I think an appropriate response to an event like this would be.....
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Holy shit fuck dick piss crap dear God save me shit fuck bitch...and so on.
I got a text message on my cell phone about an inbound missile to Hawaii and then the shitstorm hit with family and relatives asking me if I got the same message and what should we do, where's the nearest shelter and all this with me grabbing my dig out bag and getting ready to head for the hills and telling the wifey to get the car started while I went for the batteries in the frige'.
And then I get the news on MSNBC via our Rep Tulsi Gabbard that it's a false alarm.
I thought the shit just got real.
*Whew*
Forgive me for being blunt, but the proposition that N Korea would engage in first use of nuclear weapons against the US is completely absurd. I mean, just right out of the wild blue yonder. To entertain that notion for more than a few seconds is to have been chumped by the fear mongers.
It's happened before, of course. I remember the stupid duck & cover drills from the second grade, even an evacuation drill.
Please, don't play innocent here. North Korea has been working on a nuclear weapons program for a while, but there's no question that Trump has been antagonizing the country in a way that Obama never did. It's one thing to be aware of a dangerous bull; it's another thing to wave your cape in front of it.
Why are you being such a jerk?"OMG! I got scared for a minute...I have PTSD!"
You mean...like those silly little Japanese people attacking the US? Why they would never dare! What's that? A surprise attack on Pearl Harbor? FAKE NEWS!
The vitriol being spewed by both sides in the current Dotard/Little Rocket Man pissing match is just the kind of thing that COULD trigger an unstable dictator to order such an attack...and from all reports, NK's Moron in Chief is just that kind of unstable leader.
All of it sucks! I'm sorry a fear that's been forced to stay in the back of your minds as of late (let's say a year) were brought to the forefront. That must have been horrifying! You have more than disingenuous thoughts and prayers, you have my concern and sympathy (empathy as well) and my outrage that something like this has become a realistic threat. * hugs*!I'm just now getting texts from family and friends expressing those exact same sentiments. Looks like the panic attack is finally over and now the accusations and recriminations are going to start rolling out along with the head hunting going up the chain of command and then back down again.
Forgive me for being blunt, but the proposition that N Korea would engage in first use of nuclear weapons against the US is completely absurd. I mean, just right out of the wild blue yonder. To entertain that notion for more than a few seconds is to have been chumped by the fear mongers.
It's happened before, of course. I remember the stupid duck & cover drills from the second grade, even an evacuation drill.
All of it sucks! I'm sorry a fear that's been forced to stay in the back of your minds as of late (let's say a year) were brought to the forefront. That must have been horrifying! You have more than disingenuous thoughts and prayers, you have my concern and sympathy (empathy as well) and my outrage that something like this has become a realistic threat. * hugs*!
"OMG! I got scared for a minute...I have PTSD!"
Hawaii Gov. David Ige told CNN that human error caused the alert to go out.
"It was a mistake made during a standard procedure at the change over of a shift, and an employee pushed the wrong button," he said.
I think the people who received that text were scared. I think Kim is just as fuc*ing bonkers as Trump which means they are both unpredictable. I think with unpredictability on the table, threat can't be entirely dismissed and neither can the fears of those who are in the line of fire.You're being chumped, too, if you think this is a realistic threat.
That's probably a better response than mine was.Well I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here given the smiley.
"OMG! I got scared for a minute...I have PTSD!"
In fairness, NK ramped up their stuff on Trumps watch and for better or worse he responded, not the other way around.
Maybe it's time to make the sequence for a REAL alert message a little more obvious and involved for the person sending it. Rather than "wrong button". Few confirmation prompts with big red letters. Maybe a siren sound plays for the guy about to send it.
No kidding...I get more confirmation prompts trying to delete a text message than these folks seem to have gotten.
Just a touch triggered are we? Frightened of the dumpy little boggy man and his starving nation? Give me a break. I lived when the US was face to face with a superpower that had just as many nukes as we did, and the stones to use them.Fuc*wit!
We didn't have a fuc*ed up president antagonizing a fucked up dictator. Had he not been elected we still wouldn't. Make sense? No? There's only one explanation but that explanation also means you're too stupid to understand it.
Just a touch triggered are we? Frightened of the dumpy little boggy man and his starving nation? Give me a break. I lived when the US was face to face with a superpower that had just as many nukes as we did, and the stones to use them.
NK isn't going to make a move that would end in their complete eradication. The little dictator fellow may be crazy, but he isn't stupid. He likes being the top dog, he likes his money, his women (or boy's), his life of ease and luxury, and his power. He's not about to throw that away in an attack that has no possible outcome other than his total destruction.
Don't be ruled by your fear, it will ruin your life.
Maybe it's time to make the sequence for a REAL alert message a little more obvious and involved for the person sending it. Rather than "wrong button". Few confirmation prompts with big red letters. Maybe a siren sound plays for the guy about to send it.
Lets be honest here.You mean...like those silly little Japanese people attacking the US? Why they would never dare! What's that? A surprise attack on Pearl Harbor? FAKE NEWS!
The vitriol being spewed by both sides in the current Dotard/Little Rocket Man pissing match is just the kind of thing that COULD trigger an unstable dictator to order such an attack...and from all reports, NK's Moron in Chief is just that kind of unstable leader.