Mark Twain famously said that it wasn't the noise that fighting cats made that caused their spats to be so ugly; it was their grammar.
Personally, we think it's their diction.
Certainly, one can't in any way fault the diction of Trump supporters who've chosen the Trump 2020 campaign flags that are now flapping in the breeze of Greater Minnesota.
The flag in the screenshot at the top of this post was displayed on the Facebook page of the Kandiyohi County Republicans. It appears to be official campaign swag.
The word "Bullshit" isn't a stranger to Minnesota politics, as the famous use by now Speaker Melissa Hortman in the "white male card game" comment back in 2017 illustrates. Back then, before the world turned nasty, Republicans objected to the word, City Pages reported.
We're also reminded of the Harry Truman story related in the 1982 Washington Post story, Remembering Bess:
Bess' deeply rooted sense of what was fitting and proper set her on a not-too-successful campaign to curb her husband's salty language. It seemed to the household staff at the White House that her most commonly used expression was, "You didn't need to say that." Truman himself liked to tell the story (probably apocryphal) of speaking at a Grange meeting and repeatedly using the word "manure." A friend sitting in the audience with Bess leaned over to her and said, "I wish you could get Harry to use a more genteel word." Bess replied, "Good Lord, Helen, it's taken me years to get him to say 'manure.' "
We're not so sure about the f-bomb. The one in the picture below was on display at a private residence in Clarkfield, Minnesota, a small town of 787 (2019 estimate) in Yellow Medicine County.
The flag does not appear to be an official piece of campaign swag, as far as we can tell from a Google search.
A reader sent it in. We believe the child's bike is an especially heartwarming reminder of family.
Images: Screenshot from Kandiyohi County Republicans (above); submitted photo, below.
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