QAnoners find great significance in the most mundane of events, so expect a routine test of the Emergency Broadcast System to get the pulses pounding, especially since it is taking place during Mike Lindell’s cyber symposium. QAnon has predicted a blackout of all broadcast and social media while the power transfer takes place and Donald Trump’s troops overwhelm Washington, D.C., restoring him to power and putting his political enemies in jail.
Reminder: At 2:20 PM ET today, we will conduct a national test of the Emergency Alert System in coordination with @FCC. The test will appear on televisions & radios, while specially configured cell phones will receive an emergency alert test code message. #IPAWS pic.twitter.com/VPDMsvVEQ8
— FEMA (@fema) August 11, 2021
If you think I’m joking about the level of paranoia this is already engendering, take a look.
Anything can happen. We are not dealing with normal minded people here. We are dealing with people who are misinformed at the least and mentally ill at the worst. The problem is that there are so many of them.
Well, I think it’s now established as one of the constants in the universe is that there are more (infinite actually) levels of bat-shittery these people can go to. But here and now, it’s roughly 2:45pm out east where I have been reading news online while also channel surfing TV and my phone didn’t blow up (still works fine) and there have been no power interruptions. Oh, and in the TMI category my toilet flushed too.
Basically, everything functions like it did before the test, and Joe Biden is STILL President. I’d ask if these idiots will ever learn, but we all know the answer so it’s really just a sadly ironic rhetorical question.
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
Albert Einstein.
“Qcumbers” 🙂
It’s 2:55 PM, and I still have phone service, internet service, electric power and ABC on my TV. Ho hum.
Dammit, I told the FEMA mothership last week that my phone wasn’t getting their alerts.
Kidding aside, I’m fairly certain as to this crowd’s eventual end. And it ain’t gonna be pretty.
This could go on forever.
At the moment it seems like it has.
Not to worry. It will.
Or until humans cause their own extinction, whichever comes first.
I have lived 50 years on planet earth and have NEVER seen an EBS test on a national level. It’s anything but routine. And I am not a believer in Q or a Republican.
Well, you’ve just missed them then. From the FEMA website–dated Monday, the 9th:
“This week’s testing will be the sixth test of the nationwide public alert and warning systems and has been planned since June 2020.”
From the Wiki article on “Emergency Alert System” (National Periodic Tests subheading):
“On February 3, 2011, the FCC announced plans and procedures for national EAS tests, which involve all television and radio stations connected to the EAS, as well as all cable and satellite services in the United States. They are not relayed on the NOAA Weather Radio (NOAA/NWS) network as it is an initiation-only network and does not receive messages from the PEP network. The national test would transmit and relay an Emergency Action Notification on November 9, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. EST.”
Other dates the test has been done in the past: Sept 28, 2016; Sept 27, 2017; Oct 3, 2018 (delayed due to Hurricane Flo); and Aug 7, 2019. One was planned for 2020 but postponed due to the COVID crisis.
So, um, no, it’s not routine in the sense that it happens the same way “regular” EAS tests happen (the “weekly” and “monthly” tests) but it’s not some weird or bizarre system. According to a 2018 CNN story when Trump was planning to use the System to send out a “Presidential Alert” (maybe you remember that?), FEMA “is required by law to conduct a nationwide test of its public alert systems no less than once every three years.”
My phone is apparently not one of those specially configured for this, I didn’t see a thing. Whose phones are supposed to get them?
Exactly who is making a fuss over nothing here? You found a post somewhere that attracted two comments and turned it into a huge conspiracy involving the oh-so-dreaded QAnon. Pathetic.
QAnon? I wonder who the lead lemming is? I seen the QAnon Guru on Jan 6. Truly not impressed. But the head honcho, the ring master, I wonder who he is? Like we know David Dukes is Prima Ballerina of the KKK. We know of others who are acknowledged as heads of their organizations, but just who is
Mr. or Mrs. QAnon?