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Post by Opti on May 14, 2022 9:53:09 GMT -5
www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/marjorie-taylor-greene-s-latest-conspiracy-theory-is-that-the-left-is-torching-food-facilities/ar-AAXf2FJ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=032df1288ea045a49afb6ed41cd9e452Greene elaborated during an appearance on Infowars earlier this week, suggesting to Alex Jones that Democrats are starting the fires on purpose in order to deprive the nation of food, which would be advantageous for them because they’re playing some sort of globalist long game and don’t want anything to be manufactured in America … or something like that. It’s not totally clear. “The Biden administration and the Democrats … are destroying the very important, most critical part of the fabric of America, and that is our farmers,” Greene ranted. “They’re doing it on purpose. They want to be the global economy. They want to be completely involved. And here we have these ‘random,’ supposedly accidental fires at food processing plants.”
It’s a question Tucker Carlson Tonight could have answered very, very easily. According to National Fire Protection Association data, the annual average of fires at manufacturing and processing facilities across the U.S. from 2015 to 2019 was 5,308. “There have been approximately 20 fires in U.S. food processing facilities in the first four months of 2022, which is not extreme at all and does not signal anything out of the ordinary,” NFPA spokeswoman Susan McKelvey told FactCheck.org. “The recent inquiries around these fires appears to be a case of people suddenly paying attention to them and being surprised about how often they do occur. But NFPA does not see anything out of the ordinary in these numbers.”
There are tens of thousands of food processing facilities across the United States, and if Democrats for some totally insane, illogical reason wanted to cause a food shortage in an election year, one would think there would be a more effective way to go about it than rigging a boiler to explode in Oregon, sabotaging mechanical equipment at a few factories and hoping it catches fire, and orchestrating a kamikaze Cessna crash into a parking lot outside a General Mills facility.
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Post by djAdvocate on May 14, 2022 10:32:02 GMT -5
the last paragraph is golden.
conspiracy theories are often so implausible that it makes little sense to believe them.
oddly, that logic never seems to bother their believers.
NOTE: 20 fires is unusually low. there are three per day according to those statistics.
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Post by Opti on May 14, 2022 11:15:31 GMT -5
I wasn't aware how often they happen, but I know they do happen. You have to be crazy to think someone would sabotage a potato chip factory as a political goal.
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Post by djAdvocate on May 14, 2022 11:24:23 GMT -5
clearly, the bar is set so low, that even Greene can clear it.
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Post by Tennesseer on May 14, 2022 11:26:17 GMT -5
After being used to set our forests on fire, those damn Jewish space lasers are now being used to burn up our food processing plants. Thank you, MTG, for your investigative skills. What would the USA be without you.
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Post by busymom on May 14, 2022 11:27:13 GMT -5
After being used to set our forests on fire, those damn Jewish space lasers are now being used to burn up our food processing plants. Thank you, MTG, for your investigative skills. What would the USA be without you. Probably smarter...
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 14, 2022 20:26:36 GMT -5
We had a plant here go boom not too long ago. Flour dust is highly combustible.
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Post by djAdvocate on May 14, 2022 21:48:23 GMT -5
We had a plant here go boom not too long ago. Flour dust is highly combustible. that is a grain dust explosion. it is different than a fire, but also quite common. sugar refiners also have this issue. there is special electrical equipment for that: Class I, Div. 1, Group C & D and Class II, Groups E, F and G - Temp Code T2D/T3B Up to and Including F# 256T Class I, Div. 1, Group D and Class II, Groups E, F and G - Temp Code T2D/T3B for F# 284T and Larger www.tecowestinghouse.com/product/texp-nema-premium-efficiency-explosion-proof/
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