— Michelle Broder Van Dyke (@michellebvd) January 13, 2018Could you even imagine receiving that?
I grew up during the Cold War and I never had anything happen that was anywhere near as frightening as this.
And it even appeared on local Hawaiian television.
Terrifying!TV with the alert pic.twitter.com/VCZAtvyuzQ— Michelle Broder Van Dyke (@michellebvd) January 13, 2018
I went to college in Hawaii and I have say that back then at least there were just not that many places to go to for shelter.
The same must be essentially true today because residents were literally stuffing their children down storm drains in a frantic attempt to keep them safe.
It was almost forty minutes later that residents received this correction.BREAKING VIDEO: Footage shows children being placed into storm drains immediately after Emergency Ballistic Missile Warning was sent to residents in Hawaii.pic.twitter.com/GVDyVEARgR— Jemisha (@JemiSHaaaZzz) January 13, 2018
Can you imagine being that terrified for more than half an hour, only to find out that it was all a mistake?Just got this second alert, almost 40 minutes later. pic.twitter.com/q2uVL5cMDV— Sonali Kohli 🙆🏾 (@Sonali_Kohli) January 13, 2018
Speaking of mistakes Donald Trump just kept right on golfing while all of this was going on:
Critics are blasting President Donald Trump for continuing to golf Saturday while frantic Hawaii residents rushed for cover after a false cell phone alarm about an incoming ballistic missile.
The president was on the course at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, after the alert was issued at 1:09 p.m. EST, according to press pool reports. His motorcade didn’t leave the club for Mar-a-Lago until 1:38 p.m.
As of Saturday evening, Trump had not issued any personal statement — or tweet — about the scare. He did tweet about “fake news” and again called journalist Michael Wolff’s book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, a “fake book.” He described Wolff as “mentally deranged.”
I guess he must consider Hawaii to be one of those "shitholes" that are beneath his notice.
Ultimately what we learned yesterday is that this White House is completely incapable of responding to an actual nuclear attack.
Courtesy of Politico:
A false warning of a missile threat in Hawaii sent White House aides scrambling Saturday, frantically phoning agencies to determine a response and triggering worries about their preparedness almost a year into the Trump administration.
President Donald Trump's Cabinet has yet to test formal plans for how to respond to a domestic missile attack, according to a senior administration official. John Kelly, while serving as Secretary of Homeland Security through last July, planned to conduct the exercise. But he left his post to become White House chief of staff before it was conducted, and acting secretary Elaine Duke never carried it out.
The administration ran the exercise on Dec. 19 at the deputies' level, at the behest of Kelly and newly sworn in Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen. But as of Saturday, when Hawaii residents were taking cover, the federal government had yet to play out the same scenario with Cabinet secretaries at what is known as the principals level.
"The U.S. government hasn't tested these plans in 30 years,” said the senior administration official involved in the White House response. “All the fresh faces sitting around the table in the situation room have little idea what their roles would be in this scenario. The bottom line is that without a principals level exercise we shouldn’t have any confidence that the Cabinet would know what to do in an attack scenario."
Can't say I am surprised by this.
I saw the poor man in charge of these alerts in Hawaii taking responsibility for his mistake, and I think there is a strong possibility he will lose his job over it.
However let's take a moment to remember that the ONLY reason that Hawaii was doing these kinds of drills in the first place is the now very real concern that North Korea might send a missile toward America, and that this fear took hold because of some childish exchanges between Kim Jong Un and the imbecile in the White House.
It took actress Jamie Lee Curtis to say what most of us are probably already thinking.
Yes, exactly!This Hawaii missle scare is on YOU Mr. Trump. The real FEAR that mothers & fathers & children felt is on YOU. It is on YOUR ARROGANCE. HUBRIS. NARCISSISM. RAGE. EGO. IMMATURITY and your UNSTABLE IDIOCY. Shame on your hate filled self. YOU DID THIS!— Jamie Lee Curtis (@jamieleecurtis) January 13, 2018
If Barack Obama had still been in charge, I seriously doubt that the people of Hawaii would have been quite so panicked in response to that alert.
After all they knew an adult was in charge and probably would have thought it was a mistake. Which it was.
But under Donald Trump, NOBODY feels safe.
And we know that not only is a nuclear war more likely, but that our government is completely unprepared for the first missile launches that would likely start one.
Welcome my friends, to Trump's America.
I read in a comment somewhere that the alert warning came from Colorado. Does anyone know if that is true or not? I haven't a clue.
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You read wrong! It came from Hawaii civil defense located at Diamond head.
Delete9:01 He is too busy with his concern for California. You know his friend Oprah and that horrible mess by her house.
Delete10:29 Seriously? Is your retardation caused by consuming large quantities of lead paint chips or are your genes from two relatives from one family tree?
Delete11:32, maybe you are the one eating lead paint chips since there is no comment @ 10:29!!!
DeleteStill nothing from the tweeter in chief?
ReplyDeleteWell isn’t that special; the white house has no plans of what to do in case of a nuclear war. I am not even going to worry about this one since no one is going to survive a nuclear war anyway.
ReplyDeleteYep, trump could careless about the American public, I am surprised he didn’t wattle to the bomb shelter, oops he will have to have one built at Mar a Lago at our expense of course.
We are just lucky the guy with the nuclear football didn’t give it to trump yesterday.
The govt can't even have a conference call. Lol
DeleteI think the govt is ineffective, in chaos. No rules or lack of reading rules.
Russia and China will not allow a takeover of North Korea by a democratic nation. The Communist dictatorship in NK provides a suitable buffer. NK having nukes is not a threat to the US or anyone else because it keeps the buffer intact.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, why do you think Russia and China assist NK with fuel and food? Keeps Little Kim in power. Don’t ever plan on a unified Korea. Just not going to happen.
DeleteFOX.
ReplyDeletea ‘butt dial’ from a ‘blue state’
http://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/fox-guest-blames-dems-for-botched-test-of-hawaii-missile-alert-system-its-a-butt-dial-from-a-blue-state/
'they have TDS — Trump derangement syndrome'
""I don’t want to get into it," Arpaio said, "but I know doing a certain investigation on a fake, fraudulent government document. They can’t even solve that case. They don’t even want to look at it. So either they’re incompetent or there’s something behind it."
ReplyDeleteArpaio was one of the chief proponents of the birther conspiracy, maintaining that Obama was not born in the U.S. and is inelligible to serve as president, even sending a team of investigators to probe the discredited claims while sheriff of Maricopa County in 2012."
http://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/watch-ex-sheriff-arpaio-bizarrely-ties-botched-hawaii-missile-alert-to-obama-birth-certificate/
http://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/trump-silent-on-hawaii-retweets-pizzagate-theorist/
'“So much Fake News is being reported. They don’t even try to get it right, or correct it when they are wrong. They promote the Fake Book of a mentally deranged author, who knowingly writes false information. The Mainstream Media is crazed that WE won the election!” '
'“For 38 minutes American citizens in Hawaii braced for a ballistic missile strike ... and @realDonaldTrump continued his round of golf in Florida on his 120th taxpayer funded vacation day in less than a year,” tweeted former Pentagon official Morris Davis.
"Trump knew within minutes no missile was hurtling toward Hawaii. He was golfing. They told him. He did not tweet out that info. He kept golfing. People thought they & their families were going to die FOR 38 MINS. Then when the panic was over he tweeted how media is so mean to him," '
http://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/jake-tapper-hawaii-missile-alert-could-have-led-to-nuclear-war-if-trump-had-been-watching-fox-friends/
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Think about how nasty, cruel, stupid, brainless, vindictive, and utterly ignorant DrumpF really is.
ReplyDeleteWho is the one person on the planet he hates most?
President Barrack Obama was born in Hawaii, so I'm betting that if it was nuked to a burnt cinder, Trump would take pleasure.
Trump has made a list of every *SINGLE* thing that OBama did as President, and he's systematically undoing or killing every one of his exec orders or initiatives.
Next only to greed and lust, Trump is driven by hatred married to revenge
The majority of Americans know who President Obama is and love and respect him. They do not feel either for The Donald and never will and it drives him nuts!
DeleteImpeachment or resignation are the only answers as to his fraudulent presidency.
TreasonoUS:
Deletehttps://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-congress-bickers-over-russia-mueller-looms-060246589.html
"Is there a bottom to this slippery slope?
DeleteHere we are, just short of one year into the Trump presidency, and news organizations, quoting the President, are using his term for African and South American countries, “shithole countries,” without intervening asterisks.
Is the GOP at the bottom of the slippery slope yet? Or is it just about to complete the circle back to the very beginnings of its Southern Strategy?
The Southern Strategy was born during the civil rights movement, when the national Democratic Party began supporting voting rights legislation and the black civil rights movement more broadly. In 1948, Strom Thurmond of Mississippi led a walkout from the Democratic Convention over the seating of black delegates and ran a third-party campaign for president as the nominee of the newly-formed Dixiecrat Party. That action made it became obvious that Southern whites, who had voted for Democrats ever since the Civil War, might be willing to switch parties. To move the process along, Republican candidates began appealing explicitly to racist Southern whites, using language that, until Trump, one might have believed had been banished from the political lexicon.
Even when the crude words eventually became forbidden in normal political conversation, however, the GOP still relied on transmuted racist appeals, as political operative Lee Atwater, who advised both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, admitted in a recorded 1981 interview with political scientist Alexander Lamis:
“You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘Nigger, nigger, nigger.’ By 1968 you can’t say nigger’—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… ‘We want to cut this,’ is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than ‘Nigger, nigger.’”
Now, here we are with Donald Trump, referring to immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries as being from “shithole countries” and expressing his preference Norwegian immigrants instead. You don’t have to look farther than skin color to understand how he makes the distinction.
With Trump, we’ve been treated to a never-ending coarsening of political discourse: crude comments about women (see “blood from her . . .whatever”; “grab ‘em by the pussy”; “fat pig”, et al.), positive comments about racists and Nazi sympathizers (“good people”), slanders of racial minorities (“rapists,” a judge of Mexican descent can’t be fair), and of course, Trump’s birther campaign against President Obama. Now, we are treated to Trump’s calling Haiti, El Salvador, and all African nations, “shithole countries.”
Will the GOP ever reach the bottom of this slippery slope? Or should we take bets on how long it will be before Trump skips the “politically correct” terms entirely and just returns to “nigger, nigger, nigger?”"
The terrible reality is of course that there is no shelter that will protect you from the prolonged effects. Die instantly or linger. Those would be the 'choices' for almost everyone.
ReplyDeleteExactly. Even if you took shelter you would be holed up indefinitely and would probably starve to death. I would rather die instantly.
DeleteWatch The Road. That's how I think that will be.
Deleteyou wouldn't stave to death if you order those meals from Jim Baker :)
DeleteDonald does not seem to take these things seriously. While people are stuffing their kids into manholes for protection, ole Donny there golfs on. He probably quips an off color joke about all of this and golfs along.
ReplyDeleteThe world is crumbing and we still do nothing about the thing in the white house. The only orders he takes are from Putin. Maybe we should start whispering in Putin's ears if we want anything.
Nero fiddled.......Zero golfs.
Deletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/14/trump-denies-good-relationship-kim.html
ReplyDeleteI~D 'in psychoanalysis, the deepest part of the unconscious mind that represents the most basic natural human needs and emotions such as hunger, anger, and the wish for pleasure'
The question should be, does trumpy know anyone in the building that ordered the button to be pushed to scare the innocent folks in Hawaii? He is usually behind every dirty deed done dirt cheap.
ReplyDeletedrumpf was not invited to the Sony Open in Hawaii so he ordered it bombed. He is such a classless freak nobody wants him on their golf course, he can only go to his dumpy rump mylardass managed course in the rears.
ReplyDeleteTrump's handlers want you to live in constant fear. Fear is the only way "they" can manage you. Fall for it if you want. Even if there is a nuclear bust by either dotard leaders of our world, I won't be looking to survive that. Shit, I'd hate to have to eat my fellow man when things don't grow and reproduce.
ReplyDeleteBut hey, we of the so called free world are actually day by day letting this thing in our white house slowly deconstruct every thing our country was built on and was building on for human civilizations to thrive so we shouldn't complain. Technically, we are doing it to ourselves by letting Trump getting a free ride at our expense.
Yes, I can imagine it. I'm from Anchorage but I'm on Maui right now. Yesterday when this happened, I didn't even know about it until I was getting up about 8:15 and putting on my Apple watch and then I saw the alert. I turned on the TV and within just a couple minutes, there was a banner going across the screen saying it was a mistake. So, I wasn't frightened for long, but I do wonder why the sirens never went off on Maui, but they did on Oahu. The other thing that became abundantly clear when this happened is that nobody knows what to do. I come to Maui and lot, but I had no idea where I should go or what I should do.
ReplyDeleteGo get your favorite meal and beverage and enjoy it.
DeleteThe winners from all this are our enemies, they were just shown that the president could careless, the WH has no plan and the American people are on their own in case of a missile attack.
ReplyDeleteAs usual trump is working for our enemies. Traitor trump.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf
ReplyDelete' "this shows how liars are rewarded: even if they tell the truth, no one believes them".'
' Samuel Croxall asks, referencing political alarmism, "when we are alarmed with imaginary dangers in respect of the public, till the cry grows quite stale and threadbare, how can it be expected we should know when to guard ourselves against real ones?"'
FB>"Thank God it was a mistake!!
ReplyDeleteShades of the Cold War this morning and a reminder of our perilous international moment as news broke that residents of Hawaii received an emergency alert of a ballistic missile launch. It took precious (and terrifying) minutes for the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency to issue a statement that it was a mistake. As one person tweeted, "That is a hell of a mistake to make. #Wow."
There was always an umbrella of fear during the Cold War that there was a chance that a civilization-ending conflict could engulf the globe in a matter of minutes. And there was always a chance that it could be spurred by a tragic mistake amidst a cascade of hair-trigger reactions. The dangers today are not nearly as grave as then, but this umbrella of uncertainty has returned.
Let this morning's mistake be a lesson in the dangers of talking loosely about nuclear weapons and using an undisciplined twitter finger to conduct what should be sensitive international negotiations."<Dan the man Rather
You would think Shithead would give a fuck since he has a Trump shithole on Waikiki.
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We were there in December and two of our friends decided to stay through January and they were freaked out, to say the least regarding the fake threat.
ReplyDeleteThey texted later making a joke that our house, where they were staying, was fine and not nuked by a crazy asian dictator :-)