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TexasTowelie

(112,451 posts)
Mon Aug 3, 2020, 02:30 PM Aug 2020

Dunkin' Donuts to Require Masks After Trump-Loving Pastor Made Violent Threat Toward Employee

Dunkin’ Donuts announced Thursday that it will require all guests to wear masks in its stores.

The announcement came a few days after Trump-loving, gay-hating pastor Greg Locke posted a video rant on social media in which he said he had threatened to knock a Dunkin’ Donuts employee’s teeth down his throat. It’s unclear whether the mask requirement is related to Locke’s 13-minute rant, which has racked up nearly 6 million views on Facebook. According to Locke, the employee — whom he referred to as “Nazi Skippy” — asked him to wear a mask the next time he’s in the store. After Locke pushed open the door with his foot on the way out, the employee falsely accused him of trying to break out the glass, he said in the video.

“I said, ‘If you call me a liar one more time, I’m going to take these work boots and I’m going to kick your teeth down your throat,'” Locke said in his rant, confessing to a possible crime.

Earlier in the video, Locke said that after the employee initially asked him to wear a mask, “I was doing everything I could, spiritually, not to come over the counter, and still be a pastor in public, because I’m sure there are cameras everywhere, because people recognize me all over the place.”

Locke, a staunch anti-masker and full-fledged COVID-19 denier, said in another video this week that he will go to jail before halting services at Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, due to the coronavirus pandemic, which he calls a hoax. In his video about the Dunkin’ Donuts incident, he said he’s also willing to go to jail over mask requirements.

Read more: https://www.towleroad.com/2020/07/dunkin-donuts-to-require-masks-after-trump-loving-pastor-made-violent-threat-toward-employee-watch/



Lock him up!
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Croney

(4,671 posts)
1. Dunkin' here in Mass. already requires masks.
Mon Aug 3, 2020, 02:34 PM
Aug 2020

I watched this nut's video and if Karma so desires, my wish will come true.

BBG

(2,551 posts)
3. Shoulda invited him to the funeral
Mon Aug 3, 2020, 02:35 PM
Aug 2020

I know of a funeral in Mount Juliet today for a COVID victim. He could have drawn back the veil and taken a look for himself.

 

BGBD

(3,282 posts)
5. I'm almost sure...
Mon Aug 3, 2020, 02:46 PM
Aug 2020

he didn't say any of the stuff he claimed to.

He got told to put a mask on an he did. If he'd actually said anything to the people in the store he'd have made sure to get it on video so he could try to got viral with it. Truth is he's a candy ass little man who like to tell everyone how much of a badass he is as he sits alone in his car where nobody can call him out on his bullshit.

Google needs to start demonetizing any videos on YouTube that are spreading false Covid-19 information.

JHB

(37,162 posts)
7. Yeah. It'd be interesting for the store to release security video...
Mon Aug 3, 2020, 02:50 PM
Aug 2020

...showing what he really did was less than he said.

 

BGBD

(3,282 posts)
10. I could be wrong...
Mon Aug 3, 2020, 03:19 PM
Aug 2020

but I don't think he ever actually said what store it was or what town he was even in. He made reference to being "out of town visiting the kids." Makes me think he is purposefully hiding that, so that nobody can check him on it. If he's said it was his local one it would be easy to pick out and find out if it happened or not.

If he's actually been told to put it on and spoke his mind about not wanting to, he wouldn't be that raged up in the video. That's all just pent up anger at his own impotence.

Celerity

(43,543 posts)
9. Civil war's coming within 20 years max, the chasm is too wide, the means of dispersal of this hate
Mon Aug 3, 2020, 03:18 PM
Aug 2020

and ignorance are too great, and will only become more invasive, technologically advanced, and scientifically programmed. The RW, the white nationalists, and the batshit cray religious lunatics will never 'settle down' and act 'normal'. Even if they are not in political power at a national level, they will power project from the hard Red States and will start an IRA-type series of Troubles, including terror attacks both large and small.

skypilot

(8,854 posts)
11. I am SO glad...
Mon Aug 3, 2020, 03:30 PM
Aug 2020

...that I don't work in retail anymore. It was bad enough before Covid. And now these fucking idiots are everywhere.

nuxvomica

(12,447 posts)
15. He's a Christian like a pantomime horse is a horse
Mon Aug 3, 2020, 04:35 PM
Aug 2020

People can call themselves anything they want and it don't mean nothing.

Mariana

(14,861 posts)
16. This pastor isn't unique, not by a long shot.
Mon Aug 3, 2020, 05:33 PM
Aug 2020

The word "Christian" does not mean "good and decent person with a conscience". The opposite is often true. The majority of Christian voters cast their ballots for Trump in 2016.

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