Thread by @RobProvince

Let me explain to people who have never worked a concert venue before….

After Jack Black & his band Tenacious D celebrated the near assassination of Trump on Saturday they got about 10,000 calls and texts from all the concert venues they’d booked canceling their reservations. You see these places have to carry insurance to cover any mass casualty event. Some places it’s literally the law they have to have a certain level of coverage.

That insurance is very very expensive as you can imagine as you can be talking about 1000’s of people and potential liability. Insurance companies will even ask you to take out additional insurance for a specific event over and above the base insurance the venue carries

Wonder why your concert ticket is so high?

Thank Axl Rose (Google it kid)

So what do you think happened the second Jack Black and Company said this? Threat levels went off the charts. Phone calls to the concert venues, texts, emails, social media posts. All hell broke lose and there was no way in fuck these venues could afford the level of security these insurers were now wanting or could afford the new insurance bill they were going to be asked to pay.

So no… Jack Blacks heart didn’t magically grow 3 sizes that day. He didn’t have any self reflection. He didn’t suddenly have a moral compass.

He got his tour cancelled. He lost money. Won’t be getting on stage high on the good weed and shrooms and jamming with his buddies for millions of dollars and fans fanning his ago.

He will fly back from Australia and sit in his mansion getting high feeling incredibly put upon to have to pretend to have morals.