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Missile threat to hawaii seek shelter immediately? Not a drill

Just got this message waking me up On my phone No sirens going off yet but it's scary!!!!

by Anonymousreply 299January 18, 2018 6:19 PM

Yeah, this blowing up on twitter.

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by Anonymousreply 1January 13, 2018 5:18 PM

You better not be lying, OP

by Anonymousreply 2January 13, 2018 5:18 PM

OP is not lying, it is all over social media r2.

by Anonymousreply 3January 13, 2018 5:19 PM

A test, I hope?

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by Anonymousreply 4January 13, 2018 5:19 PM

Bye!

by Anonymousreply 5January 13, 2018 5:20 PM

WTF?

by Anonymousreply 6January 13, 2018 5:20 PM

Not lying i am scared!! No sirens though what is up??

by Anonymousreply 7January 13, 2018 5:20 PM

Some people on Twitter are pointing out only iPhones got the alert. Not sure if that means anything.

by Anonymousreply 8January 13, 2018 5:21 PM

[quote] what is up??

It's not what's up, but what's coming down. Fire and fury like the world has never seen.

by Anonymousreply 9January 13, 2018 5:21 PM

[quote]Pentagon duty press officer is not able to comment on any missile threat to Hawaii.

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by Anonymousreply 10January 13, 2018 5:22 PM

Tulsi Gabbard just tweeted it's a false alarm.

by Anonymousreply 11January 13, 2018 5:23 PM

The Japs again?????

by Anonymousreply 12January 13, 2018 5:23 PM

Bitches they just woke me up in lol and scared the crap out of me

by Anonymousreply 13January 13, 2018 5:24 PM

Yes, it was confirmed to be a mistake

[quote]NO missile threat to Hawaii.

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by Anonymousreply 14January 13, 2018 5:24 PM

Tee hee! Just kidding!

by Anonymousreply 15January 13, 2018 5:25 PM

It was a MISTAKE? How come we haven’t had this kind of mistake happen before the incompetent Trump administration took over.

Imagine the panic this can cause.

by Anonymousreply 16January 13, 2018 5:26 PM

Your'e living in Hawaii for gods sake... stop the whining. What's a little fallout when the rest of us are freezing to death.

by Anonymousreply 17January 13, 2018 5:27 PM

Thank God.

by Anonymousreply 18January 13, 2018 5:27 PM

What about the guy with the bigger button. Anybody told him its false.

by Anonymousreply 19January 13, 2018 5:28 PM

r19 He's golfing

by Anonymousreply 20January 13, 2018 5:29 PM

[quote]Who is being fired for mistakenly sending out an emergency alert of an incoming ICBM headed towards Hawaii? What if the President had been scrolling through Twitter and saw that? We could all be dead by now because someone messed up and POTUS decided to Twitter-Order a response

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by Anonymousreply 21January 13, 2018 5:30 PM

Errors like this are disastrous, now people aren't going to trust such a message if they see it again in the future. Assume it is just mistake.

by Anonymousreply 22January 13, 2018 5:32 PM

Imagine if this tweet had been directed at California. Utter chaos.

by Anonymousreply 23January 13, 2018 5:33 PM

Haha twitter-ordered a nuclear strike

by Anonymousreply 24January 13, 2018 5:34 PM

Heh heh heh heh heh heh...

by Anonymousreply 25January 13, 2018 5:35 PM

Heh heh heh heh heh heh

by Anonymousreply 26January 13, 2018 5:36 PM

Poor people

[quote]People were running and in tears...wow. That was a scary 20 minutes. #hawaii #falsealarm

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by Anonymousreply 27January 13, 2018 5:37 PM

Maybe I'll press the red button anyway.

by Anonymousreply 28January 13, 2018 5:38 PM

Not the wed won!!!!

by Anonymousreply 29January 13, 2018 5:39 PM

I have my World War 3 Google notifications turned off on my phone. Thanks all the same..

The Ruling Class like to keep us living in fear. They can get away with more shit that way. "They contrive to frighten us" as Morrissey might say.

Unless some despotic leader really wanted to blow up Hawaii because he didn't like one of the reruns of 'Hawaii 5 O'.

by Anonymousreply 30January 13, 2018 5:40 PM

I'm here in Hawaii. A little after 8AM, our cell phones started going crazy with the alert. Overhead, jet planes were deployed. It was surreal because it's a beautiful, clear day with birds chirping.

One news channel repeated the warning, with no details. Twitter was the only place where I was able to find any information.

by Anonymousreply 31January 13, 2018 5:41 PM

Seriously people were running and crying? Go down with dignity people

by Anonymousreply 32January 13, 2018 5:41 PM

I'll take wind and rain over a nuclear bomb any day.

by Anonymousreply 33January 13, 2018 5:41 PM

That’s actually terrifying, R31.

Forgive my cynicism but I suspect this is just a test for a Kremlin grid takeover.

by Anonymousreply 34January 13, 2018 5:42 PM

Russians hacking again?

by Anonymousreply 35January 13, 2018 5:43 PM

OMG, are Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan okay?! I hope they're still safely snuggling together in bed this morning.

by Anonymousreply 36January 13, 2018 5:43 PM

Trump diverting attention from "Trump chasing me around the room in his tighty whities" porn star statement.

by Anonymousreply 37January 13, 2018 5:44 PM

Do people really think Kim Jong Un would really attempt to bomb the United States?

by Anonymousreply 38January 13, 2018 5:44 PM

Yep r32, many reports of people understandably freaking out

[quote]Ridiculous, you think they would have given everyone a heads up on this. People are crying in shelter and panicking everywhere

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by Anonymousreply 39January 13, 2018 5:45 PM

This scared me and I’m in NYC!

by Anonymousreply 40January 13, 2018 5:45 PM

Someday soon, this won't be a drill.

Nor a false alarm.

by Anonymousreply 41January 13, 2018 5:47 PM

[quote]Do people really think Kim Jong Un would really attempt to bomb the United States?

I wouldn't put anything past Kim Jong Un. He is not a reasonable human being. Sadly neither is our leader right now.

by Anonymousreply 42January 13, 2018 5:47 PM

BTW, on Saturdays, we have only one live local news show on TV (KITV). The news anchor is ex-American Idol twink Jordan Segundo. Nice to look at, but I would hate to have him as the only reliable source of streaming news of this magnitude.

It's 8:45AM, and they just alerted us on the emergency warning system that it was a false alarm.

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by Anonymousreply 43January 13, 2018 5:48 PM

r42 It's nothing but saber rattling to prevent a U.S strike. I'm assuming they are well aware that their regime would be over if they attacked the U.S

by Anonymousreply 44January 13, 2018 5:50 PM

[quote]It's 8:45AM, and they just alerted us on the emergency warning system that it was a false alarm.

Insanity that it took them that long to tell people it is a false alarm. Not everyone stalks twitter for info.

by Anonymousreply 45January 13, 2018 5:50 PM

Alert was on my iPhone but not the company Samsung.

by Anonymousreply 46January 13, 2018 5:53 PM

Tom Selleck actually told me to pull out when he saw the message on his phone and he NEVER does that.

by Anonymousreply 47January 13, 2018 5:53 PM

Where do you seek shelter immediately from a ballistic missile??

by Anonymousreply 48January 13, 2018 5:54 PM

FYI, the warning came both on my iPhone and on my husband's Samsung phone.

by Anonymousreply 49January 13, 2018 5:56 PM

If any country starts World War 3 it will be the United States (especially with nutcase Trump at the helm).

It was a Russian who bravely refused orders to press the button during the Cold War. We all owe a massive debt of gratitude to unsung hero VASILY ARKHIPOV.

by Anonymousreply 50January 13, 2018 5:59 PM

People were crying and running everywhere?

Such drama!

by Anonymousreply 51January 13, 2018 5:59 PM

This is absolutely terrifying. I suspect a false flag.

by Anonymousreply 52January 13, 2018 6:01 PM

It was just Trump trying to order Chinese take-out.

by Anonymousreply 53January 13, 2018 6:02 PM

R51 just in Waikiki where all the tourists stay lol

by Anonymousreply 54January 13, 2018 6:02 PM

North Korea is not the enemy. The United States is trying create enemies. The United States is the threat to world peace here not Russia or North Korea. FFS. We are being played by our leaders.

by Anonymousreply 55January 13, 2018 6:03 PM

Ha ha ha! @ reply 29

by Anonymousreply 56January 13, 2018 6:04 PM

Oh, Russia is very much a huge threat to world piece, r55, as is North Korea.

by Anonymousreply 57January 13, 2018 6:04 PM

We live in a country where Donald Trump is president and people are shocked when things start going incredibly wrong.

by Anonymousreply 58January 13, 2018 6:04 PM

When I was a kid living in Missouri, a local TV channel played the "emergency warning system" thing but accidentally used the ACTUAL emergency one, which said to stay tuned for a message from the President. Freaked my little kid mind out.

by Anonymousreply 59January 13, 2018 6:05 PM

How did people react?

This is absolutely my worst nightmare since I saw The Day After at the age of 12.

by Anonymousreply 60January 13, 2018 6:05 PM

Check out the Russian troll at R55.

by Anonymousreply 61January 13, 2018 6:06 PM

r55 is correct that the biggest global threat is Donald fuckin Trump.

by Anonymousreply 62January 13, 2018 6:08 PM

R55 is a moron.

by Anonymousreply 63January 13, 2018 6:08 PM

There is no bona fide shelter in Hawaii is there?

by Anonymousreply 64January 13, 2018 6:09 PM

It wasn't real this time, but see how scary it would be if it were? Do you understand now why we must start a preemptive war with North Korea? To stop the fear!

by Anonymousreply 65January 13, 2018 6:09 PM

It's one way to distract from Trump's shithole remark in the news. Nothing would surprise me.

by Anonymousreply 66January 13, 2018 6:11 PM

Nobody is talking about shitholes and porn stars anymore, are they? Now the conversation will become how terrifying this was for America and how we can't live with this fear so we must strike first.

by Anonymousreply 67January 13, 2018 6:13 PM

Is this a state run system or a federal?

by Anonymousreply 68January 13, 2018 6:13 PM

This is why we can't have nice things

by Anonymousreply 69January 13, 2018 6:14 PM

Trump is an asshole, but he's got some pretty smart people working for him who pulled this off.

by Anonymousreply 70January 13, 2018 6:14 PM

R67 majority of people will actually feel the opposite of that and will want Trump to de-escalate the fire and fury rhetoric

by Anonymousreply 71January 13, 2018 6:16 PM

r70 Woah woah woah I wouldn't call them smart, It doesn't take much brains to trip a system, and I doubt Trump profits off scaring the American people.

by Anonymousreply 72January 13, 2018 6:17 PM

Lol so they scared the crap out of hawaii's residents to deflect from Trump's shittiness?

by Anonymousreply 73January 13, 2018 6:17 PM

To me it reads as more or less a tacit threat from Trump — stop exposing my obvious treason or I will start a thermonuclear war!

by Anonymousreply 74January 13, 2018 6:17 PM

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, tweeted “it was a false alarm based on human error. There is nothing more important to Hawaii than professionalizing and fool-proofing this process."

by Anonymousreply 75January 13, 2018 6:18 PM

The fact that this happened in Hawaii, which has been concerned that NK missiles could reach the islands, is cause for alarm.

I'm the one who saw a false alarm in MO back in the 1970s and no one was concerned because it didn't make sense for MO to get bombed. Hawaii sadly is a target again. Very unnerving.

by Anonymousreply 76January 13, 2018 6:19 PM

Not good enough, Brian. How did it happen? Who ordered it? Who has the power to order such a warning, and who has universal access to all iPhones?

by Anonymousreply 77January 13, 2018 6:20 PM

[quote]BTW, on Saturdays, we have only one live local news show on TV (KITV). The news anchor is ex-American Idol twink Jordan Segundo. Nice to look at, but I would hate to have him as the only reliable source of streaming news of this magnitude.

RUDE!

by Anonymousreply 78January 13, 2018 6:21 PM

We're hearing comments about this from everyone except the POTUS. I guess nothing can interrupt his golfing.

by Anonymousreply 79January 13, 2018 6:21 PM

Bet this proves to be hackers from a "foreign country" trying to stir some shit. Something like this ought to jar people and make them realize that the fact that this administration has totally ignored the cyber threats that have been covered in the media for the past three years or more, and have done nothing to fight back and protect us,while it has been reported that Russia is busy and openly going about the hacking attacks with renewed vigor?

We need to impeach, try, and convict this piece of shit Traitor NOW! And get rid of the fuckers in Congress who supported him. Because no matter whether or not they get their come to Jesus moment and have an 11th hour conversion and suddenly decide to do the right thing, they have allowed this living pile of excrement to soil himself all over us for too long. Shit. An hour would be too long. All of them need to go. And I'd have the fucking Koch Brothers charged with Treason. Mercers too.

by Anonymousreply 80January 13, 2018 6:22 PM

Can they point it towards Alaska instead?

by Anonymousreply 81January 13, 2018 6:22 PM

This doesn't have anything to do with Trump's deregulation agenda, does it??

by Anonymousreply 82January 13, 2018 6:24 PM

R79, POTUS most likely is getting dinner plates thrown at him by FLOTUS. With Bannon sitting Indian style on the floor, munching on popcorn.

by Anonymousreply 83January 13, 2018 6:24 PM

Oddly enough, around the same time this happened in Hawaii, we had fighter jets fly overhead, twice, in Pittsburgh.

by Anonymousreply 84January 13, 2018 6:24 PM

Realistically Guam would be the most accessible target.

by Anonymousreply 85January 13, 2018 6:24 PM

R81 yes at the Palins house please not beautiful hawaii!

by Anonymousreply 86January 13, 2018 6:25 PM

According to a December 2017 piece by CNN, it is very difficult to trigger the emergency system accidentally:

“The attack warning siren test will be triggered from inside the 6-feet-thick concrete walls of a civil defense bunker nestled under the rock and dirt of the Diamond Head volcano crater, near Honolulu on the island of Oahu.”

by Anonymousreply 87January 13, 2018 6:25 PM

I guess Alaska isn't as sexy a target

by Anonymousreply 88January 13, 2018 6:25 PM

R81 and R86, Alaska is far more beautiful than Hawaii. Oh, and my whole family lives there.

by Anonymousreply 89January 13, 2018 6:27 PM

I wonder if someone murdered a spouse during the panic.

by Anonymousreply 90January 13, 2018 6:28 PM

A few weeks ago I had dream that aerial combat broke out over my city on the east coast, and I could hear planes going down. In my dream I was so scared I could barely move fast enough. Then I woke up in pool of sweat. I feel horrible for these people who got the shock of life this morning!

by Anonymousreply 91January 13, 2018 6:28 PM

I'm not so much of a conspiracy theorist to think that the WH wanted this "false alarm," but I would bet that the fatboss tweets to capitalize on it in a matter of hours, if not minutes.

Fucking false alarms on this level should not happen. It is not like a fake bomb threat called in to a school on final exam day (which happens somewhere in every state, every year)

by Anonymousreply 92January 13, 2018 6:29 PM

I wonder if that person posting he had a “bad feeling” yesterday about something big coming was posting from Honolulu.

by Anonymousreply 93January 13, 2018 6:31 PM

r92 I'm sure his team is thinking hard on how to capitalize on this, that's what's taking so damn long. First they need to drag his fat ass off the golf course

by Anonymousreply 94January 13, 2018 6:31 PM

[quote]Is this a state run system or a federal?

Anyone?

by Anonymousreply 95January 13, 2018 6:32 PM

Are we sure someone who works for a provider like Verizon or Sprint or whatever can't trigger one of these emergency notifications?

by Anonymousreply 96January 13, 2018 6:33 PM

"The president is back home at Mar-a-Lago. WH referring requests for comment to Department of Defense."

In other words, the President doesn't want to be bothered when he's watching reruns of "Joanie Loves Chachi".

by Anonymousreply 97January 13, 2018 6:34 PM

The weather is spectacular in Palm Beach today. Fatass will definitely NOT be commenting.

by Anonymousreply 98January 13, 2018 6:35 PM

[quote] l so they scared the crap out of hawaii's residents to deflect from Trump's shittiness

Not just Hawaii. They did it to scare the whole country. "What if it wasn't a mistake? What if it was real? What if the US launched missiles based on a false alarm? We'd all be dead. Who did this? How did they do it? Why did it take 18 minutes (or however long it took) to notify everyone it's a false alarm? Who's in charge of sending those alarms? Could Russia have hacked not the civil defence system?"

by Anonymousreply 99January 13, 2018 6:35 PM

R87 So it was intercepted or what?? Mistakes this big don't happen!

by Anonymousreply 100January 13, 2018 6:36 PM

Y'all stop digging up dirt on me or I'll blow all your rear-ends to smithereens!

by Anonymousreply 101January 13, 2018 6:37 PM

President Baby would never order a nuclear strike. That would destabilize the markets, including the stock exchange, and his rich buddies will not like that. The whole reason for being for them is to get richer.

by Anonymousreply 102January 13, 2018 6:37 PM

My first thoughts were that Trump's team is behind this. What better way to get the public behind a strike against NK than to scare the hell out of them.

by Anonymousreply 103January 13, 2018 6:37 PM

Gurl, the governor is saying someone accidentally hit the Armageddon alert button in emergency center when they were changing shifts!

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by Anonymousreply 104January 13, 2018 6:39 PM

So the gotdamn button is available for anyone to push?

by Anonymousreply 105January 13, 2018 6:40 PM

I wonder too, r100. As I said up thread, we had fighter jets overhead in Pittsburgh around the same time. Keep in mind, Pittsburgh is close to DC with a lot of open country in between the two.

by Anonymousreply 106January 13, 2018 6:42 PM

Many Hawaiian caftans were hurriedly flouncing in the breeze on this historic day!

by Anonymousreply 107January 13, 2018 6:42 PM

Too cold in Warshinton, brrrr!

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by Anonymousreply 108January 13, 2018 6:42 PM

Who among us HASN'T accidentally hit the Armageddon button with our ass?

by Anonymousreply 109January 13, 2018 6:46 PM

[quote]Why did it take 18 minutes (or however long it took)

Alert sent at 8:08, false alarm sent at 8:45.

It took them 37 damn minutes to correct.

by Anonymousreply 110January 13, 2018 6:47 PM

[quote]Who among us HASN'T accidentally hit the Armageddon button with our ass?

the employee must have a big ass then.

by Anonymousreply 111January 13, 2018 6:49 PM

I thought you were kidding r104, but yes the story is "someone accidentally hit the button during shift change"

Are you fucking kidding me?

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by Anonymousreply 112January 13, 2018 6:50 PM

White House, per Fox News, claiming this was a "state exercise"

by Anonymousreply 113January 13, 2018 6:50 PM

If it's true the alert was only sent to iPhones, I think this was a hack.

by Anonymousreply 114January 13, 2018 6:51 PM

So, will the Armeggedon button tweet about its #metoo moment?

by Anonymousreply 115January 13, 2018 6:52 PM

"Someone pushed the wrong button".

by Anonymousreply 116January 13, 2018 6:53 PM

Bullshit it was a shift-change accident. It took them 37 minutes to correct. If it has been an accident it would have been corrected immediately.

by Anonymousreply 117January 13, 2018 6:54 PM

Lots of other Pittsburghers here. We should have a meet.

The fighter jets scare the shit out of me, too, but then I have to remind myself -- They're "practicing" for their flyover of the football game. Because fuckin' Steelers are worth terrifying the population over.

Goddamn yinzer douchebags.

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by Anonymousreply 118January 13, 2018 6:56 PM

Here's a thought: What if higher ups in the intelligence or military community did this to show the man in charge that he can't be so impulsive when it comes to NK?

by Anonymousreply 119January 13, 2018 6:58 PM

Wow, what a coincidence in timing, r118. Do they do these flyover often? I know about the fireworks, but the flyover was a first for me.

by Anonymousreply 120January 13, 2018 7:00 PM

Amazing that our fucking President who lives to tweet could not be bothered to interrupt his golfing to tweet about this.

by Anonymousreply 121January 13, 2018 7:00 PM

According to MSNBC, there is no way that this was a test because the button is in a bunker behind 6-ft-thick walls, with people specifically trained to push the button ONLY if and when they receive a call from Pacific Command. So either it was hacked, it was intentional, or there was a real belief that a missile was inbound.

Is it possible that a real missile was intercepted by THAAD, but the military is trying its damnedest to keep it under wraps in an attempt to avoid an escalation?

by Anonymousreply 122January 13, 2018 7:01 PM

Shall we play a game?

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by Anonymousreply 123January 13, 2018 7:02 PM

r122 Trump wants to be a great military leader, no way he passes on a chance if a real missle came inbounds. They wouldn't cover it up.

by Anonymousreply 124January 13, 2018 7:03 PM

If the emergency alert is network connected, which it would have to be, it's susceptible to hacking. This could have been human error or it could be that. I'm sure we will find out soon what happened. No system is 100% foolproof, to everyone posting above saying it must be perfect, that's not possible.

That being said, who cares? You can't do anything if a nuclear missile is headed your way, so why stress over it and freak out? As I get older I worry less and less about this stuff.

by Anonymousreply 125January 13, 2018 7:05 PM

R120. They do it all. The. Goddamned. Time. Because yahoos who love football are the same types of yahoos who get a kick out of a display by the Military-Industrial Complex, or what, I don't understand.

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by Anonymousreply 126January 13, 2018 7:06 PM

[quote]R122 Trump wants to be a great military leader, no way he passes on a chance if a real missle came inbounds. They wouldn't cover it up.

No, not Trump, R124. USPACOM. The military is well aware of what Trump's impulse would be, and I'm hoping some Admiral somewhere would have the sense to cover it up, at least in the short term, to avoid Armageddon.

by Anonymousreply 127January 13, 2018 7:09 PM

Ooops wrong remote! No wonder I couldn't get Fox and Friends this morning! Sad!

by Anonymousreply 128January 13, 2018 7:09 PM

Well now I'm depressed. I'm in Honolulu and I don't do the Twitter, so my last moments (had this been real) would've been futzing around with you whores here on Datalounge.

by Anonymousreply 129January 13, 2018 7:12 PM

This is a false alarm. It has already been confirmed. Y'all dumb asses need to learn to do some simple Google research before believing something on any social media site. No wonder Trump got elected.

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by Anonymousreply 130January 13, 2018 7:13 PM

That should fill you with joy R129!

by Anonymousreply 131January 13, 2018 7:14 PM

Apparently Governor Ige of Hawaii KNEW it was a false alarm almost immediately, but did not issue a retraction. Senator Brian Schatz reported that he had to call the governor TWICE and insist that a retraction be issued over the same emergency alert system. Ige was going to send out an email!

Bottom line - 38 minutes before a correction was issued.

by Anonymousreply 132January 13, 2018 7:15 PM

R130, thanks for that timely update.

by Anonymousreply 133January 13, 2018 7:17 PM

The irony coming from someone who couldn't be bothered to read the recent posts in this very thread.

by Anonymousreply 134January 13, 2018 7:18 PM

I'm confused, were there sirens going off in the air, or solely the phone alerts?

by Anonymousreply 135January 13, 2018 7:18 PM

[quote]Y'all dumb asses

Sweetie, trust me, you should not go around calling other people dumb.

by Anonymousreply 136January 13, 2018 7:19 PM

Serious question: is it true that cell phones are the primary emergency nuke alert system now? Don't a lot of people put them aside when vacationing in Hawaii?

by Anonymousreply 137January 13, 2018 7:23 PM

It has to be a hack. The question is why the government is taking responsibility, and with such a lame excuse.

by Anonymousreply 138January 13, 2018 7:24 PM

R75, I turned FOX on just to watch their take on it, and what you wrote, is pretty much their take on the whole thing!!!

by Anonymousreply 139January 13, 2018 7:24 PM

Who knew we had so many posters who live in Hawaii. Feel like island life would drive me crazy.

by Anonymousreply 140January 13, 2018 7:25 PM

Good god, R126, you mean my apartment is going to shake again tomorrow too? Geeze, that was scary with CNN talking about the alert and then fighters overhead.  You'd think that someone would have tweeted that everything was fine here given what was going on in Hawaii.

by Anonymousreply 141January 13, 2018 7:25 PM

Sorry that post was for r65. The

by Anonymousreply 142January 13, 2018 7:27 PM

Relax, everyone, we're just practicing for our upcoming air show!

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by Anonymousreply 143January 13, 2018 7:42 PM

That dishy Jacob Soborof was out surfing when the alert went out. Naked.

by Anonymousreply 144January 13, 2018 7:46 PM

Fox News talking points:

"People forget that under President Obama, missile threats like this happened ALL THE TIME."

"This would never have happened if Hillary was more careful about her e-mails!"

by Anonymousreply 145January 13, 2018 7:51 PM

I am sure that Putin has had control of our military satellites and energy grids for several years now. During Obama's presidency, I never understood why they weren't willing to reveal this even if it meant going to war with Russia. Obviously, Dump is never going to go to war with Russia. I do wonder, however, if the current situation might lead to someone high up in military intelligence spilling the beans as a means of dethroning Dump.

by Anonymousreply 146January 13, 2018 7:56 PM

whoever mentioned world saver Vasili Arkhipov upthread forgot to mention he was a dream boat! Thanks for not starting WWIII Vasili honey.

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by Anonymousreply 147January 13, 2018 8:01 PM

Oh fuck yes, R144!

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by Anonymousreply 148January 13, 2018 8:03 PM

I really admire Jacob Soboroff's expansive coverage.

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by Anonymousreply 149January 13, 2018 8:13 PM

Woah, R147! That is one handsome man!

by Anonymousreply 150January 13, 2018 8:18 PM

Now Trump's critics will beg for him to protect them. Things change in an instant.

by Anonymousreply 151January 13, 2018 8:25 PM

r130 welcome to the thread. Perhaps you should read it.

by Anonymousreply 152January 13, 2018 8:31 PM

R151 his stupidy has hawaii and guam on edge something that never happened under obama/bush!

by Anonymousreply 153January 13, 2018 8:38 PM

If Jacob was really naked, someone post full body shots, please! Thanks!

by Anonymousreply 154January 13, 2018 8:47 PM

Wow. This would mess with people.

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by Anonymousreply 155January 13, 2018 8:49 PM

r149 wins today's prize for the best Jacob picture.

by Anonymousreply 156January 13, 2018 8:51 PM

Soboroff is shaky

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by Anonymousreply 157January 13, 2018 8:57 PM

Stupid fucking Dem leaders in Hawaii set off a false alarm and it's Trumps fault? You cunts are really that stupid?

by Anonymousreply 158January 13, 2018 9:03 PM

What kind of shelter works for a missile threat?

by Anonymousreply 159January 13, 2018 9:04 PM

r158 I seriously doubt the leaders in Hawaii had anything to do with this. I also doubt Trump had anything to do with this, except possibly by not ramping up counterintelligence and defending the nation's networks and aging infrastructure. He's too busy passing Republican dream bills that are all about making him and their donors wealthier.

by Anonymousreply 160January 13, 2018 9:04 PM

Actually, it may very well be Trump's fault, now that I read this:

"It is unclear how or why the initial alert was sent out, and how many people received it. Wireless emergency alerts are usually dispatched during critical emergency situations and are a partnership between the Federal Communications Commission, FEMA and the wireless industry. Shortly after the false alarm, FCC chairman Ajit Pai said the commission was launching an investigation into what happened."

by Anonymousreply 161January 13, 2018 9:07 PM

I am thinking hawaii was hacked and they would rather blame human error than alarm people with how easily they could be hacked!

by Anonymousreply 162January 13, 2018 9:07 PM

Anyone remember the emergency alert system that George W. brought into being and then abused, with the alert level being raised at suspicious times?

r162: They won't know what happened immediately.

by Anonymousreply 163January 13, 2018 9:08 PM

Russian or NK hack???

by Anonymousreply 164January 13, 2018 9:08 PM

And this bitch immediately shifts any possible blame to the state:

On Saturday, deputy White House press secretary Lindsay Walters said President Trump had been briefed on the situation. She added that it was “purely a state exercise.”

Maybe she should wait and see how it happened.

by Anonymousreply 165January 13, 2018 9:09 PM

Why were journalists tweeting that it was a "state exercise" if it was really a false alarm????? Those are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!

by Anonymousreply 166January 13, 2018 9:10 PM

r166 she's not a journalist, she's a PR person for the White House.

by Anonymousreply 167January 13, 2018 9:12 PM

R159 High School gym

by Anonymousreply 168January 13, 2018 9:12 PM

Right R167... I was typing as you posted. I was referring to the journalists' tweets, but as you note the main source was the White House.

What.On.Earth?

by Anonymousreply 169January 13, 2018 9:16 PM

As someone said above, it’s one of three possibilities — hacking, purposeful enactment or a missile really was on the way but was contained.

Also, it was not just phone text messages, the emergency notice was broadcast over television as well. This to me suggests options 1 or 3.

by Anonymousreply 170January 13, 2018 9:17 PM

R170 Were there also air alarms going?

by Anonymousreply 171January 13, 2018 9:20 PM

Kam Fong as Chin Ho

Zulu as Kono

by Anonymousreply 172January 13, 2018 9:21 PM

The fault lies with Trump. Trump fuck caused this problem. By the way, it ain't no golfing weather here. So shithead cost you a million, for nothing.

by Anonymousreply 173January 13, 2018 9:23 PM

Just wondering if there were air alarms, but those weren't turned on, and it was only tv/phones that were activated. Or maybe there isn't an air alarm system...

by Anonymousreply 174January 13, 2018 9:23 PM

Breaking News! It was just a school of humuhumunukunukuapua'a that went swimming by. Everybody hukilau!

by Anonymousreply 175January 13, 2018 9:26 PM

why are people immediatelly looking to DL for confirmation of an emergency alert? for fucks sake find some kind of shelter first then get on DL and post. if a fire alarm went off would you logon to DL first to confirm before taking action?

by Anonymousreply 176January 13, 2018 9:31 PM

And don't fucking wait to hear the air sirens if you see a phone/tv alert. It's an outdated 1950's warning system meant for people standing outside.

by Anonymousreply 177January 13, 2018 9:34 PM

Why are you assuming they weren't already in their place of shelter and didn't look for comfirmation elsewhere first...??

by Anonymousreply 178January 13, 2018 9:36 PM

God damn! I woke up at 9:30 so I slept through the whole thing! At the very least, I could say I died in my sleep. Well, if I could talk after, you know, dying.

by Anonymousreply 179January 13, 2018 9:37 PM

Okay, so I'm just going to assume there was no air system going off.

by Anonymousreply 180January 13, 2018 9:38 PM

In a word, yes, R158.

by Anonymousreply 181January 13, 2018 9:45 PM

r158....Its a federally run program overseen by FEMA

by Anonymousreply 182January 13, 2018 9:49 PM

I would have freaked if I were in Hawaii and got that message! A missile strike from NK certainly feels plausible at the moment.

I know that no system is foolproof and maybe they're telling the truth about an employee having sent it accidentally, but why did it take so long to clarify that it was a mistake? I wonder if it was the result of a hacking.

by Anonymousreply 183January 13, 2018 9:59 PM

FEMA is really just a central resources management agency for coordinating emergency services, R182. State and local agencies are always going to provide the first response.

They don't actually provide food or shelter or get the power back on or provide security--that would be the Red Cross/National Guard/various contractors. They're not dispatchers remotely triggering missile sirens, they're paper pushers. They might push those papers faster than most federal bodies but that's still their basic function.

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by Anonymousreply 184January 13, 2018 10:04 PM

I am here and live near the biggest military base on the most populated island! I was freaked, totally numb and searching online frantically and hoping it wasn't real.

by Anonymousreply 185January 13, 2018 10:09 PM

I am seeing that some military personnel got the missile alert 20 minutes earlier hmmmm.

by Anonymousreply 186January 13, 2018 10:11 PM

Meanwhile "The President" hasn't even bothered to issue a response. Except to tweet bashing Democrats an hour ago.

They trashed W. for waiting five minutes to do something on 9/11, yet it's been almost FIVE HOURS since this false alarm and he has DONE NOTHING.

If this isn't "Dereliction of duty" and an impeachable offense, I don't know what is.

by Anonymousreply 187January 13, 2018 10:14 PM

Sorry, it was a tweet to boast about how he won the election.

Obviously, a much more pressing matter than this.

by Anonymousreply 188January 13, 2018 10:16 PM

If military got the alarm 20 minutes earlier than means it was a genuine scare and not an accident. You don’t accidentally push that button once and alert the military, then push it a second time to alert the public 20 minutes later, then wait another 37 minutes to tell the public it was a “mistake”.

by Anonymousreply 189January 13, 2018 10:33 PM

People are reporting they received panicked phone calls from relatives who live in Hawaii saying goodbye. Lots of terror and tears.

by Anonymousreply 190January 13, 2018 10:34 PM

As someone pointed out on reddit though, there weren't any alarms going off for the people in Guam and that other territory that's possibly in the path (can't remember the name right now). Just Hawaii.

by Anonymousreply 191January 13, 2018 10:36 PM

[quote]Ray Gerst was vacationing on Oahu with his wife to celebrate their 28th wedding anniversary. Just as they pulled up for their tour of Kualoa Ranch, they received the alert.“All the buses stopped, and people came running out of the ranch and said, ‘Just sit still for a minute, nobody get off the bus, nobody get off the bus,’” he said. They were taken into the mountains, Mr. Gerst said, and dropped off at a concrete bunker. They sheltered in place for about 15 minutes, he said, during which time they had no cell signal. “It was scary,” Mr. Gerst said. “I mean, there was no intel.”

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by Anonymousreply 192January 13, 2018 10:37 PM

I don't know...Something about this is suspicious. I believe someone hacked into the system as a dry run or they intercepted a missile. I feel it is probably the former.

by Anonymousreply 193January 13, 2018 10:39 PM

[quote]there weren't any alarms going off for the people in Guam and that other territory that's possibly in the path (can't remember the name right now

The Northern Mariana Islands.

by Anonymousreply 194January 13, 2018 10:43 PM

R193, those are what appears to be the two most likely possibilities, if the military was alerted twenty minutes before the public.

by Anonymousreply 195January 13, 2018 10:45 PM

No one pushing this "military was alerted first" thing has posted a source....

by Anonymousreply 196January 13, 2018 10:47 PM

Thank you R194!

by Anonymousreply 197January 13, 2018 10:48 PM

Oh damn, I'm Bad !!! Sorry

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by Anonymousreply 198January 13, 2018 10:49 PM

Thank God evil Republican FCC chair Ajit Pai is opening a FULL investigation into this! $10 says he'll try to use this as a tool to annoy Hawaii's Democratic leadership with.

by Anonymousreply 199January 13, 2018 10:53 PM

Putin & Trump want everyone scared because Muller is getting too close. NK sent a missile days after meeting with the South and weeks before the Pyongyang Olympics they just got invited to? Riiiight comrade traitors.

by Anonymousreply 200January 13, 2018 10:58 PM

Poor girl

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by Anonymousreply 201January 13, 2018 11:01 PM

She's a ditz , probably went out on the balcony to look for the missle. The boyfriend was prob in the middle of rubbing one out when she came in. Lifeguard at the gene pool

by Anonymousreply 202January 13, 2018 11:05 PM

Who was filming her as she was running around ?

by Anonymousreply 203January 13, 2018 11:07 PM

She was! Was periscoping lol

by Anonymousreply 204January 13, 2018 11:08 PM

Lol "Panic! But keep filming yourself?!?!"

by Anonymousreply 205January 13, 2018 11:22 PM

You know she's thinking DEAR GOD, IF I SURVIVE I COULD BE A VIRAL STAH!!@#

by Anonymousreply 206January 13, 2018 11:22 PM

r38

The idiotic ones do.

by Anonymousreply 207January 13, 2018 11:27 PM

I have R207 blocked.

by Anonymousreply 208January 13, 2018 11:33 PM

Wasn't DIana Ross in Hawaii for a concert ?

by Anonymousreply 209January 13, 2018 11:51 PM

Did military personnel get warned early or is that just one of the many rumors floating around?

by Anonymousreply 210January 14, 2018 12:10 AM

The REAL story is that a missile was fired but fell short of Hawaii. Sadly, Atlantis was destroyed in the conflagration.

by Anonymousreply 211January 14, 2018 12:12 AM

I would have eaten every bit of fattening food in my house. Why not? I'm gonna die, right? I have frosting in the fridge (no, I have nothing to do with that stupid frosting thread)

by Anonymousreply 212January 14, 2018 12:13 AM

R212 if you did that today in Hawaii you would prob drop dead from a heart attack from the combination of the stress and added saturated fat

by Anonymousreply 213January 14, 2018 1:02 AM

Reading about this is scary. I lived in downtown honolulu when 0/11 happened. Rumors were flying that there were planes on their way, and I could see the fighter jets from my office window. It was such a beautiful day, the birds were chirping, and everything had changed. This, however, would be a much more terrifying experience. There would be nowhere to go.

by Anonymousreply 214January 14, 2018 1:04 AM

At least it didn’t happen on a weekday when kids would be in school. Or maybe it was planned to happen on a Saturday.

by Anonymousreply 215January 14, 2018 2:10 AM

Da R215.

by Anonymousreply 216January 14, 2018 2:21 AM

Jordan Segundo is now a tv anchor? I've got to see if I can get the broadcast on the internet, he was such a hottie. I remember getting his autograph in San Francisco back in 2004 on a poster with his shirt open, SO HOT!

by Anonymousreply 217January 14, 2018 2:37 AM

Perhaps the more human thing would have been to not give any warning. One second I'm eating pineapple and SPAM, next minute I am radioactive toast.

by Anonymousreply 218January 14, 2018 2:44 AM

Were these colored missiles ?

by Anonymousreply 219January 14, 2018 2:50 AM

FAT WHORES, STAY IN YOUR BASEMENTS

by Anonymousreply 220January 14, 2018 3:01 AM

R218 here. I wasn't mocking what happened or Hawaii. I don't know if I would want to be told. If the ballistic missile was nuclear (are they all?), I'd really prefer to die quickly not knowing what the fuck happened to me and everyone else I care about.

by Anonymousreply 221January 14, 2018 3:13 AM

The military were already aware that the origin of the threat was actually a black bean burrito bowl consumed by a Gunners Mate Second Class at the Taco del Mar in the JB Pearl Hickam Exchange Complex, R210. Unfortunately, by the time it was established that GM2 posed no danger beyond the immediate environs of Van Valkenburg Avenue, news of the concussions and subsequent alarms (actually a CO2 alarm in nearby base housing) were already all over Twitter.

by Anonymousreply 222January 14, 2018 3:13 AM

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by Anonymousreply 223January 14, 2018 7:47 AM

When one thinks of it, Alaska makes much more sense as a strategic target due to its oil fields. It's also closer to Pyongyang than Hawaii. Or does tourism create generate more money than the oil production? Psychologically, it would have a greater effect to hit an iconic tourist spot.

by Anonymousreply 224January 14, 2018 8:09 AM

Hawaii and Alaska are expendable, R224.

- The Lower 48

by Anonymousreply 225January 14, 2018 8:13 AM

R224 guess they want to recreate pearl harbor but I agree with Alaska making more sense.

by Anonymousreply 226January 14, 2018 8:13 AM

R225 rather lose the shitty deplorable filled flyover states no one cares about like west virginia/nebraska/alabama would anyone miss them?

by Anonymousreply 227January 14, 2018 8:15 AM

It was a joke, R227. God your thought process is so limited.

by Anonymousreply 228January 14, 2018 8:28 AM

Slept through the whole thing. Was really pissed it was a false alarm and I still had to go to work. Fucking assholes.

by Anonymousreply 229January 14, 2018 8:57 AM

They can't hit Alaska R224, Putin wants it back. He probably already has the paperwork drafted for his puppet to sign.

by Anonymousreply 230January 14, 2018 10:02 AM

Alaska is actually closer to North Korea than Hawaii, though Guam is by far the closest American target.

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by Anonymousreply 231January 14, 2018 1:33 PM

Hmmm... From Jan 5:

"An emergency earthquake warning sent to millions of people in Japan caused a brief panic on Friday and disrupted Tokyo's transport network.

But the loud alert, which was sent to millions of mobile phones, turned out to be a false alarm triggered by an error in the earthquake warning system."

Coincidence? Really?

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by Anonymousreply 232January 14, 2018 1:53 PM

r208

Miss Landers, Larry and the Beaver were talking after the bell rang. I told them just because you weren't in the room, doesn't mean they could talk after the bell rang but they did it anyway

by Anonymousreply 233January 14, 2018 1:57 PM

[quote]I lived in downtown honolulu when 0/11 happened

I bet you also celebrated VD day too.

by Anonymousreply 234January 14, 2018 1:58 PM

[quote]f the ballistic missile was nuclear (are they all?), I'd really prefer to die quickly not knowing what the fuck happened to me and everyone else I care about.

Which is the wrong attitude, something simple as standing behind a door, or pulling a curtain can stop the nuclear flash and save you from burns. Even in Hiroshima, which saw about 78,000 killed in all, had over 400,000 people in 1945, which means 83% of the people there lived.

You need to be informed.

by Anonymousreply 235January 14, 2018 2:01 PM

R235, you are hilarious. They don't make nuclear bombs as small as the one that hit Hiroshima anymore.

by Anonymousreply 236January 14, 2018 2:17 PM

Yeah the bombs dropped on Japan might seem bad but they are nothing compared to modern nuclear weapons. It is not a realistic comparison of what would happen with a nuclear strike today.

by Anonymousreply 237January 14, 2018 2:31 PM

What is the point of such a warning? There’s nowhere to go. This is all about scaring people.

by Anonymousreply 238January 14, 2018 2:52 PM

They ended "duck and cover" drills in school when I was in first grade. But in kindergarten and the first part of the following year, we would learn to get under our little desks and cover our faces, facing away from windows.

Weird, but oddly not scary. We were too young to understand much about The Bomb.

by Anonymousreply 239January 14, 2018 3:07 PM

Wtf? We never had an atomic air raid drill in school after 1966, R239. Where did you live?

by Anonymousreply 240January 14, 2018 3:13 PM

[quote]Yeah the bombs dropped on Japan might seem bad but they are nothing compared to modern nuclear weapons. It is not a realistic comparison of what would happen with a nuclear strike today.

Yes NK's last test was estimated to have a yield of up to 140kt, about 10x the power of the Hiroshima bomb. But they probably have yet to miniaturize the design to place atop a missile.

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by Anonymousreply 241January 14, 2018 4:00 PM

Central New York State, r240. Born in 1965, started school fall of 1970 and they were still doing the drills into the start of of fall 1971 year. I have memories of my first-grade teacher walking around and making sure we were all properly tucked under out little desks.

I guess it may have been phased out on a local basis, or state by state?

by Anonymousreply 242January 14, 2018 4:06 PM

We will all go home to be with the Lord one day, one way or another. We shouldnt be afraid of death, this life is only temporary.

by Anonymousreply 243January 14, 2018 4:22 PM

[quote]We will all go home to be with the Lord one day

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by Anonymousreply 244January 14, 2018 4:30 PM

Oh hunty, I were cleaning dat counter top and rested my elbow in the WRONG place, haaaa!

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by Anonymousreply 245January 14, 2018 5:00 PM

Can’t wait for Rachel tomorrow night.

by Anonymousreply 246January 14, 2018 5:00 PM

To the Pittsburghers: the football game fighter planes just went over my house. Duck and cover!

by Anonymousreply 247January 14, 2018 5:05 PM

[quote]why are people immediatelly looking to DL for confirmation of an emergency alert? for fucks sake find some kind of shelter first then get on DL and post. if a fire alarm went off would you logon to DL first to confirm before taking action?

Maybe they want to read and post jokes about it before taking shelter.

by Anonymousreply 248January 14, 2018 5:11 PM

The WTC was an insatiable bottom on data lounge before the second plane hit.

by Anonymousreply 249January 14, 2018 5:16 PM

I had a dream Friday night, really Saturday morning that there was a nuclear war.

I was outside, looking up at the clouds with a friend, in an area like a beach and a field or park - a large wide-open space. All of a sudden we saw a coming out of the clouds a fighter jet that dropped a bomb which was coming down, landing toward us. It was coming down so quickly we didn't have time to run anywhere and when it landed I was wondering if I was dead or alive. Then I woke up. (And then posted on DL, of course: See link).

It scared me because it was such a realistic and scary dream and also scared me a bit because I have had a few precognitive dreams

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by Anonymousreply 250January 14, 2018 5:20 PM

[quote] I have had a few precognitive dreams

Well, that wasn't one of them.

by Anonymousreply 251January 14, 2018 5:23 PM

As many others have said, in the event of what seems to be a real emergency, what fucked instinct leads people to hold up their phones and record video?

Or maybe it's normal behavior now.

by Anonymousreply 252January 14, 2018 5:32 PM

I hope not, R251.

I guess they could have been testing the system - to see if it worked on phones. And maybe to see if people would panic?

by Anonymousreply 253January 14, 2018 5:32 PM

Here's the most accurate portrayal of what would have happened if this was a real attack

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by Anonymousreply 254January 14, 2018 5:32 PM

Yes, R252. I think I would want to be around someone without that mentality in an emergency.

by Anonymousreply 255January 14, 2018 5:34 PM

A lot of our 9/11 video came from camcorders

by Anonymousreply 256January 14, 2018 5:40 PM

Sorry Folks! nothin to see here. Dumb ass employee pushed the w rong button. Everything is fine. FINE. Seriously. Don't worry. We got this.

by Anonymousreply 257January 14, 2018 5:42 PM

It's bizarre that a system like that wasn't coded with a dual approval system. Probably some millennials writing in JavaScript.

by Anonymousreply 258January 14, 2018 5:46 PM

.....and as the catastrophe unfolds, the world leaders and elite who caused the destruction will be safely squirreled away in a bunker.

by Anonymousreply 259January 14, 2018 5:55 PM

Hmmmm...

The earthquake alarm in Japan. This in Hawaii. Any other public warning/alarms set off anywhere else recently as well?

All sounds a lot like someone is learning how to interfere with and use these kind of systems. Kinda flexing their cyber-muscles.

Gotta wonder: to what end?

by Anonymousreply 260January 14, 2018 6:13 PM

If it does happen I am pissed that Trump, the whore wife , the autistic son, the conniving daughter and son in law , along with Pence, "mother" and Kelly Anne will all be whisked away upon AirForce one to ride out armageddon and survive . So we will re populate the world from this gene pool? Oh boy !

by Anonymousreply 261January 14, 2018 6:16 PM

Jacob was just on MSNBC. On a surfboard. Naked with nuthin on but a smile and a cockring.

by Anonymousreply 262January 14, 2018 6:17 PM

R261, are you sure KellyAnne has one of those "get thee to a bunker" cards? Because there's a famous story about a Clinton communications staffer who denied they existed, only to find out later they did exist but she didn't have one. You know who I mean...the woman who went on to be an editor at Vanity Fair.

Truthfully, given the choice between fending for myself outside and being locked up with the first family and some of his key aides and congresspersons for months, I'd take my chances out in the world.

by Anonymousreply 263January 14, 2018 6:23 PM

[quote] All sounds a lot like someone is learning how to interfere with and use these kind of systems. Kinda flexing their cyber-muscles.

Soemone's having a tantrum cause they can't come play at the Olympics.

by Anonymousreply 264January 14, 2018 6:27 PM

[quote]being locked up with the first family and some of his key aides and congresspersons for months

Can you image a film or tape recording of the things they'd be saying?

by Anonymousreply 265January 14, 2018 6:31 PM

Are TPTB so insane they want a nuclear war?

by Anonymousreply 266January 14, 2018 6:32 PM

Yes R266 they imagine they're all going to be safe in their luxury bunkers and then emerge like Gods when the fallout clears into a beautiful de-populated paradise.

by Anonymousreply 267January 14, 2018 6:42 PM

But who will be left to do their dry cleaning, R267?

by Anonymousreply 268January 14, 2018 7:34 PM

If KellyAnne Conway stays, she can rinse things out in the sink.

by Anonymousreply 269January 14, 2018 7:39 PM

There's a story I tell in the book about George Stephanopoulos when he was at the Clinton White House. And Aaron Sorkin, when he was doing the research for what became "The West Wing" and "The American President," was meeting with Stephanopoulos. Stephanopoulos pulls out this little evacuation card that Aaron Sorkin originally thinks is a bus pass only to realize that it's actually, you know, George Stephanopoulos' get-out-of-nuclear-war-free card.

And then when Aaron Sorkin incorporates this into a "West Wing" episode where the deputy chief of staff, Josh Lyman, gets one of these cards from the National Security Council, Dee Dee Myers, who was the press secretary at the time - the White House press secretary at the time - pulls Aaron Sorkin aside on the set and says, you know, Aaron, I think that this is crazy that you're doing this because these cards don't actually exist. And Aaron Sorkin realizes in that moment that Dee Dee Myers, who worked alongside George Stephanopoulos in the White House, never realized that she was not going to be saved in an evacuation but that George Stephanopoulos was.

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by Anonymousreply 270January 14, 2018 7:42 PM

R270 Does this mean Ali Wentworth gets saved, too?

by Anonymousreply 271January 14, 2018 8:16 PM

Good question, R271.

by Anonymousreply 272January 14, 2018 8:21 PM

Is Ali Wentworth considered "essential personnel?

by Anonymousreply 273January 14, 2018 8:23 PM

R273 Well, you'd really have to ask George.

by Anonymousreply 274January 14, 2018 8:33 PM

Is Sarah Huckabee essential personnel?

by Anonymousreply 275January 14, 2018 8:35 PM

R275, I haven't had that conversation with the president, but as soon as I do I'll let y'all know

by Anonymousreply 276January 14, 2018 8:51 PM

Has Trump still not commented on this??

by Anonymousreply 277January 15, 2018 7:48 PM

[quote]The news anchor is ex-American Idol twink Jordan Segundo.

Only you and Jordan Segundo know this bit of non information.

by Anonymousreply 278January 15, 2018 8:00 PM

Hawaii is a blue state and coughed up Barack Obama so no, The Dumpster doesn't give a rip about our state. I'm surprised he hasn't farted out a negative tweet about shitholes again.

by Anonymousreply 279January 15, 2018 8:02 PM

Is this accurate? does anyone know?

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by Anonymousreply 280January 15, 2018 8:09 PM

R279...don't misinterpret this, because we are with you... but he may not understand that Hawaiians are actual American citizens.

by Anonymousreply 281January 15, 2018 8:11 PM

Oh yeah? I challenge him to find us on a map.

by Anonymousreply 282January 15, 2018 8:15 PM

R209 Ms. Ross was there , and shaken up apparently

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by Anonymousreply 283January 15, 2018 8:18 PM

One more reason to love Nicolle W:

She just showed the new cover of Germany's Der Speigel magazine.

Some of these magazine and newspaper cover artists are getting very creative and clever in their mocking. It must result in tantrums in the WH.

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by Anonymousreply 284January 15, 2018 8:24 PM

Ms Ross while in the basement of the hotel

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by Anonymousreply 285January 15, 2018 8:33 PM

R209 She was almost "In the middle of a Chain Reaction " for real....

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by Anonymousreply 286January 15, 2018 8:37 PM

This missile threat stinks but I'm not sure where the odor is coming from.

by Anonymousreply 287January 15, 2018 9:26 PM

Diana discovered there Ain't No Mountain High Enough to escape a nuke!

by Anonymousreply 288January 15, 2018 9:59 PM

Can you imagine in the 80s if someone came up to you and said: "In the future, everyone carries a phone with them at all time. People even sleep with them. Diana Ross got scared when she was rushed into the hotel basement when everyone in Hawaii got a message on the phone that a nuclear missile was headed for Hawaii. People were angry because President Donald Trump did not send a message on the phone but he took time to comment on a book that called him 'dumb as shit.'"

by Anonymousreply 289January 15, 2018 10:22 PM

Who is this "President" Trump?

by Anonymousreply 290January 15, 2018 10:46 PM

Of all people to be stuck in a basement with and having to go thru armageddon with Diana Ross would not be one of them

by Anonymousreply 291January 16, 2018 12:19 AM

Is it real? Is it fake?

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by Anonymousreply 292January 16, 2018 12:22 AM

My children , everybody in Hawaii faced fear and anxiety over the unfortunate event that occured on Saturday morning . I will not lie , I was scared however God in all his greatness allowed us all breath a sigh of relief. I am glad to be home with my family and you my children my extended family.

I have decided to have the ushers at my future hand out pamphlets to what to do in the event there is an attack during a show . These will include a sample of my Diamond Diana perfume !! Much love and affection !!!! We all will Survive !!!!

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by Anonymousreply 293January 16, 2018 12:36 AM

^future concerts^

by Anonymousreply 294January 16, 2018 12:41 AM

Still no explanation or word from the “president”?

by Anonymousreply 295January 16, 2018 11:34 AM

And nothing on that fired ethics committee guy, either.

by Anonymousreply 296January 16, 2018 12:51 PM

R297, you are a disgusting traitor for your support of homophobic Trump and Putin.

by Anonymousreply 298January 18, 2018 6:11 PM

Fuck you, R297.

by Anonymousreply 299January 18, 2018 6:19 PM
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