Florida’s Trumplican Party is selling Mar-a-Gulago merch

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I missed several days’ worth of governmental outrages, but this one caught my eye recently:

I’d call this an unprecedented amount of callousness, but here’s where my age and locality influence my perception of this fresh outrage, because a Mainer of a certain age won’t find this unprecedented at all.

You see, there’s this screenprinting company in Corinna called Berg Activewear. (Years ago, when they appeared in a couple of news cycles, they went by Berg Sportswear.) They make slogan T-shirts and the like, and despite ta paltry selection of “liberal” T-shirt designs, they mostly cater to the self-identifying “deplorable” righty fan base. And that’s why their foromer Bangor Mall kiosk used to sell this shit: a T-shirt promoting (a) Howie Carr and (b) the GBU-43/B MOAB, a bomb that fills so wide a target area with fire that even the American military took about 14 years to find what they considered an acceptable use for it.

If you’ve heard of Howie Carr at all, you won’t be surprised to learn that he was openly yearning for some of these things to be used during the Iraq War, on whatever Iraqis looked vaguely like a target; this shirt was commissioned to promote that bloodlust. And there’s another Berg/Carr shirt similarly “celebrating” the MOAB’s predecessor, the BLU-82 Daisy Cutter.

So yes, the “Alligator Alcatraz” merch is disgusting to decent people, but no, it’s sadly not new.

 

P.S. Credit for the idea of more accurately naming the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” as “Mar-a-Gulago” goes to Bluesky user Ray Pride.

P.P.S. I “love” how Berg’s website blocks right clicking, like that would actually stop anyone from citing their bullshit.

P.P.P.S. I assume I could both-sides this and find similarly disgusting lefty merch in a matter of minutes, but I don’t feel the need right now to prove that. Maybe it’ll come up some other time.

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