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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.

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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[–] mombutt_long_and_low@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

“First Amendment rights for me, but not for thee.”

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This was in Australia, who don't have a First Amendment.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Oh I'm sorry, I thought this was America!

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

This joke turned my whole day around

[–] EdgeOfDistraction@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We don't have free speech in our constitution, but we have protection of free speech in common law, unless it's explicitly banned by legislation, like some hate speech is.

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee -4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I would think asking for someone to be shot is kind of hate speech. Even in the US where there is explicitly free speech, that could get you arrested if it was believed it incited someone to actually do it. Like Trump did not attack the capitol that day, but he certainly should be held accountable for inciting it with his speech.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 4 months ago

Hate speech needs to target a group of people’s.

Hating Trump is fine, he’s not a group of people in need of protection, he’s an individual and being judged for his actions.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Big difference between an offhand comment at a comedy concert and having a sitting president invite an assemblage of men for the purpose of "taking back the country," especially when Trump and his cronies were part of a conspiracy to overthrow the government known as the 1776 plan..

Making an offhand remark at a comedy show without any imminent means or opportunity to act on the threat doesn't create an illegal conspiracy. It's not even a threat, as it totally lacks imminence. On January 6, Trump threatened the capital, the vice president, the Congress, the supreme Court, and the state department, while he stood before an angry mob, hundreds of steps away from these targets.

The only reason that coup attempt failed is because Trump was unable to convince a secret service and capital police to remove their metal detectors from the mall. Now they have project 2025, which aims to purge the government from anyone such as a secret service or Capitol Police Commander who puts the interests of America before the interests of one orange person.

[–] CableMonster@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

I thought we were going with "freedom of speech not freedom from consequences"?