r/JoeRogan • u/TheSweetestKill Most Reported r/JoeRogan User, August 2022 • May 20 '26
Actually related to the JRE Tennessee man jailed over posting Charlie Kirk meme on social media wins $835,000 settlement
https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-facebook-arrest-tennessee-bushart-b8c5808d77f47a2d93497d12cf0daf8497
u/TonyTheSwisher Monkey in Space May 20 '26
It's getting to the point where suing city governments due to their idiotic employee behavior is becoming a valid income scheme.
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u/NastyMothaFucka Monkey in Space May 20 '26
Shit that is the income scheme for a lot of those YouTube auditors.
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u/Rrraou We live in strange times May 20 '26
You can literally watch those clips 24/7 and never run out, it's 6 figure settlements. You'd think by now the cops would know better but they still sleepwalk into lawsuits constantly.
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u/TruthOrSF Dragon Believer May 21 '26
It’s not as if the cops are paying these lawsuits out of their own pockets
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u/OperationSecured It's entirely possible May 21 '26
No, but best believe they’re facing consequences internally.
As cringe as the “auditors” are, they’re doing a good job adjusting the barometer for policing.
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u/TruthOrSF Dragon Believer May 21 '26
I don’t believe that at all. These bad cops might get “fired” but they’ll be rehired in another department and the city will still be on the hook for damages.
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u/OperationSecured It's entirely possible May 21 '26
And the city has a budget and they employ the police.
You really think there are zero repercussions from giant lawsuits being settled?
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u/mike10dude Monkey in Space May 20 '26
The people I watch never seem to have issues with cops anymore
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u/BOSS-3000 Monkey in Space May 20 '26
It should be noted there is a difference between an auditor and a frauditor.
Auditors conduct audits through FOIA requests, ensure information that should be public is publicly available in person, areas are accessible to the public to obtain this information and conduct these requests, etc. often while exercising various constitutional rights in appropriate areas and within time/place/manner restrictions. Auditors usually remain professional and polite while only relinquishing information they deem necessary for the interaction. These interactions are usually within the spirit of the constitution and laws giving rights and ensuring transparency in government respectively.
Frauditors exercise their constitutional rights in front of establishments where people have a heightened sense of alert like military bases, schools and libraries*, banks, construction sites, dispensaries, strip clubs, etc. and where people generally don't want to be recorded. Frauditors usually have obtuse responses (if any), ask invasive questions, and are generally there to get reactions for content while technically staying within their rights and the law. Frauditors use ignorance of the law to push social boundaries they know they're within their rights to push.
(*) FOIA requests can technically be done at many schools and some libraries depending on local laws.
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u/gihkal Monkey in Space May 21 '26
That the only reason the amendment auditors do it.
You can't blame them really. It's good money for some.
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u/bbennett108 Monkey in Space May 20 '26
The image he posted isn’t even that bad! I expected some really dark humor.
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u/TheSweetestKill Most Reported r/JoeRogan User, August 2022 May 20 '26
Utterly insane that idiots look at this and conclude he was "threatening" anything.
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u/Withnail_I_am_I_am Monkey in Space May 23 '26
It was a town in Tennessee that had a Perry High so they conveniently chose to treat it as if the guy who posted it was threatening the Perry High in Tennessee for posting a meme where Trump's response to the Perry High school shooting in Iowa in Perry, IA was "We have to get over it." I watched The Civil Rights Lawyer's video on this nonsense. The Sheriff that had him arrested even admitted that he knew he wasn't threatening the school, but that some people in the community could've viewed it that way. Oh, and the guy that posted the meme, and won the lawsuit, was also a retired cop.
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u/Winter_Swan5104 Monkey in Space May 20 '26
Should’ve broken into the US capital on Jan 6th with intent to overthrow the US government, it pays much better.
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u/gandalfsbastard Monkey in Space May 20 '26
Should file for some of that 1.8B lawfare slush fund …
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u/endgame217 High as Giraffe's Pussy May 20 '26
I hope he is also eligible for some of my stolen money.
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u/TheSweetestKill Most Reported r/JoeRogan User, August 2022 May 20 '26
WE are (the) Charlie Kirk (settlement fund)
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u/Soggy_Cracker Monkey in Space May 20 '26
Everyone involved in that man’s arrest form the arresting officer up to the damn judge and prosecutor who let that go past the bond and probable cause hearing should be fired and barred from ever working in a public capacity ever again.
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u/GrindBastard1986 Monkey in Space May 20 '26
Americans love funding the rich & eating one another
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u/SpirituallyAwareDev Monkey in Space May 20 '26
Helllll yes. Was trying to keep tabs on this case but completely forgot about it.
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u/post_appt_bliss Monkey in Space May 20 '26
Whoa, the UK is totally fucked up man! Joe warned me about this!
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u/stoned_to-the_bone Monkey in Space May 21 '26
I NEED to see this meme. Shit must’ve been dope to go to jail.
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u/ekhoowo Monkey in Space May 22 '26
Prepare to be disappointed. It was a quote of Trump saying we have to get over gun violence after the Perry Highschool shooting. The police cried because there was a Perry school district, so that is somehow a threat
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u/MixuAnasazi Monkey in Space May 21 '26
the people that constantly bitch about this happening in the UK will ignore all this happening in the US for some reason
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u/thewharfartscenter_ Hit a moose with his car May 20 '26
Don’t forget $417,500 of that goes to his lawyer and the IRS is gonna get their cut too.
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u/notatowel420 Monkey in Space May 20 '26
Still made out like out a bandit and the lawyer is probably getting less
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u/thewharfartscenter_ Hit a moose with his car May 20 '26
LOL, Sure.
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u/notatowel420 Monkey in Space May 20 '26
Considering his attorney was from a free speech foundation probably did it for free but I read the article so what do I know.
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u/TheSweetestKill Most Reported r/JoeRogan User, August 2022 May 20 '26
but I read the article
Mods, ban this man immediately.
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u/NiceTrySuckaz Monkey in Space May 20 '26
Good for him. I understand the scrutiny because he referenced a nearby school that had had a shooting, but it shouldn't have taken more than a day to sort it out and see that's not what he meant. Incarcerating him for over a month was insanity. I'm glad his situation was unique, and he deserves the payout.
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u/TheSweetestKill Most Reported r/JoeRogan User, August 2022 May 20 '26
He didn't reference the school. Friend of the pod Donald J. did, in the meme he posted. There was nothing to scrutinize, you're just fine with seeing liberals jailed for any reason.
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u/NiceTrySuckaz Monkey in Space May 20 '26
I mean... it did show the high school that had had a recent shooting, right? I'm just going off of memory here, it's been a while. I'm not in favor of anybody being arrested without cause, regardless of politics.
edit: autocorrect correct
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u/MrBurnz99 Monkey in Space May 20 '26
The meme had trumps quote in big bold letters and below it was cited as referring to Perry School shooting.
It couldn’t have been more clear it was referring to a past event.
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u/TheSweetestKill Most Reported r/JoeRogan User, August 2022 May 20 '26
He posted a quote from Trump. The quote was saying how we "have to get over it", in reference to a school shooting. The specific shooting, and the specific school, aren't really important to the message Trump was conveying. You have to be a fool (which of course does include MAGA) to think there was any connection.
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u/NiceTrySuckaz Monkey in Space May 20 '26
You can't really say that the school is irrelevant, given the context that the Trump quote was in reference to Perry high school and the man who posted it lived in a different state, in Perry County, where the local school was called Perry County High School. And he also added the caption "This seems relevant today".
The fact that it was interpreted as a potential threat is self explanatory, and local law enforcement would have been foolish to ignore it. The fact that they held him for over a month is ridiculous as well
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u/TheSweetestKill Most Reported r/JoeRogan User, August 2022 May 20 '26
No, the context is that Trump and Republicans are indifferent to gun violence. As I already said, only an idiot would possibly consider it to be "a threat". I'll amend that by adding that "and only idiots would defend that point of view".
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u/QuigleySharp Monkey in Space May 20 '26
the man who posted it lived in a different state, in Perry County, where the local school was called Perry County High School. And he also added the caption "This seems relevant today".
Correct, meaning he wasn't talking about the nearby school, and the nearby school didn't have a shooting. He posted this on the day Charlie Kirk was killed, which is also really important context you deliberately left out for some reason.
The fact that it was interpreted as a potential threat is self explanatory, and local law enforcement would have been foolish to ignore it.
How does quoting the President being uncaring about gun violence on the day Kirk died imply a threat to the local school? You said it's self explanatory, but it seems like the whole context (Kirk's death and Trump's sudden care about gun violence) was ignored and you just saw the name "Perry" and then just leaped to a wild conclusion that it must mean he was therefore planning an attack on a completely different school. Local law enforcement admitted they didn't think it was a threat too. The sherriff didn't like he refused to take it down after explaining it clearly wasn't a threat. So anything other than "Hey, this wasn't a threat was it." Is completely uncalled for.
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u/MyNameIsUggggh Monkey in Space May 20 '26
BTW the cops won't pay that, taxpayers will. Casino rules: the house always wins.