@Big Al I believe the Deep State took care of him long ago. As I think Assange said, "Now we know how long it takes for the Deep State to get control of a president."

That's assuming he wasn't working for the Deep State, via doing a favor for the Clintons, all along; my view is that he probably was, but then refused at the last minute to take a dive, because his massive ego got in the way of the plan.

Seriously? You still believe that?

@Daenerys

for the aliens to arrive. JFC on a pogo stick.

@Daenerys

for the aliens to arrive. JFC on a pogo stick.

@on the cusp Even if we didn't ignore a legitimate warning, what would we do? What *could* we do?

Even as a 6-year-old "ducking and covering" under my school desk when the air raid siren sounded, I knew something was lacking in that plan. But at least they were trying to do something to prepare, as inadequate and unrealistic as it was.

Seek immediate shelter

Where? How? With whom? For how long? How will we survive in the shelter, for as long as we have to be there? How will we survive in the aftermath?

You know, the obvious questions that no one answered in the '50s and early '60s, and still aren't addressing.

for all of us to ignore the next, possibly real one.
Fool me once...

@on the cusp the deep state and/or Israel do it. There's no danger from North Korea as this is being used to play up.

for all of us to ignore the next, possibly real one.
Fool me once...

@GusBecause
the coverage of the Cuban Missile crisis and I remember distinctly that FOR THE FIRST and ONLY time my mother and father both were watching in silence and deeply worried. All my mother said was "Now we are going again into the next world war. Sigh". We just said nothing at all. I had never seen my parents that silent and that worried without saying anything.

I am not surprised by the reaction of Hawaiians to the alert, but I've been inoculated and wouldn't have done anything but raise a glass of kindness. When I was a kid, living just outside DC, my dad, everybody's dad, worked for the government. During the Cuban missile crisis, my dad suddenly appeared, during the day, running down over neighbors's lawns to our house. He ran inside, grabbed my mom, and the two had urgent conversation. Then he hugged us all, kissed us all, told us he loved us, and took off running back the way he'd come. My mother was totally distracted. She told us to get stuff and get in the basement. Take water, blankets, she, a very organized no nonsense woman, was in a dither. I only found out much later what had happened. My dad, and everyone in his department, had been told that a nuclear attack from Cuba was imminent. Their phones were disconnected, and they were forbidden to leave the premises. They were to stay at their desks until fried, I guess. But my darling dad and his car pool buddy, said f this! we have to warn our families, and they sneaked out, drove back to our suburb, kissed their families goodbye, and drove back into DC to await the end. They told their wives that they could not tell any neighbors or anyone that they had been there. Well, we sat around in our damp half finished "basement" for hours with a couple of pitchers of water and some blankets, eating Saltines and peeking outside to see what on earth was going to happen. Had it happened yet? And ya know what. I will never ever again cower in some damp hole waiting for the end. Let er rip!

@gulfgal98
us to see how we react to the incidence. I would say a "no comment" comment would thoroughly disappoint those who indeed monitor online responses to this incidence.

FUBAR beyond imagination situations make a good reason to go to sleep and say nothing.

The whole thing reminds me of my mother, who answered our question as kids of where she was and what she felt when Hitler declared war. She said she had her lunch break and was sitting at the edge of a public fountain/spring dipping her feet into the water and thought 'and now what? what does it mean'? She obviously had no clue and we kids were disappointed about that kind of 'boring answer' she gave us. Well, they knew for sure later on what it meant...

(It also reminds of the guy, Former Facebook Exec: Social Media Is Ripping Our Social Fabric Apart, Chamath Palihapitiya, SAYING in an interview in December, that "deep, deep back in their minds, they somehow knew what they had created").

The video was posted twice here on C99p. I guess some folks knew deep back in their minds too, that to push the wrong button was a "strange thingy" one would allow to potentially happen, when it comes to a nuclear attack on the US). But helas, my back of my mind is currently drowned with conflicting feelings and such a muddy mess, it's unusable.

Nothing for Ungood ... ('no offense' in English)

I have been down with the flu and am just catching up here.

I do not believe for one moment that this was a case of someone accidentally pushing the wrong button. For dog's sake, all systems of such a magnitude (should) have built in redundancies to prevent something like this from happening "accidentally." I believe that this was a test by sinister governmental forces using the general population of Hawaii as guinea pigs. This smells of a deep state operation to me just like so many other things that have not made sense in recent years.