At least I think it’s political
I assume the red states are actual “red states” but I don’t get what the beer has anything to do with it.
Looks to me like it’s from some sort of chain and the red states are where it has locations.
So it’s not cups of kool-aid?
The shirt comes from this t-shirt shop. Seems kind of country/rebel/sexual themed, but it wouldn’t surprise me if that one was political in nature.
Solo cups? They’re red and that somehow transforms states to the same political color? I dunno…
If that’s their prediction for this election’s outcome, I think I’d take it. The non-red states that went red in 2020 include Indiana, Ohio, Iowa and North Dakota, while the red states that went blue in that election seem only to be Arizona and Georgia. That’s a net gain of 11 electoral votes.
Seems kind of likely, but what chain could it be? Something to do with beer, apparently.
Telemark got it in one. It’s a t-shirt company known for suggestive and salacious imprints, with a dash of out-sized penile innuendo thrown in for good measure (word play intended).
According to Wikipedia the company peaked in the early ‘90s.
“I love beer and Trump”
It’s obviously where you can get sustainable straws.
It’s really just something which supposedly appeals to the MAGA crowd. “Big Johnson” (aka E. Normus) appears to be nothing more than MAGA’s version of Alfred E. Neuman – a well hung one, at that.
Also at that link (marked down to two bucks):
I guess I’m getting old that people have to look up Big Johnson shirts. I actually knew the brothers. That said, it doesn’t seem like a typical Big Johnson shirt and there’s nothing indicating it is other than someone creating a url with that name in it. Almost all their stuff was innuendo like “Big Johnson’s Bar - Poker in the front, Liquor in the rear.”
I don’t think a humor brand made by a couple brothers at the beach (Joe Biden territory, btw) in the early 90s had much to do with MAGA. It was pretty popular back in those days that boardwalk shops and the like sold humorous shirts, yes some adult in nature. And it was the era of the Big Dogs, No Fear, all that stuff.
Trump was a Democrat who stole houses from widows to build casino parking lots during that era. That was before he started playing his current character.
They became something of a redneck emblem a few years back.
Then, no. Now? Ted Nugent is a Trumpeteer and there’s that shirt in the OP.
Ha yeah I was a bit confused at the other posters discovering Big Johnson just now!
They were ALL THE RAGE in the 90s. We didn’t have memes, we had Big Johnson and Coed Naked Sports shirts lol
Interesting that you knew them. And interesting that they’re still around! Good for them, I guess. Glad they are still doing something and got away from the “big johnson” joke, even if they pivoted into GOP couture…
I don’t think it actually is a Big Johnson shirt- it doesn’t sound like one and it is for sale here , with no mention of Big Johnson. This seems to be a place that more or less prints shirts to order, almost like those mall stores when I was young that had hundreds of iron on stencils .
It’s a Big Johnson shirt, sold in their on-line store:
Their version has their iconic logo repeat on the front.
Okay that website actually has a explanation for it but I’m still completely lost what it means.
I’m guessing it’s a parody of the no-straws campaign from above?
I don’t know what explanation for the shirt Doreen’s source offered, but Big Johnson.com’s explanation for the shirt is:
… RED SOLO CUP, I FILL YOU UP, LET’S HAVE A PARTY!…
I think you got that backwards.