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Eliot Rosewater

(34,296 posts)
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 12:09 AM Aug 2025

Watching episode two of South Park wondering what manufactured lie will be used when they arrest

Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

I mean we do understand they will be arrested obviously.

I wonder if people are starting to get it, I wonder if people are starting to realize what’s actually happening.

If not arrested certainly and for sure the guy in control of Paramount+ who is a maga will shut down the show.

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SunSeeker

(58,374 posts)
1. I have the same fear about the shows on MSNBC (Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell).
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 12:32 AM
Aug 2025

It just seems a matter of time before they're yanked. I'm watching every night until they are.

Eliot Rosewater

(34,296 posts)
3. I was going to post Lawrence O'Donnell will be next apparently tonight he goes after
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 12:39 AM
Aug 2025

The piece of shit but I haven’t watched it because it’s difficult for me to watch anything like that anymore, knowing that we are in much much worse shape than even most who do know what’s going on realized.

Irish_Dem

(82,369 posts)
8. Nicole Wallace made reference once to this fact, she knew Trump would come after her at some point.
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 04:32 AM
Aug 2025

She said it quietly and just one sentence and moved on to the next topic.
But you could tell she knew it was inevitable that she would be targeted.

Diraven

(1,951 posts)
4. I doubt they'll be arrested
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 12:54 AM
Aug 2025

But you know they're feverishly working on how they can pressure Paramount to drop them. They can't block the merger like they did to get rid of Colbert. I'm thinking there will just be a huge cash bribe paid by the government directly to Paramount execs, since the Trump has unlimited bribe money in the US Treasury now and CEOs have unlimited greed. Sure that's probably illegal but anyone who would enforce the law is owned by Trump too.

Gore1FL

(22,982 posts)
5. I don't think that's how things will go down.
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 01:17 AM
Aug 2025

You can't really take down the guy with the megaphone without people noticing. Colbert's show being canceled was much less than an arrest and the outrage persists.

At the current rate of unravelling, they are going to have a lot more to worry about than South Park.

Eliot Rosewater

(34,296 posts)
7. That's the part that confuses me when people say what you just said
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 01:32 AM
Aug 2025

And a close friend of mine says the same thing to me and I just don’t get it, how does it unravel when you control the entire military, the FBI, the department of justice, Supreme Court and most of the other courts?

There’s no unraveling that happens to someone that has that much power. Even if a third of Maga turn on him and it would never be more than that, so what. He’ll put them in prison too not just us but them too.

This is why I say I don’t think most people realize where we actually are.

GusBob

(8,303 posts)
9. ICE Barbie is taking it so testily (if that's a word)
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 10:13 AM
Aug 2025

They are so thin skinned, the best response to me would be to laugh at the gags. It would take the air out of the insults.

Maybe come up with some self depreciating humor in response.

But they wont

Eliot Rosewater

(34,296 posts)
10. We're dealing with children with the power and desire to kill us
Fri Aug 8, 2025, 10:34 AM
Aug 2025

But make no mistake they have the maturity level of 11-year-olds, it will never change, but our reaction to it better change quickly.

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