"I would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form."
Let’s be honest here. Surf rock and surfing go together like… oysters and fussy accoutrement. I was at a Danish restaurant, recently, and the waiter asked if we wanted our oysters raw or with garnish. I immediately said “raw.” Others at the table looked at me and said “with garnish.” I shrugged, they won, the oysters came out weird and everyone knew it was a less than perfect pairing.
Do you love Dick Dale?
Exactly.
In any case, Australian surfers thrilled, earlier, when the very funny actor Jack Black announced his band Tenacious D was visiting the proverbial down under. Tickets were sold in bulk, Australian surfers girded their loins, and then…
… a lone gunman took a shot at former US President, and current US Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump.
You certainly know the story, thanks the Queen of Pipeline, and tragic etc. though Jack Black’s Tenacious D bandmate Kyle Glass apparently misread the room.
At the Sydney stop of the tour, and directly after the assassination attempt, Glass was presented with a birthday cake, as it was his birthday. When asked for his wish, he responded, “Don’t miss Trump next time.”
Black, a paragon of virtue, immediately took to social media, afterwards, to declare, “I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday. I would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form,” and forthwith canceled the rest of the tour, stating, “After much reflection, I no longer feel it is appropriate to continue the Tenacious D tour, and all future creative plans are on hold. I am grateful to the fans for their support and understanding.”
Surfers on the Gold Coast, at Bells Beach and in Margaret River weeping in their ice cube laced white wines.
Glass, for his part, immediately fell on his sword, stating, “I don’t condone violence of any kind, in any form, against anyone. What happened was a tragedy, and I’m incredibly sorry for my severe lack of judgement. I profoundly apologize to those I’ve let down and truly regret any pain I’ve caused.”
But damage done.
A lightly regarded Australian politician blasted, “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.”
No word, as of yet, if visas revoked but tour certainly canceled.
Peak Victoria Bitter.
Here’s a question for you, though. Would you turn on a decades’ old friend over a mistimed joke?
Of course yes.
Yes?
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Millions of people across the planet said the same thing, we can’t all be bad. F*** fascism I’ll do whatever it takes to bring some b****** down. Sorry not sorry.
just a Focusrite 18i8. 2 mics is really enough for me to do what I’m doing, but sometimes the temptation to get more is too great, and it was cheap af.
8 input interface to get more mics on them drums.
Otto thinks Little Shop of Horrors is so underground that you didn’t know what he meant. hahahha
No, I know he’s as retarded as you, and that the obvious escapes him.
I actually want see and hear what Dave Chapelle and Chris Rock have to comment ?
does anyone really care what they said?
You don’t get the reference
Okay Seymour
I’d only buy an electric vehicle if I was assured all charging stations were fed by coal fired power plants.
there’s nothing progressive about seeing everything through a racial/skin/hair color lens.
a good dog is a good dog. No matter the breed.
It’s as if those eye holes cut into Ku Klux Klan hoods are what you progressives used as a template for the lenses you use to see the world.
Yeah this really obvious trick doesn’t work anymore dude. Y’all need new material, yawn.
Your wife insisted I take them home as a trophy. Something to remember her by. I knotted them up. My black lab loves chewing on them now.
I’m impressed one of your(AU) politicians isn’t full socialist. Deport Them!🤙
He’s probably the biggest joke in Aus politics. Get a look at the cunt.
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…What in the Watch List is happening here… Kaipo couldn’t style that shirt.
This. I doubt you’d care though, Mike.
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ALL jokes/memes/cut downs are allowed under the “Comedy Get’s A Pass Act”. Comegapa for short. FOr fucks sake, I support the Orange Man Rad. BUt I’m PRO Comedy tasteful/tasteless. Look, this guy is some huge, glutinous organ grinder monkey. He will do ANYTHING for a buck from you kuks! Expect his material to be crap, just like his musical talent. He’s a burger away from a heart attack. Just ignore these sad jokers, and move on.
Here Here!!!
Funny that @disqus_4ZEI65TEdZ:disqus upvoted this after getting his knickers in a twist regarding my, can’t believe the bullet missed Trump, gag.
I voted this because Val is correct…..bu you are not a comedian, so the Comegapa does not apply to you.
You seem all worked up, you okay.
Some would also that Tenacious D couldn’t be classified as comedians. Me? Just working, you know. Just got a good deal on some audio equipment and some L.P’s though. Having a pretty good day so far.
How many bpm’s are we talking about here?
or a KFC bucket away from a heart attack..wait is that JB or ol donny boy ……LOL!!
100%, Comedians apologizing isn’t the way forward for anything.
Send in Templeton, noone will notice the difference, except the music being better.
Comedians on a stage isn’t exactly polite company.
remember Rodney Rude?
Unfortunately I do.
Also, fucking wild that Biden called the wife of the guy that got shot and killed, and Trump didn’t.
noticed that too. wtf
Corey Comperatore…and Trump were shot on Saturday, three days ago.
The Republican National Convention began on Monday.
Trump will not call her. he will visit with her at the appropriate time.
Her husband was killed on Saturday. She has many things to concern herself with and needs time to grieve and reorganize her and her daughters lives. people should leave her alone so she can organize his funeral and get their affairs in order, no matter how many political points they want to score.
BTW- Donald Trump’s campaign (which immediately started and a go fund me campaign) has raised more than $4million for the families of the three men either killed and wounded during Saturday’s assassination attempt.
As of writing the number on the Trump-sanctioned GoFundMe was at $4,328,763 – more than four times its initial $1million goal. ~ Daily Mail, July 15
Pretty wild that he wouldn’t touch base, no? What are the odds he’s donated exactly fuck all of his own money.
0%
he will personally hand her a check when the time is appropriate, including his donation.
agree there is 0 % chance of donny’s donation
yep so it’s all about the money….as otto says he’ll call her in a few weeks ??
She refused Biden’s call. Trump set up a gofundme for her and the other victims that has raised millions.
I know all this, Mike.
Trump did call her.
She said he did, and that he told her he’d be calling her often in the coming weeks
Ah, so she changed her story. How convenient.
Biden rushing to the phone to call her first is as obscene as the shooter himself, if he were still alive, rushing to the phone to call the widow.
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Did he call her Kamala after she answered the phone.
That’s funny
Pip is posting photos of him pulling into barrels at Chopes
See second latest post!
Good thing they didn’t joke about Nancy Pelosi’s husband nearly being killed. Imagine the repercussions then! Oh, wait.
is this the amazingly offensive remark you’re referring to?
“We’ll stand up to crazy Nancy Pelosi, who ruined San Francisco — how’s her husband doing, anybody know?” Trump said to a raucous crowd of California Republicans at a state party convention. “And she’s against building a wall at our border, even though she has a wall around her house — which obviously didn’t do a very good job.”
Be pretty cool to know what you’d think if someone cracked wise about Mrs Happy Camper shortly after she’d had the fuck beat out of her with a hammer.
is this the quote your talking about?
Clearly it is, and I never said it was amazingly offensive, you did. I’m looking forward to your gotcha moment, though, when you explain why it’s not that bad, and you will be wrong, again.
Further, you didn’t tell me what you’d do if someone said something like that after your missus took a hammer to the head. “Happy Camper dug a moat around his house to keep out the libs, but, oh dear”. (shrugs shoulders).
I’d actually never heard the quote so googled it when you brought it up, so was just asking if that was the quote.
If you read the content prior to this excerpt he was talking about how bad San Francisco is with crime and how Pelosi, (et al) have turned a once great city into a hellhole, which is true.
taking it in context I’d say the quote is moreso about how dangerous Sia Francisco is, but that’s how I read it because I read the entire content instead of the snippet, but take it as you wish.
Now as far as you even suggesting my wife getting her brains bashed in with a hammer (twice), that’s disgusting and you even saying it makes me want to bash your brains in, you piece of shit.
You, now you got me angry, you keyboard pussy. you win.
come say it to my face.
I would never say anything about harm coming to your wife.
Your usually pretty bottom of the barrel with your comments, but this is beneath the barrel.
Nice that you can see that quote in the context that you want to see it in, but not the context in where I am explaining that what Cheeto said is a fucked thing to say, by way of making up a hypothetical situation regarding your wife. At no point do or would I wish any harm on you significant other. That’s some Trump shit.
edit: Also, Nancy and many other Dems have denounced the attempted Cheeto explosion, something I doubt that clown show would ever do without his tongue firmly in his puffy cheek.
I don’t give a shit about anything you say, besides what you said about my wife.
Fuck off Gunt. You say that shit about my wife in front of me and I would fuck you up beyond belief.
you are not a man, because a man would never say that about another mans wife. ever!
You could have used a million other examples but you say that horrific shit about my wife? you say that about the love of my life?
you dare to put that image in my head?
you found my goat, cunt! you win, you slimy piece of shit.
Hopefully when I return to Australia, we meet.
Now, FUCK OFF!
If only you were this engaged when people on here, possibly including you, actually, have wished death on people that you don’t like, who live lifestyles that you don’t approve of. You know, those people have lovers too. But no, a completely imaginary scenario akin to what Nancy Pelosi went through. Good to see where your priorities lie.
I have never ever wished death on anyone here.
You can’t wiggle your way out of this one.
So, just fuck off and leave me alone.
now calm down…..how di dya feel about ol donny’s, grab em by the pussy quote…I thought it was comment on the USA womenof the USA?
shut up Brutus.
This has nothing do with Trump, it has to do with Pauly being a complete piece of shit sad excuse for a man.
You of all people know what would happen to lil’ Pauly in Hawaii, if he ever said anything like what he said about my wife.
fucking hospital the cunt, then a free ride to the airport with more slaps, when he got out.
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now…..I don’t really react to nameless’ people on Forums who threaten violence ..tuff guy keyboard warriors …….we are on BG butt…..I thought when donny made his grab em by the pussy quote….was a reflection of what he thought of merrycan women….
I’m not talking about wishing death on anyone that posts here, you dense fuck. Had a few things to say about trans people though, among others, haven’t you. I’m also not trying to wiggle out of anything. If you can’t tell the difference between my making a hypothetical scenario to get something through your thick skull, and actually wishing harm on someone, well I don’t know what to tell ya, apart from it seems that Nancy Pelosi has more balls than you.
(Edit: cos you’re an idiot, so I had to add more CONTEXT)
Fuck, hang on a minute, you’ve talked trash on my wife before, you silly, silly man.
you crossed the line cunt. I joke about you being gay. it’s a joke, bitch
I’ve never said anything bad about your wife and nothing harmful, certainly never would I say anything like what you said.
I’m over it, and fucking over you bitch, so get the fuck over it and stop commenting to me and trying to wiggle your way out of being a complete shut cunt.
I couldn’t care less what you call me, especially your idiotic gay slurs, fella, and you have said shit about my wife, but I don’t care, because you’re just some redneck fuckhead.
Its all fun and games until @disqus_4zei65tedz:disqus goes Will Smith. I might’ve to ban you Pauly.
I can’t see why, but sure.
I’m always hopeful for the head office complaint. Love someone taking the time to email Chas or Dez about mine or someone’s else’s behaviour. Like I give a fuck!
Remember your 24 page rebuttal to my complaint to Dave ages ago, ?
Yes! You were publicly crying and I felt bad for you.
You got got!!
Release the Trollknownas files!
he got my goat for a minute,
but movin’ on.
the pussy’s not worth it.
Not pointing fingers but you and Pauly been playing the “I’m not butt hurt” game and to be honest as an outsider looking in, He’s winning. Just.
winning? losing? no such thing until there’s a knock out.
Just?!
Both are fools for commenting on politard articles here and being surprised when it gets personal. The only one who wins is the writer of the article with their 2/10 trolling.
Please don’t these outbursts make this site worth visiting
It’s too late for him to keep out the libs. They’re the demons tormenting his every thought.
Typical Cali vibe.
This weird old surfer guy who has a hotel and several apartment complexes in CR, dressed as the attacker of Mr. Pelosi on Halloween and went around knocking on everyone’s door, he thought it was absolutely hilarious.
Two dudes half naked with a hammer is naturally funnier than a assasination attempt
It wasn’t the greatest joke in the world.
Xox
1 and 1 make 2 and 2 and 1 make three
Skinny dipping in a Sea of Lee!
jesus!!!!!!!! explains the absence at Rio????
One joke drops
Work stops.
very similar to the CFMEU credo
2 raindrops, work stops
Hey ! It’s 3 drops on a rollie paper.
Bloody fake news ….
That woulda been after ruthless negociation and bags of cash