Douchebag of the Week Award.

Freedom of expression is guaranteed by the Constitution. And this guy is an ass.

The photo above is of what greeted me when I drove to Plainville this morning for a doctor’s appointment.

In the spirit of full disclosure, I had to blow up the photo quite a bit and then “flop” it, or show it reversed so the print would be readable. Yes, that big black flag being waved by the douchebag standing at the intersection of state routes 152 and 106 reads “Fuck Biden.”

The location of the flag waver is about 400 feet from an elementary school, by the way. Stay classy, Plainville.

Lest I paint the town with a broad brush, I will note that the town of Plainville voted for President Biden in the 2020 election. Yes, we’re a little more conservative in this corner of the commonwealth, but not so much that any of the communities covered by my former newspaper saw fit to vote for the other guy, the straw-haired glutton that made coarse language part of the lexicon of government during the four years of his failed presidential administration. 

I first happened upon this flag-wielding jackass at about 10:30 a.m. My appointment took about an hour, and when I returned to the intersection on my way to the nearest Starbucks, he was still there. So I looped around in the parking lot of a strip mall and sat at the stoplight for an extra turn so I could snap this photo. As I turned, I noticed that the flag-wielder was being approached by an angry middle-aged man who disagreed with his political opinion, but my need for coffee outweighed my desire for free entertainment, so I headed for the Starbucks.

I returned to the intersection one more time after getting my coffee, but by this time, our conservative town crier had disappeared. Not sure if he was encouraged to do so by the gentleman that was about to confront him at my previous turn, but at least the profane flag was gone.

And before you call me a hypocrite, yes, I have to support the flag-wielder’s right to express himself as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States — that same Constitution that Donald Trump has never read nor felt compelled to respect or follow during his presidency. I, at the same time, am exercising my constitutionally-protected right to call the flag-wielder a complete asshole.

By the way, my eyes are fine. But I wish they hadn’t seen this goofball and his flag. I don’t like elevating my blood pressure in this fashion.