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.

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.

The type of person who arrested him:

By Sunday evening, however, the posts had gotten the attention of Perry County Sheriff Nick Weems. An avid Facebook user himself, Weems had shared the information about the Kirk vigil on his own page a few days earlier. He had also posted his own emotional response to the news of Kirk’s murder in September, warning ominously about the “evil” in our midst. “Evil could be your neighbor,” he wrote. “Evil could be standing right beside you in the grocery store. It could be your own family member and you never even know it.”

Christofascist nutjob.

It’s as Jesus said: “Do unto others as you suspect them of potentially doing unto you.”
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.
- 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?
- 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.
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? ❤️

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
"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.

“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”

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.

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"

FREEEEEEEEEDUMB!!!!

Liberty! Constitution! Small government!

...oh, for people I don't like? Nah.

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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 ~~freedom~~ freeDUM. 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/
- 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...
  America stands for freedom But if you think you're free Try walking into a deli And urinating on the cheese
  -Vandals
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.