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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is testing a new system next week that allows President Trump to send messages directly to U.S. cellphones.
All major wireless firms and more than 100 mobile carriers are participating in the new Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) program that allows for presidential alerts, FEMA wrote in a Thursday statement.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fema-to-test-system-allowing-trump-to-send-emergency-alerts/ar-BBNmClL?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout
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"Water is wet and there's lots of it! Puerto Rico is an island!" etc. etc.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)Guess he's looking for more people to gaslight.
Jesus, who would believe him anyway?
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)I looked and looked for The Onion link.
Can we block the president?
dameatball
(7,380 posts)Oh crap. Further down in the article it says we are not allowed to "opt out." I suppose that means we can't block the calls.
CincyDem
(6,283 posts)"There was no collision".
"It's a witch hunt".
"Deep state DoJ traitors issuing illegal warrants".
"They're coming to take me away. I need you to surround the WH to keep us in power".
Seriously, if he only sends "water is wet" kind of chit we'll be lucky. This is the beginning of his one way megaphone (or is that MAGAphone) to all the faithful who don't follow him on twitter.
That's the real terrifying part of this one for me.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Haven't we been tortured enough!
Atticus
(15,124 posts)zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)There are several emergency settings on my phone. It includes various things like Amber alerts. You can turn most of them off. The one you can't is called, "Presidential Alerts". I"ve never seen it used.