‘Grow up’: Rudd goes after Tenacious D for a Trump joke. It’s 2024, baby!
17 Jul
Politics

‘Grow up’: Rudd goes after Tenacious D for a Trump joke. It’s 2024, baby!

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Politics tamfitronics 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 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...
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Fossil fuel execs welcome, Rudd goes stateside, and Labor doesn’t mind religion in politics after all
17 Jul
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Fossil fuel execs welcome, Rudd goes stateside, and Labor doesn’t mind religion in politics after all

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Politics tamfitronics Catch you on the Woodside A tipster got in touch to point out that the keynote address at the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ (AICD)WA Annual Awards Lunchon August 8 is to be delivered by none other than Resources Minister Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill. Okay, so this is WA, where no-one bats an eye when fossil fuels lobbyists co-write government press releases, the barrier between employment in government and at resource companies is basically a sieve, and fossil fuel companies sponsor everything, including the person of year awards they give to Gina Rinehart. Still, O’Neill’s appearance is noteworthy given, as our tipster points out, how hard AICD has gone on climate governance elsewhere. AICD hosts the Australian chapter of theClimate Governance Initiativewhich among other things supports directors to “embed climate considerations into board...
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The Whirlwind Of Events Defies What We Know About The Slow Grind Of Politics
17 Jul
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The Whirlwind Of Events Defies What We Know About The Slow Grind Of Politics

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Politics tamfitronics A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.Sign upfor the email version.Politics tamfitronics History Comes At You FastThe rapid-fire series of events over the past 18 days has been as mind-bending a stretch in American politics as I can remember. Less than three weeks ago, Donald Trump was awaiting sentencing for his conviction in New York state on 34 felony counts and needed to win the presidential election to have any chance of avoiding additional criminal convictions and likely jail time. Then came President Biden’s Thursday night debate debacleleaving the anti-Trump forces adrift in the doldrums over whether Biden should remain as the Democratic nominee....
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Violence plagued all levels of American politics long before the attempt on Trump’s life
17 Jul
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Violence plagued all levels of American politics long before the attempt on Trump’s life

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Politics tamfitronics The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Long before a would-be assassin wounded former President Donald Trumpthe fuse of political violence had been burning across America.Members of Congress have been shot. One lawmaker's staffers in Virginia were attacked with a baseball bat. In Louisville, a bullet grazed the mayor’s sweater after someone stormed into his campaign office. Someone put a tracking device on the Reno mayor's car. Officials in South Carolina received death threats over a solar panel plant. And outside Buffalo, a man threw a dummy pipe bomb through the window of a county clerk candidate's home — with a message reading: “If you don’t drop out of this race, the next pipe...
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