By Gryphen
I grew up during the Cold War and I never had
anything happen that was anywhere near as frightening as this.
Terrifying!
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.
Can you imagine being that terrified for more than
half an hour, only to find out that it was all a mistake?
Speaking of mistakes Donald Trump just kept
right on golfing while all of this was going on:
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| Was it good news or bad news that Trump continued playing golf during those horrible 40 minutes. How would he have reacted, had he actually been paying attention? |
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."
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.
Jamie Lee Curtis✔@jamieleecurtisThis 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!3:24 PM - Jan 13, 2018
Yes, exactly!
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.