Trump Regime to send "Presidential Alert" test on Thursday

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New Yorkers sue Trump and FEMA to stop Presidential Alert - The three plaintiffs are concerned Trump may broadcast "arbitrary, biased, irrational" messages and there's no way to opt out.

If and only if either does, I am not sure optical zooming technology is quite there yet to capture the moment.

Relax folks this is just a test. The brain melting s**t comes later.

As Shakespeare once wrote "Much Ado About Nothing".
As I said this morning this was a Nothingburger. Where is the beef?

A scan of the results posted on the internet thus far primarily point to operational problems.

Some of the major carriers had problems. Some people with Verizon and T-Mobile failed to receive the alerts.
Source: Why Didn’t I Get An Emergency Presidential Alert Text?

AT&T had an outage in the Northwest that coincided with the Presidential Alert. AT&T released a statement saying that they were able to send the alert out with no problems and the outage in the northwest is nothing more than a huge coincidence.
Source: Did Trump’s Presidential Alert system break AT&T data all over the Pacific Northwest?

And the fact that this turned out to be a nothingburger did not squash the aspirations of conspiracy theorist.
Source: QAnoners Cheer Trump’s Text Alert Test, See It as a Step Toward Martial Law

A sound that can kill off all people who don't bow to Trump's white supremacy.

The KGB built it for him.

Kidding. Not kidding. Who knows?

I wonder why it wasn't a nationwide phone call over landlines? my puter heard not a peep from that man, and for that I am thankful

Dear god you people are paranoid
My state and county does this once a month or so, it’s not some giant plot.

I came across an article this morning that pretty much sums this up.

Yesterday, most of the nation received a test of the following alert on our cell phones. The message read: "Presidential Alert. THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed."

This boon for public health and safety has been met with backlash because unlike the National Emergency Alert System tests we have seen on our television screens for years, the just launched cell phone version run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is called a “Presidential Alert.” Branding it as such has prompted a rabbit hole of reactive social media rants completely mischaracterizing its purpose as a way for President Trump to bypass Twitter and access the public even more directly. In reality, this latest rollout is just an extension of prior programs like Amber or Silver Alerts and flood or alternative weather warnings that have appeared for a number of years now on wireless devices (but in various regions).

As per CNN’s report of a senior FEMA official’s account to reporters,

"The President will not originate this alert, say, from his mobile device…You would not have a situation where any sitting president would wake up one morning and attempt to send a particular message."

For those with those concerns, this alert system is operated by FEMA in coordination with other agencies depending on the nature of the crisis and the type of crucial, lifesaving messages in need of communicating. Given the relatively recent event in Hawaii of a phony missile scare getting wrongly sent to the public and, in turn, terrifying people, FEMA has made considerations to avoid such an occurrence (e.g. multi-person approval is required before dissemination). And, for those worried about privacy, aside from contacting wireless carriers about the success of the test your data is not procured in the process.

It is a shame that even something like this is getting muddied by politics. Public notifications like Amber Alerts have saved children’s lives. Silver Alerts have safely returned individuals with Alzheimer’s Disease to their families. Severe weather warnings and updates have informed people’s decisions during fluid, dynamic events where preemptive choices can be made to avoid imperiling citizens and first responders. During natural disasters and their common early power outages, people lose access to internet and television resources. Often, their phones are in service but losing battery at a certain point and can’t be charged. The shrinking narrow window to reach those most embattled with an option like what can be delivered by this new framework can be life-altering.

Source: Presidential Alert System A Matter Of Public Health, Not Politics

I think Thompson was right.

trump be like



@everyone

So direct all comments towards Obama and the Democrat party.

I don't recall Obama ever using it. Nor did Obama ever come across as using anything like this alert for personal aggrandizement as Trumps seems capable of doing.

Because th system wasn’t finished yet. Obama set it into motion and wanted it. It’s Obama’s system plain and simple. It’s run by fema not trump. It’s a democrat system run by government agency to warn people during national disasters.

Trump hasn’t used it at all. Your just freaking crazy anti trump so you take stuff made by your party to f*****g save lives as something horrible. Fema uses and only fema decides what the message says. If Obama had been able to test the system you’d be praising it as a great system that will save millions of lives , but cause it got finished under trump it’s a horrible progaganda machine. It would have been finish if Clinton win and would have been tested under her which I’m guessing you’d again praise it and her for having it. If trump announced killing bid laden you’d probably defend bidladen it’s uttery ridiculous how you all so blindly hate anything to do with trump.

No, if Trump had killed Bin Laden, I would have seriously reconsidered my Anti-Trump sentiments. Just as I would if he actually had lived up to his promise for universal healthcare. But we haven't seen hide nor hair of that promise ever being fulfilled.