South Park Is Really Sticking It to Hollywood's Woke Culture and People Are Loving It

Brandon Morse reporting for RedState 

South Park is, without question, the smartest show on television. Despite it being a mix of dirty jokes and fart humor, beneath that surface is a show willing to say what the vast majority aren't willing to about today's society. It's why South Park continues to be a favorite for many Americans, and continues to exist in the midst of an ever-changing media landscape. 

At some point, if you become popular enough, you will be lampooned by South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker: two men who have been unafraid to make fun of people who really don't want to be made fun of for years. 

This time, they took aim at Disney/Lucasfilm studio head Kathleen Kennedy and woke culture itself, which has demanded that anyone and everyone be replaced with "diverse" characters. 

In the latest episode, one of the four main characters, Eric Cartman, is describing a bad dream he keeps having to a therapist he's seeing. Cartman notices that all of his friends are being replaced by "diverse" versions of themselves. Cartman himself has been replaced with a black woman, and as he goes through his school, he notices that everyone he cares about has been replaced with a Hispanic, Asian, or black version of themselves. 

According to the dream, it's all Kathleen Kennedy's fault. 

Eventually, he finds the real version of Kathleen Kennedy and gets an explanation as to what was going on. Apparently, Kennedy found the "pander stone" in her universe, an artificially intelligent object that creates the same movie over and over again, while still making a lot of money. However, as Kennedy used the pander stone more and more, it angered the audience, forcing her to use it more out of spite. 

Soon, the over-use of the pander stone opens a portal to other universes, allowing another Kennedy to come through, one that seemed fused with Cartman. This Kennedy takes over and is now making everything more "diverse." 

"That's actually the best explanation I've heard as to why Disney movies all suck now," says Cartman. 

Earlier this year, Parker and Stone tackled the ridiculous self-victimization of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, a couple that was enjoying a stint by painting themselves as the hated black sheep of the Royal Family. The episode featured a duo who resembled the duo in every way save they were from the Royal Family of Canada. They went on a "Privacy Tour," while effectively forcing everyone to pay attention to them, including one of South Park's main characters, Kyle Brofloski. 

While it's unclear if South Park was responsible for Harry and Meghan's star fading from the public, it surely started happening after the episode. 

This is the same show that stuck its middle finger directly at China, going so far as to have one of their characters say "f***, China" in an episode about Chinese censorship. Hilariously, it was another episode that went after Disney for its continued bending of the knee to the communist Chinese government. 

All in all, South Park continues to prove that it's one of the more important shows on television -- as it's one of the few willing to speak the truth. 

On the Fringe, Red Pill News, and more- Oct 28

Biden Regime Withholding Information on Terror Suspects Caught Crossing the Border

Eric Lendrum reporting for American Greatness 

An immigration think tank has filed a lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS), alleging that the agency has been deliberately withholding crucial information on terror suspects who have crossed the southern border.

As reported by Breitbart, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) sued the DHS after the agency refused to respond to the group’s prior Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, demanding access to  “records reflecting the nationalities and group affiliations of the record-breaking 270 illegal border-crossers who have flagged on the FBI terrorism watch since 2021.”

The FOIA request was made back in August, but no response ever came from the DHS.

“CIS believed filing this suit was necessary for multiple reasons,” said CIS’s Chief FOIA Counsel Colin Farnsworth. “There is a heightened public interest in the requested records, and there are indications [Customs and Border Patrol] is imposing unreasonable delays on the processing of those records.”

Ever since Joe Biden took office, the federal government has deliberately refused to enforce basic immigration laws and has allowed millions of illegal aliens to flood into the country, as part of the Democratic Party’s broader desire to give them amnesty in order to guarantee new voters for the party. One of the additional concerns regarding this flow of illegals is that foreign terrorists will take advantage of the open border to sneak into the country and plot another terrorist attack against the U.S.

In the nearly three years since Biden first took office, roughly 300 illegal aliens have been arrested who appear on the government’s “Terrorist watch List.” The DHS warned in an internal memo that this pattern represents a serious threat to America’s national security, with officials admitting that they “expect continued high numbers of migrant encounters over the next year” and that “terrorists and criminal actors may exploit the elevated flow and increasingly complex security environment to enter the United States.”

The threat of international terrorism via the southern border has only increased in the aftermath of large-scale terrorist attacks against Israel by the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas three weeks ago, with riots and protests by pro-Palestinian forces sprouting up within the United States and spreading rapidly.

TXAG Seeks Restraining Order to Stop Biden Regime from Cutting Down Border Barriers and Barbed Wire

Sundance reporting for Conservative Treehouse 

Yesterday Mike Lee sent this little bit of raw data from the border, “In the last 4 weeks alone (since the beginning of FY2024), the Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Sector has apprehended 5 illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, 19 from Syria, and 75 from China. It’s not a stretch—in fact, it’s putting it mildly—to say “they might not mean us well.” {link}  It is very concerning to think about who is walking into our country.

Also yesterday, Texas AG Ken Paxton asked the court for a restraining order against Joe Biden’s administration who are taking down border barriers and cutting through barbed wire in order to increase the flow of illegal aliens. [Court Filing Here] AG Paxton wants the court to stop Biden from opening the border.

TEXAS – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a motion for a temporary restraining order on an emergency basis after federal agents escalated their destruction of Texas’s barrier at the State’s border with Mexico. The federal government’s renewed effort to destroy Texas’s barrier and assist aliens’ entry into the country follows just days after Texas filed a lawsuit against the Biden Administration’s Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), DHS Secretary Mayorkas, and other agencies for numerous documented incidents of barrier destruction and occasions on which federal agents facilitated aliens’ mass entry during a severe immigration surge in recent months. 

Texas is seeking an order that would enjoin federal agents from cutting, destroying, damaging, or otherwise interfering with Texas’s concertina wire fence. (link) 

 

5 Examples of the Illegal Government Censorship SCOTUS Just Allowed to Resume

Last week, the Supreme Court resumed government censorship by putting a stay on a lower court injunction in Missouri v. Biden.

Evita Duffy-Alfonso reporting for The Federalist

Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the soon-to-be landmark free speech case Missouri v. Biden but blocked a lower court injunction preventing the Biden Administration and deep state officials from colluding with Big Tech companies to censor American speech. The move effectively resumes dangerous government censorship until the Supreme Court rules on the case.

The injunction, issued by U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty and expanded by the Fifth Circuit Court, stipulated that the Surgeon General, White House, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and eventually the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) cannot communicate with social media companies for the purpose of policing speech. Thanks to the courts, these entities are now apparently allowed to punish supposed wrong think for the benefit of the state.  

The case is set to be heard by the Supreme Court sometime before the end of June, but until then, the lower court’s decision to block the injunction means Americans’ First Amendment rights are currently under attack, and the integrity of the 2024 election is in grave danger.

Here are five examples from Missouri v. Biden of topics the federal government heavily controlled or even banned in the digital public square, demonstrating the serious risks posed by the Supreme Court’s decision to put a stay on the injunction.

Hunter Biden Laptop Story

Missouri v. Biden revealed that the FBI played an integral role in the systemic suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, which polls indicated may have won Joe Biden the 2020 presidential election.

In the lead-up to the 2020 election, the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) met weekly with Big Tech companies, including Meta, Twitter (now X), Google, and Microsoft. During these meetings, FITF repeatedly warned the tech companies that there could be foreign “hack and dump” operations ahead of the election. Tech companies consequently labeled the Hunter Biden laptop as “Russian disinformation” and mass-censored the story.

Never did the FBI inform the companies that the laptop was verified and real, something the agency had known since December 2019. “Even after Facebook specifically asked whether the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation, [the FITF] refused to comment, resulting in the social-media companies’ suppression of the story,” Doughty stated in his 155-page memorandum. 

Masks 

In July 2021, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy created the “Health Advisory on Misinformation,” which put the federal government in partnership with social media companies to stop supposed health “misinformation.” The move effectively made the government’s opinions on Covid “the truth,” wrote Doughty.

Since the federal government labeled any post that challenged the efficacy of masks “misinformation,” social media companies censored any anti-masking content. For example, YouTube censored four videos from St. Louis County, Missouri, public meetings “because some citizens expressed the view that masks are ineffective.”

Covid Vaccines 

The White House had “extensive” oral meetings with Twitter, Meta, and YouTube on combating vaccine hesitancy and misinformation. Not only did the Biden Administration help curate Big Tech censorship policies related to Covid, but it also targeted specific users and content. 

For example, a senior White House official, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and a Pfizer executive successfully pressured Twitter to permanently deplatform writer Alex Berenson because of his “science-based objections to the vaccinations of young, healthy persons.”

The White House even demanded censorship beyond Big Tech companies’ terms of use. During a meeting with Facebook, the Biden administration “demanded a consistent point of contact with Facebook, additional data from Facebook, ‘Levers for Tackling Vaccine Hesitancy Content,’ and censorship policies for Meta’s platform WhatsApp.” In response, Facebook agreed to “censoring, removing, and reducing the virality of” anti-vaccine content “that does not contain actionable misinformation.”

The White House also manipulated social media to promote their vaccine propaganda. In April 2021, the White House asked Facebook multiple times to “amplify” pro-vaccine messaging in the wake of a “temporary halt” of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. “Re the J & J news, we’re keen to amplify any messaging you want us to project about what this means for people,” Facebook wrote back.

2020 Election Integrity 

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a subsidiary of the Department of Homeland Security, directly forwarded offending social media posts to tech companies for them to censor ahead of the 2020 election.Many of these posts called into question the integrity of the 2020 election. CISA was particularly fixated on censoring posts that were critical of mass mail-in balloting for not being secure and for being disproportionately implemented to favor Democrats — two things that are indisputably true.

Biden Parody Content 

The White House demanded the censorship of parody posts and accounts making fun of the Biden family. In February 2021, the White House asked Twitter to ban a “parody account linked to Finnegan Biden, Hunter Biden’s daughter and President Biden’s granddaughter.”

“Cannot stress the degree to which this needs to be resolved immediately,” the official wrote to Twitter at the time. “Please remove this account immediately.” The account was banned within 45 minutes.

In November 2021, the White House pressured Twitter to remove an edited video of First Lady Jill Biden “profanely heckling children while reading to them.” Twitter responded by adding a warning label to the video explaining that it had been “edited for comedic effect.” This wasn’t good enough for the White House, and after several back and forths that included the first lady’s press secretary, Twitter ultimately removed the video.

Other topics controlled and suppressed by the federal government include content critical of Covid lockdowns, supportive of the highly plausible Covid lab leak theory, skeptical of climate change, and critical of the president.

Each of the censored topics either benefited Joe Biden’s campaign or his current reelection effort by protecting him, his family, and his preferred political narratives. In throwing out Doughty’s injunction, the Supreme Court has effectively allowed the government to resume its illegal censorship practices, which will undoubtedly be used to rig the presidential election — again. Already, the Biden Administration has used unprecedented lawfare to hinder President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, even going so far as to silencing him on the campaign trail via a gag order.

As Associate Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his dissent, which included Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, “[W]hat the Court has done, I fear, will be seen by some as giving the Government a green light to use heavy-handed tactics to skew the presentation of views on the medium that increasingly dominates the dissemination of news. That is most unfortunate.”

ISTANBUL - President Erdogan attends the "Great Palestine Rally"

 

 

 

 

ISTANBUL, Oct 28 (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan addressed hundreds of thousands of supporters at one of the largest pro-Palestinian rallies since the Israel-Hamas war began, courting his Islamist political base a day ahead of the centenary of Turkey's secular republic.

"Israel has been openly committing war crimes for 22 days, but the Western leaders cannot even call on Israel for a ceasefire, let alone react to it," Erdogan told the crowd in Istanbul, who waved Palestinian flags.

'Tis the End of the World as We Know It... And I Feel Fine

posted by Duke at RedStateVIP 

…Lyrics from "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by R.E.M.

 That's great, it starts with an earthquake
Birds and snakes, an aeroplane
And Lenny Bruce is not afraid

If you're over 30 years old, then you remember to a certain degree where you were and what you were thinking the day that the Towers were struck and eventually fell on September 11th, 2001. 

I was still a bit of a youngster, just a little bit over 30 years old, and the day that the Towers fell, the Pentagon was struck and a plane of heroes brought another plane -- aimed for some other American landmark -- down in a field in Pennsylvania. It absolutely changed my view and the view of hundreds of millions of other Americans in an instant. We were no longer in an isolated country, just watching bombs go off on CNN and shaking our heads in disgust and amazement.

 A cataclysmic, world-shaking event had happened on our soil, and we were stunned, shocked, angered, dismayed, and quite frankly, never the same. 

We have never been close to the same.

We have faked it pretty well; I have faked it pretty well, 

Yet, with the beginning of trading away some of our freedoms for non-specific security with the (non) Patriot Act, we have just been fooling ourselves into somehow believing we have some sort of normalcy again. 

Think of it this way.

Do you really feel safer on an airplane, when you all have to take your shoes off as a security precaution? How about when every seventh or 10th person, depending on the lottery number picked for the day, gets a random search? This is not done brd on anything concrete about a person of interest, but of purely random selection.

I know I sure don't

… Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped
Look at that low plane, fine, then
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group
But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Tell me with the Rapture and the reverent in the right, right
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight, bright light
Feeling pretty psyched

Instead of beefing up our ability to make sure that people who have overstayed their welcome in the United States -- like the 19 hijackers did on September 11th -- don't, we now have just swung the southern door open and welcome anybody to come in without even signing the guest book. This is not some sort of odd conspiracy theory; this is a fact that we will need to deal with sooner rather than later. 

From a post of mine earlier in October.

The Writing Is on the Wall: America Likely to Be Hit Because of the Invasion From Mexico

We have had pretty much a wide-open border since January 20, 2021, when Joe Biden took the oath of office to be President of the United States. The administration stopped building the Trump border wall and did everything but send flyers down to Central America and the rest of the world so that they could skip across the Rio Grande and gain entry without authorities checking they are. Of course, this policy was just reversed within the past week, but it's really a case of too little too late.

So if I have my math correct from Ward's count above, he quotes about 3.8 million people who have illegally crossed since Scranton Joe took the helm. So let's do an odd thing and LOWER that number to 3 million people. Now we take those 3 million folks and estimate that approximately one-quarter of one percent have some evil intent; that gives us 7,500 such people in this country illegally. Now they could be just bank robbers or common thieves, possibly some murders or other dastardly things. 

If you increase the percentage, you increase the total number, and does that make you feel safe?

What are the chances it is more?

Of course, it is more.

What would happen if you lived in a neighborhood with a higher-than-normal crime rate and left your back door open, your garage door open, and your car sitting in the driveway, with the door open and the keys in it? You're just asking for the worst elements of society to come and take advantage of you. If you called and reported this to the police, they would look at you cross-eyed and ask if you expected a different result.

Works the same with allowing people from all different countries whom you haven't even attempted to screen, to come into your country. We are just sitting and waiting for the robbery to occur. Sitting helplessly while our government tries to figure out who will oversee this event, from the White House or the Speaker's Chair.

Maybe you recall after 9/11, the government decided that it would form a committee to go through the tons of facts, and issue a report that would somehow prevent another attack from happening on American soil.  I know it's been years since I went through that 9/11 report, but I don't recall anywhere in that extensive government think piece saying: leave your borders unprotected to allow all types of characters to roam in and settle wherever they feel more comfortable.

Now, we have Israel ramping up their attacks on those who crossed their border on October 7th, from Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which killed 1,400 of their people in less than six hours. The Israelis at least made an attempt to make it hard for people who wanted to harm their citizens to come across; now that they are rightfully retaliating, Israel's main benefactor will be attacked also.

That is, of course, us: The United States of America.

Our government does not have us protected, as the thought-provoking and quite frankly terrifying film, "Police State," by Dinesh D'Souza (with help by Dan Bongino) showed us this week. 

My colleague Becky Noble had a review right here.

Dinesh D'Souza's 'Police State' - You Will Not Look at Government the Same Way After Seeing This Film

The movie takes us back to 1992 and the FBI standoff and raid at Ruby Ridge. While Randy Weaver had sold weapons to an undercover ATF agent, the agent wanted Weaver to infiltrate a white supremacist group. When Weaver refused, it seemed that was when the trouble started. A clerical error regarding Weaver's trial date eventually led to the 11-day standoff at the Weaver compound and the deaths of Weaver's wife and son. A year later, in Waco, Texas, when David Koresh, head of the Branch Davidian group, was suspected of converting semi-automatic weapons into fully automatic weapons, Koresh was tipped off to the FBI's plans to raid the compound, and chaos ensued. 

But it was the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and the implementation of the Patriot Act that put the FBI and other government agencies in the domestic spying business. It was the election of Donald Trump in 2016 that scared the dark powers of the federal government. Trump was an outsider. He didn't need anyone else's money to do what he wanted to do, and scariest of all to them, he could not be controlled. D'Souza also briefly mentions his previous film, "2000 Mules," while explaining how the FBI, in full collusion with the federal government and the media, prepared to take Trump out politically in 2020.

The vacuum of a lack of common sense, and everyday true reality that our government operates in, has made it a priority to chase down and persecute everyday Americans, who never entered the Capitol to be thrown in jail and fined -- as opposed to making sure that those who might be crossing illegally be dealt with properly. 

Allowing Americans to rush into a Target and scurry out with free kitchen utensils and TVs, because of some nonsense grievances passed along from the older TVs they had, was more important than actually having a country with defined borders. 

… It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it

I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I know exactly what's going to happen or when it's going to happen. Yet, this country's leaders have set us up for something that will be incredibly, earth-shakingly bad -- so bad it will change this country psychologically and economically, more so than what happened on 9/11.

We never truly recovered from 9/11 and with what's coming and at the scale that I feel it's going to be, I have no idea how the United States will react, let alone if it'll even recover. Maybe it'll be just a tad bit, like we did after that clear blue sky day, back in New York on September 11th, 2001.

… It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it

And while I don't know how exactly how this will all shake out, I take comfort in knowing that my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ knows what it is, knows how it will be, and will guide and direct me however he so chooses. I hope the same for you.

Because of that...

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.