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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

A Tennessee man has been in jail for a month, and will be there into December, at least, because a county sheriff 45 minutes away didn't like a meme he posted on Facebook about Donald Trump. Seriously, that is the alleged crime here. Larry Bushart, 61, of Lexington, Tenn., posted a meme in a Facebook group on a thread referencing a local Charlie Kirk vigil 21 with a photo of Trump and a direct quote from the president saying "We have to get over it," which Trump said after a 2024 school shooting in Perry, Iowa, attributing the quote to "Donald Trump on the Perry High School mass shooting one day after," and adding the message, "Seems relevant today." Bushart, a retired police and corrections officer and sheriff's deputy, has been in jail since he was booked in the early-morning hours of Sept. 22 on a charge of "threatening mass violence at a school," and is being held on a preposterous $2 million bond.

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#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-29 04:59 AM | Reply

And yet that ICE agent who pointed that gun at an unarmed civilian and said "You're dead" is still on the streets and doing "law enforcement".

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-29 08:00 AM | Reply

I am sure Jeffy will be along any moment to decry this legitimate violation of the first amendment.

Any.....moment.....now.....

#3 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-10-29 09:31 AM | Reply

Trumpers are a sick disease, a cancer.

#4 | Posted by YAV at 2025-10-29 09:43 AM | Reply

Someone didn't get over it.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-29 09:46 AM | Reply

The link didn't work for me, so I found this one - in case anyone else has an issue:
augustafreepress.com

#6 | Posted by YAV at 2025-10-29 09:58 AM | Reply

I don't understand. The man obviously owned guns.

So.. Why couldn't he stop a tyrannical government from overreaching and trampling on his civil rights with his guns?

Wasn't the whole "right to bear arms" seen as a necessary way to keep tyranny in check and defend against government oppression?

Was that all just another Big Lie?

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-29 10:46 AM | Reply

Hey ballwasher, any comment?

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-29 10:56 AM | Reply

"This has everything to do with a guy coming onto a Perry County page posting this picture leading people in our community to believe that there was a hypothetical Perry County High School shooting that caused fear in our community " and we done something about it," Sheriff Weems said in an exclusive interview with NewsChannel 5 Investigates.
www.newschannel5.com

Fact is, there is always going to be a hypothetical Perry County High School shooting.

That's what the Second Amendment is for.

Anyway, if you say something that the cops say might "cause fear" in the community, Republicans think it's okay to send you to prison for that. More from the article:

We pressed the sheriff, "But you also knew this was an existing meme that was already out there on the Internet."

"Correct," Weems agreed.

Again, we noted, "So it's clear that he's not talking about Perry County High School."

"We knew," the sheriff said. "The public did not know."

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-29 10:59 AM | Reply

Hey ballwasher, any comment?

Posted by jpw at 2025-10-29 10:56 AM | Reply

Good luck with that,

#10 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-10-29 11:03 AM | Reply

Thoughtcrime has arrived.

The crime was showing Trump to be hypocritical and full of ----.

Not Acceptable in Tennessee. Trump is Divine, always consistent, to be Feared as a Secular Deity.

Shown by his own words to be a complete ------- just Fine with the Murders of children.

The only Threat was to Trump's Credibility and Ego.

Lawfare...the Real thing not the BS Trump whines about because he got convicted of actual Felonies he was Guilty of.

#11 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-29 11:09 AM | Reply

Free Speech ain't Free no more, folks.

This is Orwell's 1984.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-29 11:16 AM | Reply

Good luck with your settlement.

#13 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-10-29 11:19 AM | Reply

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#14 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-10-29 02:01 PM | Reply

theintercept.com

#15 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-29 02:02 PM | Reply

www.rawstory.com

#16 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-29 02:03 PM | Reply

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#14 | Posted by lfthndthrds

^
From Each, According To His Abilities.

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-29 02:09 PM | Reply

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