Pic Of The Moment: Test Of Trump's Ability Top Send Emergency Alerts To Your Phone Postponed

[EarlG]

FEMA's 'Presidential Alert' test postponed as some Americans want to disconnect

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[JDC]

1. Lol

[lambchopp59]

2. Oh, pull-eeeeease.

[DownriverDem]

12. Is this texting?

If it is, I'll never get it.

[lambchopp59]

19. Yes, with no current way to opt out.

Just as Earl suggests here, I'd trust Traitor Tot to respect the rules of this as much as he respects the Kap.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/presidential-alert-system-will-be-tested-by-fema-next-week_us_5b9ca582e4b046313fbb58d9

[BumRushDaShow]

20. No it is not "texting".

It is a special type of message that gets sent out by accessing a special computer system that someone has to login to in order to compose the message, select the type of alert, and to whom it will go (local/national, etc), and then it gets sent to the relevant participating TV/Radio/Cellular/Internet broadcast partners to disseminate.

[Initech]

3. Emergency alert: RIGGED WITCH HUNT FROM THE 17 ANGRY DEMOCRATS. SAD!

[Still In Wisconsin]

4. I'm sure Trump would never abuse something like this for partisan political purposes.

No, never ever.

[dalton99a]

16. +1. You can always trust the president.

[democratisphere]

5. I hope there is the ability to unsubscribe.

[orangecrush]

6. #GoDark10/3

[Gothmog]

7. K&R

[knightmaar]

8. *colussion

You spelled it wrong.

[NewJeffCT]

9. If it was really from Trump

it would be in all caps - NO COLLUSION

[SunSeeker]

10. Can't wait to see your Pic Of The Moment about Stormy describing Trump's mushroom penis.

[BeatStanford]

11. They tried this crap in California

I guess it was about 2013. Every cell phone in the state rec’d a 3 a.m. text about a custody battle gone wrong. The next day the cop lobby and legislators were touching themselves. Luckily, there’s now an opt-out.

[Nitram]

13. "no emergency"

[spike jones]

14. Emergency alert!

McDonald’s closes in twenty minutes.

[Corvo Bianco]

15. Haha

[Va Lefty]

17. "No Emergency" "No Emergency" "Your the Emergency" "Fake news"

[Fritz Walter]

18. A hypothetical question

Do people receiving these alert messages have the option to reply?

If replies directly to the sender are not an option, then I suppose that social media and websites such as this one would find creative replies to be the mother lode of mocking material. When life hands you a lemon,...

[BumRushDaShow]

21. It's not a "text".

It's a pop-up message that will appear on phones that have the tech built-in (newer phones) in order to receive it and that utilize cell providers that participate in this type of messaging (not all do). There are some types of alerts (like Amber alerts and some weather alerts) that can be disabled via a phone setting but the national message cannot be disabled. Of course you can turn your phone off and that's the end of that for the time being (... although the message would just sit in a queue until you turn the phone back on).