Kudos to Vance for being a good sport; incidentally, if you’re curious as to why South Park overlooked the low-hanging comedy fruit that was Brandon, this might be why:
UPDATE: “When South Park is on target, and it often is, it’s a vicious over-the-top indictment of the way we live now. Parker and Stone are the scatological satiric geniuses of our time, and they’ve figured out a way into the whirlwind of Trump’s second term. As Trump said himself in a ridiculous weekend post, woke is dead, being a Republican is cool again. That also means that anti-woke Republicanism is now the language of the establishment. And the whole point of satirical comedy is to knock the establishment down a peg. This time, the establishment, though maybe not Trump himself, is embracing the satire. J.D. Vance, responding to a cartoon depicting him as a servile sex dwarf, tweeted, ‘We’ll I’ve finally made it.’ For Charlie Kirk, the South Park episode is the best thing that’s ever happened to his brand. He posted a clip from the episode where Cartman receives a nomination for the ‘Charlie Kirk Award For Young MasterDebaters.’ How do we know we live in a free country? When a cartoon can depict a president as having a gay love affair with Satan, and that president’s literal and figurative Number Two says ‘more, please.’”