“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!”
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
This is the 14 month old puppy Kristi bragged about shooting. She then shot a pet goat.
Poor dog. Only 14 months old? Sometimes I lose faith in humanity.
That dog deserved a better life.
I’m starting to think they’re doing this on purpose.
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 hold the vast majority of the rest of the wealth among their peons.
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.
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.
OMG SHE KILLED KENNY!
i thought shooting the dog was just a parody
but she did shot a family dog
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.
She killed the dog because she’s a fucking swivel-eyed psychopath.
In writing we call that foreshadowing.
And a goat.
She’s demented.
I’m frightened for them. Trump will do something to them and it’ll be brutal
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
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’s a psychopath and he’s no problem destroying people’s lives. Look what he did to Marie Yovanovitch
Also when Mike Tyson was convicted of rape, Trump lamented that he was going to prison because he was making so much money with his boxing that he could ‘just give lots of money to rape survivors and be done with it’. He really does believe that money beats everything.
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.
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 of 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.
Release the Epstein files
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.
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.
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.
South Park is one of the most influential television shows in history. It has a massive enough media presence to break international headlines for their content. Shock and disgust is and has always been their presentation.
South Park so explicitly going against the Trump administration in his second term is legitimately an influence on wide public opinion. Simply put, millennial men like South Park. It is widely regarded as being lampooning everyone in an honest way. I dont agree with that, but thats certainly the way a lot of people see it. It holds particularly heavy sway over several demographics.
What I’m saying is that South Park has, and has always had, a real impact on US politics and public opinion. The fact they are coming out with such open and direct attacks against the Trump administration (his first presidency around they used a Proxy character to criticize him, this time its just him) is a sign of a changing tide in public opinion towards the administration. I personally hope they keep going, drag every one of their names through the mud. Itll break headlines every single time, if only because fascists are so vain and sensitive to their image.
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.
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.
Well said. It’s just pithy insults that are about 10 years too late. We need more than that right now, and they’re clearly not up to the task.
What exactly do you expect a few writers to do about Trump? Taking care of Trump is either the job of politicians, the military, or the workers, depending on how you want it done, and what kind of system you want afterwards.
What exactly do you expect a few writers to do about Trump?
I dunno. If only we had examples in history of writers causing massive political changes.
Oh well.
Do you really, seriously, expect comedy writers like Matt Stone and Tray Parker to be writers like Jean-Paul Marat? Or Marx? For reals?
Why not? Satire can be very powerful, and if you read the comments in this thread, you’d believe that they’re two of the best satirical minds of our generation.
Is their someone else major in media than is giving any pushback!? We may need more but they are what we need for the moment. At least someone is pointing out the absolute absurdity this all is.
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.
avoid addressing class conflict
You don’t actually watch the show, fuck off with your bullshit, probably the first episode you watched in years, someone told you to,
The US was founded by the rich for the rich. We were always fascist. Everything else was an illusion used to convince you otherwise. Looks like it worked.
“Fascism” wasn’t invented till 1910 or so, in a response to Marxism. The early USA could not have been fascist, at all.
Nice try. The elements of fascism have always been there.
That is like saying Diabetes was discovered in 1921 when it was first described by the Egyptians in 1550 BC.
Hey, I get it. It is hard to swallow the reality that the US has always been a fascist nation that uses propaganda and violence to manipulate their populace.
Lol. I ain’t American, but the early American philosophy was anti authoritarian, and dipshits that talk like you are always advocating for authoritarianism while pretending you are not.
Fascism has an actual meaning. I think you’re confusing a bourgeois dictatorship for Fascism. Fascism is an ideology it isn’t an economic system or system of governance.
Saying something like “oh well technically we’ve always been fascist because the US was founded on genocide, slavery, etc” is not helpful in recognizing the change in ideology and the rise in fascist policies of our lifetimes.
We probably agree on a lot. But your comment was just snarky and unhelpful. Or maybe I just interpreted it poorly.
You probably haven’t studied our founding fathers and history very much. Pretty much everything we are facing now was there from the start.
I get it that this offends your worldview and you think it is unhelpful. The truth is far uglier than you can imagine.
I guess you’re just purposely ignoring the agreement I made with you to avoid my point. Seems like you don’t want a conversation but just to repeat your conclusion.
Sure, whatever you need to say to not discuss this anymore.
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.
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.
Rehashing Hussein as Trump wasn’t lazy, it was to draw a parallel between the 2.
Well…it can be 2 things…It’s not like the guy has Mel Blanc’s range of voices though, makes do with what he has.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Don’t watch it then.
