'Grow up': Rudd goes after Tenacious D for a Trump joke. It's 2024, baby!
'Grow up': Rudd goes after Tenacious D for a Trump joke. It's 2024, baby!
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has demanded Jack Black 'grow up and get a decent job', following calls from a supposed 'free speech' senator. Politics in 2024 is quite something.
The joke was dumb, the online reaction to the joke was dumb, a random UAP senator's dumb comments being quoted globally was dumb and Rudd telling famous musicians and actors to "grow up and get a job" was very dumb. What a time we live in.
This has all been taken far too seriously.
Y i k e s
"Physically ill" jesus christ you wailing daisy
He's hedging his bets. He's been on the record calling Mr Trump a nutter and a danger to civilisation. If he is reelected in November, Mr Rudd's position as US Ambassador is non-tenable.
By openly supporting him now, he gets to keep his job in the event of President Trump 2.0.
I think there is also an element of the political elite attempting to look after themselves in the wake of an assassination attempt on one of their own. No high level politician is going to be encouraging or dismissing violence if there's even the slightest chance they could be a future victim to it.
Ralph Babet, United Australia Party's senator for posting on social media, was first to leap into action, demanding the band be deported:
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.
This is the same senator who in April refused to take down graphic footage of the attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel from his X account because: "Without free speech our nation will fall".
In the U.S., this kind of hypocrisy is so common that people apparently no longer notice it -- if they even did in the first place.
Comedians are gonna tell edgy jokes. What's new. Sounds like a big over reaction.
What is the appropriate response to fascists though? Can we joke about them getting hung from lamp posts or is it too soon?
I am driving in country SA this morning and I see a fossil in a red trump hat walking in the car park in front of my bumper. He would have been fucked if I was driving a Tesla or one of those stupid yank tanks. Thought about telling him to fuck off back to America or throwing a Seig Heil but I think the sad old fuck was just looking for attention and I wasn't going to play. His grand kids probably don't talk to him anymore since they succumbed to the "woke mind virus". Poor fucker, joining a doomsday cult must be isolating.
Over a century ago the locals were goose stepping down the street in support of the Kaiser. Nothing much has changed I guess. While we will be dealing with the consequences if the US fucks things up this isn't our war. People who are disconnected from society think it is but why become one of those sad fucks.
Ngl I watched the video and it really seemed to me like Jack Black said "thank you" as a way to smile and nod and move on. Regardless of whether or not he thinks it, whether he agrees, whether he's said it in private, whether he's a democrat, he's not the one who said it. What do people expect him to have done? Call off the show then and there, scold his bandmate on what's politically acceptable to say?
It was absolutely the wrong thing to say and Gass is reaping what he sowed, but it sucks to see Jack Black catch so much shit by association. I don't think he played it wrong. He broke up the band, man. What else does he have going on?
I don't think the band broke up, they'll just take a break during the rest of the election cycle. No point continuing to perform when the crazies are sending you death threats.
It's not a joke, it's a approval of, and a call for another, assassination attempt.
Settle down, mate. It was dark humour, and us Aussies used to be much better at dealing with it, rather than the ridiculous hyperbole we've seen from our pollies.
I don't condone violence against others, but I can appreciate the dark humour in this situation, where a presidential candidate that has been endorsed by the NRA and refuses to entertain a conversation about gun control, was shot at.
That country is seriously fucked up and, frankly speaking, deserves to be laughed at by the rest of the world for the shitty place they've all put themselves in.
where a presidential candidate that has been endorsed by the NRA and refuses to entertain a conversation about gun control, was shot at.
Especially since he's been calling for violence against others for years.
but I can appreciate the dark humour in this situation, where a presidential candidate that has been endorsed by the NRA and refuses to entertain a conversation about gun control, was shot at.
I don't think there was that much thought put into it. It was likely just the first thing that came to mind, just as it was for the countless others who made the same joke before him. That's why I say it was dumb, because it was lazy and unfunny, but it was also pretty obviously played for laughs and not "aNoThEr CaLL fOR aSsAsSiNaTiOn".
Just locker room talk.
Several 80's comedians literally built their careers on regan and pjp attempts. Lost count of the number of times we all watched people hurling shoes at Bush jnr. There is an industry around Kennedy deaths.
Trump isn't a special princess who gets to be immune. Harden tf up
Harden tf up
The Choppa we all need
Funny how no one gave a shit when Trump literally called for an assassination attempt. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/us/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton.html
look at this septic cunt here, trying to be the fun police.
EDIT: translation into Muricanese: behold this American person, attempting to spoil a joke.
It was a joke
I think we have a cultural disconnect here friend. Glancing at your history to see if I want to block for psyops, this comment looks like a stollen account or something.
BTW your post about a Tai Yai translator, maybe look into the Chinese Yi 34b LLM. I didn't find a language diagram at a glance, but that is a multi lingual model. There is probably some overlap that contains Tai Yai. I would give it a bunch of momentum with a starting prompt containing a lot of Tai Yai, like 3000 words plus as a lead into the actual task. If the language is there but not a primary part of training, you might get useful results.
Like I have an LLM that can write code snippets for the extremely obscure Flash Forth language for micro controllers simply by building momentum like this because the info is present in the base model, but is buried deep inside. Depends on your use case.
Anyways, I don't pretend to know anything about you, but like, in the USA, Trump is basically running as a Nazi. He is the most dangerous threat to the entire world right now. Republicans are platonic sophists. If you live in areas they control, you only see the dumbest spins and bowdlerized garbage in all forms of easy to find media. It is inevitable, if Trump is elected or overthrows the government, millions of people will die; actually innocent people; people with ethics. It is part of our culture to say fuck that bullshit and value millions of people over Orange Hitler. I have deep respect for anyone that tried to kill Hitler during and before WW2. It takes a real patriot to set themselves aside completely for such a just and noble cause.
Nah it was said in an official capacity mate, so uh fuck off eh?