UPDATE:
The cell-phone alert is postponed to October 3, 2018, because of Hurricane Florence. (iHeartRadio)
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Originally scheduled for today, at 2:18 p.m. EDT, all U.S. cellphones will make a loud tone, vibrate, and receive a “Presidential Alert” text message.
Do not be alarmed.
The message will read:
THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.
Two minutes after the cell phone alert, a test alert will also be sent to radio and television broadcasters, interrupting programming for about one minute.
The alert is a test of a previously unused alert system to warn the public about national emergencies. Obama had signed a law in 2016 requiring Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to create a system allowing the president to send cellphone alerts regarding public safety emergencies.
Since the wireless emergency alert system began in 2012, it has issued over 36,000 alerts for situations such as missing children, extreme weather and natural disasters, but never a presidential directive. The president has sole responsibility for determining when the national-level alerts are used.
Cell phone users can opt out of natural disaster or missing children alerts, but they will not be able to opt out of a Presidential Alert. (New York Post)
Even though it was Obama who signed the Presidential Alert system into law, the fact that cell-phones today will get a text alert from — HORRORS! — the Trump administration has triggered the already unhinged Left, making them even crazier. Some examples:
- Actress Alyssa Milano tweets: “I don’t want this. How do we opt out, @fema? I know trump isn’t big on consent but I don’t consent to this.”
- @YBNSteve: “I don’t want alerts on my phone from any president let alone trump”
- @JohnPavlovitz: “I want to know how to opt out of this Presidency.”
- @ScottG305: “The only message I want from DT is that he is resigning. That aside I opt out.”
- @KatFtAV: “I want to opt out of his fake presidency AND him having access to my fucking cell phone!!! HELL TO THE NO!!!”
H/t FOTM‘s StLonginus
~Eowyn
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Update: “The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which oversees the wireless emergency alert (WEA) system, announced that the test that had been scheduled for Thursday will be pushed back to Oct. 3, citing the “ongoing response efforts to Hurricane Florence.”
I receive text messages from both Rs and Ds, including Michelle Obama. Don’t know how all got my number…
There’s a little function for those sensitive types: Delete. It takes some effort yet is really not that complicated.
Some people are so touchy…
No doubt their concerns stem from the probability that these liberal thugs will be at the root of any social, civil, or political emergencies, or actions that will require immediate true patriotic citizen knowledge and/or response.
Betcha those alerts come into the goverment’s freebie phones granted to those that cannot afford to buy cell phones AT TAXPAYERS’ EXPENSE!
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I do not know if FOTM has ever done coverage of Dr Rossiter’s book “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness” This test case from the book is quite fascinating & frightening (Liberal brainwashed zombies) – “In a study, he conducted he used a simple RGB color chart test to assess the psychological functioning of the minds of liberals. Testing a control group of individuals professing to be Democrats and an equal number professing to be Republicans he showed them the three primary colors – RGB. Red, green, and blue, and asked each of the participants to identify… Read more »
I don’t know if others have concerns like I do about the pathological level of hatred being generated. Many of them are in a frenzy. There is nothing to be in a frenzy about. I understand that the television is being used for mind-control but its hard to believe how effective it is. It has the opposite effect on me. I don’t like anyone telling me what to do or think, let alone the TV. We discuss this often here in one form or another. I have to admit, I’m dumbfounded by their ability to manufacture hate on demand. I’m… Read more »
Something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi1GVeIzo4Q
Funny how the “test of the Emergency Broadcast System” did nothing to prevent the Crime Against Humanity we know as 9/11.
Oh, someone got a patronage job over it. ‘Natch.
Better go get him fitted for one of those pink hats. I’m thoroughly disgusted. I guess Rosenstein is President.
https://www.rt.com/news/439059-trump-delays-russia-documents/