whither art thou going

PORCO ROSSO Dir. Hayao Miyazaki (1992)

work from home fit today

some type of mood :&

Usually south park's relevancy feels very fake and surface level to me, but it's really something how trump and his base are actually, visibly much more enraged by this than they've been about any other criticism, any other show, any other enemy I've seen in the entire near-decade of his political career. Fucking South Park got to them more than the combined effort of a million other comedians, journalists, parodies, academic criticisms or protest efforts. Like it's BAD. Like they want the creators in prison and want to consider this a hate crime.

-The episode ends airing a convincing AI deepfake of Trump stripping naked as he wanders through a desert, then his tiny floppy penis sprouts cartoon eyes and says "I'm Donald Trump and I approved this message." This is the part magas believe should count as an actual felony crime, and funny enough also comes right after Trump gave a rambling speech endorsing AI and an executive order to protect it from liability. It's only been a day or two, and is now the first time in history that the white house is officially arguing with a tv show.

The White House rising to the bait is incredibly stupid specifically because South Park can literally answer them next week.