Guest WTF by David Middleton
WTF?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/22/aoc-blames-oil-refinery-explosion-on-climate-change/
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Alexandria Occasional Cortex Blames Philadelphia Refinery Explosion on Climate Change
- Saturday, October 24, 2026
….ROTFLMAO….The gift that keeps on giving….. : )
AOC seems dedicated to forever do away with Blonde Jokes.
Sandy from Yorktown is proof positive that any idiot can go to the House of Representatives as long as there are enough super idiots to send you there.
Blondes owe AOC a debt of gratitude.
Climate Change started in 1850, and there is not a single case of refinery explosion known before that. The connection is obvious.
I mean it is as obvious as that the disappearance of slavery in the US was also due to climate change, it disappeared almost as soon as climate began to change.
/sarc (in case AOC or one of her fans reads this)
Who are the imbeciles that take that moron seriously? That is other than the press and apparently her fellow morons who elected her in her district and a few hate America, anti-Semitic fellow congress people? Too much of her would make me wish the world would end in far less than 12 years.
Does not appear that she is actually blaming climate change for the explosion. It does appear that she is making a clumsy attempt to use it as an analogy to make some sort of a point about climate change. However, her rationale completely escapes me.
“Disproportionately impact working class people”? Yeah, your Green New Deal would do exactly that. A refinery explosion is an unfortunate accident with a relatively minor impact on the economy. Your GND is a deliberate, country-wide catastrophe.
But that’s okay, in a few days she’ll retract her comment, say it was just a joke, and anyone who took her seriously is an idiot.
I think this shows AOC Marxists Foundation. She sees capitalism and climate change as the same evil. Climate change caused the disaster because capitalist built and ran a refinery. No refineries, no climate change.
It is absolutely stunning that an alleged elected representative is so incapable of adding ‘1 + 0’ and keeps reaching a sum of 2 or worse, 22.
How long can she keep this up?
A couple choices:
1. AOC is incredibly ignorant.
2. AOC is deliberately using any argument she can to deflect, change and manage public
perspectives and secure her position on the left because she was so lucky to win the seat
and cannot afford to lose a single vote. AOC, Tlaib and Omar – using the same techniques
because they have the same financial supporter(s)?
Take your pick.
Back in the days before centigrade, we used to call AOC’s problem ‘room temperature IQ’. Nowadays, when you have to explain the concept, you have made the diagnosis if the person is over 40. For the young ones, we have to find another expression.
It’s amazing that no one was killed in that blast. I did some contract work in that refinery when it was Sunoco. I seem to recall that it was jam packed with units very close to each other.
One cause of blasts is from hydrocarbons leaking from pipes caused via corrosion, some leaks resulting from hydrogen sulfide, which is produced in greater amounts at refineries today to make fuels with lower and lower total sulfur levels, currently 10 ppm max for gasoline (almost 2 orders of magnitude lower than it used to be ~30 years ago). This reduction in sulfur is needed so that automotive catalytic converters aren’t poisoned in operation but refiners need to monitor corrosion even more carefully as a result.
Leaks of LPG are particularly troublesome because its vapor clouds stay low to the ground and are slow to disperse, often finding an ignition source. It will be some time for the cause of this particular blast to be known, but pipe failure from corrosion is possible.
Climate change: is there nothing it cannot do?
Abolishing fossil fuels would eliminate refinery accidents–along with tens of millions of jobs worldwide.
Actually AOC really wants to take us back to a Paleolithic hunter/gatherer existence: no ships, cars, airplanes, cows, etc. And maybe even abolish fire for cooking.
Is she not getting enough attention – AGAIN??? Everything she says and does seems to be aimed at getting her cartoony self in front of the camera. All she does is let us know what a dimwit she is. I guess it’s best we do know how very, very stupid she really is, since CLIMATE had nothing to do with a vat of butane.
I lived across the river from and worked in Philadelphia for two years. There were fires at the refinery on a recurring basis, one of them being a cracking tower that ignited several miles away from me. All it took was a small bit of carelessness by a refinery worker to cause that and several other fires, one of them being a tanker in the river, in the middle of the night. That was in the mid-1970s.
She needs to get her ridiciulous mouth sewn shut. But the more she rattles on, the more idiotic she becomes. At least she’s consistent that way.
Why Rep. Occasionally-Coherent gets as much media attention as she does is one of life’s mysteries, I guess. In case you have not seen this, an interesting account of how her handlers selected an unknown bartender to run for Congress in an audition process. (Note: Buzzfeed, of course, put out a video a month later debunking this theory. Sort of.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h5iv6sECGU
Ignorance and arrogance, combined with a minimal conscience, is a profoundly volatile and dangerous personality mix, as Alexandria Cortez so fully demonstrates. Long on foolish incendiary statements and short on relevance to reality, it seems intrinsic to the ‘social justice warrior’ mentality festering within American culture today.
This must be fake news. No one can be that dense.
Maybe this can be considered a perfect opportunity, from the CAGW perspective. The East Coast doesn’t want fossil fuels. This refinery explosion (full disclosure, I been to this refinery and performed work there) will take a substantial proportion of the East Coast fuel supply offline. This will help the CAGW faithful promote their idea of a fossil fuel free economy. They are, hopefully, prepared to take up the slack in order to demonstrate to the world how they can provide the necessary energy to maintain and improve on the standard of living, provide jobs, improve on the economy and, in general, promote the general welfare of the people living on East Coast…
Or not. 🙂
No, No, No
She is doing wonders in trivializing and satirizing climate change scare like no one else.
She deserves a medal for saving us all another trillion in policy waste dollars.
“Abolishing fossil fuels would eliminate refinery accidents….” Ah, but the avian carnage.
Why does AOC hate birds?
What if aoc and Hank Johnson had a child?
Just when you think she’s said the stupidest thing ever, she manages to go one step further beyond expectations.
Articulate (sometimes), convincing, with good camera presence, … but, man oh man, why does she choose to say such dumb things?!
If a comet hit Earth, then I wonder what she might say?