@curtosis yeah. i definitely agree the whole dead-guy-junk fetish is yet more, and pretty vivid, evidence of weird-and-not-in-a-keep-Austin-way.

i just think pretty overt rhetorical allusions to genitalia are entirely within our norms of political “debate” at this point, for better or for worse. if i recall, the 2016 Republican primaries included some pretty unvarnished mine-is-longer-than-yours contestation.