Speaker 1: Cozon Media.
Speaker 2: This is it could happen here. I'm Garrison Davis. A
Speaker 2: revolution is igniting across America, at least according to viral
Speaker 2: posts on social media and TikTok videos with hundreds of
Speaker 2: thousands of views claiming that anywhere between three to six
Speaker 2: to nine warehouses have been set on fire this past
Speaker 2: week for not paying their employees a living wage.
Speaker 3: The revolution might be had got a warehouse fire in Ontario,
Speaker 3: warehouse fire in New York, warehouse fire in Bakersfield, Amazon
Speaker 3: warehouse fire in Ohio.
Speaker 4: So they set a mall on fire too.
Speaker 3: It hasn't just been factories at this point, it's also malls.
Speaker 3: It seems as though people have begun to eat.
Speaker 5: The rich.
Speaker 2: Workers of the world ignite. Like most instances of viral misinformation,
Speaker 2: there is a kernel of truth to this story and
Speaker 2: worth focusing on. But through a massive game of cross
Speaker 2: platform telephone, facts and causality get warped and misconstrued. Selective
Speaker 2: reporting of similar but unrelated events can be used to
Speaker 2: assert a connection between certain events even if there is none.
Speaker 2: But let's start with that kernel of truth. Just after
Speaker 2: midnight on April seventh, a twenty nine year old warehouse
Speaker 2: worker named Schammel Abdul Karim allegedly set fire to a
Speaker 2: toilet paper warehouse in Ontario, California. After multiple pallets of
Speaker 2: paper products were lit on fire. The flames overwhelmed the
Speaker 2: fire suppression system and collapsed the roof. The blaze took
Speaker 2: over twelve hours to contain and ultimately destroyed the one
Speaker 2: point two million square foot distribution center leased by Kimberly Clark,
Speaker 2: the company behind Kleenex, Huggies, and Cottonell toilet paper. Local
Speaker 2: officials and the Justice Department has said the fire caused
Speaker 2: over six hundred million dollars damages. The twenty employees who
Speaker 2: were working midnight shifts the warehouse when the fire started
Speaker 2: all evacuated safely, and there were no reported injuries. The
Speaker 2: day after the fire, videos uploaded to social media the
Speaker 2: night of the fire resurfaced, appearing to show the suspect
Speaker 2: intentionally lighting three fires inside the distribution center while speaking
Speaker 2: aloud about low wages, corporate profits, shareholders, and poor working conditions.
Speaker 5: You know, if you're not going to pay us enough
Speaker 5: to live or afford to live, I always pay us
Speaker 5: enough not to do that. All you had to do
Speaker 5: was pay us enough to live. All you had to
Speaker 5: do was pay us enough. There goes your inventory.
Speaker 2: The affidavit filed with the criminal complaint alleges that abdul
Speaker 2: Kareem filmed himself setting fire to multiple pallettes of paper
Speaker 2: goods inside the warehouse, and as he lit the fires,
Speaker 2: he stated quote, if you're not going to pay us
Speaker 2: enough to fucking live or afford to live, at least
Speaker 2: pay us enough not to do this shit unquote. Beyond
Speaker 2: the short videos abdul Kareem posted to his social media,
Speaker 2: the affidavit alleges he made further statements to friends and
Speaker 2: co workers on the phone and via text message related
Speaker 2: to his motive for setting the fires. He allegedly texted quote,
Speaker 2: I just cost these expletive billions and wrote that the
Speaker 2: quote one percent is an expletive joke. US attorney Bill A.
Speaker 2: Sale said in a press conference that after setting the
Speaker 2: fire quote in a phone call to one witness, abdul
Speaker 2: Kareem compared himself to Luigi MANGIONI quote. Abdul Kareem also
Speaker 2: allegedly texted quote, all you had to do was pay
Speaker 2: us enough to live, Pay us more of the value
Speaker 2: we bring, not corporate don't see the shareholders picking up
Speaker 2: a shift unquote. This past Monday, abdul kareem pleaded not
Speaker 2: guilty to arson charges in court. Though the warehouse stored
Speaker 2: Kimberlee Clerk products. Abdul Karim was actually employed by NFI Industries,
Speaker 2: a third party distribution company. NFI Industries is a family
Speaker 2: owned private company and does not report its profits, but
Speaker 2: last year said they generated more than three point seven
Speaker 2: billion in annual revenue and had over eighteen thousand employees.
Speaker 2: The average executive at the company has a two hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty five thousand dollars salary, with the highest paid
Speaker 2: making seven hundred thousand dollars annually. Meanwhile, the average pay
Speaker 2: of an NFI Industry's warehouse worker in California, per job
Speaker 2: listing sites is eighteen seventy four an hour, with forklift
Speaker 2: operators and warehouse specialists making twenty two dollars and thirty
Speaker 2: nine cents an hour. The median household income in Ontario,
Speaker 2: California is eighty two thousand, do eight hundred and six
Speaker 2: dollars a year, and the average salary is over seventy
Speaker 2: three thousand dollars a year or thirty five dollars hourly Ontario.
Speaker 2: California has a twenty eight percent higher cost of living
Speaker 2: than the national average. Last year, Kimberley Clark made two
Speaker 2: point four billion in operating profit. The footage of this
Speaker 2: worker allegedly lighting the warehouse on fire went super viral
Speaker 2: on TikTok, with millions and millions of views, sparking meme
Speaker 2: edits and hype videos. Then, in the days after the
Speaker 2: toilet paper fire, footage of other warehouse fires sorried to
Speaker 2: spread around TikTok, leading some people to believe that copycat
Speaker 2: incidents might be taking place across the country. Here's a
Speaker 2: clip with over three hundred thousand views of a left
Speaker 2: wing TikTok influencer claiming that since the toilet paper arson,
Speaker 2: more people have begun setting their workplaces on fire.
Speaker 6: So apparently that guy that burns down the toilet paper
Speaker 6: warehouse because they were not paying him a living wage,
Speaker 6: or anyone the living wage for that matter, who the
Speaker 6: Internet has dubbed wall Luigi for warehouse Luigi was not
Speaker 6: the only one with that idea or to execute on it.
Speaker 6: And I will say I am not one hundred percent
Speaker 6: shore on the timelines of all of these.
Speaker 2: Oh you're not one hundred percent suore, Well then that's
Speaker 2: that's fine. Continue anyway. This guy goes on to say
Speaker 2: that since Wa Luigi, he's seen quote four to five
Speaker 2: to six other warehouses that have quote burned down or
Speaker 2: at least been set on fire unquote. A lot of
Speaker 2: this social media reporting does not differentiate between a warehouse
Speaker 2: completely burning down and a small fire that is quickly
Speaker 2: put out. Neither do these social media reports provide evidence
Speaker 2: to the cause of these fires. One of the most
Speaker 2: circulated videos of one the other fires is from Queens.
Speaker 2: At seven point thirty pm on Friday night, someone reported
Speaker 2: smoke at an industrial complex in College Point, Queens. Firefighters
Speaker 2: soon responded to a rapidly growing fire inside a lumberyard warehouse.
Speaker 2: After the building was searched and no one was found inside,
Speaker 2: three hundred firefighters worked all night to contain the blaze
Speaker 2: to the sixty four thousand square foot warehouse. The lumberyard
Speaker 2: did burn down, but no injuries were reported, and the
Speaker 2: cause of the fire is still under investigation. But a
Speaker 2: post on x the Everything app with almost a million
Speaker 2: quote unquote views read quote another disgruntled employee strikes at
Speaker 2: the heart of American Capital. That TikTok influencer I already
Speaker 2: mentioned was very excited to share news of an Amazon
Speaker 2: warehouse on fire, despite not being quite sure of the
Speaker 2: details or how many warehouses were actually on.
Speaker 6: Fire, least one of which I am beyond happy to
Speaker 6: announce was an Amazon warehouse, which is not to say
Speaker 6: more than one morn effect did. I've seen multiple videos
Speaker 6: of an Amazon warehouse on fire. I'm just not sure
Speaker 6: if it was multiple Amazon warehouses on fire or just
Speaker 6: multiple people recording the same Amazon warehouse that was on fire.
Speaker 6: Either way, either way, bottom line, people are setting Amazon
Speaker 6: warehouses on fire.
Speaker 2: There is no evidence anyone set this Amazon warehouse on fire,
Speaker 2: and yes, it is just one warehouse, not multiple. On
Speaker 2: April eighth, firefighters responded to a fire at an Amazon
Speaker 2: warehouse in West Jefferson, Ohio. The fulfillment center was evacuated
Speaker 2: as smoke billowed from the roof of the warehouse. The
Speaker 2: fire was extinguished quickly and caused quote unquote minimal damage
Speaker 2: to the underside of the roof. According to Jefferson Township
Speaker 2: fire Chief Dan Getley, there is no evidence that this
Speaker 2: fire was intentionally set by an employee or by anyone,
Speaker 2: and was possibly caused by a simple solar panel malfunction.
Speaker 2: Investigators believe seventy five to one hundred solar panels on
Speaker 2: the roof of the warehouse caught fire, which burnt through
Speaker 2: quote just a little bit of the rubber membrane on
Speaker 2: the roofing and some of the insulation unquote. According to
Speaker 2: fire chief Gatley, this insulation fell onto two racks of
Speaker 2: Amazon products, but Gatley estimated that more damage was caused
Speaker 2: by the water used to put out the solar panel
Speaker 2: fire than from the smoke or the fire itself. The
Speaker 2: exact cause of the fire is still under investigation. A
Speaker 2: post on x the Everything app with one point one
Speaker 2: million quote unquote views and twenty seven thousand likes shared
Speaker 2: video of smoke billowing from the roof of the Amazon
Speaker 2: warehouse and was captioned, this is beginning to feel like
Speaker 2: something of a movement. Another post from a Monotaige to
Speaker 2: blue check account with one million quote unquote views and
Speaker 2: twenty six thousand likes, also shared footage of the Amazon
Speaker 2: fire with the caption another warehouse fire, this time in
Speaker 2: Amazon fulfillment center in West Jefferson, Ohio. Warehouse employees across
Speaker 2: the country are using their unique position to attack the
Speaker 2: substructure and base of the Epstein class unquote. We'll return
Speaker 2: to talk more about these fires after this ad break. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're back. By the weekend, this warehouse fire meme really
Speaker 2: exploded and people started collecting reports of warehouse fires from
Speaker 2: all across the country. This next video went viral across
Speaker 2: TikTok and also spread to Reddit and Instagram.
Speaker 4: I was tagged about this. This is an Amazon warehouse
Speaker 4: that also just caught on fire. This is the third
Speaker 4: one after we just heard about New York and Queens
Speaker 4: and then the other one in California where we saw
Speaker 4: the big video behind it. Right now, this is breaking news.
Speaker 4: I don't know much about it. I was tagged in this,
Speaker 4: this happened. I think perhaps.
Speaker 2: Today I'm gonna pause right here because next she includes
Speaker 2: a severe weather alert warning for risk of fire spreading
Speaker 2: in the Northeast as if wildfires, and this weather alert
Speaker 2: was somehow related to warehouse fires on the other side
Speaker 2: of the country, and I.
Speaker 4: Haven't been able to find any news about it online yet.
Speaker 4: But there's this special weather statement moderate for a fire
Speaker 4: spread in Pennsylvania right now, so that's four five right
Speaker 4: here where somebody said a Jane's store was set in
Speaker 4: fire in California. Again, I can't corroborate these things right now,
Speaker 4: these are just comments. And somebody also said New Jersey
Speaker 4: for another warehouse fire, so that is literally California, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 4: New Jersey. I'm getting comments and reports in right now
Speaker 4: that there have been five different warehouse or storefront fires
Speaker 4: in the last three days. This shit is fucking wild.
Speaker 4: Holy six. I think that's six because it's two in California,
Speaker 4: New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. And again, I'm
Speaker 4: trying to find these items online right now, but like,
Speaker 4: I don't think the new cycle is caught up fast
Speaker 4: enough to it. So like who class War twenty twenty
Speaker 4: six shit?
Speaker 2: This person describes herself on TikTok as a quote unquote
Speaker 2: gorilla journalist, and that video got almost half a million
Speaker 2: views on TikTok and seventy four thousand likes by baselessly
Speaker 2: claiming that a string of fires that may or may
Speaker 2: not even be real are actually intentional arsons in an
Speaker 2: escalating class war hashtag eat the Rich. Let's go over
Speaker 2: some of the details of a few of the fires
Speaker 2: that she and others have mentioned. In New Jersey, there
Speaker 2: were actually three fires this past week, one at a
Speaker 2: chemical plant, one at a battery warehouse, and a wildfire
Speaker 2: which sent smoke into Pennsylvania. On Thursday, April ninth, a
Speaker 2: three alarm fire spread through a chemical warehouse in Newark,
Speaker 2: New Jersey. Over one hundred firefighters brought the fire under
Speaker 2: control that afternoon. No employees were harmed and the causes
Speaker 2: under investigation. On the morning of April thirteenth, there was
Speaker 2: another three alarm warehouse fire in Rawway, New Jersey. While
Speaker 2: searching the structure, firefighters discovered the blaze emerged from palettes
Speaker 2: of lithium ion batteries. The exact cause of the fire
Speaker 2: still remains under investigation, and this past weekend, a wildfire
Speaker 2: spread through South New Jersey, burning up to one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty acres and sending smoke into Pennsylvania. The National
Speaker 2: Weather Service worn beforehand that there was an l risk
Speaker 2: of wildfires last Saturday due to low humidity and twenty
Speaker 2: five mile per hour wind gusts. On the afternoon of Friday,
Speaker 2: April tenth, firefighters responded to a commercial structure fire at
Speaker 2: a trash disposal business near Atlanta, Georgia. The blaze stemmed
Speaker 2: from a garbage fire in the warehouse that grew out
Speaker 2: of control when adult was sent to the hospital with
Speaker 2: non life threatening injuries. Per a Gwinette County news release quote,
Speaker 2: the incident presented several operational challenges, including a downed power line,
Speaker 2: a deep seated fire within large debris piles, structural components
Speaker 2: exposed to prolonged heat, and nearby hazards involving liquid petroleum
Speaker 2: gas tanks and a diesel fuel reservoir. Firefighters brought this
Speaker 2: fire under control in less than four hours. According to employees,
Speaker 2: the fire originated from a small trash fire near the
Speaker 2: edge of the warehouse, wherekers attempted to remove the burn
Speaker 2: debris before the fire rapidly intensified and spread to the structure.
Speaker 2: The fire was ruled accidental, and department spokesperson Lieutenant Jessica
Speaker 2: Joyner said that it appears to have been caused by
Speaker 2: trash piled in an unsafe manner, which can combust when
Speaker 2: mixed together at such garbage facilities. But two days later,
Speaker 2: a viral post read quote Atlanta Queen's Bakersfield Ontario. I'm
Speaker 2: starting to lose track. Many people are saying only living
Speaker 2: wages can prevent warehouse fires. Speaking of Bakersfield, A quote
Speaker 2: unquote communist Twitter account quote tweeted a video of a
Speaker 2: warehouse fire in Bakersfield, California from a monetized news aggregator
Speaker 2: account and got twenty one thousand likes by writing, let
Speaker 2: it be a pattern. Another account shared a different video
Speaker 2: ripped from TikTok, captioned it's almost like electing billionaires was
Speaker 2: a bad idea. A socialist branded monetized account hosted another
Speaker 2: angle of the Bakersfield fire, getting fourteen thousand likes with
Speaker 2: the caption is a rebellion actually brewing in the Imperial Core.
Speaker 2: On the afternoon of April eleventh, firefighters responded to a
Speaker 2: fire at a thirty thousand square foot warehouse in East Bakersfield.
Speaker 2: The Kerrn County Fire Department said this is the third
Speaker 2: time buildings at this warehouse complex have caught on fire
Speaker 2: in the past few years, with similar fires in November
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four and January twenty twenty five. The cause
Speaker 2: of this new fire is still unknown and under investigation,
Speaker 2: but we know it was definitely not caused by warehouse
Speaker 2: employees because this is an abandoned warehouse. The previous owner
Speaker 2: of the buildings told local news that the fires have
Speaker 2: been started by quote unquote vagrants. A massive fire engulfed
Speaker 2: another lumberyard last Saturday night in Wayne County, Ohio. It
Speaker 2: took twenty four fire departments across three counties working together
Speaker 2: to extinguish the flames. This lumberyard was home to a
Speaker 2: wooden Pallette manufacturing business. On Sunday afternoon, the owners of
Speaker 2: the Pallette manufacturing plant said in a statement, quote, we
Speaker 2: are grateful no one was injured and that the fire
Speaker 2: was contained. We are working with investigators to determine the
Speaker 2: cause and with our insurance carrier to begin recovery. Southwood
Speaker 2: Palette has served this community for forty two years, and
Speaker 2: we intend to rebuild and be stronger than ever. Unquote.
Speaker 2: Footage of this fire racked up over half a million
Speaker 2: quote unquote views on a socialist branded monetized X account.
Speaker 2: Captioned now there is a five alarm fire at a
Speaker 2: lumber Palette warehouse in Wayne County, Ohio. There are too
Speaker 2: many fires to be a coincidence. The working class has
Speaker 2: had it and quote tweets of the video got tens
Speaker 2: of thousands of likes, with users writing quote love to
Speaker 2: see people finally standing up against their employers. Eight in
Speaker 2: a week and no more thoughts and prayers, only fire.
Speaker 2: Here's another video with over three hundred thousand views from
Speaker 2: that TikTok Gorilla journalist going through a few more of
Speaker 2: these warehouse fires that I've mentioned.
Speaker 4: Based on all of my comments and my research online,
Speaker 4: based on what people are telling me and from what
Speaker 4: I can see, the ones that I can corroborate right
Speaker 4: now was that last one was Ohio in a lumber yard,
Speaker 4: and then we had the Ohio Amazon, which was apparently
Speaker 4: due to the solar panels, we'll say. And then we
Speaker 4: have one in the Queens, New York one which was
Speaker 4: a lumber as well. New Jersey was a chemical warehouse.
Speaker 4: Georgia was a commercial structure. And then lastly, the one
Speaker 4: that you all been tagging me in is the California
Speaker 4: Jene store, which spread throughout them all from what I
Speaker 4: can hear and have seen online, so that is a
Speaker 4: total of seven since our original Luigi Man set fire
Speaker 4: to the toilet paper facility that one. So that's where
Speaker 4: we are right now a total of seven in about
Speaker 4: three four days of warehouse store front fires throughout the
Speaker 4: United States. Now, we don't know about all of them,
Speaker 4: but these are the ones that are on the radar
Speaker 4: right now. So if there's more out there, let me know.
Speaker 4: But we're up to seven now.
Speaker 2: Out of all the fires that she's talked about, the
Speaker 2: only one that we know is Urson. Besides the toilet
Speaker 2: paper warehouse, is this fire at a mall in the
Speaker 2: same city in California, where a man who does not
Speaker 2: work at the mall allegedly lit multiple fires across several stores.
Speaker 2: The mall reopened later that same day, and authorities have
Speaker 2: said there's no connection to the warehouse fire, though the
Speaker 2: investigation is still ongoing. Before I discuss what's actually happening
Speaker 2: with all these warehouse fires, let's go on one more
Speaker 2: at break, All right, we are back. So what's really
Speaker 2: going on with all these warehouse fires? There's all this
Speaker 2: reporting just a coincidents? Are these fires really labor related?
Speaker 2: Are these all disgruntled employees? Is there even more fires
Speaker 2: happening than usual? All good questions, even if the exact
Speaker 2: cause of most of these fires hasn't yet been determined.
Speaker 2: It does seem from watching all these videos that there's
Speaker 2: been an increase of warehouse fires since the first toilet
Speaker 2: paper inferno. Though just because you're more aware of warehouse
Speaker 2: fires happening across the country doesn't mean that these fires
Speaker 2: are actually happening at a higher rate. A report from
Speaker 2: the National Fire Protection Association found that from twenty twenty
Speaker 2: to twenty twenty four, an estimated one thousand, five hundred
Speaker 2: and forty four warehouse fires occur every year. That's an
Speaker 2: average of four fires per day. Warehouses are home to
Speaker 2: a lot of high heat equipment and materials that are
Speaker 2: easily combustible, like lumber, paper, product, batteries, and chemicals. The
Speaker 2: recent National Fire Protection Association report found that most warehouse
Speaker 2: structure fires had an unintentional cause twenty nine percent, ten
Speaker 2: percent were caused by failure of equipment or a heat source,
Speaker 2: and intentional fires accounted for just seven percent of warehouse fires.
Speaker 2: Operating equipment was the leading heat source in warehouse fires,
Speaker 2: responsible for forty three percent, and shop tools and industrial
Speaker 2: equipment were involved in the ignition of nineteen percent of
Speaker 2: warehouse fires. Misuse of material or product and electrical failure
Speaker 2: are the leading factors contributing to ignition. Improper storage of
Speaker 2: climmable materials, and human error are also contributing factors. Intentionally
Speaker 2: set fires or arson does happen, but it's not the
Speaker 2: most common cause of modern warehouse fires. And again, warehouse
Speaker 2: structure fires happen four times in day day on average,
Speaker 2: So not only is there no proof that underpaid employees
Speaker 2: have begun a free of lighting fire to their workplace,
Speaker 2: but there hasn't even been a recent increase in warehouse fires.
Speaker 2: On Monday afternoon, footage spread online of another warehouse fire
Speaker 2: outside Miami with the caption living wages prevent warehouse fires.
Speaker 2: But this fire actually took place over a month ago
Speaker 2: on March fifth, twenty twenty six, at an inventory storage warehouse.
Speaker 2: An employee told NBC Miami quote, Apparently there was a
Speaker 2: short circuit and a spark fell on one of the
Speaker 2: carpets we have, and that's how the fire started. We
Speaker 2: try to put it out, but it happened too fast unquote.
Speaker 2: Officials have not yet confirmed those details, and the exact
Speaker 2: cause the fire is still under investigation, but it is
Speaker 2: literally impossible for this fire to in any way be
Speaker 2: related to the toilet paper warehouse because it happened a
Speaker 2: month prior and the footage is just circulating now to
Speaker 2: boost social media engagement. The video of the employee allegedly
Speaker 2: setting fire to Pallette toilet paper channeled such a strong
Speaker 2: feeling across American workers that people invented and circulated a
Speaker 2: whole fake news cycle about a string of copycat incidents.
Speaker 3: Something tells me, we're not done with the warehouse fires.
Speaker 3: Just a hunch, because only if you had paid us
Speaker 3: a livable wage. And I'm pretty sure everyone is fucking
Speaker 3: over corporate America at this point. Like over it. People
Speaker 3: are starting to realize that there are more of us
Speaker 3: than there are of them, and the only thing that
Speaker 3: they care about is their profits, not the people. So
Speaker 3: if you burn down the profits, the people will find
Speaker 3: other jobs. Companies have ensurance the message really sends. I'm
Speaker 3: not concerning it or encouraging it, but I am saying
Speaker 3: it makes a.
Speaker 2: Point that TikTok clip demonstrates why people are so primed
Speaker 2: to share these fire spree claims memes of Smoky the
Speaker 2: Bear saying only living wages can prevent warehouse fires. This
Speaker 2: whole warehouse fire social media news cycle is an instance
Speaker 2: of selective reporting, which happens when there is a big
Speaker 2: national news story, like someone filming themselves burning down a
Speaker 2: one point two million square foot warehouse, and then that
Speaker 2: causes people to share what they believe are related stories,
Speaker 2: often from local news reporting, even if the connection is
Speaker 2: minor or tangential at best. A local report from Wayne County,
Speaker 2: Ohio ordinarily would not circulate as national news, but on
Speaker 2: social media a relatively unremarkable lumberyard fire can become part
Speaker 2: of a new, increasing trend. Sometimes local news agencies themselves
Speaker 2: may be incentivized to cover smaller stories in a certain way,
Speaker 2: to ride the coattails of a national story that shares
Speaker 2: a few similar details, or national news outlets fishing for
Speaker 2: clicks made them cover what would typically only be a
Speaker 2: local story if it relates to a currently viral topic.
Speaker 2: A post on x the Everything app with one point
Speaker 2: four million quote unquote views and sixty seven thousand likes
Speaker 2: read quote, We're up to six warehouses set on fire
Speaker 2: now across the country, and I feel like it's being
Speaker 2: severely under reported un quote. If anything, these fires are
Speaker 2: being over reported. Another example of selective reporting is aviation accidents,
Speaker 2: where in the weeks after a high profile commercial airline crash,
Speaker 2: local news reports will spread around social media about even
Speaker 2: more plane crashes, even if these are mostly small private
Speaker 2: planes which get into accidents semi regularly. I'll up Harrison
Speaker 2: Ford or minor runway incidents that usually don't make the news.
Speaker 2: A twenty twenty five poll from Data for Progress showed
Speaker 2: seventy two percent of likely voters believed plane crashes were
Speaker 2: becoming more frequent. A CNN report analyzing National Transportation Safety
Speaker 2: Board data from January twenty twenty four to March twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five found that out of one thousand, two hundred
Speaker 2: and eight flight safety incidents, only sixty incidents involved commercial carriers.
Speaker 2: Some of these incidents included turbulence or incursions that's unauthorized aircraft,
Speaker 2: vehicles or pedestrians on the runway. Half of these sixty
Speaker 2: incidents resulted in injuries, and two involved fatalities, the helicopter
Speaker 2: collision in Washington, DC and a plane crash in Alaska.
Speaker 2: While those fatal tragedies and other high profile incidents like
Speaker 2: the runway flip in Toronto and the door flying off
Speaker 2: an Alaska Airlines plane mid flight, have sewed fear in
Speaker 2: the general public. Statistically, air travel is not getting more dangerous.
Speaker 2: The number of yearly safety incidents have remained mostly steady
Speaker 2: the past decade and only dropped around the pandemic due
Speaker 2: to a decrease in total air travel. In fact, on average,
Speaker 2: flying has only gotten safer, even including private and recreational flights.
Speaker 2: The average number of annual deadly incidents has fallen by
Speaker 2: more than half since two thousand, excluding nine to eleven.
Speaker 2: Despite viral news clips of near misses on the runway
Speaker 2: and an air traffic controller shortage, those runway incursions have
Speaker 2: also steadily dropped in recent years. But such data can
Speaker 2: be heard to stomach if in the days after a
Speaker 2: high profile aviation incident, you keep seeing more reports about
Speaker 2: plane crashes all across the country, but that itself is
Speaker 2: selective reporting. On average three to four planes crash every day,
Speaker 2: and these are typically small private planes, not commercial airliners,
Speaker 2: and typically a small Cessna crashing in Kentucky doesn't make
Speaker 2: national news. The same thing is happening with these warehouse fires.
Speaker 2: Lefty TikTok influencers and many others participating in this warehouse
Speaker 2: fire meme are ascribing the motive of one person onto
Speaker 2: a collection of unrelated incidents, trying to create a pattern
Speaker 2: when there probably isn't. One saw that.
Speaker 6: This one guy said that he did it because of
Speaker 6: his anger towards capitalism. And I don't know if that
Speaker 6: was the original toilet paper guy or like another one
Speaker 6: of these warehouse fires, but to each and every one
Speaker 6: of them, period, keep it up again.
Speaker 2: Out of all the incidents I mentioned, the only two
Speaker 2: we know were intentional was the toilet paper warehouse and
Speaker 2: the Ontario mall. And the only one we have a
Speaker 2: suspected motive for is the toilet paper warehouse. An Emerson
Speaker 2: College poll found that forty one percent of young voters
Speaker 2: thought the actions of the United Healthcare assassin were acceptable.
Speaker 2: Another nineteen percent said that they were neutral on the question.
Speaker 2: Luigi Mangioni. Memes and reactions to this toilet paper fire
Speaker 2: do demonstrate a form of class conscious This same week,
Speaker 2: people have cheered the attacks on the home of open
Speaker 2: Ai CEO Sam Altman. Even if influencers are just trying
Speaker 2: to make a profit, there is an active willingness among
Speaker 2: the consumers sharing memes and this living wage warehouse fire
Speaker 2: content to rally behind such action. The working conditions at
Speaker 2: these warehouses can be inhumane. Just last week, a forty
Speaker 2: seven year old worker at an Amazon warehouse in Troutdale, Oregon,
Speaker 2: collapsed and died. Supervisors prevented someone with CPR training to
Speaker 2: assist with chest compressions and instructed employees to continue work
Speaker 2: as usual as the body laid still on the floor.
Speaker 2: Oregon OSHA has said the death was not work related.
Speaker 2: In a catastrophic vibe shift, let's go back to our
Speaker 2: left wing TikTok influencer for his analysis.
Speaker 6: I really hope this is a sign of what we
Speaker 6: all hope it to sign up. I can't be the
Speaker 6: only one who has felt like the tides are turning,
Speaker 6: the tables are turning, the winds are shifting. It really
Speaker 6: feels like there's actual movement being made in just the
Speaker 6: last few days and now all these warehouse fires, which
Speaker 6: sure could be a coincidence, but I don't think so,
Speaker 6: at least I hope not. But what do you guys think,
Speaker 6: common bloom and if this really is truly the beginning
Speaker 6: of it all ending, give me a follow for more.
Speaker 2: Like us, everyone knows the most important thing to do
Speaker 2: when the revolution starts is to give me a follow.
Speaker 2: Speaking of, there is just two days left of webby
Speaker 2: voting for it could Happen Here, Behind the Bastards and
Speaker 2: migrating to America, and we may need a supermajority to
Speaker 2: beat the ms NOW filibuster, So go make your voices
Speaker 2: heard before voting ends on April sixteenth. That does it
Speaker 2: for me today at it could Happen Here, See you
Speaker 2: on the other side.
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