“South Park” is back to once again mock President Donald Trump — and this time, Vice President JD Vance, too.

The Comedy Central show took aim at the president, as well as Vance and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, in its latest episode, “Got A Nut,” which aired on Aug. 6.

The episode revolves around school counselor Mr. Mackey being fired from his job and, because he’s desperate for money, joining Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A parody ad for the federal agency mocks its recruitment process, with a jingle declaring, “We don’t ask for experience, just show up!”

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    21 days ago

    While I find this season hasn’t been terribly well written or even all that funny, I really enjoy watching these episodes. In this time of instability and chaos, it feels somewhat cathartic to see them just go balls-to-the-wall with their insults on these absolute bastards. On a meta level, they seem to be dropping nuance to get reactions from their targets and even hoping to get sued, perhaps looking to shed light on some hypocrisy in their targets. Or maybe they are just Trey and Matt, frustrated at the current political situation and not inclined to give a fuck anymore. Cartman’s confusion is probably just them acknowledging their difficulty parodying people whose entire life is a farce.

    The end credits were a fucking riot, though.

    Illegitimi non carborundum.

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      This episode felt like a south park episode. The first was purely an attack on Trump, which may have been necessary, but it’s not a great episode of south park.

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      Talking of age restrictions…

      “Do you think you could now be banging 24-year-olds,” Stern asked in the 2006 interview.

      “Oh, absolutely,” Trump responded “I have no trouble.”

      “Would you do it” Stern clarified.

      “I have no problem,” the future president said.

      Stern’s co-host Robin Quivers then asked, “do you have an age limit or would you…”

      “If I- No, no, I have no age–. I mean, I have an age li…” Trump replied.

      Then, when asked to provide his “upper bracket,” Trump said, “I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds.”

      https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-told-howard-stern-2006-223928455.html (there are more sources for this)

      So 13 is the obese imbeciles age limit … when talking on a national(?) radio show!!

      1. Thirteen. Hmmmm. Why does 13 and tRUMP seem so icky and familiar. Oh, yes, now I remember…
        https://www.courthousenews.com/rape-allegations-refiled-against-trump/
        (If anyone doesn’t want to read this then basically he and Epstein tied up, beat, and raped a 13 years old and then made threats to keep them all quiet)
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      25 minute episode makes a headlines everyday until the next episode comes out which oddly enough isn’t each week because of how culturally relevant the episodes are the fucking president threatened their network.

      I don’t know that there’s ever been a more culturally relevant show… Even back when they’re only like three channels.

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      A good thing for Kristi Noem and me. I would not have known about her methods otherwise.

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    I wonder if they didn’t purposefully work to encourage this inevitable clusterfuck for content when they downplayed how fucked-up Trump is in Season 20.

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    This is the 14 month old puppy Kristi bragged about shooting. She then shot a pet goat that “disgusted” her.

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    The Vance character is fucking hilarious. Herve Villechaize from Fantasy Island is spot on. Also the eyeliner, fat checks and Trump fluffing. Not to mention putting lube on Satan so Trump can fuck him. Perfect.

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    This is all such a circus. But we are not getting the bread, well a very small portion of us are getting it all, and a few places are holding the vast majority of the rest of the wealth among their peons.