Given how SP has largely avoided making fun of a certain president in the late 2010’s and now that president has been re-elected in 2024, they’re taking on him.
I remember when other shows made fun of that president; many people said they quit those shows because “They went political,” and SP largely avoided talking about that president. Now they are doing the reverse. They made fun of his anatomy and now have him being romantically involved with the devil, just like they did with Saddam.
I remember that there was a lot of talk about SP in this forum when the pandemic hit, but now it has remained silent. Do you still like the show despite it taking on the sitting president?
I cannot mention the actual name of the president to avoid getting in trouble. But I recall that some (for lack of better words) “conservative” minded people liked SP for not being political or throwing dirt at their favorite figures. Now I wonder if those people switched gears in light of recent episodes?
So I take it you don’t watch South Park? They absolutely made fun of that president the first time around. My question to you is why do you care since you’re clearly not that involved in the show because you didn’t even know that Mr. Garrison portrayed the president for at least five seasons.
And as someone that’s been watching South Park since '97… '98… yes, I still like the show. I’m just really, really disappointed with Stone and Parker for being so one sided. They could have had some great episodes with Grandpa portraying the older more confused president and it would have been more inline with their centrist stance they had from the beginning.
Imo the previous president was way worse and I have no idea how he was safe from Parker and Stone, especially after we heard from the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter and Google that the previous administration was ACTUALLY waging a war on free speech, unlike the current one that’s not. I really hope they haven’t been completely corrupted by Hollywood and they go back to their centrist stance. Having said that, I don’t care if they dislike the current president because that’s everyone’s right to do so and I’m not going to dislike someone for their political opinion.
They pick on everybody, probably will too the next president. I like the Band Genesis , but I thought the episode where Phill Collins was mind controlling the South Park Adults with his music was super funny, Nobody is safe.
South Park making fun of prominent dumb clowns is nothing new. They had an episode many years ago where they openly mocked Tom Cruise and Scientology to the point that Scientologists started following Stone and Parker around, and they make fun of various trends and the people who do them. They were parodying Obama back in 2008.
Everything from religion to social justice warriors to no-life World of Warcraft players. The only reason why anyone is batting an eye at them making fun of Trump is because Trump supporters are some of the thinnest-skinned losers in the country and will all collectively fill their XXXL adult diapers the second anyone makes fun of their orange idol.
The only people who are surprised or upset about South Park making fun of Trump are people who have apparently never paid attention to South Park before now. This is nothing new. South Park hasnt ‘gone political’, they’ve ALWAYS been poking fun at politics.
Biden’s admin didnt ‘wage a war’ on free speech, his admin requested that those websites uphold their own TOS in regards to Covid misinformation. No threats were made, no lawsuits were filed, it was literally just “Hey guys, there’s a plague going around, can you stop hosting content that tells people that it isnt real?”
Meanwhile, Trump had the FCC threaten Disney to have Kimmel taken off the air for the most lukewarm and correct take of all time that was mildly critical of him. And he’s said he wants to do it again to other people.
While its true that a South Park representation of Biden probably would have been absolutely hilarious, the idea that he somehow deserves it more when the current president is best known for publicly acting like a lunatic and saying and doing the most bizarre and out of pocket things imaginable is just cope. Trump is already a walking parody, he’s practically begging to get mocked. Biden was just really, really old.
That’s not exactly what happened. Sinclair and Nexstar are the ones that got Kimmel canceled and Trump did what he always does which is run his mouth. He literally had nothing to do with it. If he did, he wouldn’t have come back.
The dude didn’t even know he was president, talked to dead people, let his auto pin run the country and like I said, bullied social media companies into spreading his lies during COVID. Or, whoever was handling him did. So yeah he definitely deserved it more.
Telling people to use hydroxychloroquine instead of the vaccine because the vaccine was unsafe, among other things, was misinformation and dangerous to the public health.
There is a world of difference between wanting companies to follow their own guidelines for the sake of protecting people from morons with no medical degrees and taking someone off the air because they were mean to you.
Brendan Carr and Trump outright openly admitted it. Carr himself said Kimmel should be taken off the air or the FCC would take action:
Like this isnt even a case where there’s another viewpoint that someone could have. Trump’s administration got pissy and threatened Disney until they pulled Kimmel’s show. That is what happened.
Its fascinating getting a look inside the Republican mind and seeing the kinds of absurd things they believe.
This was at the very, very beginning of COVID and you’re mixing up the timeline to win this discussion. Trump said this when he was president. Biden was having Twitter, Facebook and YouTube shut people down when HE was president. Or, I should say his handlers were.
“SHOULD BE” isn’t doing anything. That’s just running your mouth, like I said. Nexstar and Sinclair are ACTUALLY doing something, which is not airing Kimmel’s show, even now.
And you’re not fooling anyone. With your two post count, extremely biased and dishonest takes I know exactly who you are and you’re not getting around my ignore list a second time.
It was throughout the entire thing, actually. The vaccine takes from Republicans were dumb enough that its pretty easy to remember. You’re pretending otherwise to win this discussion, and failing. And that isnt even taking into account of all the other extremely dumb vaccine takes from Republicans. Remember how we were all supposed to die from the vaccine? ‘The cure is worse than the disease’, and all that?
No, he was not. He was asking them to enforce their own terms of service, usually when one of them was either hosting Covid disinfo or hacked materials that their terms of service specifically said that you couldnt post.
Openly threatening action against a company unless they do what you want IS doing something, actually.
The only reason I’m not posting on the other character that you know and love so much is because Blizzard’s forum interface is hot garbage and wont list him as one of the characters that I’m able to select for posting on.
Feel free to block me again if you want. Running away when you lose is pretty much par for the course for Republicans.
Like I said earlier:
Hope you enjoy the South Park for the next couple years. Run along.
Honestly I was never a fan of South Park, I never really saw the appeal. The only episode I ever saw all the way thru was the World of Warcraft episode, and that was just because, well duh.
Well I hope my reply doesn’t kill this thread , but I am a Trump supporter, but " I " do see what is happening . Our side is totally violating the first amendment, even though we accused the other side of doing it first. We did not learn from our mistakes. I see it and it upsets me. Fair should be Fair all the time, not for whoever is in charge at the time.
When you get old , you learn history is doomed to repeat itself, so like 3 years from now Cortez or somebody gets elected and the pendulum swings to the other side and we are having the same conversation again from different positions, sigh.
And btw, he’s calling me a Trump supporter based on nothing. I didn’t even say I liked Trump, supported him, or anything. Matter of fact, I pointed out that Trump was running his mouth which is borderline insulting him.
All I did was point out what happened and didn’t happen, and say I didn’t like Biden and that some how makes me a Trump supporter. If anything, that shows how thin skinned he is.
p.s. Also, my very first post I said I still like South Park even though I think they are being completely one-sided on the topic of which presidents they make fun of and he goes off on a 5-year old rant, calling me all kinds of names and says I wear diapers but I’m the one that’s “thin skinned”.
Yeah ok. He’s a child that throws a babyfit and goes straight to personal insults when you slightly disagree with him. That’s why I have him on ignore. It’s pointless to talk to him.
I don’t want to kill the thread, but you cant tell people not to say they don’t like somebody , because YOU do. In a democracy all opinions are valid.
That goes for BOTH parties, we cant do it to them and they cant do it to us!
Yet here we are , doing it again anyway.
Oh i was talking about the party as a whole, not Trump specifically, we went through this with the old president as well and complained our rights were violated and then we do the exact same thing back. Balonus Infinitum ( some pig latin)
I have idea what you’re talking about. The CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google have not come out and said Trump told them to shut down people that disagreed with their agenda. They said that only the Biden admin did that.
So again, what specifically are you talking about?
I cant give specifics darnit , because that WILL kill the thread , but an general example i can think of is taking each other to court every time the parties switch places and if you want specifics go read CNN or FOX news. Pleasure talking to you , going to play for a bit and leave the real world,
Nah I don’t think you can give specifics because there aren’t any and the thread was dead before it even started. The OP doesn’t even know what he’s talking about because he didn’t know Mr. Garrison played Trump for 5 seasons. The very first sentence of the thread is wrong.
And no, I’m not going to CNN but if that’s where you’re getting your news then I can see why you’re misinformed. It’s hilarious that Fox News used to be known as Faux News but CNN is the one that has to fire their anchors and gets sued all the time for spreading misinformation constantly.
I would stop watching cable news stations and just watch your local news unless you live in a blue state then that will be just as bad as watching CNN. It’s really hard to find the truth these days. I just wouldn’t trust anything or you’ll end up sounding like Sharaf.
I’m glad there’s at least one other person in this thread lives in reality.
‘Not a Trump supporter’ but you parrot all of his talking points.
‘Not a Trump supporter’ but you call liberal media fake, and either defend or ignore every blatant and easily-provable lie told by conservative outlets.
‘Not a Trump supporter’ but you have endless problems with how Democrats do things while acting like the things that Trump says and does is totally fine.
‘Not a Trump supporter’ but you in all likelihood voted for him.
I’m calling you a Trump supporter because you run cover for him and Republicans despite all the things he’s said and done that you’d never let a Democrat get away with. I dont know why you’re pretending otherwise, you’re clearly in Trump’s camp no matter how you’d like to label yourself.
This cowardly show that Trump supporters like you do where you pretend to be some enlightened centrist who is just super concerned with things that Democrats do is an old and tired act. You’re not convincing anyone. Show some spine and stand by your beliefs.
Agreed, Trump does that a lot. And since you seem to be totally fine with him doing that, I thought you’d be fine with me doing it, too. Why should I be held to a higher standard than the president of the United States?
I address your points directly and call you insults afterwards because the things you believe are so disconnected from reality that you simply deserve it. Again, if the president can do it, why cant I? I’m going in the direction you seem to want for the country.
I mean, be serious. You have 45,000 posts on the WoW forums and you’re a Trump supporter. You’re clearly both used to and totally fine with people talking some sh*t.
Fox News got sued for $787 million for knowingly and intentionally lying about the Dominion voting ‘scandal’ that they invented. Fox ended up settling and fired Tucker Carlson for it. The other Fox News hosts who knew that the story was fake kept their jobs and still work there even today, where they continue to lie to you and you continue to believe them.
Really convenient how you either didnt know about this or chose to ignore it, Miss ‘Not A Trump Supporter’.
Two of the three CEOs listed are open Trump supporting multibillionaires who were front and center at Trump’s inauguration and have every reason to just outright lie on his behalf, which they are. As I’ve already covered, Biden wanted them to take down the Covid misinformation on their platforms, and to take down the hacked materials from Hunter Biden’s personal devices that those outlets’ own Terms of Service said were not allowed to be posted.
This is not ‘censorship’, this is protecting the public health from a disease that ended up killing millions of people, and making the very reasonable request of asking companies to enforce their own openly-stated rules.
I simply refuse to believe that you think a public statement by the FCC chair saying that Disney needs to take a show off the air OR ELSE isnt a First Amendment violation, but this somehow is. Like pretty much all of the things you believe, its very interesting that this is basically just the Republican party line, Miss ‘Not A Trump Supporter’.
It really isnt. A good rule of thumb is that if a Republican or conservative ‘news’ pundit says something, you should just say to yourself "Huh, maybe I should check if thats true’, and look it up.
Blindly trusting the guy who knowingly lied about the 2020 election being stolen (among other topics) and the media outlets who helped him spread those lies is generally a pretty bad idea. Republicans (and Tovi, who claims not to be one) seem to have this ‘free thinker’ attitude where they somehow believe that everything that everyone on the left says is a lie, but will happily believe everything Republicans tell them, no matter how absurd.
I know you still have me on your ignore list because you’re
but I do really love our talks. Its like arguing with a 7 year old, except this one’s vote counts as much as mine for some reason.