There's Still South Park

[Voluntarist]

60 minutes settled with Trump.
CBS cancels the Colbert show.
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... and then there's South Park (well, you'll need to login to YouTube to see it)

 

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Rolling Stone

 

[nikcers]

South Park isnt a news organization.

The news is a protected class in our system.

So when they punch other people and they get punched back we don't feel bad for them.

What we dont like in our culture is a sore loser though.

Trump won and all of the people attacking him look like crying babies even South Park.

When people lose the super bowl and riot and burn down their cities they arent celebrated as heroic.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Fourth-rate?

Whoa!

That's even worse than Thomas Massie, who is only third-rate.

So that's pretty bad!

 

[Voluntarist]

Fourth-rate?

Whoa!

That's even worse than Thomas Massie, who is only third-rate.

So that's pretty bad!

I'll have to put my Dante hat on and figure out what the nine circles of "rate" are!

 

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[Occam's Banana]

https://x.com/PlatoonPod/status/1948446645126856768

The thing political cultists of all stripes never Grok is that the more humourless and precious you are, the more sacred cows you put up, the funnier it is to offend you.

This was harder to do in Trump's first term because a) he is knowingly quite funny, b) the Left had a plague of particularly sacred (and particularly absurd) cows, and c) he was in office but not in power. It's less fun attacking someone who's already being attacked by every political/media/cultural institution in the world. The establishment response to Trump was just more worthy of ridicule than Trump himself. But that was inevitably going to change as the balance of power shifted.

 

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[nobody's_hero]

I'll always respect them for making fun of everyone equally but . . .

They've done better, IMO.

 

[Anti Globalist]

I'm assuming South Park was making fun of Joe Biden when he was in president.

 

[Voluntarist]

I'm assuming South Park was making fun of Joe Biden when he was in president.

No - but it's probably primarily due to the fact that there were only 12 regular episodes of South Park that came out during the Biden presidency (as opposed to 41 episodes during Trump's first term). And being blunt, Biden is too dull to be a ripe target for satire. About the only things you can do with him are having him hidden by his staff, or wandering about aimlessly. Trump, on the other hand, provides a target-rich environment for satire - he's the reality-TV president and a day doesn't pass by where he's not doing something outrageous. I think there was a special in which every time Biden was mentioned, the usual redneck characters would say "he turk er jerbs!" (in reference to lax border protocols). Biden was mentioned in the Qanon episodes, but it was as a target for the Qanon'ers.

Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, and Barack Obama have all been pilloried. South Park described George Clooney as having generated a cloud of smug that was headed towards South Park during one episode.

Trey Parker is registered as a Libertarian. At a conference hosted by Reason, both he and Matt Stone both said that "libertarian" is the political description that probably fits them best if they had to be labeled - though they don't think much of labels. They're also famous for saying, “I hate conservatives, but I really f**ing hate liberals.”

 

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[Voluntarist]

Referring, of course, to"

'This show hasn't been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention,' White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said in the statement.

'President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our country’s history – and no fourth-rate show can derail President Trump’s hot streak.'

 

[Voluntarist]

Da plane, boss, da plane!

A satire on the old "Fantasy Island" TV series - but also Mar-A-Lago Island (as an outlier from Epstein Island), as individuals on the plane are being groomed for sexual liaisons with Trump and Satan.

 

[Voluntarist]

Puppy-shooting, face-melting ICE villain. Counting the number of puppies shot was like counting the number of shots that John Wick takes in any of his namesake movies.
She's shooting the dogs. She's shooting the cats. She's shooting the pets, of the people that live there.

 

[Voluntarist]

The ICE raid on Heaven was a decent way to satirize the ICE Raids on churches. Oh, and yeah, she does shoot a puppy in heaven too.

 

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