July 24th, 2025.

The Epstein list made it into last night's premiere of the 27th season of the television series South Park,

when Satan, in bed with Trump, commented,

It's weird that whenever it comes up, you just tell everyone to relax.

The episode hit the president's lawsuit against the parent company of CBS News, Paramount Global,

which paid Trump $16 million to settle his complaint that it had edited an interview with then Democratic

presidential candidate Kamala Harris misleadingly. Paramount also said it would not renew comedian Stephen

Colbert's contract just days after the deal was announced. Paramount and Skydance media are in the

midst of an $8 billion merger and they needed the approval of the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, to complete the deal.

Today, Skydance Media promised to eliminate Paramount's diversity, equity, and inclusion practices and to root out the bias at CBS News in order to win the administration's support

for the merger. This afternoon, the FCC approved the deal. Charlotte Clymer of Charlotte's

Web Thoughts notes that on Monday, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone signed a $1.5 billion five-year deal with

Paramount for global streaming rights to the show. This new episode skewered Paramounts cozying up to

Trump. Climmer points out that the South Park writers go on to portray Trump exactly as they once did

Saddam Hussein, not only putting him in bed with Satan as they did Saddam, but also giving

Trump the same mannerisms, same voice inflections, same love affair with Satan, same dictatorial

chaos. In fact, Satan references this by telling Trump he reminds him of a guy

he used to date. Climmer notes that the writers of one of the country's hottest shows are communicating

that they think Trump is a bull-h-h-to-bit dictator. The bulwarks Joe Perticone reported today that in a decade of reporting on

Congress, he has never seen such a level of panic among Republican lawmakers. In the past, he notes,

Trump could weather crises because Republicans closed ranks around him. The Epstein issue,

though, has driven a wedge through the

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