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riversedge

(76,673 posts)
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 08:14 PM Jul 1

MAGA Profits From Alligator Alcatraz With Baby Merch

Source: daily beast




SNAPPY SOUVENIRS
Farrah Tomazin Published 07.01.25 5:42PM EDT


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The Florida GOP’s website was also filled with merch, including T-shirts for $30, black mesh trucker hats for $27, and a pair of koozies for $15. “Every shirt, hat, or koozie you grab funds our push to keep Florida tough on crime, and tougher on borders,” the Florida GOP wrote in a fundraising email ahead of Trump’s visit. Alligator Alcatraz is a new state-run migrant detention center being built on an airfield site, in Ochopee, west of Miami. But the center, which will cater for up to 5,000 people, has already sparked daily protests from immigration advocates and environmentalists. Asked on Tuesday if the concept behind the facility was to have alligators or snakes eat illegal immigrants who try to escape, Trump replied: “I guess that’s the concept. This is not a nice business.”

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-profits-from-alligator-alcatraz-with-baby-merch/




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TommyT139

(1,652 posts)
4. Two questions:
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 08:26 PM
Jul 1

Is all that shit made in USA?

When the hurricanes hit, what's the plan? Besides "Let them die," I mean.

Miguelito Loveless

(5,087 posts)
8. Say what you will about the Nazis
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 08:48 PM
Jul 1

But at least they restricted themselves to prying out gold teeth, they didn't sell t-shirts.

slightlv

(6,141 posts)
9. Can one explain this to me?
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 10:20 PM
Jul 1
But the center, which will cater for up to 5,000 people...


What do you think of when you hear the word "cater"? It certainly isn't what's likely to go on in Alligator Auschwitz! I'm so sick and tired of not just normalizing evil, but giving it the gilt of gold.

Bayard

(26,059 posts)
10. I think trump should make an inspection of this facility
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 10:24 PM
Jul 1

If we get lucky he'll slip off into the moat.

LudwigPastorius

(12,982 posts)
13. If the GOP had been in charge of Auschwitz,...
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 11:25 PM
Jul 1

they would have sold branded shower loofahs.



Evil scumbags!

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