Might as well just end the show at that point. Satire will have officially died. The Onion will probably turn into a reputable news source.

Because nobody actually thought he would win.

I mean, it's right there in the article lol

While Parker admits that their decision also has to do with having to wait "for Paramount to figure all their s--- out," Stone notes that skipping Trump is definitely "on purpose."

Just like all Star Trek?

at least from like the ~~average~~ stereotypical white American guy’s point of view

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Is this guy actually cool in the eyes of the average white American guy's point of view?

Were they ever actually being critical?

Yes, they write satire. They can't be responsible for Poe's Law.

You mean exactly how they do racist content, passing it off as satire but their demographic isn't that concerned with the winking.

[conservatives] wouldn't be able to tell it was satire, similar to Colbert's old show

we should've realized america had a serious brainrot problem like 15 years ago when the colbert report was around and conservative politicians would continue to take interviews with him

I think that's giving too much credit to the man-bear-pig people.

I assume that you havent seen too many episodes and dont know too much about the history on south park. But they are known for making fun of everyone, and not selecting by a agenda. For example there is an episode about: Mormons, Scientology, a whole series of episodes on the "superheroes" around jesus, there is even an episode where a future civilization is fighting over the meaning of "AAA", which is a atheistic alliance (to hint on the idea, that there will still be war, even if religions go extinct).

The fact that they make fun of everyone is one of the reasons they stood so long.

Btw in the 2016 season, which they released weekly during the last months of the election, their portraial of Hillary Clinton is the one of an extraordinaly stupid and incompetent woman, while their Donald Trump doesnt even want to be president.

They make an episode in a weeks time, there are random episodes, but if they take something out of the news it's news, not history. They are not a political satire series, they pointed out what is wrong in society in general. First time trump was that dumb, it was hard to believe he would really be a serious candidate. They made fun of that, they took it to the top, so, they thought, but the top of their imagination lacks behind the reality we are in now. Biden is old news, trump is the only thing in the media, you can't make satire of trump, there is nothing more to point out.

They've been around a long time, but a thing to consider is that in 2015 a great deal of people's entire political discourse was what was portrayed on South Park and/or The Daily Show-Colbert Report. Both on the Comedy Central channel.

They wielded far more influence than many realized.