911 – 911 – 911 There’s A President On My Phone
So … FEMA has decided that what this country really needs is a Presidential Alert dohicky on your phone so that the president can text everydamnbody in the USA in case there’s any emergency.
Oh, that’s probably not a good idea.
What if Twitter goes down for 15 minutes and the president needs to say something about Robert Mueller’s illegal witch hunt and 17 angry Democrats?
Here’s the deal. This access to my phone and the message is decided by the president and president alone.
Remember when President Obama wanted to speak to the school children of America over the television system and Republicans went nuts and kept their children home from school because they didn’t want their children exposed to Barack Obama? Now, imagine if President Obama had asked for something like this.
You know what? I’d feel a lot more comfortable if we gave this emergency system to Bill Nye the Science Guy, or Neil deGrasse Tyson, or maybe any person who isn’t batcrap crazy.
Thursday at 2:18pm ET. Be there or be … I dunno, whatever you are when you are totally dumbfounded.
Jeez…I actively encouraged my kids to watch the utterances of Dubyah Bush, and they were generally appalled, at his syntax and generally inane mode of speech. I trusted they were intelligent enough..I do worry their eyes would roll back in their heads so much they’d stick…
1And I want to have alerts from the The Current Occupant of the Oval Office like I want poison oak or a plague of yellow jackets.
This is the worst idea ever.
2Anyone wanna start a pool on the percentage of cell phones that start shutting off around 2:16 p.m. ET on Thursday?
Colleague of mine wondered how many car wrecks are going to happen as everyone’s startled at the same time all over the country.
3Is there a way to block this alert? If not, people need to storm their cell providers with requests.
This is propaganda.
4Hurray one more reason to use airplane mode. I think two minutes after the mass text porn TVs and radios will blurt out the same thing. I’ll be reading a good/bad/or indifferent book during that time frame.
5I have been successfully avoiding the Orange Horror’s alternately whiny and bullying tones for most of the last year.
But here is the good news. 2:18 pm EDT is 11:18 am PDT. At that very moment, I will be in a 2-hour meeting with several MD’s who are internationally known Alzheimer’s disease specialists, as well as a couple of neuropsychologists and a social worker, all with great experience in dementia research, diagnosis, and caregiving. Since all our cell phones will be ringing simultaneously, perhaps we can listen in, have a case conference, and make a quick recommendation in light of Amendment 25.
6I’ve read that this idea began with the Obama administration. Hope it was wrong.
7Kenneth D. Franks, wait till next week.
8Does anyone know if this will come via a FEMA text or ? You can turn those off through Settings/Notifications/Government Alerts.
I will be an enraged monster at the first sign of anything on my phone from that criminal.
9Cell phone doesn’t work at my house (I’m in the mountains), so it’s OFF when I’m at home. Haha. In case of a REAL emergency (which, I believe, the country has been in since January 2017), I’ll be the last to know.
This was begun by Obama, but at the time we didn’t expect to have a demented idiot in the White House. (Don’t know why not, since we’d already been through Reagan and W.)
10Story is that you cannot block Trump’s alerts. Ha Ha I don’t have a smart phone and will now delay my switching from the “dumb” phone. Maybe not so dumb after all.
11Odds that Trump views this as a new Twitter Account and acts out accordingly- 2/1
12Rick Wilson’s betting that he accidentally sends us a picture of his junk.
Both possibilities are horrifying.
Laurel, share your teams recommendations re the 25th Amendment!
13That only “works” if we can respond with a nationwide response as to where Donnie can shove his paper towels and twitter account. #SitOnItDumba$$
14Not to get out the foil hat, but I do have to wonder at the timing of it, and if this will be used around election day for nefarious reasons.
15delayed until Oct. 3
16It’s a text, right? Can’t we just reply to the same number? Something like “Keep your tiny orange hands off my country?”
17I was in Hawaii when the “incoming missile” emergency alert activated our phones. It’s loud, I didn’t realize my phone was capable of that volume, like a klaxon horn… and I thought what the – – – – is that?
Incoming missile? Is this for real?
yet another baby boomer’s comment about car wrecks may not be far off the mark. People driving may try & check their phones if they’ve never heard the sound of the alert signal before. Let’s just hope the people in charge of the emergency system send out the “test” signal, and not the real one as happened out here in the islands.
18I don’t have text on my cell phone, which I never use, or the landline, so I don’t give a flake, but the idea of this manic loony tune being able to send his dribblings out to almost everybody in the US just because he almost won the presidential election is more evidence that the place has gone crazy.
19My understanding is there is no way to “opt out”. I will be joining the masses when I shut off my phone at 1:15 pm Central Time on Thursday. I’ve put it into my calendar with an alarm to remind me. I’ll turn my phone back on at 1:25. If there is a text I will delete it without reading.
The thought Pootie’s Puppet having access to my phone makes me want to wash it in battery acid, but that might be counter productive.
Eeuuwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gag, gag. Puke, puke, puuuuuuuke!!
20From the www world wide internet thingy I learned that turning off the Presidential Annoyance isn’t possible from the settings app. I’m thinking of putting my mobile phone in an homemade aluminum prophylactic during the five minutes before through the five minutes after this “test”. Otherwise I’m not sure how to clean up the mobile phone after its being exposed to tainted, despoiled electrons. Gag, barf, puke.
21Not on a a cell phone, not on a land line. No way would a take a call from a traitor.
22It’s been postponed to October 3, apparently to avoid confusion with real emergencies like the hurricane flooding, and Mueller closing in on Patient Zero of the national insanity.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/17/fema-postpones-mobile-emergency-alert-test/
23It needs to be postponed until November 7th.
24I always knew keeping my emergencies-only phone turned off — right up till I actually need it for a real emergency — was a good idea. SO glad I haven’t become addicted.
I do plan to turn it on soon. A friend has offered to show me how to go about blocking calls and, hopefully, texts. Yep — that qualifies as an emergency, wouldn’t you say?
25@ Closet Optimist #15:
Gee, ya think?
Honey, that’s not tin-foil hat worthy. It’s just fact.
26I always knew keeping my emergencies-only phone turned off — right up till I actually need it for a real emergency — was a good idea. SO glad I haven’t become addicted.
I do plan to turn it on soon. A friend has offered to show me how to go about blocking calls and, hopefully, texts. Yep — that qualifies as an emergency, wouldn’t you say?
27It took Trump this long to figure out that we’re not all on Twitter.
28So now FEMA has pushed back the emergency alert (WEA) system test from Sept. 20 to Oct. 3. Scrap it entirely. I don’t want, that sumbitch Donnie texting me ever for any reason … no way… no how.
29I wouldn’t put it past him to someday use it as a call to arms to reach all his supporters if his political situation becomes dire.
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