Posted on 01/14/2018 10:14:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind
On a normal day, there arent many people heading to Google to figure out how to survive a nuclear strike. But Saturday was not a normal day.
Shortly after 2:30 p.m. Eastern, searches for how to survive nuclear peaked in the U.S., from being almost nonexistent to being almost twice as common as how to make pasta. The increase was centered in Hawaii, where about 90 minutes earlier, a warning had gone out over the states emergency alert system: BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
You can see when that alert went out on this graph.
[SNIP] Tulsi Gabbard's tweet went out within about 15 minutes of the false alarm to her 174,000 followers. She was probably the first well-known authority figure to inform the public that there was no need to panic. News outlets picked up that clarification and spread it widely.
This, by contrast, was President Trumps first tweet after incorrect alert went out.
So much Fake News is being reported. They dont 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!
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2018
It was sent more than three hours after the alert went out. As you can see, it has nothing to do with the alert. Those who follow Trump on Twitter 46.6 million of them havent been given any information
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Nothing Happened.
The President didn’t respond.
He’s uncaring and must be impeached!
- every democrat
Good grief.
Bezos is an ass.
So some total idiot twit in a Hawaii state government agency pushes the wrong button and that Trump’s fault according to WaPo. That parallel universe of theirs must be an interesting place.
Their target demographic is the mentally deficient.
It’s Bush’s Fault, no wait, It’s Trump’s fault
Please, WaPo... Please tell us just how Madame President would have handled it. We’re just dying to hear!
IMHO, the false alarm was DELIBERATELY sent just for this kind of narrative against Trump.
Oh good God.
Contradictions again.
Is Trump an ultra-dictator, or a careless figurehead ruler?
Mostly we’re told he’s the former; then 1 thing happens, and he’s hands-off careless.
This is like the Bush thing. Bush was stupid; yet somehow brilliant enough to pull off 9/11 within 8 months of his ascension.
Geez absolutely NOTHING happened..there was NO North Korea threat, there was NO missile launched..it was all because some dumb ass pressed a button and somehow this is Trump’s fault??? I dont get the mentality of these loons I really don’t
If he did something, he’d be labeled (as usual) a ruthless tyrant!
Why should Trump be tweeting or otherwise commenting on a screwup by the State of Hawaii Emergency Management Agency? A screw up that was known to be a screwup within 5 minutes, and for which notifications were sent out within 30 minutes? What is Trump supposed to say or do? Tweet a picture of the All is Well! guy from Animal House?
Unfortunately the majority of this country is mentally deficient.
Trump understood one thing that Republicans didn’t. To win a national election these days, you’ve got to get a good chunk of the “Stupid Vote”.
For one thing, this wasn’t an alert to the while United States.
It was a colossal f’up by the Hawaiian state leadership, heavily a Democrat centrist government.
The Hawaiian authorities made announcements regarding the screw up. That was all that was required from any authorities.
Now the investigation and setting up a process that makes it almost impossible to repeat, is the heavily Democrat Hawaiian state leadership’s duty.
As for Trump being to blame in any way here, that’s preposterous.
If Trump walked on water the headline would be “Trump Can’t Swim”.
Well, when she woke up from her coma, she would have gotten her minions right on it.
The Washington Post is written with crayons.
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