I'm not sure what happens though. IIRC America's never actually successfully impeached a president. The nearest you got was with Nixon, but that was comparatively near the end of his term, so putting Ford in in his place didn't matter - there was going to be another election soon anyway so he was basically just an…

Trump is a red herring. I've seen no evidence that Trump attracted many voters who didn't already vote Republican by default every four years. They say Republicans would vote for a pig in lipstick if he wore their rosette - well, here's the proof.

To be fair, they did start taking clear positions before that point. Follow That Egg came out as pro-gay marriage with really no qualification at all, which was nice.

It's been fine. I think the serialisation will hurt rewatch a bit because you'll have to watch the whole season rather than individual episodes. But it's been good enough.

OK, you can think that Trump's election was not the worst thing ever. But if you claim it was predictable, I'll call you a liar. Not even Trump predicted it.

You can say "because Hillary was a bit shit". No one minds.

Yeah, and the jury's still out, after a fashion.

I don't think the problem with Trump is that he doesn't care exactly.

I'm assuming that the gender war aspect would have been more prominent and more tied into the plot proper. Butters' ramping misogyny would probably have taken a front seat rather than just being resolved in a couple of scenes.

I suspect you don't 'member because you haven't died of old age yet. The politics were there, you were just too young to get it.

I think they would argue that if you don't vote purely because South Park said it was okay not to, America has bigger problems than Trump.

Unpopular opinion: I got a bit sick of the Member Berries. Them being sentient was disappointing. Them riding around in a tiny car was rubbish. I didn't piss myself with joy when they covered "Africa".

Most good liberal *comedy* is critical of liberalism though - it's very self-effacing. I think that's why right-wingers struggle. They want to rip on liberals - but liberals kind of already have that angle covered!

You're wrong, sorry.

"In the past, the show’s eleventh-hour production schedule has made for sharper comedy when it comes to current events. But what happens when the writers get these events wrong? What happens when it becomes evident that, as satirists, they aren’t quite as keyed in to the political landscape as they thought?"

"OK, that's dumb, but go on."

End of the day, comedy that relies on subverting expectations relies on people actually *having* expectations. When it's a niche show by people who have pretty much only ever made that kind of comedy, there aren't any expectations other than "This will subvert expectations". So the audience is really just laughing…

Good for them. The electorate may be incapable of reading between the lines or telling the difference between satire and thinly-veiled asshattery, but that's why networks still exist. If people just want to be pandered to with no quality control whatsoever, they can watch YouTube.

It kind of makes sense though. Actors running for government are likely to be people who are well-off and successful - because if you're going to vote for a party that gives huge tax breaks to millionaires in the hope that it will osmose into everyone else's pockets somehow, why *wouldn't* you vote for a millionaire?

"People in Hollywood reward them same as everywhere else."