By the time South Park depicted Kristi Noem’s molten face slithering across the Mar-a-Lago ballroom last night, the long-running Comedy Central cartoon had reestablished itself — temporarily, at least — as a cultural flashpoint. Last month’s 27th season premiere , which partly featured a surreal depiction of a naked President Donald Trump crawling through the desert with a googly-eyed micropenis, reportedly drew about 6 million cross-platform views and sparked a surge of viral attention online, with various online spheres lit up with posts praising how the episode “skewered” or “destroyed” the presidency. Naturally, the White House issued a response the day after the episode aired. “This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ide
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