In hindsight, it was inevitable — Tenacious D, the band that gave us such explosively polemic lyrics as “Fligugigugeee”, the pioneers of “inward singing“, has finally pushed its radical message too far. At a show in Sydney, Kyle Gass, one half of the veteran stoner-comedy rock duo with actor Jack Black, made a tasteless offhand joke that his birthday wish was that someone makes an assassination attempt on Donald Trump that doesn’t miss.
Ralph Babet, United Australia Party’s senator for posting on social media, was first to leap into action, demanding
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