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“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!”

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    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.