South Park Tackles Trump and Paramount ... and is Sorry/Not Sorry 😂

 

I have yet to see Season 27 yet, watching it tonight, so all I have to say without seeing it yet is ... perfect timing!

The history ...

South Park made a deal with Paramount for the show for $1.5 billion.

The show was held until the Paramount sale to Skydance was approved by the FCC/Trump Administration.

After the Paramount/Skydance sale was approved, this week, the show dropped yesterday - and it supposedly skewers Trump AND the Paramount-Skydance deal - essentially daring either to cancel them like Stephen Colbert.

So if Paramount/Skydance cancels them now, they would lose $1.5 billion AND it would reveal that Colbert's cancellation was, in fact, based on political reasons rather than  "financial reasons," as they stated.

Which we already knew was BS. 

Colbert's show was #1 in its time slot and was raking in big advertising dollars.

Plus you don't pay $1.5 billion for South Park in April and then turn right around and fire a moneymaker like Colbert if you're strapped for cash.

Therefore, the only "financial reason" that could possibly be legit is settling the lawsuit with Trump for $16 million and firing comedian and Trump critic, Colbert, in exchange for the FCC and Trump administration approving the sale of Paramount to Skydance 

Now, at first, I said South Park should've done this sooner about Trump - but then I realized it was actually perfect timing.

Brilliant, brilliant move.

They have responded to the White House backlash with a sarcastic apology - basically sorry/not sorry. 😂

The White House is ranting that we leftists criticized the offensiveness of the show for years, and now have turned tail.

Uh ... if I recall correctly, it was actually mostly religious groups that had a problem with South Park, calling it "immoral?"

Now, I'm a pretty strong leftist Democrat - but I also have a sense of humor - and it never really bothered me - I laughed.

Also, I'm a leftist Christian, but I got the jokes they made about how Christians (and other religious groups) can be and laughed along!

Then again, I can laugh at myself, too.

Plus their jokes didn't perpetuate false stereotypes, it mostly made fun of people who did.

Like the racist and homophobic stuff that came out of Cartman's mouth WAS the joke - we were laughing AT him, not with him - much like we did Archie Bunker.

If I ever didn't like something or felt they took something too far, I just yawned and waited a minute - they'd move on to something else.

Now what IS true is that things are different now.

We're not laughing AT Archie Bunker or Cartman's racism and ignorance anymore, society is laughing WITH them, and worse - wanting us to fear and hate these groups, villainizing them. 

Now - Parker and Stone were originally clearly Colorado Republicans, which are more Libertarians - they did not like government intervention on anything, especially weed, sex, or religion (both being atheists) - and they loved their freedom of speech.

As atheists, they especially loved skewering religion, any religion, but especially Scientologists, followed by Mormons, followed by evangelicals.

Though that was clearly their politics, nobody was safe - right, left, or in between - if they thought you were ridiculous, you were skewered.

They skewered everybody and did not give a shit -  they just wanted to laugh.

And they often inadvertently made you think, had deeper insight into things than it first might appear, done hilariously.

However, as they've gotten older, I suspect they realized the power they actually had and influence.

There's a difference between using freedom of speech to make a joke by dragging your point out to the point of absurd VS. intentionally fanning the flames of hatred and fear, perpetuating wrongful stereotypes, racism, and bigotry or falsely accusing people of crimes they didn't commit for political benefit.

There's a difference between laughing AT Carman or ARchie Bunker and laughing WITH them. 

Also, remember they were/are essentially libertarians - and true libertarians, who understand what that really means, would never go for Trump's big government under the guises of the Republican party of small government.

They DID surprisingly support being vaccinated and most government actions during that time and came out with a COVID show - but I think this is more because they realized, like many of us did, the Trump/Republican backlash against COVID vaccination and government precautions was more political propaganda to get people out to vote rather than based on any fact or science.

They did make it clear in their show that sometimes these precautions went too far - but at the same time, doing so resulted in COVID .

Now - much like Mike Myers, the crude humor jokes began to get carried on way too long -  which is a dead giveaway they'd run out of material - but the other stuff is still gold.

We shall see what they do now ... I'll give a review soon 😊