I swear to God – what was I just saying about psychotics and their social media accounts?
There was a great example of the male version of a disgruntled virtue-signaling mah-roon in action the other night. Whose self-absorbed protest movement imperiled the lives of his twenty fellow warehouse laborers and the 175 firefighters who had to respond to handle the results of his pyro tantrum.
29-year-old Chamel Abdulkarim worked for the warehouse contracting company NFI Industries, which is a third-party logistics provider for paper goods giant Kimberly-Clark. Abdulkarim was employed at the company’s massive distribution center in Ontario, California. The volume of goods handled there is simply staggering, as the 1.2M sqft ’tissue paper’ facility contains enough product to handle the needs of 50 million people.
In his own words posted to social media, it appears Mr. Abdulkarim was unimpressed with both his working conditions and what he got paid to be there.
So he decided he would stage a fiery protest during work hours – in a paper goods warehouse – ranting about his poor, sucky life as he proceeded to light off reams of toilet paper.
UPDATE: Video allegedly from INSIDE the Ontario, California, warehouse where 29-year-old Chamel Abdulkarim of Highland started a fire on Tuesday that torched that building operated by consumer goods company Kimberly-Clark in San Bernardino County.
The original Instagram account… https://t.co/I1jZIvOJcC pic.twitter.com/pQ6XSSTsPa
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) April 8, 2026
…In this video, Abdulkarim can be heard saying:
“You know, if you’re not going to pay us enough to live or afford to live, at least pay us enough to not do this sh**.”
“You should have paid us enough to f***ing live.”
“You know, we may not get paid enough to f***ing live, but these b****es dirt cheap.”
“All you had to do was pay us enough to live. All you had to do was pay us enough to f***ing live. All you had to do was pay us enough to live.”
“There goes your inventory.”…
In point of fact, being a paper goods warehouse, there went the entire thing.
Gavin Newsom would like to remind everyone that it is peak fire season in California, and would appreciate it if you ignoring the arsonist that was arrested for setting this 1,2 million square foot paper factory in Ontario on fire. pic.twitter.com/o2ytqyvQBa
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) April 7, 2026
And it was only by the grace of God that his fellow warehouse workers escaped the raging conflagration, and that none of the enormous numbers of first responders required to put it out were hurt.
…According to the department, initial units arriving at 12:36 a.m. on April 7 “encountered a well-established fire” at Kimberly-Clark’s 1.2-million-square-foot concrete tilt-up warehouse.
Firefighters first tried to fight the rapidly growing blaze from within the bowels of the structure, but were ultimately pushed out by the extreme heat. They then transitioned to an external attack, attempting to douse the fire with “high-volume master streams,” the department said.
In all, 175 firefighters, 20 engine companies, 15 truck companies, 17 chief officers and several investigators responded to the blaze. The fire was contained by 7:46 a.m., the department said, though children and seniors were advised to stay indoors because of significant ash in the air.
There was an active sprinkler system working, but it was overwhelmed by the ‘sheer volume of fuel.’ Go figure.
…Officials confirmed the internal sprinkler system was active, but the fire continued to spread due to the sheer volume of “fuel” that was igniting the flames.
All firefighters could do, as one reporter put it, was ‘surround and drown.’
And the one employee who was initially reported missing turned out to be, guess who?
…Ontario police later detained a male employee who had been reported missing during the initial evacuation.
That employee is currently in custody as the primary arson suspect, according to authorities.
Chamel Abdulkarim’s self-serving Bic-flicking is going to affect quite a few people, and no one is calling him a working-class hero.
Analysts say even with redundancy in the Kimberly-Clark system, there’s a chance of spot shortages on the coast until the company can spool up deliveries. And 1.2M sq ft replacement warehouses do not magically appear upon request.
Not to mention, there are going to be additional transportation costs associated with bringing in as-needed supplies that would have normally been already sitting there for local distribution.
…But the blaze “risks West Coast supply shortages for more than 3% of sales” at Kimberly-Clark’s US business and could raise transportation costs, according to a note from Diana Gomes, a Bloomberg Intelligence senior industry analyst, according to the trade publication Insurance Journal.
The folks who earned a lower wage living and working alongside the disgruntled Abdulkarim are the real victims here. While they may have felt equally as put upon with their $18 hr average wage or the conditions, they are now left with nothing.
Insurance may well handle the bulk of the warehouse and contents loss. Chamel Abdulkarim will be fed, clothed, and have a roof over his head while he (God willing) sits incarcerated for a long, long time.
But his fellow laborers, as of Tuesday, have nothing, in a state where it is terrifying to be suddenly without even that near-minimum wage job.
…Scroll through the replies under any post sharing this video. Almost nobody is cheering. The reaction is not “burn it down, king.” It is closer to “I felt that line in my soul, and I still think this guy is a moron.” People who work warehouse jobs, who know what $18 an hour buys in Southern California, who have sat in a break room doing the same hopeless budget math — they are not defending him. They are furious with him. Because he did not hurt the executives who set the contract rates. He hurt the people standing next to him.
The quote resonated because wage compression in warehouse work is real and getting worse. The fire disgusted people because it landed on coworkers, taxpayers, firefighters, and a community that woke up breathing ash.
Chamel Abdulkarim couldn’t find a different job?
There is no right to destroy if one is merely unhappy, and that is a lesson that has not been taught in any meaningful sense for years.
They need to start teaching it immediately and in the strictest terms possible.
That’s the only way this madness stops.
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