Be safe out there. It’s a wild world.

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    $2m bond for memeing too hard? Gtfo, I hope FIRE metaphorically beats all those yokels from cop to prosecutor to judge. No less than three public officials with not possibly more than 2 brain cells between them.

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    you see that glint in his eye? he knows the case has no merit and he’s going to sue the fucking shit out of everybody.

    dude is playing that game, “would you x for a billion dollars?” and knows he’s going to win.

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    Holy shit, the post in question is really benign too. We’re so fucking cooked.

    FTA:

    In response to a Facebook post about an upcoming vigil for Kirk, Bushart shared an image of President Donald Trump with the quote, “We have to get over it,” which Trump said in January 2024 after a shooting at Iowa’s Perry High School. Text added to the image said, “This seems relevant today.”

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      Per the article, there was a Perry County near by that for some reason took that as him saying he would shoot up their school, so they booked him for terroristic threatening… Wild

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    Some of the memes he posted. The last one is what got him arrested and the the $2mil bond for “threatening a school shooting”.

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      That middle pic is in very poor taste and I audibly gasped a bit but well within his rights to post (not accounting for FB rules), but the last pic is in no way advocating that schools be shot up. What the heck, man? Half of all Facebook and Reddit users are going to jail next, and all of 4chan.

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        Oh, I didn’t even notice what the middle one is. Definitely bad taste and I’m certain it’s against FB policy. Showing that around to random people is pretty fucked up. Still, it isn’t illegal by any means.

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    What a fucking miscarriage of justice. Everyone involved in this should go to prison themselves.

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    (slaps the Constitution down in the judge’s bench)

    “The defense rests, your honor.”

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      Yea, I bet this guy is going to win some serious Amendment V suits along with his guaranteed Amendment I suit.

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    I got questions. What evidence was presented to the judge such that he set this insane bail? Who represented this guy? He had to have had a public defender at the least.

    Either this is one of the worst miscarriages of justice in my 50-years or we’re going to hear more.

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      It will not stop with trump. This has been in the works for over 30 years now. Why do people think trump is the linchpin… Theyll just put some other tv fuckwit in the seat and carry on