In a post on X, the Department of Homeland Security used a South Park-style animation in a recruiting post, just days after South Park released a trailer for its upcoming episode featuring DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. The post was made after a White House spokesperson said the show "hasn’t been relevant in 20 years’ after the first episode of the new season depicted President Donald Trump in unflattering ways.
“Wait, so we are relevant?” the post reads.
It added a vulgar hashtag: “#eatabagofdicks.”
I saw a headline that claimed South Park’s creators “apologized” for the Trump episode, but I knew it had to be bullshit. It’s not in character for those two to apologize for what they do in the show.
I think the only time they did apologize was that time they had Manbearpig turn out to be real
Which for those who don’t understand how that’s an apology or aren’t familiar with the show
Al Gore was a recurring character in the show, and his whole thing was being overly obsessed with a creature called Manbearpig and complaining no one was taking him seriously. Even though it was obvious such a creature is absurd and doesn’t exist.
Manbearpig was a metaphor for Climate Change, which back in the day was seen as this “Crazy pet theory of Vice President Al Gore’s” and was a punching bag people brought out anytime you wanted to make fun of the Left.
Though overtime the idea that Climate Change was both real and man made moved from “This fringe idea only Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth movie takes seriously” to “Proven Science that everyone not in the pockets of Big Oil or their propaganda is aware of.”
So the bit, didn’t really age well.
Which is why there’s an episode of South Park where everyone apologizes to Al Gore and help him stop Manbearpig, it’s the creators basically saying “Yeah… We kinda fucked up with this running joke.”
I saw a headline that claimed South Park’s creators “apologized” for the Trump episode, but I knew it had to be bullshit.
It was at San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) after the first episode aired. The 14 second clip has Trey give an insincere apology. Some news articles were more clickbaity with the title.
Of course they’re not sorry. They made a funny episode.
“Yeah… We kinda fucked up with this running joke.”
Which is course fucking dumb, because the episode aired in 2006. Which is decades after everyone with a working brain already knew antropogenic climate change is very definitely real.
Funny enough 2006 was exactly when I started researching the idea. It came across as the perfect media hype. “Mankind doomed through greed and hubris!” After two nights of reading I walked away thinking it was indeed a hoax.
Then I realized that much of what I had referenced was by the same author across many websites. Looked him up. Take a guess? Lobbyist for the oil companies. And that told me everything I needed to know.
Yeah that was a time deep in oil propaganda.
They make fun of Gore but manbearpig was always real in the show. Gore is annoying but right and people are stupid for ignoring him and dying because of it.
Naw it wasn’t, first time it showed up was in Imagination Land
Even with UBlock, that site is like cancer on Firefox Mobile. Jeez…
Raw story always looks really clean to me, even if I view it with Cromite. My firewall gets a good workout though.
I’m not having any issues on my laptop with ublock
