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Republican election chief accused of slipping MDMA, cocaine into granddaughters’ ice cream (www.rawstory.com)

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 190 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Damn. So desperate to be a victim, he made victims of his own grandkids. Piece of trash. The ironic part is he was caught by the surveillance state he no doubt supported till now.

According to Raleigh, North Carolina NBC affiliate WRAL News, on August 8, Yokeley approached a Wilmington police officer and claimed his two juvenile granddaughters had discovered two suspicious pills in ice cream they’d purchased from Dairy Queen on Oleander Drive.

However, surveillance video later revealed that Yokeley himself was seen placing the pills into both of the girls’ treats. The pills reportedly tested positive for MDMA and cocaine, as noted in an arrest warrant. The authorities said they have evidence he slipped drugs into the girls' ice cream.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 100 points 11 months ago

This is MAGA/the Republican party in a nutshell. Getting people worked up and freaking out chasing imaginary LGBTQ+/Dem/woke bogeymen while their own members are literally harming children.

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'll be curious if in 6 months time the whole affair will be ~covered up~/^dropped^

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Director position at the CDC just opened up

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Even assuming he wasn't a fuck faced idiot, what would framing some poor service worker even achieve?

Other than a sadist boner of course

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 21 points 11 months ago

He probably wanted to generate a story about a minority endangering his pure white grandkids, or just a simple scam against the company for a settlement.

[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

Share this EVERYWHERE. Especially truth social. Over and over again

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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 142 points 11 months ago (5 children)

People aren't reading the article. He both put the pills in the ice cream and reported them to police. He was trying to implicate Dairy Queen or one of their workers in a crime.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's wild how they scream and cry about the "10 commandments" but have zero hesitation breaking any and all of those commandments in the most blatant and direct ways imaginable.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"Do not put ecstasy and cocaine in thy granddaughter's ice cream" must have been on the tablet Moses dropped.

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[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The article says that he did both of those things, but it isn't clear on what happened between those two events. Did he put the pills in and go straight to the cops? Did he give the ice cream to the kids? Were the pills clearly visible or were they buried?

I agree that the most likely explanation is that he was trying to create a story and/or attack DQ and its employees. But it isn't totally implausible that he might have been trying to drug the kids and pivoted when they found the pills. He has to be an idiot either way, they are both terrible plans.

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ever wonder why they scream "false flag" or "fed" every time some nazi POS makes them look bad by agreeing with them in public?

It's because they pull shit like this and expect everyone else to as well.

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[–] rozodru@piefed.social 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I swear to god Republicans are wasting their talents on politics. They have such amazing imaginations. they should be writers or artists or something. like I highly doubt any of us would think "fuck Dairy Queen, I hate Dairy Queen. I know! i'll go buy some MDMA and Cocaine and then plant it in their Ice Cream..that'll show them!"

or Jewish Space Lasers. or Flat Earths. or any of that. Sure DiscWorld exists but wouldn't you want to watch a movie about Jewish Space Lasers? ....oh right Spaceballs.

Ok maybe Republicans aren't talented they just rip off other peoples ideas.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People don't read anything but the headline before spouting off whatever comes into their head.

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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 75 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Boy, this guy must really have a grudge against DQ. I suppose that must have black/latino/gay/trans employees or something. That's enough to send most MAGAts over the ledge these days.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I assume he tried to drug his grandaughters, the girls discovered the pills, and then he had to play dumb and come up with a story "Dairy Queen must have put those in there!!"

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, he definitely wanted to use this to stoke the fire in the minds of the "drug problem" locally. The DQ is probably staffed by some minority or other group that he hates, so if the optics show those "evil people putting drugs into innocent little white girls food" to create more hatred. Just pure evil.

According to Raleigh, North Carolina NBC affiliate WRAL News, on August 8, Yokeley approached a Wilmington police officer and claimed his two juvenile granddaughters had discovered two suspicious pills in ice cream they’d purchased from Dairy Queen on Oleander Drive.

However, surveillance video later revealed that Yokeley himself was seen placing the pills into both of the girls’ treats. The pills reportedly tested positive for MDMA and cocaine, as noted in an arrest warrant. The authorities said they have evidence he slipped drugs into the girls’ ice cream.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't think that's "definite".

It also doesn't really make a ton of sense, as you can easily propagandize and villainize without personally exposing your granddaughters to drugs and risking severe legal troubles, by twisting facts or straight up making shit up "they're eating the dogs" style.

The paragraphs you quoted don't really support one theory over another about his motives

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I don't know. If the kids had eaten those pills, they would have been fucked up or dead. Either way, authorities would have gotten involved. I suspect that this was his plan from the beginning.

Edit: Wait, is MDMA a date rape drug? I assumed he was staging this to go after DQ. Was he instead trying to drug them to assault them?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 17 points 11 months ago

No. Neither is cocaine.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

in the same way that alcohol is a date rape drug, any drug that inhibits you can be used to control you

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 46 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Why does he have coke and ecstasy?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Why don't you?

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 45 points 11 months ago

Because the party of small government tells me what I can and can’t put in my body.

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[–] Morganica@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

More importantly, how are they better at finding these drugs than I am?

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[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

He probably just had some ecstasy and that had a little cocaine in it. Also if they just did a Marquis test before sending it off both mdma and cocaine can show as the same color so they would just go with that until they get confirmation from the lab.

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 37 points 11 months ago

According to the report, neither child consumed the drugs; the pills were promptly sent to a state laboratory for further confirmation.

thank fuck he was way too stupid to crush it up

They don't mention the ages, but those kids could have died.

Even still, I cannot imagine the horror of MDMA+Coke comedown through the eyes of a child.

Fucking psycho.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 34 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Yokeley approached a Wilmington police officer and claimed his two juvenile granddaughters had discovered two suspicious pills in ice cream they’d purchased from Dairy Queen

Sounds like he wasn't trying to drug them, fortunately I guess. Either way the guy is still off his rocker.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or, he was trying to drug them and the children found the drugs, so he tried to make them think it wasn't him.

At the very least, we know he had the drugs, and we know he put them in the ice cream where they could have been consumed by his granddaughters.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 10 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Unless he never tried MDMA before I doubt it. There is no way anyone that ever tasted mdma believes you can hide it in ice cream without the child immediately spitting it out

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Let's all take a step back and recognize that this is not a man making thoughtful decisions. He put drugs in ice cream for his granddaughters. His thought process isn't likely to be anything we can fully comprehend.

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[–] marsza@lemmy.cafe 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It was him. People on Dairy Queen salary don’t slip mdma into kids ice cream

However, surveillance video later revealed that Yokeley himself was seen placing the pills into both of the girls’ treats. The pills reportedly tested positive for MDMA and cocaine, as noted in an arrest warrant. The authorities said they have evidence he slipped drugs into the girls' ice cream.

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like he wasn’t trying to drug them

How did you come to that conclusion?

[–] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (4 children)

They mean he set up the drugs to report and create some kind of spectacle, instead of adding them to drug the grandkids.

Intended to drug the ice cream, didn't intend to let the grandkids consume the ice cream.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

You know how parents get worked up about strangers poisoning Halloween candy? How there have been waves of panics about that? Razor blades in apples, all that? Not a real thing. You know what actually created those fears? An incident

a single incident

of a guy killing his kid in an insurance fraud case in the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O%27Bryan

Ronald Clark O'Bryan (October 19, 1944 – March 31, 1984), nicknamed The Candy Man, The Man Who Killed Halloween and The Pixy Stix Killer, was an American man convicted of killing his eight-year-old son Timothy (April 5, 1966 – October 31, 1974) on Halloween 1974 with a potassium cyanide-laced Pixy Stix that was ostensibly collected during a trick or treat outing. O'Bryan poisoned his son in order to claim life insurance money to ease his own financial troubles, as he was $100,000 in debt. O'Bryan also distributed poisoned candy to his daughter and three other children in an attempt to cover up his crime; however, neither his daughter nor the other children ate the poisoned candy. He was convicted of capital murder in June 1975 and sentenced to death. He was executed by lethal injection in March 1984.

Really not enthusiastic about the idea of a "fast food workers must be drugging my kids" panic.

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[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Another republican pedophile you say.

Is it Tuesday again alrwady?

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[–] DemandtheOxfordComma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 11 months ago

At least it wasn't fluoride. That would be unforgivable.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 11 months ago

The drag queens have done it again

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

Conservatives are pedos. They are one and the same. There is no divide anymore. It’s the party for pedo perverts

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Pedo Party

Reminder that the conservatives in your life are 100% onboard.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Overlook the creepiness and realize that this man tried to cosby two little girls, in his custody, with ice cream, and failed. So he's pathetic even among other pedophiles.

MAGAs main characteristic is hatred, but incompetence is a close second. Bonus for every accusation being a confession.

[–] chellewalker@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a different kind of scummy going on here; he didn't want his grandkids to actually eat it, he wanted to get media attention and stoke more fear in his base. It would be like someone slipping razors into their own kids candy to rage-bait about Halloween being unsafe.

To be clear, this isn't any better than the alternative; he put his grandkids in danger for a publicity stunt that could have very easily resulted in them consuming the drugs. Which also raises the question how how he got that cocaine in the first place.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (6 children)

You read this and the first question is why? Its also the least likely to ever get answered. Settle for the what he did and make sure he can't do it ever again. Of course in todays world trump will give him a medal.

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[–] Regna@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Why would any sane person want to risk damage to their grandchildren just to score some attention and outrage? Oh, republican… right…

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[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Republican Party is run by sickening pedos.

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[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Welcome to North Carolina. This state is so gerrymandered that we have Virginia Fox.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

wow grandparent of the year award. seems like he wanted to play the victim and have a "personal story" about drugs. he should be treated as if his intentions were to sexually molest his granddaughter after getting her high. get him a taste of his own medicine.

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