It wasn’t a text, it was exactly the same as a regular emergency alert, but with the extra irritant of being headed as “Presidential Alert.”
At least it wasn’t at 3 AM like the first cell phone broadcasted Amber Alert was here in Detroit.
I think I’ll be turning emergency alerts off until April. I only have it on in case of tornado.
ok, but that doesn’t explain why my text didn’t go through
That still could have been Trump.
Well, that was anticlimactic. 
I wonder how much of the US has their phone shut off right now?
That’s what she said
Nope, I turned my phone off at 11:00 and back on at 11:20 and no lurkers.
Muted my phone, unlike most of the other library patrons (lots of noisy alerts there for a sec) but did get the notification on the lock screen. Ewww, cooties!
But odd coincidence (maybe): several car alarms went off in the parking lot at the same time
Is that a Justified spin-off?
If you’ve ever seen old footage of Regan when he was an actor, he wasn’t very good either. I think maybe Hollywood should start sponsoring acting classes for any SWM actors that lean conservative. And of course Bush the Lesser is a mediocre painter, but he had potential. And we all know who else was a failed painter. Clearly, societies pay an even higher price than we realized for ignoring arts education.
“I am your leader!”
Why do alerts of national emergencies have to come directly from the preznit?
What is this doing to normalize extreme executive power?
The alert came at about 20 after (assuming you’re in EST, and that time is when you sent your text). Maybe it spooked her, and she flung the phone into the toilet or the dishwater? Sweet FSM knows I considered flinging mine into water. 
If this is an end-run around Twitter’s character limits, I do not look forward to Toadstool explaining that WW3 just started and how it’s Hillary’s fault.
I still haven’t got my alert yet! Does that mean I’m off the grid? A sovereign citizen?! A ghost in someone else’s dream?
All in all, you’re just another Chicken McNugget in the wall.
FTFY etc.
Yes, but they made use of the Positive Anymore, so it had that going for it at least 
the headline is absolute clickbait; that’s to be expected from the Boings anymore.
I would not have minded if it were called Nation-wide Alert or something else. The words presidential, president, commander-in-chief, et al make me feel all sorts of icky lately, and toadstool downright sets off my gag reflex. Looking at you, @GulliverFoyle. 
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