"Following a week-delay - officially attributed to Trey Parker and Matt Stone's inability to finish the episode on time, but likely also intended to create some distance from the events surrounding Charlie Kirk's murder - it was anyone's guess what direction the comedy duo would take. Parker and Stone have never shied away from touching the third rail, but the heightened rhetoric around political violence, underscored again today by the targeted shooting at an ICE detention facility in Dallas, Texas, made for a backdrop the South Park creators likely weren't ready to confront."
""Ever since Kyle got all pissed off, the odds are going up that his mom will attack Gaza," Cartman explains. "We can influence Kyle to get the odds raised more. It's a conflict of interest, it's a way to make more money. All we have to do is make sure Kyle stays angry and talk anti-Semetic shit about his mom to goose up the odds more... It's obvious rage bait.""
Students at South Park Elementary place bets on prediction markets like Kashi and Polymarket about outcomes tied to the Gaza war. One popular wager asks whether Kyle's mom will strike Gaza and destroy a Palestinian hospital. Cartman devises a scheme to profit by keeping Kyle angry and amplifying anti-Semitic comments to raise the odds. A secondary plot portrays Donald Trump Jr. as Strategic Advisor for Predictive Markets and other advisory roles. Kyle attempts to remove the wager and ends up in a game of telephone with Trump Jr., all amid heightened political violence.
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