politics as a ‘sacrifice’ for his country - the pay wasn’t enough for ‘all the suffering’ he’d have to ‘endure’ in parliament and all the work he’d be forced to do. He said he’d be much happier running his real estate business

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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True but now they’re all rallying behind Trump like he’s their divine leader.

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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.

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Wow, that is odd.

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Gotta lick that boot eh

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Australian government is like that

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Because “the people” figuring out there’s way more of them than there is of the ruling class is the only real fear the ruling class have.

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The Murdoch empire transcends borders

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In case it’s not clear to any Lemmings, Rupert Murdoch is an Australian and owns Fox News. His influence is the common thread between US and Australian conservative politics.

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Australian politics is American conservatism with thongs and tongs.

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🎵 Let me see those saaaaaandals! Sa-sa-sa-sa-sa-andals!

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They’re all on the same team. There are no borders with global fascism.

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And they all know it, but somehow politicians pretend like they’re all independent and any support or praise is just incidental.

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It’s crazy because if they made the same joke in America few people might be pissed, that’s about it. They wouldn’t be banned, and their demographic is not the type to be mad about that comment. It would barely actually affect them here.

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It’s just geopolitical Game of Thrones shit

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