Wonder why all of a sudden we need a presidential alert?

[bluestarone]

Can someone here explain after all these years it's NOW WE NEED IT?

[leftstreet]

1. Because Trump is addicted to getting attention?

I can't fathom why we need this

Most emergencies are specific to a person's area

[BruceWane]

8. Post-honeymoon apocalypse

When the arc of the Trump-Kim Jong Un romance sours and turns into the arc of missiles launched from the Korean peninsula.............

[brush]

12. Was it "Animal Farm" or "1984" where newspeak was introduced?

[onenote]

2. Because in April 2016 Congress unanimously passed a law, signed by President Obama

that required the establishment of a nationwide alert system and required, expressly, that it be tested within three years.

https://www.congress.gov/114/plaws/publ143/PLAW-114publ143.pdf

You can loosen the tin foil now.

[bluestarone]

5. TY i DID NOT KNOW THIS!!!!!!!!!

[Bonx]

3. Not 'all of a sudden'

"The system was put in place due to a law passed during the tenure of former President Barack Obama but didn't get its first test until Wednesday, under the Trump administration."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/10/03/fema-sends-first-test-presidential-alert-systemno-need-panic-you-arent-only-one-who-just-received-al/1511554002/

[FM123]

4. Hopefully that orange idiot

does not decide that he is bored with tweeting, and he is just going to start texting us. Every. Single. Day.

[TwistOneUp]

6. Because Cheetolini says, "I'm important!" So there. nt

[Freestate_MD]

7. It's an unfortunate coincidence

that thing is ready for activation on Trump's watch. Seems ominous, eh?

[left-of-center2012]

9. It's been years in the "making", since 2016

As mentioned all over the news this past week.

[NCjack]

10. Because so many of us do not follow him on twitter. nt

[sarah FAILIN]

11. On my old phone it was listed with weather and amber alerts.

It was the only one I couldn't turn off.