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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 85 points 5 days ago (3 children)

"Accused" is being used as a euphemism for "caught on camera".

He complained to the restaurant that the ice cream had been drugged, so they checked the camera and saw him doing it.

Immoral and stupid, a truly republican plan.

[–] AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Less "euphemism" and more technically correct legal term. It hasn't been proven in a court of law, and he hasn't publicly admitted guilt, even though there is (allegedly) film of him doing it. And to be clear I'm not saying he didn't do it, he very obviously did, but news sites (good ones) have to be specific with their statements.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We really need a better word for "did it, but a court hasn't found them guilty."

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm trying to understand wtf the plan was here

First off, he actually had cocaine and MDMA from somewhere?

Then he put them in ice cream

...then he complained they received the ice cream that way?

Like, wtf would be the point of that? Or did someone else catch him and he just blamed someone else...?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

It's a safe guess that the end game was molestation, but something interfered with his plan to interfere with the girls.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Maybe he wanted to manufacturer an excuse for ICE to arrest foreign-born citizens employed there. Hypothetically.

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nah, he was trying to rape his granddaughters (being a Republican- obviously this was what he was all about), they found the pills, and he tried to deflect by blaming it on the service workers.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 4 days ago

I hate that both are equally likely.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 3 points 4 days ago

I guarantee it. That it something equally shitty.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Another article:

Further details revealed that Yokeley and the young ladies involved went to a Dairy Queen that night, close to the business’s closing time. Willett said the 16-year-old step-granddaughter was driving the vehicle after leaving the ice cream shop.

Not long after, the two girls found blue pressed pills in their ice cream. Willett said due to “concern, fear, and panic,” the step-granddaughter pulled into a nearby Sheetz gas station when she spotted an EMS vehicle and alerted paramedics of the situation on the spot.

So, he put drugs in before one of the kids was going to drive.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the link to additional info. Sounds like he was definitely trying to harm them and they were lucky to find the pills and that the granddaughter was driving and saw that paramedics were there to pull over and contact. Who knows what might have happened if he had been driving--he might have gone on to Plan B.

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Plan-B is what he would have put in their ice cream the next day after he's done with Cosby night.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is just a LIBRUL WITCH HUNT! Who CARES if he Put COCAINE in his Granddaughter's Ice Cream? There's STILL Brown People that HAVENT been Arrest yet! PROTECT THE CHILDREN! I'm NOT in a Cult!

[–] harmsy@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

If only the academy awards had a category for best punching sound effects

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If I still had young kids, I wouldn't want any Republican near them.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I wouldn't want any of my relatives around these freaks, and no matter how old my kids get, I definitely don't want them near Republicans.

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

Epstein's Law: every accusation from a Conservative [of being guilty of a thing] is a confession [of being guilty of the thing]

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

why would he be roofying his granddaughter, I wonder.

[–] Makhno@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you'd read the article (I know, a lot to ask), you'd see he was doing it to set up employees of the ice cream shop for the fall

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

My reading skills may have deteriorated, but nowhere did I see that in this article.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Amazingly the headline is underselling what he was really doing.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

Is granddaughter gave him headline?

[–] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

I am shocked. SHOCKED! Well... I guess not that shocked.... At all...

[–] Veedem@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Honestly, forget the party affiliation because his position amounts to a nothing burger.

The fact that this horrible person put cocaine and mdma in their ice cream is fucking insane, if true.

[–] mcbenavides85@piefed.social 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They have video of him doing it. He tried blaming someone else.

[–] subignition@fedia.io 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Idiot was probably trying to manufacture an incident to further some party narrative...

[–] mcbenavides85@piefed.social 11 points 5 days ago

Probably saw a brown kid behind the Dairy Queen counter.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Or he was trying to fuck his granddaughter.

[–] subignition@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago

That was my first thought too but I don't think cocaine and MDMA make sense in that context

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hell, no, Republicans have a pedophilia problem with a P, starting with the fucking big man himself, it comes down from the top, whatthe fuck are you talking about?

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 2 points 4 days ago

I mean it's literally in the nickname the use for themselves. G.rumpy O.ld P.edophiles

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I guess this guy’s planning a run for prez.

[–] harmsy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I thought it said debugging for a moment and was about to say something about the DMCA.