Show begins 27th season covering Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount and cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show, depicting Trump in bed with Satan
South Park has kicked off its 27th season with a blistering episode taking aim at Donald Trump and its newly minted parent company, Paramount, just one day after signing a $1.5bn deal with the network.
The premiere episode, “Sermon on the Mount,” sees Trump in bed with series regular Satan and covers topics including Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount, the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, wokeness, Trump’s attacks on Canada and more.
Unlike other characters, Trump is depicted as an actual photo of the US president on an animated body. There is also an extended scene featuring a hyper-realistic, deepfake video of Trump, completely naked, walking in a desert. There are repeated suggestions that Trump’s genitalia are small.
Fuck off, South Park. Trey and Matt are as responsible as anyone for the “both sides are flawed therefore both sides are equally bad” bullshit that gave a generation a pass to try to play off intellectual incuriosity and cynical laziness as some kind of principled position.
Do you think you have some kind of “gotcha” here or something?
Got tired of trying to explain the logic to people who couldn’t or wouldn’t understand it. For the ones who can, this image is all it takes.
God, you dumb
Just because you can’t understand it doesn’t mean it’s dumb.
This is the 3rd comment I’ve read about South Park being “both sides”.
No shit they are both sides. Everyone is fair game for them, no ones safe from satire or mocking. It’s the whole point of the show.
They pick who to mock and how thoroughly. I haven’t watched the show in probably a decade, but up until this they were using Mr Garrison to portray “Trump”.
Theoretically, nobody’s safe, but in practice anything left of GWB is portrayed as a whiny baby, a stupid hippy, or whatever.
At least they seem to realize that “left wokeism” isn’t the top threat in the country anymore, even if they were suckers for buying that it was in the first place.
Edit: I don’t know what to tell you guys, they even have characters in this episode that are like “just because wokeism went too far in one direction doesn’t mean we should go too far in the other”. They really do seem to believe that because liberals are annoying to them that they’re just as bad as concentration camp Trump.
It rings hollow when one side is the usual shitty greedy politicians and the other is for fascism.
So in your opinion; greedy shitty politicians should be free from criticism?
Nope! They should be criticized without acting like they’re just like the fascists.
Yes. “Everything is fair game” except for the narcissism of their own Libertarian party.
This is how I know you have either never watched South Park, or that you entirely misunderstand the show.
Trey and Matt were vocal libertarians for a long time and only recently realized it’s a morally bankrupt political position.
For example they mocked Gore for warning about global warming. There was no “both sides are to be mocked” in that episode. It was, “Gore is a complete idiot.” That was season 10. 12 years later they realized their mistake and made an apology episode where they showed Gore was right all along.
So yeah, good for them for finally coming around but the OP isn’t wrong that they lead their libertarian mob towards the cliff.
Penn Jillette, who I respect for being a caring and thoughtful person, also took way too long to realize Libertarians were neither.
And their apology episode was very much ‘we would have believed you if you weren’t so annoying, geez, it’s still your fault’