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DrEvil » Sun Jan 14, 2018 5:25 pm wrote:Edit: And it's really fucking scary that someone with butterfingers can accidentally launch WW3. What if NK saw it and thought a retaliatory strike was on the way?
82_28 » Mon Jan 15, 2018 3:36 am wrote:DrEvil » Sun Jan 14, 2018 5:25 pm wrote:Edit: And it's really fucking scary that someone with butterfingers can accidentally launch WW3. What if NK saw it and thought a retaliatory strike was on the way?
I actually hadn't thought about that. Maybe it was a stress test. There couldn't have been a "what if" NK saw it. No doubt they did.
However, I voted accidental first and foremost or a stress test on how 1m people react all at once to their impending deaths second. I lean accidental, but they can't let a good mistake go to waste when it comes to a psy-op. Hopefully the assholes will now learn all of this loose talk about nukes isn't funny, completely unnecessary, counterproductive etc. Who am I kidding?
From a drop-down menu on a computer program, he saw two options: “Test missile alert” and “Missile alert.” He was supposed to choose the former; as much of the world now knows, he chose the latter, an initiation of a real-life missile alert. -WaPo reporting ( and others)
Vice President Mike Pence left a football game between the Indianapolis Colts and the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday after some players knelt during the National Anthem, saying he did not want to "dignify" the demonstration.
"I left today's Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem," Pence wrote on Twitter.
The vice president went on to issue a full statement opposing the protest.
I stand with @POTUS Trump, I stand with our soldiers, and I will always stand for our Flag and our National Anthem. pic.twitter.com/B0zP5M41MQ
— Vice President Pence (@VP) October 8, 2017
President Donald Trump tweeted afterward that he asked Pence to leave the stadium.
"I asked @VP Pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled, disrespecting our country. I am proud of him and @SecondLady Karen," Trump tweeted.
I asked @VP Pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled, disrespecting our country. I am proud of him and @SecondLady Karen.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 8, 2017
The pool of journalists accompanying the vice president was not allowed into the stadium and was asked to stay in their vans. They were told by a staffer that "there may be an early departure from the game," but were not given any further details.
Some criticized Trump and Pence for the walkout, with Hawaii Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz tweeting, "Wait. This was orchestrated to make a point? That's not an inexpensive thing to do." . . .
Hawaii, the most ethnically diverse U.S. state, is mounting one of the earlier challenges to President Donald Trump's travel ban. The state plans to argue that the restrictions on travelers from six predominantly Muslim nations amounts to religious discrimination. Court proceedings begin March 15 at 9:30 a.m. in Honolulu/ 3:30 p.m. New York time. Join us at TOPLive for full coverage and analysis.
'The whole state was terrified': How Hawaii reacted to false missile alert - BBC News
Matt Lopresti, a member of the Hawaiian House of Representatives, told local television outlet KGMB he and his family had sought shelter in a bathtub.
"We got our children, grabbed our emergency supplies, put them in our most enclosed room in our house which is our bathroom... We put them in the bathtub, said our prayers, tried to find out what the hell was going on because we didn't hear any alarms, any of the sirens...
"There's not much else you can do in that situation. You know, we did what we could, what the state has been trying to tell people - to be ready in this kind of situation and to take it seriously, and I did.
The patrons and staff of the diner were all quiet and scared. My dad tried to comfort a few of the waitresses, who were very distraught. Everyone tried to call their families, 911, or get online to check the news, but phone lines and data services were jammed. About 20 minutes after the text, someone was finally able to get onto the internet using their phone and saw the announcement that it was a false alarm. After that, my mum cried with relief."
Meanwhile other US government agencies seemed unfazed by the alert that was terrifying Hawaiian islanders. In the midst of the panic, the CIA's official account sent out a totally unrelated post about pandas, much to the mockery of other social media users.
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/fe ... omacy.html
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42675666
“I have some real doubts,” Trump told the “Today” show. He claimed to have sent his own investigators to Hawaii, where Obama was born. "I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they're finding."
Trump raised another falsehood in an interview with "Good Morning America," suggesting Obama was trying to conceal his religion by withholding his birth certificate. “Maybe it says he's a Muslim,” he said. Obama is Christian.
At the White House correspondents dinner, in front of high-ranking lawmakers, top journalists, powerful Washington insiders and Trump himself, Obama skewered him.
"Now he can get back to focusing on the issues that matter,” Obama said while the New York businessman sat in the audience, unsmiling. “Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened at Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?"
mentalgongfu2 » Mon Jan 15, 2018 7:26 am wrote:This occurs to me: Where was Mike Pence when this all took place?
The Trump golfing story has an eerie parallel to G.W. Bush reading "The Pet Goat" in a classroom on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, while Cheney was in a command position.
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