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Originally Posted by Maru

This kind of crass humor has always been part of our political scenery. Especially during Clinton era. Have you never seen American bumper stickers? There's some vulgar ones in town which a short drive away leans very progressive. So he specifically hasn't normalized it. Remember JD Vance and the couch? Both the blow job reference and this one were actually very tame.

If you ever go around places where people put up funny political humor and signage posted, it's very normal to see sexual references about politicians. The kind of humor that doesn't shy away from making them the butt of the joke (sometimes literally).

If you go to DC in front of Congress, you may even see it. People go for maximum effect with these things. DC has some "fun" characters that park out front with their vans, usually with all kinds of conspiratorial nonsense and other crazy politics, from all over the spectrum. Not things you would see in the mainstream, but also other vulgar items that they either sell or just for display just for the sake of making fun of politicians. Some people take their Freedom of Speech very seriously and that means driving around in vehicles, caked in decals and other offensive media, just to drive a stake into what they see as an overly aggressive, but failed, political machine. Closest example nearer to home would be "cowboy humor". There's the family friendly version and the kind that you would really need a thicker skin to withstand.

Anyway, what the media portrays is their own version of things, whatever that ends up being. Not everything is "unprecedented". That word gets tossed around too much, when it's almost never actually true.

Edit: If I ever get a chance to go somewhere with stuff posted, I'll get pictures, because it's a different world of humor and actually something worth documenting.

that would just not be done here, certainly not so directly

I think the worse we had here was David Cameron and how he porked a pigs head. There were lots of references to ham and bacon ..... but really nothing detailed