Donald Trump's White House bashes 'South Park' as not relevant in a statement issued after the Season 27 premiere mocked the president.
  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
    122·
    9 months ago

    Sometimes South Park I think is a bit too nihilistic in a weaponized way for me but to be fair it has also gone straight at the assholes of the world too, but even from my mixed-bag perspective on South Park I can see Trump attacking South Park is probably the absolute worst thing Trump could possibly do that I could possibly imagine.

    South Park writers will steamroll Trump over and over again, I really hope this feud continues because it is going to be hilarious. Like… say what you will about South Park writers, you cannot deny that they aren’t smart, reactive to changing cultural realities and willing to say it how the writers think it is… and Trump is absolutely none of those things (and he is only getting more out of touch as he deteriorates mentally).

    This is like watching a nature documentary where a bee sees one of those parasite wasps and bravely tries to intimidate it away and you are like “oof… this is going to end realllll bad for you buddy” as you listen to the narrator describe how the parasitic wasp will inject its eggs into the bee to use as an incubator.

    :)

    I mean, this is embarassing for Trump and the people around him at the basic level that they clearly don’t actually understand South Park isn’t really leftist, or at least it isn’t reflective of the vast majority of leftism in the US now. South Park is its own thing and it has frequently pissed of the left as much as the right, that is kind of the point of the show?

    facepalm

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      66·
      9 months ago

      We should also remember that they turn around episodes in under a week. And when something REALLY juicy happens, they’ll do it in under a day.

      • FerretyFever0@fedia.io
        11·
        9 months ago

        This season is going to be a bit more dated, mostly because of the custody battle. But they’re obviously adding more recent things in before they air.

    • msprout@lemmy.world
      19·
      9 months ago

      I don’t even understand the motivation. Much of Trump’s 2020 coalition is composed of white guys who got their entire education of the world from Comedy Central reruns. They have a stronger loyalty to South Park than they do to Trump.

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
        15·
        9 months ago

        There isn’t necessarily anything to understand, Trump is a very old man and he wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed to begin with…

  • Hayduke@lemmy.world
    68·
    9 months ago

    Hasn’t been relevant? South Park has been the most relevant social commentary for nearly the entire run of the show. Now more than ever

  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
    60·
    9 months ago

    If the show hasn’t been relevant for 20 years then why is the Whitehouse bothering to comment on it? Is the Whitehouse going to release a statement about Andromeda?

  • kinkles@sh.itjust.works
    28·
    9 months ago

    No way Trump himself has seen the episode yet. I’m expecting a monumental meltdown when he does. That desert PSA left me with my jaw on the floor- one of the most brazen “fuck you”s to Trump I’ve ever seen.

    • Laereht@lemmy.world
      9·
      9 months ago

      To be the fly on the wall when he sees his tiny pecker on South Park. Wonder if his heart can even take the outrage?

      • bambooEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        It’ll probably be the first time he’s seen it in 15 years

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    26·
    9 months ago

    i can think of 1.5 billion reasons why its still relevant.

    also, they spelled ‘hot flash’ wrong in reference to that geriatric piece of feces

  • don@lemmy.ca
    23·
    9 months ago

    1. “White House bashes whines like the ass damaged little bitch it is after South Park parody”, and

    2. Good job Streisand effecting the very thing you’re whining about, you dumb fucking cunts.

    The only two things that will remain after the heat death of the universe are photons and republican stupidity.

    • ksigley@lemmy.world
      12·
      9 months ago

      It was shockingly funny. Felt almost normal for a moment in the wake of this monumental cultural divide unraveling across our nation.

      Ah, crap…

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
    20·
    9 months ago

    I haven’t seen a good South Park episode in many years. It’s long past the time it was any good.

    But if it manages to piss off the fascist orange utan, I guess the show still has something of value in it.