4d ago

After uproar, 'South Park' pummels Trump again and hits at JD Vance, Kristi Noem

www.usatoday.com

"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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To be honest the funniest part of that whole episode was Vance. I lost my shit at the end when he came up.
- Go back and look at Mar a Lago's couches.
  
  Lol that's fucking amazing
  
  I'm not getting it
- The fact they did a fantasy island gag was perfect. Not many got the joke.
  
  I didn't get it. Was it just that he was short?
  
  Seriously, I was thinking you have to be a really old fart like me to remember that show.
- Why didn't they do the baby jd face 😭😭😭
  
  They did. His face was edited.
  
  I was REALLY hoping they would. Would have pissed vance off a lot.
Bunch of snowflakes, the lot of them 😂
Release the Epstein files
Noem's face crawling across the floor was horrifyingly fantastic. And the dogs...
- The dogs were intense. Like the detail of each shot. They really wanted to hammer home thay this person is a monster. And i thank them for it.
- less horrifying than her actual face
- Based on the Substance.
How timely with ice just removing its age restrictions. Good stuff.
- 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!!
  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)
  
  For a second i thought this was going to be the interview where trump admits his 17 year old daughter made him promise to stop dating girls younger than her.
  Dude publicly told on himself a lot.
  
  trump really is a POS. Fuck trump.
  
  national(?)
  It was definitely national by 2006. I was listening to his show in Cleveland in the '90s.
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.
- 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.
i thought shooting the dog was just a parody
but she did shot a family dog
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/27/kristi-noem-kills-dog-farm/73481257007/
- It's also the breed my family has had historically. She killed the dog because it was too energetic. She killed the dog because of what it was.
  
  In writing we call that foreshadowing.
- And a goat.
  She's demented.
#RespectClydesAuthority had me choking.
Man, this "irrelevant show" has been making headlines every week now...
- 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.
- A good thing for Kristi Noem and me. I would not have known about her methods otherwise.
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.
- Partially yes. I guess they are owning their mistakes now by airing these episodes
  
  Closing the barn door after the horse is gone
I love how JD Vance came to the bedroom with Trump and Satan and said 'would you like me to apply baby oil to zee asshole?' in a stupid French accent. It was hilarious! Yes I know the whole part was a reference to Fantasy Island, it was hilarious
- I keep re-watching that part over and over again cause it’s so damn funny.
In total, how many puppies were killed? It must have been at least 5.
- The credits scene implied a lot more
  
  If it was three shots per kill, at approximately 56 shots, that’s nearly 18.
I'm starting to think they're doing this on purpose.
This is the 14 month old puppy Kristi bragged about shooting. She then shot a pet goat that “disgusted” her.
- That dog deserved a better life.
- Poor dog. Only 14 months old? Sometimes I lose faith in humanity.
  
  Yep I’m right there with you
OMG SHE KILLED KENNY!
I'm frightened for them. Trump will do something to them and it'll be brutal
- The fuck is he going to do? Raise tarrifs on streaming media?
  
  The biggest most scariest thing he will do is then back track, and then he will have Trey and Matt exactly where he wants them /s
- He is both powerful, yet impotent. He's got nothing to get them with, and by "getting them" he would be self owning himself because they are daring him to do it with every animated frame.
- They are both worth about a billion dollars. I think they'll be fine. Consequences are for the poors
- Trey and Matt are billionaires now. Technically they should be part of Trunps social circle. They can do whatever the fuck they want.
Eh. It was kinda boring.
- It had its moments, but it wasn't as good as the previous episode, for sure. Acting like all right wing "master debaters" and ICE agents are just doing it for money rather than actually believing the rhetoric was a shit take, too.
  I was hoping they were going to have a deepfake Trump PSA every episode after it said "1 of 50." Guess not.
  
  Best I can do carrying their water is that they're undermining the goto excuse rightwingers have that it's just about money.
- agreed
  they're paid too much for this bs, being just edgy doesn't cut it, it has to be smart and somewhat convey a message
  I'm a bit worried for the rest of the season, if they're already doing shitty episodes
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.
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.
I feel like this episode was really bad. Unfunny, making fun of random unfunny things, and going away from the plot of the first episode. I hope they do better for the next one
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.
- Don't watch it then.
- Hey, totally get it. On the other hand, can't you see that literally everyone else got their nose brown? It's climatic to see that at least some authors have an audacity to do such show. Not for long though.
  
  Yeah. I am ecstatic South Park exists and is popular, even if I don’t watch it much.
  …For now.
  Somehow getting banned by the US government would be a crowning achievement.
- 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.
- I don't think they are making any strong statements. I think they are making liberals feel like "we are right" and I think they are making strong conservatives think "damn, South Park went woke". The people not with a strong opinion either way or the other will conclude "well I guess that's a debate right now". When this is the time we need a strong shift away from the failures of both parties that have failed the American people in order to serve the wealthy and imperial interest.
  This is a time for artist to make strong statements of anti genocide, anti fascist, anti Imperialist, anti capitalist interest.
  South Park makes a strong anti Trump statement in a time when the population needs to hear more than that. It is a failure of what art should push. Deciding more to fill that void with "shock" value of tired sex/Satan/small penis jokes instead.
  It is an out of touch Gen X opinion that still thinks the dream of their parents wasn't a lie.
  There is nothing that challenges the the structures. Only the individuals that power those structures. Only appealing to replace them.
  It is art that avoids class conflict. Which is probably the point I've been trying to make this whole time.
  
  South Park is one of the most influential television shows in history.
  Lol yeah I don't think this is true. Top 25 or something maybe.
- Like, I don’t know what having him have sex with Satan does.
  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.
- A lot more than 2 years, and it really says a lot that you think those 2 are centrists.
  
  These artist with a massive platform do everything in their power to avoid addressing class conflict and instead fill that "edge" with small penis and fart jokes. Yes. I would say that is literally the definition of "center".
  Challenging the current president instead of addressing the structures that brought about fascism in America is absolutely a failure.
  You can absolutely and should challenge the current president. But doing that in a time of fascist uprising WITHOUT pointing to the historical materialism that explains what brings these fascist to power. Yeah. It's insufficient and a failure.
  It is making liberals feel as if the next election can still fix things. Keeping them complacent in the mean time. Do I think that is their intention? No. They exist with a platform like this BECAUSE they do not push past that edge. The same reason that successful talking heads are successful because they're world views align with ruling class narratives.
  They make the edge feel like it's being pushed. While they sit in the right side of a fence that every thinks is far to the right of them.
- 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.

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