The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme - Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.
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https://theintercept.com/2025/10/23/charlie-kirk-meme-arrest-tennessee-larry-bushart/Open linkView original on lemmy.world738
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The type of person who arrested him:
Christofascist nutjob.
Who the fuck let him become sheriff?! America is a seriously messed up place.
Oh, sherrif is an elected position in Tennessee.
So other christofascist nutjobs.
This is true almost everywhere in the US.
which has benefits if people en large act in good faith.
Perry County, Tennessee is only 8,300 people. There are only a few towns in LA metro smaller than that. Both LA and Orange Counties have had corrupt sheriff’s that were sentenced to jail. Imagine what it would be like in a county where everyone personally knows your family and there are very few checks and balances on power?
It must be like living in Idiocracy there.
I saw a docu about places like this once. People don't dare to express non-Republican political opinions let alone openly support one. Violence threatened and carried out. And of course election isn't quite as secret as you'd think. Voting anyhthing but Trump requires balls.
Haha brutal! Not surprising!
Acab is true but the way Sheriffs work makes them extra Acab its literally unbelievable.
As others have pointed out, the sheriff is an elected position. All you have to do is move in the right circles, and out in the boonies those circles are the local church(es) and republican party.
Turns out he's the evil.
"Are we the baddies?"
Exactly and it's almost as if he's bragging about being evil and the people closest to him not realizing it.
Epstein's Law: every accusation from a Conservative [of being guilty of a thing] is a confession [of being guilty of the thing]
Paranoia is a disease unto itself
And may I add
The person standing to you
May not be who they appear to be
So take precautions
haikubot, is that you? ❤️
haikus don't have a sweet bass line like this
It’s as Jesus said: “Do unto others as you suspect them of potentially doing unto you.”
this guy evils!
This guy is gonna have a field day with his lawsuit once this is over. The prosecutor is going to cost them millions for something no one will remember after it's over.
Right. Let me just read the bill of rights to see if theres anything that applies…. Oh wait, it’s the FIRST one. That was easy.
Funny, SCOTUS sees you and will rule that the president is the arbiter of what is and isn’t free speech
It's go to the city/county/state. Being that a Nashville judge said that the charges against Garcia and attempting to deport him were likely illegitimate... I don't see it going that sheriff's way at all
I don’t know why but I foresee Pam Bondi intervening. Something about losing local support and losing a big item on their agenda?
Invade a city in Tennessee and try to claim well they are majority Democrats in that area, they started walking a tight rope. Announce snap will be cut to Tennessee for all next month because of federal government inaction. Then try to say a mostly Republican district in Tennessee doesn't get to follow Tennessee law... That may manage to piss off enough Tennessee citizens who believes in States rights enough to flip multiple house seats. Unless they have the voting already guaranteed rigged, it would be a foolish move.
Foolish has never stopped them before
"Them" in this case, is the tax payers.
Something the dipshits don't ever seem to realize. That their taxes are literally paying out those multi-million dollar settlements.
That's where the real and easy to stop government waste is.
Well that group of morons are the ones who elected this sheriff.
You’re assuming we will have our current laws in the foreseeable future.
This is the latest American version of The Monkey's Paw wish to be rich.
How much money can he even get for this? I'm not a lawyer but I assume he can ask for lost wages and maybe for emotional distress(?) but that should come at around a few tens of thousands. From what I've seen before not even people that were wrongfully imprisoned for decades don't get that much money in reparations. Also from looking it up Tennessee has a cap of 1 million dollars for reparations.
According to the sitting POTUS, it seems it should be $230 million.
Charlie Kirk sat under a tent that said "Prove Me Wrong" and got shot dead with a bullet in the neck. So either he's right and his death is a prudent deal, or he's a dumbass. The whole situation is so riddled with irony it has to be a joke.
Yup. I might not be fine with the way Charlie Kirk died but that quote proves that Charlie Kirk was fine with the way Charlie Kirk died.
So, I've avoided images/video of the actual shooting, this is the first time I've heard he was under a tent that said "Prove me wrong"
LOL
Shooter: Challenge Accepted!
It is 10x more ironic than that when you dig into it. Dude also said public executions should be a thing and that kids should be forced to see it and then he was publicly executed in front of his own kids.
Don't forget he was talking about public shootings when it happened.
More specifically he was trying to obfuscate with gang violence amongst people of color only to catch a bullet in Mormonland. Which is so fucken white it makes my pasty ass uncomfortable.
He was trying to wave it away as black-on-black violence without saying that phrase, only to hilariously die to white-on-white violence
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I don't have enough fingers and toes to count how many times conservatives on Reddit directly threatened me via comments and DM's.
(I have all my fingers and toes.)
So at least 21 but at most infinity.
You know what Charlie Kirk would say about this if he were still alive?
"Gaaaaaaaaaaaargle gargle gargle gAAAAAAaalge"
Charlie Kirk used to fist his own asshole.
He still does.
Yay, new holes to fist!
FREEEEEEEEEDUMB!!!!
Liberty! Constitution! Small government!
...oh, for people I don't like? Nah.
Free speech
The more I read the angrier I became. I hate Tennessee Nazis.
Hopefully Bushart will file a lawsuit against the neo-Nazi shitbags.
Readable archive.is link to article
Posting politically motivated memes about violent current events with identifiable social media profile tied to your real identity
I'm not saying he should be in a legal battle for their
freedomfreeDUM. I'm just saying that this person is a fuckwit.So I don’t know where you live, but in the US the First Amendment covers pretty firmly that this is allowed. The Sheriff had literally no grounds to arrest him.
Not anymore, the first amendment is now dead.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/prosecuting-burning-of-the-american-flag/
While I'm sure that the current dipshits at the top want it to be a crime in and of itself, in most places it will only be a escalation of another crime, like you burning your neighbor's clothes, but if you burn their flag it's a higher charge. I know a few places still have the flag burning on the books specifically for that. It's just like other property destruction charges, where they don't specifically spell out that you can't be charged for destroying your own property.
You're absolutely right, BUT It does not grant freedom from consequences or actions of others based on your written/spoken words, and when the powers that be are only a few steps short of red arm bands...
-Vandals
It literally does grant freedom from consequences of government actors for protected speech.
It is supposed to grant you freedom from government consequences though. At least it used to.
I am not sure I would even call it a meme.
And if I remember correctly it wasn't more than one AND was just a re-post of Trump's tweet. So we are saying he can get jailed for re-posting the presidents own words?
I get your point somewhat, but not in a thousand years would any one expect that posting a Presidents own words is jailtime.
hell it was a very mild post. Stop with this "fuck around and find out" about basic things energy.
Yeah, we live in New America now. You need to protect yourself online.
This isn't ok, but yeah, you need to be smart on the internet. That's the country we live in now.
I bet you'd be embarrassed to have posted this loser shit if you were sharp enough.