“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!”
Am I the only one just tired of South Park? Cool, they shit on Trump. Like, I don’t know what having him have sex with Satan does.
The dude is funding and facilitating death camps by diverting funds from disaster relief programs.
Our country is two years into directly funding and defending a genocidal state.
I can’t bring myself to care enough to watch what fart and sex jokes the “enlightened centrist” at South Park have to make about it.
I’m just a bitter humourousless old man now I guess.
Edit: good comment in hindsight. I do like hearing the responses. If you still want to respond please understand I am a depressed far left dude that just had a family reunion of liberals talk more about South Park and zero about Palestine. Just some context to my frustration.
They’re assuming you’ve watched the South Park movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6prKZkSQUc
The point is Trump is the same as Saddam Hussein.
See the great part of it, it bruises their tiny little egos
I think it does significantly more for the egos of the people that enjoy “pointing at the problem” but doing nothing about it.
What are you doing about the problem? I’m not a U.S. citizen, so I fold out my chair and make some popcorn.
Glad you asked. I’m a dues paying member of both PSL, SDA, and started working with a “Tech for Palestine” group I just joined after being fired from my job at Microsoft for working with the activist group “No Azure for Apartheid”.
This week I have my first get together with the SRA (socialist rifle association).
Maybe I’m a loser. Maybe I’m just trying to fill a void personally. But I definitely don’t wanna just sit back and watch.
If you’re a non American I would tell you what I’ve warned my comrades in Europe, Canada or otherwise. The US empire doesn’t fall without the rest of the west. You can grab your popcorn. But the interest of American Imperialism are aligned with your capitalist as well.
The working class (you) will be paying the cost of empire as it struggles to maintain itself. You are not simply an observer. They are coming for your social programs too. And they’re already scapegoating immigrants and Muslims to prepare you for it.
Don’t think that. I don’t know you, so I can’t pass judgement…but my initial thought is that if you really are active in what you wrote, then you’re doing more to try to elicit change than 99% of your fellow citizens and should be commended for same.
Thanks mate.
I look at it as absurdist political humor, just like when they were making fun of Al Gore with ManBearPig and Hilly Clinton with The Snuke. Then there was them roasting the shit out of Saddam Hussein in the movie.
Rehashing Saddam Hussein as Trump was a bit lazy. They could have done better, but it was still entirely unexpected.
Rehashing Hussein as Trump wasn’t lazy, it was to draw a parallel between the 2.
In South Park, people ignored Al Gore’s warnings about ManBearPig because he sounded lame. Turned out ManBearPig was real.
In real life, people ignored Al Gore’s warnings about Global Warming because he sounded lame. Turned out Global Warming was real.
They often put a message in there you just have to look for it.
In the latest episode there’s a message about people doing horrible things because they’re desperate for money. Or maybe it’s just the system makes them feel like they need to make more money. Mackey is motivated to get a job at ICE because a social media influencer made him think making money mattered more than being a good person and the bank reinforced this. But in the end being a horrible person wasn’t actually profitable, and he just was pushed into doing more and more horrible things.
Going after Trump is difficult because the real life Trump is completely ridiculous to the point where they could just put real things he’s said on there and caption it with “These are things Trump has actually said” like they did in their episode on scientology. But that would get boring after few episodes.
Just portraying Trump like Saddam gets the message across that Trump is an authoritarian asshole that’s at the top, but what’s more interesting is going into the societal problems that enables the horrible things Trump and his minions can do. First episode goes into the corruption of religion, second episode goes into the capitalistic pressures on society.