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61-Year-Old Man Jailed For 5 Weeks Over a Trump Meme

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller takes on the MAGA meltdown after the Charlie Kirk assassination—where right-wing influencers and even Senator Mike Lee went after teachers over an innocent Halloween costume, and a Tennessee man was jailed for posting a meme.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. In the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, MAGA cancel culture and MAGA attacks on free speech are out of control.

0:06.2

And there are two insane examples from over the weekend that I want to talk to you about right now.

0:12.0

One, with the targeting of teachers in Arizona for a Halloween costume that had nothing to do with Charlie Kirk.

0:17.7

And the other about a man who thankfully has just gotten out of jail in Tennessee who was jailed for memes. I'm serious. He was jailed for memes. Let's talk about both of them. First, let's go to Arizona. If you haven't seen this, I mean, this is just truly, it's really hard to even fathom how broken everybody's brains are that we've gotten to this place.

0:37.7

On Halloween, some math teachers from the Vail School District in Tucson, Arizona,

0:42.3

posted this picture of their Halloween costume.

0:45.2

As you can see, it features white t-shirts saying problem solved with red blood stained

0:50.6

on the shirts.

0:52.0

Now, any sane person who, you know, has been outside, who has talked

0:57.4

to neighbors who exists in society, who has, I don't know, been a student, like knows, obviously

1:04.4

that there is not a group of 10 teachers like trolling a dead, assassinated person. Like like obviously that's not what they were doing

1:12.9

like it's like you have to have a totally warped view of the other side of the political aisle

1:19.1

to think that they would do something like this it's crazy also like you could just look at

1:24.3

the outfit and be like obviously this is a joke like making fun of how hard math problems are.

1:30.9

That's what it is.

1:32.4

Like, it's a joke about how kids struggle with math.

1:37.0

And, you know, the teachers are giving them these assignments.

1:40.4

And the shirts say, like, the problem is solved.

1:43.1

But you went through all this pain to get there and math problems are scary. Like that's what this is. It's a dorky math joke. It's not a particularly funny joke, but that's okay. A lot of people had not funny costumes. Not me. I had a great costume. I was a goose. I was geese, actually. So there you go. So they have these costumes,

2:09.6

totally normal dorky teacher Halloween costumes. Somebody must have flagged this. Some insane Maga Karen must have flagged this for the Turning Point USA organization because their representatives started posting it and talking about how outrageous

2:19.4

this is that these teachers would troll Charlie Kirk.

2:22.8

And so after the TBSA folks posted this, it was off to the races.

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