Is It Me, Or Everything Feels Like A Rethread Of Bush Era

Anyone here who has watched the latest South Park episode? Ever notice one particular thing that is so familiar, gave me a real whiplash of trauma flashbacks to CRT TV footages of bombings in Iraq, and majority muslim sentiments hating on the US. Boy, how time flies, and yet we’re back in full circle now.

Good thing I live in South Asia, but what access I got to watch Paramount+, gave me the best thing I’ve ever watched. History is being made here where the showrunners are forcing their company, after being paid over a billion dollars, to make 5 more seasons, to have another swing at the courts with the egomaniacal current sitting president, Donald Trump. This after a settlement with CBS was taken.

The episode starts off usual with Cartman playing his favorite radio show to make fun off, only to hear static, the abject atrocious blob that is Cartman goes through a melancholic existential crisis because the very thing he loved making fun of for being too progressive and inclusive, his grifter raison d'etre has ceased to exist.

Then comes Jesus, converting PC Principal back to a newborn Christian at school, and the rest of the town feeling morose, and sick of seeing Trump on TV. Goes to Garrison’s house, only to find him watching TV. Then they pop the question.

Who is that guy on the Oval Office? Queue the middle eastern song, the veneer of arrogance and self-conceitedness portrayed by his gaudy, self-portrayals in the hallways, and we finally see the return of Satan in his bedroom, and another unwelcomed guest, Trump’s tiny peepee. Hell, the voice dub sounds the same. The recurring joke that he’s acting like a middle eastern dictator, he replaced Saddam.

Of course, this was a daring jab against Trump, one that Matt Stone and Trey Parker had no problem going forward with considering their history. The show also has made me wonder about its current relevancy, it’s no longer the early 2000s. Monoculture is kind of dead nowadays, and people are super up-to-date.

But a billion dollar deal, to make 5 seasons, what were they expecting from this? Well, maybe it’s this, the absolute turning point where the TV show tries its best to speak to its audience by freely doing what they know best; making fun of celebrities, and getting away with it. Also being prescient of culture shifts, like Kanye West.

Cartman’s ‘WOKE IS DEAD’ T-shirt is symbolic of the rethread of older times, where hard leaning Christians control the wellbeing and demise of the majority of women’s reproductive rights. Donald Trump’s constant failure to run his office and the Epstein debacle, the situation in the Middle East with Israel fighting with everyone. People in States protesting on large. 2000s America is alive and well. It’s also tiring, exhausting dealing with the oppressive state of the world and asking for a big change.

If we’re going to be stuck dealing with the fat orange tan man, might as well continue to make fun of him for the next 4 years. Also, I’m too old to be thinking about Creed, Avril Lavigne, and Sum 41 now. Even moved on from Foo Fighters, and my favorite band, Nine Inch Nails are too busy with movie scores.

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