Posted on 01/14/2018 10:14:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind
On a normal day, there aren’t 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 state’s 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 Trump’s first tweet after incorrect alert went out.
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!
— 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 — haven’t been given any information
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
No, it would be AIDS.
#PleaseDon'tNukeParadise
My first though was it was a hack, or a psyops test. thoughts?
Yup!
Hawaii is run by Leftist Democrats.
China got ICBM technology from Clinton.
NK got nukes because Obama let them.
Obama practically created a doctrine where the world knew that the US would not respond to a WMD attack with WMDs, which emboldens all our enemies.
But this is an abdication of Trump’s leadership???
Perfect logic Washington Post.
So, by the same token when can we expect your “news” reports blaming 0bama for DOT/FBI scandals?...we’ll wait...
I actually think this mistake was a good thing n that it woke up all those libs in Hawaii to the reality of the world.
It was a test that they failed badly in their panic and hand-wringing.
LOL!! Have they blamed him yet for the 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds? I know he hadn’t been born yet, but that doesn’t make a bit of difference to libs.
LOL. Yeah that was Trump’s fault too. :D
This is like blaming police brutality in Baltimore (assuming there is any) on Republicans when a)President b)Governor c)Mayor d)City Council & e)population is all Dem and mostly black.
Listen WP, F head!
Trump had nothing to do with it. It was that communists liberal Democrats that made and rum the system.
What it revealed is that Hawaii is run by opportunistic morons.
I read an article... it wasn’t very clear. It seems they were running some kind of drill that wasn’t supposed to actually send out the message, but some button got pushed and the message went out. Then I suppose everyone had to run around and make sure a missile HADN’T been launched before they could send out the cancellation, even though they had triggered it themselves. Typical Catch 22 SNAFU.
Yep, democrat idiots are Trump’s fault.
The state of Hawaii screws up and somehow it’s Trump’s fault?
The Ministry of Propaganda is really reaching.
This ‘false alarm’ was only due to the fact the REAL ALARM could not be found. BO’B had stolen it. Sticky fingers NEVER unstick. When you shop for a cheap resident to fill the OO, you get stuck with a loser, a treacherous bastard, an UNAmerican, like BO’B. A continuous threat to America and her people.
..... It was a great Statewide Fire Drill
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