who just took $1.5 Bn from the same company that just last week was kissing Trump's ass.

You can bet that Trump is screaming bloody murder to CBS now.

BUT ... look at the numbers. They paid off Trump with a few million. They paid $1,500,000,000 for the South Park rights.

The money they'll save due to the cancelation of Colbert and the firing of all of the shows musicians, writers, support staff and technicians.

Who knows? Maybe they are renting the venue and will no longer have to fork over that chunk of change.

Think of all of that money that the network will save!!

CBS has always leaned right, but this suck-up to Trump was simple pribery (extortion on Trump's part). Paramount agreed to pay the bribe because their spreadsheets said they will make a big profit from the merger.

But what about Parker and Stone? They just got a huge amount of free advertising, courtesy of Trump. The South Park franchise has been stale for years. Trump has just pushed this to the top of "appointment TV". Even if they have to pay Trump more bribes, that will be relatively small compared to the advertising value of these ratings.

They are probably praying that Trump does sue them. They won't settle quickly because the longer this plays out, the more money they make. And this is just one episode. If Trump hates this one, there can be many more where that came from.

The timing is astounding. I don't see how they could have done this episode without Paramount's permission. So why did Paramount allow this at the same time they are killing the COlbert show and while they are still waiting for their merger to be approved?

There is much more to this story than meets the eye. It would not be too surprising to eventually learn that the Theil/Vance crew signaled that they wanted to see this come out. and that they would protect Parker and Stone. Remember, the Valve/Murdoch Summit happens the same week as all these other things.

And speaking of timing, Congress is shut down for the rest of the Summer. When they come back, it will be about a year before the mid-terms. The GOP billionaires already got the legislation they wanted. Now their biggest concern is keeping control of Congress, because many of the goodies were intentionally pushed into 2027 to avoid the mid-terms. If they lose the House next year, then some of those goodies could be killed before they ever go into effect. Everybody in the GOP knows that Trump is toxic, and he will never have the restraint to allow the Republicans to clean up their image before the election. It is very possible that a decision has already been made to push Trump out, and we will see this rolled out in the next 90 days.

on Comedy Central.

You know, "hasn't been relevant for over twenty years," "hanging on by a thread," "desperate for attention," etc. etc. ad nauseam. All the usual horseshit. ...Who's desperate, buddy?

"hasn't been relevant for over twenty years,"

26 seasons is a lot. I rarely watch the Simpsons either.

I couldn't find much info about ratings, and I don't know how reliable any of that is now, with the proliferation of challenges and streaming and international distribution. But this article indicates both SImpsons and South Park were quite strong going into 2020.

https://www.bubbleblabber.com/2020/10/south-park-and-the-simpsons-both-set-ratings-high-marks-in-premiere-weeks/

Regardless, Trump has given South Park more free advertising then they could ever have dreamed of. Millions of people will be tuning in to see just how tiny that POTUS penis is.

I bet the secret "settlement" specifically said he can't sue them again or hold up the merger for any other reason (even though that would explicitly make it a prid quo pro bribe which is why no one has seen it). Otherwise his lawyers would be all over them for "defamation".

TY, Rhiannon!

Ancestors!

I've been to both countries, beautiful country! Don't let TFG spoil it!

got to go to Scotland and Ireland!

I haven't but my sister has and told me all about it. Love their Accents.

Our favorite riding counselor was our chaperon and organized the trip - she was from Dublin and took girls every year. And so we got to see a great deal of the rural countryside and even met a rural family with strong accents - and the women and girls still wore bonnets!

works and wounds his fragile ego, more of this please!!!

I watched it a few times, and laughed!!!