Larry Bushart - $2M Bond for posting a Trump Meme

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A former police officer in TN posted some memes in a pro-Charlie Kirk facebook group. One of these memes included a direct quote from Trump stating “we have to get over it” the *day after* a shooting at Perry HS in Iowa. Bushart commented that “this seems relevant today,” clearly pointing out the disconnect between national mourning of a pro-gun podcaster, while our own president thinks 24 hours is sufficient time to move on from a school shooting.

Unfortunately for Bushart he lives in a town full of idiots in TN who took this as a threat (wiiiillld stretch) because there is a Perry HS in that town. Allegedly he was clearly “trying to invoke panic” that he was plotting to commit violence at the local HS.

Never mind the fact this meme/quote has widely been circulated on the internet and that Bushart routinely posts in favor of gun reform.

But he made fun of Trump and wasn’t sad about Charlie Kirk, so now he is incarcerated on $2M bond. He won’t have a hearing until December. One more step to punish someone for criticizing the president.

What are the MAGA excuses for this one? Don’t they supposedly love the first amendment?

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2025/10/11/hearing-set-for-ex-tennessee-cop-charged-with-making-threats-after-charlie-kirk-death/86603733007/

"Why won't the Right just let us abuse their free speech without any blowback when they're in power?"

Oh look, the same people who were cheering Douglas Mackey being tried and convicted for a meme about voting for Hillary Clinton are now suddenly free speech warriors.

Free speech for me, not for thee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meh. I'd be panicking if I were a local, too. When they think of "Perry HS", it's doubtful the one in Iowa is the first thing that comes to mind.

In Tennessee the school is Perry County High School.
If such shootings were less frequent we'd remember the one in 2024 in Iowa.

[Anonymous]

The most I could see here would be disorderly conduct. People freaked out. If he had included Iowa in the meme it would have helped (but it might have been an existing one he used and like me would not have good editing skills for something like this). Or a date. Regardless, I say disorderly conduct and I wonder why there has not been a hearing to reduce bail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meh. I'd be panicking if I were a local, too. When they think of "Perry HS", it's doubtful the one in Iowa is the first thing that comes to mind.

In Tennessee the school is Perry County High School.
If such shootings were less frequent we'd remember the one in 2024 in Iowa.

The school in the rural town where my brother lives is a county high school and they call it X County High School, not X high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meh. I'd be panicking if I were a local, too. When they think of "Perry HS", it's doubtful the one in Iowa is the first thing that comes to mind.

In Tennessee the school is Perry County High School.
If such shootings were less frequent we'd remember the one in 2024 in Iowa.

The school in the rural town where my brother lives is a county high school and they call it X County High School, not X high school.

Good luck with that defense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A former police officer in TN posted some memes in a pro-Charlie Kirk facebook group. One of these memes included a direct quote from Trump stating “we have to get over it” the *day after* a shooting at Perry HS in Iowa. Bushart commented that “this seems relevant today,” clearly pointing out the disconnect between national mourning of a pro-gun podcaster, while our own president thinks 24 hours is sufficient time to move on from a school shooting.

Unfortunately for Bushart he lives in a town full of idiots in TN who took this as a threat (wiiiillld stretch) because there is a Perry HS in that town. Allegedly he was clearly “trying to invoke panic” that he was plotting to commit violence at the local HS.

Never mind the fact this meme/quote has widely been circulated on the internet and that Bushart routinely posts in favor of gun reform.

But he made fun of Trump and wasn’t sad about Charlie Kirk, so now he is incarcerated on $2M bond. He won’t have a hearing until December. One more step to punish someone for criticizing the president.

What are the MAGA excuses for this one? Don’t they supposedly love the first amendment?

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2025/10/11/hearing-set-for-ex-tennessee-cop-charged-with-making-threats-after-charlie-kirk-death/86603733007/

"Why won't the Right just let us abuse their free speech without any blowback when they're in power?"

Oh look, the same people who were cheering Douglas Mackey being tried and convicted for a meme about voting for Hillary Clinton are now suddenly free speech warriors.

Free speech for me, not for thee.

Republicans clinging hard to that anti-voting / anti-democracy effort, eh?

For those who don't know, Douglas Mackey committed election fraud, misdirecting people away from voting.

PP thinks that a man quoting Donald Trump's own words is as bad a crime as using fraud to preventing someone from voting. Republicans HATE democracy. Republicans HATE truth, because the truth is, their beliefs and goals are evil.


https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/social-media-influencer-douglass-mackey-convicted-election-interference-2016


As proven at trial, between September 2016 and November 2016, Mackey conspired with other influential Twitter users and with members of private online groups to use social media platforms, including Twitter, to disseminate fraudulent messages that encouraged supporters of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to “vote” via text message or social media which, in reality, was legally invalid. For example, on November 1, 2016, in or around the same time that Mackey was sending tweets suggesting the importance of limiting “black turnout,” the defendant tweeted an image depicting an African American woman standing in front of an “African Americans for Hillary” sign. The ad stated: “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925,” and “Vote for Hillary and be a part of history.”


Several hours after tweeting the first image, Mackey tweeted an image depicting a woman seated at a conference room typing a message on her cell phone. This deceptive image was written in Spanish and mimicked a font used by the Clinton campaign in authentic ads. The image also included a copy of the Clinton campaign’s logo and the “ImWithHer” hashtag.

[Anonymous]

this is WILD.

how did he try to 'incite panic' any more than anyone expressing any opinion?

[Anonymous]

Political prisoner Larry Bushart released after 5 weeks of unlawful detention. No comment from his captors

This is what happens in Communist China.

https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-meme-tennessee-arrest-larry-bushart-02b445f454bcfb657a48e8fa7e8ddfc9