Being President: Most Deadly Job in America

[@iammrbeat]

Just to clarify, everyone, "impeach" does not mean "force out of office." It essentially just means to "put on trial."

[@timvanrijn8239]

But where does the peach come in?

[@a1aaaaaaaaaaaaaa-r6t]

Right, impeachment is the political office equivalent of an indictment. They're only removed if they're *convicted*.

[@robertjarman3703]

@@glorbhadgav No, if 2/3 of the senators present find them guilty, the president or anyone else on trial is removed, but by majority vote of the Senate they can follow up with a motion to exclude them from further federal office.

[@kumbaya69421]

@Wacky Venky UNLIMITED PRIDE

[@cameroff]

@@glorbhadgav Obligatory "I AM THE SENATE"

[@KnightRaymund]

To be fair, if the first 15 in line are all dead, the department of Homeland security must be pretty shit.

[@logic0000]

Or he made all these happens

[@dnw009]

@@logic0000 Or likely died aswell a lot earlier.

[@toziassmitt]

It would only take 2 well placed bombs.

[@dnw009]

@@toziassmitt And a lot of corruption or dead people who are put in place to prevent the placement of 2 well placed bombs.

[@toziassmitt]

@@dnw009 or for an enemy government to hack our systems and intelligence agencies to get all the info they needed... oh, like happened last week to the FBI, NSA, CIA and presidential office which Russia was discovered to have hacked into lol.

[@acasualcactus5878]

If the Secretary of Homeland Security becomes president, he’s quite bad at his job.

[@rigira]

lmao

[@tylerbouldlaire6043]

Lol

[@mmazvis]

No, it means he is the best Imposter. -Secretary of Homeland Security: "Secretary of war looks sus to me."

[@Personal_Chizo]

Their job shouldn't exist in the first place, so I guess that would actually be pretty good praxis lmao.

[@seav80]

If the DHS Secretary became President then it probably means something cataclysmic happened that nobody could have reasonably prevented.

[@balt.]

i can imagine why this is being recommended

[@moralhazard8652]

If the Secretary of Homeland Security ever became President that would mean that he would have had to be so bad at his job that he probably shouldn't be president. Or secretary for that matter.

[@ljeans531]

Lol

[@SirBlade666]

Or he's extremely good at it.

[@RKroese]

Unless he made it happen. 😈

[@diazinth]

@@RKroese Makes sense for them to be last: if you for whatever reason are next in line, you've done such a shit job that you're probably gonna be next out of line anyways. :D

[@Victor-dx2ew]

@@SirBlade666 😂

[@kekgaming420]

The Department of Agriculture is STILL clearing out the TUMBLEWEEDS. Respect 100

[@KnightIA]

7:15

[@AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEIOU]

Indeed

[@HangmanOfficialUploads]

"So telll me American...!" -Ocelot

[@letsdoodlesomethinghome3404]

They will never stop! No seriously… they will LITERALLY never stop clearing tumble weeds, 1 little seed can spark another humongous out break.

[@scoot.112]

What a great reference

[@SteveMould]

The illustration of the awkward situation was perfect

[@vividhmariya8566]

How are you not verified. I seriously thought for a moment that it was a troll account.

[@talsarig5058]

What awkward situation?

[@AmaraJordanMusic]

Fancy seeing you here ☺️

[@Mykol225]

Why is it so cool to see the people I watch, watch the same people?

[@1.4142]

The president is still aroooooouuuuuuuuud?

[@rmdodsonbills]

Let's be clear here: When Wilson was "indisposed" and his wife was essentially running things, the whole system of the VP and Cabinet declaring the President "inable" and taking over was not created yet as the 25th Amendment was not ratified until 1967. The "Wilson Incident" is one of the reasons (probably the main reason) this process was even conceived at all.

[@waleedmahmood863]

Every day, I discover another reason to loathe Woodrow Wilson.

[@paulstabs]

@@waleedmahmood863 Another Vlogging Through History fan?

[@thorr18BEM]

@@waleedmahmood863 yes, any president who thinks it's appropriate to involve their unelected family members in wielding any power of office, as if it were some kind of monarchy, is worthy of loathing.

[@waleedmahmood863]

@@paulstabs Yes, but I hated Wilson even before I discovered his channel.

[@auliamate]

​@@thorr18BEM agreed, but its funny how the wife just began doing his job for him and despite everyone in congress batting their eyelashes, she still did things.

[@albertpolak786]

Secretary of agriculture as the designated survivor is just waiting to use nukes to finally eradicate tumbleweed.

[@davidhong1934]

Unbeknownst to him, the Tumbleweed Coalition sent in a spy to monitor his every move.

[@spiderplant]

Tumbleweed: YOU FOOL. The heat has only better activated my seeds!!!

[@kevinconrad6156]

@@spiderplant And spread them over an enormous area, I will eat your country.

[@Felixkeeg]

@@spiderplant Nuclear tumbleweed, great

[@sukositb]

Carpet nuke you own country, Belka style.

[@sarahs1368]

This is what I love about Grey. He takes a shower thought, researches an entire thesis worth of info on it, and by the time I'm finished with the 10 minute video, I'm horribly confused and anxious about said shower thought.

[@kevinprzy4539]

Has to be one of the worst videos out here he intentionally tries to confuse the audience😂 I learned the actual line within 5 minutes

[@themaster2764]

@@kevinprzy4539 well he took 10 minutes to explain so you aren't proving much here.

[@mikkor.860]

@@themaster2764 Not to mention more than half of those 10 minutes were setting context, so the actual time on the line is less than 5 minutes

[@Blackstormeagle]

"Congratulations, Mr Secretary of Homeland Security, the first 16 people in the line of succession are dead, you are now the President." "Yay, I guess." "Also, wasn't it your job to protect them?" "Uhhh..."

[@tiffyw92]

Sounds like we have an impostor among us.

[@jhat12345]

Secretary of HS is lookin kinda sus

[@Blackstormeagle]

“It can’t be me guys I was doing tasks in the Senate Hall!”

[@Marinealver]

Time for some Democracy, everyone left Vote Mr. Secretary out the Airlock

[@eduardoandrescastilloperer4810]

Looks sus ngl

[@demonetization6596]

Fun Fact: There is an actual show called “Designated Survivor” where the capitol is wiped out and the Secretary of Urban Developments becomes the next President.

[@miker.9138]

"It was Garfield and McKinley", because you know everyone will be trying to remember who else was assassinated besides Lincoln and Kennedy. :)

[@jakistam1000]

I only knew about Kennedy. And so did my roommate. (That's not our country, though)

[@yaroslavbolotov7653]

I just kept thinking how those two got assassinated 4 times. I'm not very bright...

[@ricecake1228]

*beside

[@pozzowon]

Best answer before a question ever

[@fhz3062]

Thanks to explaining what CGP said at this moment. As a non USA citizen ... like anyone else on Earth ... I was like "What did he say? Why so fast? What does it mean? Am I supposed to know it?".

[@falcore91]

0:40 “it was Garfield and McKinley”. Damn, poor guys got shot as presidents and are basically footnotes to most of us wondering “Lincoln, JFK, but who were the other two...”

[@hadracks]

They were pretty forgettable people. Didn't last long or do much in a time when president's didn't really matter.

[@michaela644]

The most memorable thing about McKinley’s death was that it made then Vice President Teddy Roosevelt take his place.

[@anonymoususer638]

Garfield's assassin was more interesting than him lmao

[@commanderdoom9192]

@@anonymoususer638 Coming here from sam o nella?

[@zeroun92]

People should ask why this is the case. In those decades the United States became a global superpower. The answer might be surprising.

[@anonunknown933]

This video is basically: Assistant Manager vs. Assistant TO the Manager

[@lachlangood8596]

Underrated comment

[@beccag2758]

Or, Dwight Schrute: (acting) Manager vs *Dwight Schrute is MANAGEEEEEEERRRRRRR*

[@anonunknown933]

@@beccag2758 I support steam doors to sanitize the workers and the workplace.

[@marthahealy3941]

Now with added tumbleweeds!

[@dletetdchanel6104]

President vs. Pres TO the ident

[@happyrefund]

"It was Garfield and McKinley" This is fantastic storytelling right here. You ASSUMED I would ask "Four? But I only know of TWO assassinations." and immediately gave me the information thus saving the google search.

[@LloydVerner]

I had watched the Sam O'nella video about Garfield's assassination, so he had saved me the 1, but still, I think it's really cool how he saved a lot of people time by just answering our questions for us.

[@iamdillyj]

That's what makes gret a great watch. Most of the info you could want is in the video but they're is still info if you want to do a deep dive. He's perfect for not leaving out easy info and making deepee dives accessible to those that want to while keeping people watching by answering questions that seem unimportant but would make people leave and google so it helps his watch time also

[@Daniel_Huffman]

I was under the impression that Grey was shutting down conspiracy theories that, for example, FDR was secretly poisoned. Nope, it was just two comparatively obscure presidents who possibly could have survived if germ theory and the X-Ray were taken seriously.

[@generalcodsworth4417]

I honestly think it's just a little sad that so many people know so much about half the presidential assassinations in US history but the other two are never mentioned in schools, relegated to wikipedia and relatively obscure youtube videos. Imagine becoming the most powerful single person in a country and being murdered on the job just to be forgotten by the vast majority of people even in your own country.

[@bernier42]

I knew all four, but always struggle to remember those two without pondering a while. Grey saved 99% of the audience from getting distracted.

[@harsha1306]

This is like someone who wrote code without looking at any of the edge cases.

[@dralfonzo24]

Being a lawyer and having half a degree in engeneering, I can confirm that this is exactly what it is.

[@kairon156]

@@dralfonzo24 So... programming engenders who happen to be lawyers need to fill in the gaps of the constitution?

[@Nuclear241]

Or you know, just code the common cases and forget that edge cases exist

[@frank3manuel]

This is why you need to run Tests. Kill the president once in a while to see what happens.

[@LiveFreeOrDieDH]

They're politicians, not engineers. Of course, many if not most are also lawyers. So giving themselves wiggle room for "novel interpretations" is as instinctive as breathing.

[@inakedsnakei]

If you want to be technical, the deadliest job in america is a supreme court justice. 45 percent die serving rather than retire.

[@christoffergernow8481]

but by natural causes so that can be debated

[@felixwilfing2472]

@@christoffergernow8481 Good point, but by technicality there mortality rate is much higher while being in office.

[@nomoturtle1788]

The mortality rate of people that don't retire is 100%! Get back to procrastinating people.

[@OleTimHerr]

@@nomoturtle1788 everyone has a mortality rate of 100%

[@ranglix1]

@@OleTimHerr Are you sure about that?

[@CSStevens2015]

To be fair to the Secretary of Education, if the first 15 backups died I would be highly suspicious of how well the Secretary of Homeland Security was actually doing their job

[@seanjohnisee]

Yes, you and everyone else...

[@war2theren227]

I didn't even know Garfield died, Jon must be devastated.

[@ThatGuyNicho]

He took his own life at the prospect of ANOTHER Monday. Tragic.

[@angelwhispers2060]

President James Garfield. Easily the smartest guy to ever hold the office but literally nothing interesting happened during his presidency until a guy who had showed up to the White House begging for a job went nuts when President Garfield told security to GTFO this fool out of my house. Nutty held a grudge and a couple of months later came back and shot him. Technically speaking though it was his doctors that finally killed him by screwing up trying to dig out the bullet not that dissimilar to Lincoln but because there was a lot more of President Garfield as he was rather rotund it took him a lot longer to die. not the lasagna loving Monday hating orange cat

[@steaki8032]

@@angelwhispers2060 the joke is laying next to Garfield

[@katerinapeklenk2016]

X'D X'D

[@TheBluePhoenix008]

Tumblr all over again

[@grafknives9544]

This one was absolutely fantastic. The only sad thing is that Postmaster General is no longer in line of succession. Having a postman as president would be fun.

[@brendankendall41]

At least he/she wouldn't fuck up our Post Office like a certain other president

[@coleball6001]

@@brendankendall41 I mean the Postmaster-General (during the cabinet days) was mostly given out to the President’s campaign manager soooooo.

[@mohamedshihadeh4817]

Fallout: New Vegas

[@tteottaninguiayami]

Liberty. Reason. Justice. Civility. Edification. Perfection. MAIL.

[@Beggar42]

Wasn't there a movie about that?

[@MrPhoenixQuill]

Poor department of agriculture, she's still dealing with the tumbleweeds.

[@jimtaylor294]

Aye. Somebody get her a flame thrower XD.

[@nk6197]

Rain needed to stop drought

[@somemoron9306]

The poor soul

[@grayeaglej]

So Tumbly o.o

[@grayeaglej]

@@jimtaylor294 Are you sure they didn't already try that? I mean the entire west coast is on fire and so were Tennessee and a few other eastern states for a while. O.o

[@danm524]

'CGP Grey, why did you release a video on presidential succession?' 'No reason.'

[@SymmetricalDocking]

He was praying that the President would die. But now it turns out he just wasted all those hours on this video.

[@TriTran-qb9eg]

@@SymmetricalDocking You are making him sound vindictive ... But which though? The current one or the one elected by the establishment? The democrats seem to really want to push the 25th amendment through so they can have the either/or option, and it looks to be that Kamala is going to call all the shot with her Wall Street cabinet once Biden is deemed unfit for office.

[@Humaricslastcall]

@@TriTran-qb9eg ETHER ONE. They are both from establishments.

[@vyrde]

@@SymmetricalDocking oh boy, politics in the political science video, this will definitely end with a civil discussion

[@triangulum8869]

vyrde Any sort of disagreement on the internet almost never ends well lol

[@dougim]

And you didn’t even get into the issue of a President having to be a natural-born citizen, but others in the succession don’t have to be.

[@BooBaddyBig]

Oh SO THAT is what 'Designated survivor' is all about.

[@classicalsrock]

*ding ding*

[@johnisawesome18]

lol

[@parthtripathi3032]

pretty much....

[@CybernerdShua]

Actually, yeah

[@CybernerdShua]

@@Zorilla10 True

[@parnikkapore]

7:15 I like how the department of agriculture is still getting rid of tumbleweed

[@Pineapply_Queen]

When I saw them as the designated survivor, part of me wondered if they were low-key hoping to be able to use nukes to finally eradicate them.

[@crotaslayer1512]

I want to like but that would throw off the balance of the universe. 69 likes must not be touched.

[@SorowFame]

@Nerd Baby you are truly a wonderful person.

[@tommarch.4493]

it's called recycling animation

[@TsukasaMarryMe]

Ik

[@quisken7793]

"Okay, what hat should the Department of Commerce wear?" "a tophat" "But we already gave a tophat to the Department of State!" "Fine, then make it *taller* !"

[@aarontuplin]

Topper hat

[@undefinedvariable8085]

@@aarontuplin An "above tophat"

[@jimtaylor294]

"Try Topper Hat. It'll Top yer. No~thing's Toppier... it's the Toppy'ist!"

[@hell0turdle672]

*Doug Dimadome enters stage left*

[@Arbiter099]

@@aarontuplin Toppest hat

[@tombraiderstrums09]

I watched this video-then three days later, I was in a trivia game and one of the questions was “who is seventh in the line of succession to the president?” The answer was the Attorney General and I got it right. Thanks CGP Grey!

[@scritoph3368]

Ah the supreme court judge guy teleporting everyone and looking so done with this shit is too precious

[@sion8]

I couldn't have said it better.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

That's how it should work in real life.

[@calvinsmith6681]

We need T-shirts

[@hexlensespectacles]

Alrighty ya angry children what do I have to settle now?

[@Yobleck]

I also liked the department of energy smirking like "I got nukes yo"

[@DrGaellon]

There was a recent television series called "Designated Survivor," starring Keifer Sutherland, based on exactly the premise that someone blew up the Capitol Building during the State of the Union address, taking out everyone except the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, who was the DS. It was quite good, as these things go.

[@OrigamiMarie]

I discovered that show in the past few years, and it was really soothing to watch it as IRL there was yet another "seriously? This is dumb" scandal on a monthly basis.

[@deniseeulert5220]

When I watched the first episode, at the point where the DS had to address the country as POTUS, he was wearing a suit. He'd been in a jogging outfit, never expecting to have to be on camera. As he spoke the camera panned over and you see a guy who's about the same size as the DS, wearing his outfit. I this had been real life, that guy would eventually go home, take the jogging outfit off, and preserve it as a family heirloom, to be passed down with the story of "What grandpa had done"

[@joefunsmith]

I enjoyed DS more than KS' other big series, 24.

[@lucasharvey8990]

It's a great show, but Keifer taking off his glasses every other minute just annoyed me too much.

[@theintrepid7583]

Season 1 was phenomenal, season 2 was descent but had some serious weak points, and season 3 was just terrible.

[@ZephWraen]

I feel like the "there isn't time" comments from Grey, who is easily distracted, are just as much for himself as they are for us.

[@EightThreeEight]

Always remember, those are stories for another time.

[@crazypo0d0g]

Its definitely more for him than for us.

[@Pineapply_Queen]

I hope its forshadowing future videos.

[@cameronross8812]

I'd bet good money that it's at least indicates a plan for future videos on the topic, whether or not they surface is a different matter.

[@thatrandomnoob8611]

treehugger0241 definitely is topics he’s interested about doing. Federal lands video was a story for another time from another video

[@KempQ]

Weird on that timing how I just watched this the other day. Running for president really might be the most dangerous job in the world

[@popeofsimps2924]

US: imma do this later US almost 200 years later: oh yeah this exists

[@mr_willybilly]

Procrastinating at its finest

[@rickkcir2151]

How do you think the Civil War happened? a can that was kicked down the road for about a hundred years.

[@planescaped]

Doing one's homework the morning it is due while eating your cereal is the Murican way!

[@NautilusSSN571]

Me with the English homework I should be doing right now instead of watching KZbin videos.

[@DS-tv2fi]

Still better then me at doing important things.

[@hiimryan2388]

In this logic the most deadly job is being the pope, literally like all of them died on the job Edit: I'm impressed that my comment section are filled its information pact civil arguments instead of a mosh pit of sadness. I'm proud

[@AnnaEmilka]

Nope, Benedict is still alive and not the pope anymore ;)

[@limepop340]

@@AnnaEmilka "Like". There's a lot of popes, something like 260. In the long-ago, 5 definitely resigned, 5 allegedly resigned. Then there's Benedict XVI (formerly Pope Benedict XVI (formerly Cardinal Ratzinger)) and Pope Francis (for now). 95% is a pretty big number, especially compared to stuff like Supreme Court Justices and definitely POTUS. A quick aside: it wasn't until 10 minutes ago that I found out Benedict XVI still goes by Benedict XVI instead of going back to Josef Ratzinger. Guess I heard otherwise back in 2013 and didn't think to fact-check until today. Still walks around lookin all pope-y too. Kinda weird, if I'm being honest.

[@SaffronWitch]

That's why the title says "In America"

[@hiimryan2388]

@@SaffronWitch not if the pope calls a crusade against america

[@Funtime_1008]

@@limepop340 but when a pope resigns they keep there popelyness but doesn’t have any of the power this is what is happening now with 2 popes being alive so yeah 100% of popes die on the job

[@HyperionWasabi]

Everyone: Lincoln, Kennedy....? Grey: Garfield, McKinley Man's always on point.

[@z-beeblebrox]

I had to pause at that point, cuz my initial reaction was "why is he calling them out specifically?" but then immediately realized he's anticipating the viewer going "who were the other two?" and I burst out laughing

[@sentientarugula2884]

I love (love) [love] CGP Grey's little references he does sometimes

[@jaydmatacarita]

Like a carpenter building stairs...

[@sirdiealot53]

I knew mckinley...forgot about the cat.

[@PippiOnePointOh]

My 5 year old nephew: “What’s a Vice President?” Me: “Uhhh well if something bad happens to the president, the Vice President takes over as president.” Nephew: “Oh, so it’s like, a *spare* president?” Best definition of Vice President ever.

[@woooooooooooooooooooooooo]

I mean he isn't wrong ...at all actually

[@callmeaprilroseorisha404]

Your nephew should be apart of Congress

[@joshuagore2478]

Basically. The only reason you ever want to be Vice President is so you can spend 4-8 years gathering support for *your* presidential campaign

[@JR-vt7rb]

He's going places 😂😂😂

[@jmlynr]

Exactly! But while, for example, a spare tire is still "a tire" even when not on a vehicle, the "backup president" isn't "*president*" until the backup president *replaces* the president, and thus is not a president that is a backup spare. Hence the use of a different term.

[@christiankjaer9286]

I love how he just quickly goes “it was garfield and mckinnely” as we were all thinking, uh wait who were other two assasinations.

[@5urg3x]

Lincoln and Kennedy...duh?

[@christiankjaer9286]

@@5urg3x lol that was my point. Everyone knows Lincoln and Kennedy but when watching the video and he said they were 4 assassinations everyone was like hmmmmm

[@christiankjaer9286]

@@sadstonks9216 dude that was the joke. It’s just not funny anymore bcs I had to explain it. And I’m really bad at explaining thjngs

[@AntSwift1]

@@christiankjaer9286 You missed his point

[@seansmagee]

@@AntSwift1 no, you missed @Christian Kjaer’s point. He’s saying Grey realized we all know Lincoln and Kennedy and “as we were all thinking, uh wait who were the other two assassinations.” Grey preemptively answered us...and I also love how quickly Grey answered that unasked question. He understood the joke completely.

[@jarradtait5322]

Wait four!? Lincoln, JFK.... "it was Garfield and Mckinley" Oh he's good

[@AtlasReburdened]

And so begins the debate over exactly what the 4th Amendment means by "persons", "places" and "effects".

[@matronator]

Exactly the same thinking. He got us :D

[@mango.lightshows]

Exactly! And the hand at 7:30 when he talks about the Dept. of Energy overseeing Nuclear

[@gejyspa]

Actually, his "Garfield and McKinley" line confused me, because I KNEW the four, and didn't know why he mentioned those two. had to rewind the scene twice before I noticed the "hand raise", and said, "oh, of course, ignorant Americans (and probably to a lesser and more excusable extent, non-Americans) 🙄"

[@cf7571]

@@gejyspa r/iamverysmart

[@UD503J]

"It was Garfield and McKinley." Grey, knowing we wouldn't immediately know the other assassinations.

[@siononalundula1699]

Not to brag or anything but I knew 😏

[@CaityisPog]

Sam O Nella is actually a good Academy

[@SimGunther]

Didn't want to trigger the new world order bots on KZbin

[@alphamikeomega5728]

Yeah, Theodore Roosevelt was never really *supposed* to be President, but just a VP on a conservative-progressive-Republican-unity ticket. When he took power and took on big business, he became popular enough to actually handily win the 1904 Republican nomination. In 1912, he ran again as a 3rd-party candidate and did relatively well, but split the vote giving the office to Wilson.

[@theunitedstates5217]

*HEHEHE! NOTHING BAD HAPPENS TO THE KENNEDYS!*

[@RoyalKingOliver]

“There is no time” For both the nuclear bombs and Natives was hilarious XD

[@hackman669]

Imagine natives having nukes!!@

[@mr.voidroy6869]

Its a nod to him hinting at. Nuke or native video and never doing it.

[@marshallfaulk6144]

I hope he makes a video for those later

[@michael_betts]

President number 10 was gifted with the title "his accidency" instead of "his Excellency", by members of congress who thought he was only president until a new election could be called.

[@PsychoMuffinSDM]

At first I thought this was a clever comment, but I checked and it's true, lol! Thanks for this info!

[@seanj4119]

"his accidency" "Martin van Ruin" Ah, the 1800s, when roasting people you didn't like was a refined art of wordplay

[@PsychoMuffinSDM]

@@seanj4119 I can't remember specifics, but I do remember hearing all sorts of different mudslinging from those days. So funny.

[@FearsomeMedic]

I feel targeted by that “McKinley and Garfield” comment. Grey not only knows, he knows what we don’t.

[@i_am_ergo]

If it wasn't for Sam O'Nella, I wouldn't have known about Garfield either.

[@hieronymusnervig8712]

Ohhh, now I get it

[@xKuukkelix]

@@i_am_ergo same

[@boahneelassmal]

I honestly had to think about that for a while.... wait, why did he only mention two names... _internally rewinds tape_ ohhhh....

[@jessenicoletta4160]

I feel offended that he did (not really), because he assumes I’m not already a massive nerd who would know that off the top of my head.

[@tocodelray]

"It was Garfield and McKinley" LOL you know us too well CGP Grey

[@Deleted1]

fr i was about to search it up lmao

[@tanfred8629]

YES

[@styleme111]

he'd answered my question before I could even finish asking it

[@dinoboy_games5341]

Me as a Person who knows more about European and World history than US history: What about the third one? Grey: We don't have time for that. Me: Four seconds later: OHHHHH

[@iamagi]

@@dinoboy_games5341 I bet few Americans knew the answer

[@JamesNewham]

I still love the fact that Grey's speaking patterns are so poetic, even in sentences where you don't expect the sentences to be structured that way.

[@pipolwes000]

One small thing: the "designated survivor" often isn't in a secure bunker far away. Often they're just at home, sometimes even in the DC area, watching the state of the union address on tv. So if a "government decapitation event" happens the "designated survivor" could end up "rolling 7s" as well.

[@aarontuplin]

As long as it's Keifer Sutherland

[@VxT0TALxV]

The "bunker" shown in the video is colonial one from battlestar galactica in which the secretary of education become president because of an event similar to the one discribe in the video

[@robertjarman3703]

Its like if someone manages to put a giant bomb in Congress during the state of the union address and kills most of the cabinet, probably most of the Congress which could also lead to a change in which party is in the majority in each house without an election, and kills the presiding officers, and possibly most of the supreme court which is supposed to rule on matters of this.

[@appa609]

If they nuke DC then yeah the government is probably done.

[@PencilSticks]

Obviously it would be nearly impossible to nuke DC, but if a terrorist organization or foreign government pulled it off, they would kill the designated survivor as well. If this was done during the State of the Union, every single member of the US federal government would die.

[@hydrasaurandre]

One slight correction: The President Pro Tem is the longest-serving senator of the *majority party", not necessarily the longest serving senator.

[@watajob]

Sweet mother of Jesus! ANOTHER mistake?!

[@zsfekete5211]

Yes, the "majority party* is a requirement *longest serving* has only been customary, since the 80s iirc

[@Gallic_Gabagool]

@Ryah Green why

[@skylerausten2867]

@@zsfekete5211 Since 1890, actually!

[@x--.]

This, is a small error. Not at all fatal to the video. Breathe people, just breathe.

[@jjjjjjjjj99]

Most people: Congress is not relatable to the average citizen. Grey: Congress procrastinates important work, too!

[@sion8]

Well they are human after all.

[@RainaRamsay]

That's true. Very relatable

[@nathanberrigan9839]

And takes days off without officially taking days off.

[@starwarssith]

Oh yeah when was the last time congress actually passed a budget?

[@jjjjjjjjj99]

webvidaddict lol a continuing resolution is like turning in homework from another student who had the class last year.

[@datadivanet]

Love how the last shot has a subtle Battlestar Galactica reference, when the Secretary of Education ends up president of by default.

[@katamarankatamaranovich9986]

Yeah, and sits on the Colonial one with survivor count on whiteboard.

[@cpob2013]

The cylons are attacking and you're taking orders from a school teacher?

[@zsoltsandor3814]

So say we all!

[@thetalantonx]

@@zsoltsandor3814 So say we all!

[@jasonwilkins1969]

😁

[@tornbubble]

Him saying it was Garfield and McKinley was awesome he literally knew exactly what a large majority of the audience was thinking

[@dannypipewrench533]

Fun fact: Chuck Norris went back in time and stopped the Kennedy assassination. He deflected the bullets with his beard. Kennedy was in such utter shock and awe, that his head exploded.

[@karanaima]

It was not a hard guess

[@AdamMGTF]

I had to look up the other two.

[@MrSkyButWhy]

“It was Garfield and McKinley,” caught me so off guard and it was exactly what I was wondering.

[@PVS3]

This was so perfectly timed, and delivered with such deadpan "yes, everyone only knows two of them, ugh."

[@goddy5890]

Oof

[@ZeldaboyOG]

It felt like he caught me red-handed.

[@SgtPotShot]

IIRC, James Garfield's assassin plead innocent, stating that he didn't kill the president, the doctor's who botched the surgery to remove the bullets did.

[@LucasF7125]

@@SgtPotShot John Kramer who?

[@microlobbies2378]

How many people have to die so a post office worker becomes president

[@The_Guy_You_Love_To_Hate]

Yes.

[@dolphinsniper]

This sounds like a reference.

[@Slayer5301]

@@dolphinsniper Family Guy I think

[@gordonjohnson2497]

320 million

[@whoiamiamnot2104]

Can't slash won't happen. One they aren't in the line of succession. But more over think about it. The first two successors are the speaker of the house and the pro tempore. There's currently 435 members in the house and 100. They would basically keep appointing a member of house to be speaker of the house and then the president. They they'd go through the cabinet members and each new president can just replace the missing cabinet members. But let's just say all of the members of the house and senate and all the cabinets are dead. We have like a thousand high ranking military leaders generals and the such. Pretty sure one of them would step up before a postal worker was made president. Nice thought exercise though.

[@leatherneck7778]

i just caught that when talking about the four assassinations he said "it was garfield and mckinley" because everyone knows about lincoln and kennedy

[@dannypipewrench533]

Fun fact: Chuck Norris went back in time and stopped the Kennedy assassination. He deflected the bullets with his beard. Kennedy was in such utter shock and awe, that his head exploded.

[@Toasteeei]

@@dannypipewrench533 *mission failed successfully*

[@dannypipewrench533]

@@Toasteeei *MISSION FAILED, WE'LL GET 'EM NEXT TIME.*

[@BadHombreDaniel]

“Manage Indians” “No there isn’t time” “Manage Nuclear weapons” “there really isn’t time”

[@stevencooper4422]

"WHEN'S MY RIGHT TIME, KENT, WHEN'S MY RIGHT TIME"

[@Marinealver]

CGP Grey is now going to have to do video on the US cabinet.

time stamp: 7:29

[@Rhyzal_]

I wish all the secretaries had an official hat they had to wear to designate their position, just like in this video. Oh! And the fancy staffs!

[@blunderingfool]

Isn't the plural of staff "staves"?

[@joshcain1032]

@@blunderingfool Both are valid.

[@seneca983]

@@blunderingfool What's the plural of "stave" then?

[@Rhyzal_]

@@blunderingfool lol, I knew someone would comment on that. Josh beat me to it - both are valid. I've seen "staffs" used more often in my life, so opted for it. Feel free to mentally swap it with your preference. :)

[@kuyaleinad4195]

I mean that’s just the best way to mark all the presidential backups in one go 😂

[@mpaul236]

“.... it was Garfield and McKinley” LOL Preemptively answering our questions! Give this man a medal!!!

[@RetroGameSpacko]

It was a perfect fit to my thoughts.

[@ryanlong1]

Yup!

[@ZardoDhieldor]

You can tell he has been a teacher.

[@nhancao4790]

@@ZardoDhieldor He was a teacher before doing KZbin.

[@placeholder4029]

honestly, having the cool golden stick things for every important person in the government seems like a really cool way to quickly figure out who does what and stuff

[@debolinabanerjee820]

I'm not even an American but this video is so informative and understandable that I can't help but watch it.

[@trybunt]

Yeah, i couldn't believe that 1/7 die in office

[@debolinabanerjee820]

@@Corgi_fax Will have to check it out!

[@debolinabanerjee820]

@@trybunt Really scary!

[@conor_01]

Same

[@crazeecat7441]

Same

[@benmark2353]

The "there isn't time!" "There REALLY isn't time!" Moments were very funny and I enjoyed them a lot.

[@TheWaynester101]

Yes, its almost as if Grey could hear me ask "but why?"

[@cougar2k720]

It's kind of like there are pressing moment and stuff to discuss here and I know I just raised something worth discussing here but there isn't enough time to fit all that in this video vibe, lol

[@TheReal_birbwizard]

A video for another time i suppose.

[@superbroadcaster]

Definitely want to see the part about the secretary of energy managing nukes

[@logion567]

@@superbroadcaster I'd imagine (as someone who hasn't looked up the specific question) that the reason is the Fission Material needed for all Nukes is synthesized in Nuclear reactors that produce Energy. Hence, department of energy.

[@kendallcarter3491]

We should appreciate that Grey is the cool history teacher that explain things in a simple and funny matter that is engaging to his students.

[@ShadoSpartan44]

I've learned more about the american government through him than the american school system

[@mateowang6570]

It's interesting that he used to be a physics, not history, teacher. I wonder what got him more into the humanities.

[@marischal3]

@@ShadoSpartan44 Same!

[@TrigramThunder]

@@mateowang6570 well, you see, a lot of modern physics is more philosophy than math. it's more about interpretation and "the way things should be" and "maintaining a natural balance" and "these designations make the most sense when applied in practice" than about "oh yeah energy equals energy times speed of light squared". physics is definitely the more humane of the STEM sciences. hell, the study of whether human consciousness lies physically in the brain or within its surrounding magnetic field, for practical usage purposes, pertains more to metaphysical tribulations than any actual physical calculations.

[@KufLMAO]

I thought he was science or English?

[@dolfyrantsparodies608]

This aged well

[@rkr9861]

"I know about Kennedy and Lin--" "It was Garfield and McKinley" Thank you for reading my mind.

[@jaojao1768]

Ah, now I understand, first I was confused since he mentioned there were four but only explained two of them

[@ValkyrieTiara]

@@jaojao1768 same lol

[@Delgen1951]

Oh you mean President Kennedy who was shot in Dallius and his Secret Service team leader Lincoln?

[@elanhernandez]

@@Delgen1951 Dallas

[@melon_grove5694]

Explain for the non American?

[@spazerdazer8421]

Everyone speaks of the poor persons chat, what about the students who are forbidden to donate chat?

[@optimisticnihilist7705]

They're allies. We don't really care about em. Just like the richies don't care a single fuck about us.

[@jmallinson]

@@optimisticnihilist7705 someone lives in America damn

[@optimisticnihilist7705]

@@jmallinson no, I'm in Indonesia. A small country to others and we still have lots to learn.

[@hongseng3670]

WallTz BURN THE RICH they won’t stop us

[@optimisticnihilist7705]

@@jmallinson don't Blame us, Blame the Corona virus! They caused the economy to be shithole like now.

[@JLU41]

"it was Garfield and McKinley" still makes me chuckle, textbook know your audience

[@dannypipewrench533]

Fun fact: Chuck Norris went back in time and stopped the Kennedy assassination. He deflected the bullets with his beard. Kennedy was in such utter shock and awe, that his head exploded.

[@williamtench2047]

Welcome back to the poor person chat!

[@_aragornyesyes_7171]

hi

[@enricocosta4441]

Well...

[@steelyboi2554]

yep, we just cant afford it

[@nyooom7467]

Ello, what do we ‘ave ‘ere?

[@devinlastnamenotneeded8521]

Lmao

[@harrytaylor9564]

The designated survivor's secure location looks like the ship President Laura Roslin used in Battlestar Galactica...

[@user-sn8oe5sb1b]

Right up to the whiteboard with the death count. CGP is awesome.

[@KaNoke101]

because she was the secretary of education when the cylons attacked and destroyed the government, im pretty sure in one episode she even explained how unqualified she was because of how far down the succession line she was

[@David-bh7hs]

She's a fracking Cylon!

[@harrytaylor9564]

@@KaNoke101 yea, that kinda detail in a TV show is what made BSG so good.

[@fmobus]

@@user-sn8oe5sb1b not only that: she's holding octogonal papers!

[@daveysjackie]

“Not once, not twice, not thrice, not quandrice, not quintrice, not hextrice, nor septice but octanganolice.” -CGP Grey

[@RaymondHng]

_Quandrice_ and _Quintrice_ are actual names.

[@Tustin2121]

It should technically be “octice” or something, because the “anganol” in there would imply some sort of angles being involved.

[@jacobblanton5179]

"Octagons on rice"

[@gerstein03]

Considering that the constitution specifically said that VP gets the power if the President is inable, I'd say John Tyler (#10) was ahead of the game. Death leaves you permanently inable so makes sense for the VP to quickly take over. I gotta say I find it funny that he just grabbed a judge to swear him in

[@MarshallChems]

“McKinley and Garfield” he did not want those comments badly 😭

[@screamsinrussian5773]

@ELLIE DOUGLAS no problem

[@rassicr]

@MarshallChems And yet, here we are lol

[@-AAA-147]

Inadvertently, it resulted in a bunch of comments like this one.

[@mirjanbouma]

@Sgt. VinDoy I was confused, thank you.

[@insix3446]

can we take a moment to appreciate all of the art and animation done in this video? the stick figures all convey so much emotion (despite being...stick figures) and there's so many tiny details (like the President Pro Tempores' laurels are yellow, yellowed with age)... whoever designs and executes the visuals for Grey's videos, **YOU ARE AMAZING!**

[@CaliforniumEra]

This becomes more relevant... especially the part about deeming a president inable

[@alexfido2935]

Literally put this video on this morning in response to last night's events.

[@doraorak]

Lmao

[@lukethompson2714]

Yup

[@ShamikShah]

This vid has never been more relevant

[@Ali-xw5nw]

CGP Grey is a prophet.

[@Z_MIB]

The sentence at 8:16 refers to a "prior entitled individual," meaning that new appointees wouldn't qualify and bumping wouldn't happen.

[@mehhhhh421]

I see now. All of America’s problems Are caused by Congress procrastinating

[@deprogramm]

yes actually

[@MasteringJohn]

And the growth of federal power void of the Constitutional changes to justify it, causing a growing incoherence in our legal institutions between what is or is not a federal responsibility, coupled with Congress' tendency to punt everything to the Executive in order to avoid responsibility for anything, while still retaining the power of the purse (thereby being indispensable for everything).

[@dagroth123]

more like, congressional bickering.

[@agiles5196]

No. No. Congress acts--badly. All of America's problems are caused by Congress acting badly.

[@deathofgames694]

which is why i dont care about who's in congress cuz it's all status quo anyway. smh

[@jdcrosier2682]

Wow, that ABC/Netflix Designated Survivor drama missed a LOT of complexity.

[@quantumplutonian6414]

Its and ABC/Netflix drama, of course it was overly simplified.

[@timothystamm3200]

They probably didn't realize bumping was a possibility or didn't think the Supreme Court of the United States would be stupid or politically motivated enough to go with that interpretation of the Succession Act.

[@Skyfox94]

If I had to guess then I'd say they very much chose to simplify things. You can't expect people to know these things and explaining them in the show would probably grind the story to a halt. Things like bumping are also probably - at least in the shows universe - something the US supreme court would try to prevent as it would only create more problems. Also it would make for a very boring show if one of the first things that'd happen to Kiefer Sutherlands character be that he gets bumped out of office by somebody who outranks him.

[@CaptainJZH]

@@timothystamm3200 I believe SCOTUS also got blown up in the show.

[@cptyolowaffle]

Oh I think it was an ABC tv series and then it was released on netflix but then again i havnet watched it in a very long time so i could be wrong

[@2rik9]

The Battlestar reference at the end is top tier, even the paper is accurate.

[@mjengel84]

In BSG the president was the Secretary of Education. In the video... Secretary of Agriculture... Interior? But thanks for catching the count and reference (I didn't)!

[@TheKurtkapan34]

i thought he'd use a designated survivor reference, but this is ten times better. Roslin is my president.

[@pieoverlord]

I was wondering if this was on purpose.

[@Dsingis]

@@pieoverlord This is 100% on purpose. The shape of the paper is specific to Battlestar, the blackboard with the number (of survivors) is something Roslin kept track of. The interoir resembles the president's office on the Colonial 1.

[@puellanivis]

@@mjengel84 It is indeed the Secretary of Agriculture. I would have expected him to make the BSG reference, but then used the Secretary of HUD as a Designated Survivor reference. Not sure why Agriculture was picked. Only CGP Grey could answer this question.

[@enriquebenedicto506]

10:05 It's a room based on the president's spaceship in "Battlestar Galactica", in that serie was a paper with the number of the survivors of the apocalypse, and there it is, I am still unable to believe that someone has finally done a reference to that serie!

[@ikosanweee8203]

Used the timed comment feature to reply to this. Would have been a real big treat if it was the secretary of education pictured as Roslin had that role before

[@sophiedowney1077]

Also, at 7:47 the only survivor is the secretary of education, and it shows the capitol being destroyed by a spaceship. It's funny because I was thinking about Battlestar Galactica before that scene even showed up. :)

[@jamescannon5255]

Grey: "We really don't have time." Me: still in quarantine "I think we have time."

[@sion8]

He likes to talk to himself when it comes to time.

[@CodexTestsYT]

Me in school having little time of freedom: "We really don't have time."

[@haildrop8346]

I would argue that being a judge on the supreme court is the deadliest job in America

[@ihaterng452]

lmao true

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Lol yeah a 100% death rate

[@cemalnaciakbulut]

@@ihaterng452 I hate your profile picture

[@HansMaurer.]

@@goldenfiberwheat238 Some do step down before dying. Even getting elected pope is no longer deadly.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Hans Maurer I was joking

[@alexrogers777]

"no theres no time" "there really isn't time" DAMNIT why isn't there time to be clear I fully understand why there's no time, I just lament it

[@Delgen1951]

ASk the clock king!

[@neatoelectro3687]

Where did it go!?!?!?!

[@CJT3X]

Simon Turner *when not if - former presidents are technically still called president.

[@sion8]

@@CJT3X There are constitutional lawyers who hate that practice.

[@Stlwartheart14]

7:15 and 7:30 Grey has posted videos in the ballparks of American Indians and nuclear weapons. So there might be videos about them in the future.

[@congruentcrib]

Imagine being that designated person. “Yeah, no incase we ALL die, we’ll have you step in” “Why me?” “You’re important enough to hold power, but not important enough to be unnoticed so everyone with think you’re there.”

[@Vienna3080]

This made me wanna watch the show “Designated Survivor” now

[@joey4592]

its so good, watch it. the secretary of urban housing and development becomes president. also the same actor for jack bauer if you want to watch 24

[@bluejolyne]

It's very good actually, up until the 3rd season. THAT was a dumpster fire.

[@quiphule78]

Natalie Vu wasn’t their fault for ABC dropping them

[@aaronchristensen8333]

It's a fantastic premise so the first 3 episodes or so are amazing but it loses steam and becomes just another political drama after that.

[@Vador-ft5xo]

Its good show

[@johnchessant3012]

Fun fact: Garfield most likely would have survived his assassination if the doctors who treated him hadn't infected his wound. He died more than two months after being shot.

[@marlonmoncrieffe0728]

Yeah, it is one of history's big What Ifs? Also, inept medicine led to Warren Harding's death after his heart attack was misdiagnosed. Inept medicine also killed George Washington but he was retired by then. McKinley could have survived his gunshot wound if he wasn't so fat, making surgery difficult.

[@KillerBot5100]

Marlon Moncrieffe didn’t Washington die because they drained like 50% of his blood to treat strep throat?

[@hereticslayer5721]

Garfield was president

[@julianstarkey1215]

Yea heard of that wasn’t Alexander gram bell tried to invent something to help him? Or was that some other president

[@marlonmoncrieffe0728]

@@KillerBot5100 Yeah, primitive medicine practiced something insane called bloodletting.

[@imtoolazyyyy]

"The Veep becomes the Peep" this is truly the most eloquent of lines on the entirety of your channel

[@Zulatek666]

I have seen this video twice, once when it was first published, and again today. I cannot believe I missed the Battlestar Galactica (2004) Easter-egg at the end. I only caught it this time because I noticed the papers had all their corners clipped, and then I saw the number 47,973 written on the whiteboard in the background. CGP you are awesome!

[@aaronsmith9688]

"All done, until 2001, Department of Homeland Security." That statement is weirdly poetic.

[@adt4864]

Grey throws in some really nice literary assemblies in his scripts

[@laotanfaji5728]

I was looking for this comment

[@martin0499]

done, like those towers

[@porchelana321]

Viewer: _Man, look at that juicy, T H I C C tangent_ CGPGrey: *THERE IS NO TIME!*

[@AxxLAfriku]

GAGAGAGAGAGAGA I just saw something very unpretty! I looked in the mirror! GAGAGAGAGAGAGA!! But I am the cool KZbinr with two hazardously hot girlfriends so IT is all good! Thanks for you attention dear iwo

[@webbowser8834]

I can't help but to think that was as much a message for himself as it was a message for the viewers.

[@SubduedRadical]

"There REALLY isn't time." -CGP Grey. Probably.

[@bassplayer2011ify]

And we will probably never see a video on it.

[@BirdieAJ]

Can you explain this? Is CGP white supremacist? I honestly don't understand

[@jsquared1013]

@@BirdieAJ where the hell did you get "white supremacist" from that? We need a new corollary for Godwin's Law. He is saying there isn't enough time in this video to go on a rabbit trail to explain something complicated, which would likely need its own video.

[@xxpoisonblxx]

@@jsquared1013 He's also implying that those issues were somewhat disregarded/done poorly/assigned to questionably inappropriate categories... kinda, sorta...

[@BirdieAJ]

@@jsquared1013 ah alright. Sorry. Not really familiar with US laws.

[@DrKlausTrophobie]

The homework analogy works quite well. The 25th was obviously written 5 minutes before class started...

[@nowaise]

"Rolled a seven" is my new way of saying "that guy died doing his job." I'm sure my friends won't be confused at all when we play DnD.

[@angolin9352]

GM: You hit. Player: I rolled a 7. GM: You stabbed yourself with your greatsword again? (Don't think about a how GS user rolling mostly 7s, crits or no crits, is statistically bad luck.)

[@xylempl]

It's immediately understandable to Catan players, though.

[@DuckieMcduck]

What does rolling a 7 mean in DnD context? I thought a 1 was the ultra bad roll.

[@BB_Sebring]

Gotta thank KZbin for requiring all KZbinrs to use euphemisms on their "Familly-Friendly" Platform or else get demonetized since we all know kids are the primary demographic on KZbin! Oh, and don't mind the inappropriate ads or ultra-violent "kids" videos that overwhelm the tag system.

[@Borednesss]

Yeah I don't really get it. Probably cause I'm bad at statistics. But there's 6 ways to roll a 7 with two 6 sided dice, out of 36 (6x6) possibilities total, so isn't it the same as rolling any single number with one 6 sided die? i.e. rolling a 1 with a d6. Why add the extra die?

[@martinsedlak1498]

Liked just for the phrase “.... it was Garfield and McKinley” alone.

[@Fir3Chi3f]

Right? The question not asked being "Who were the other two?" because everyone in the US knows about Lincoln and JFK.

[@benjisaac]

it took me so long to understand what he was saying because I thought of mckinley first - in American Studies last year he was the only assassination we even mentioned for some reason

[@martinsedlak1498]

@@Fir3Chi3f It's even better, I live in central Europe and my first thought was: JFK, Lincoln ... and who were the other two?

[@uss_04]

Fir3Chi3f Civil War and because Kennedy is Contemporary (or Boomer) History.

[@kruks]

At least twice (not today, thankfully) I've been surprised that four, not two, presidents were assassinated. I smiled.

[@himagainstill]

"Garfield and McKinley" sounds like it could be a folk duo.

[@JonnySublime]

Simon and GarfieldMcKinley

[@owlcowl]

@@JonnySublime But they werent feelin' groovy after encountering the competing duo of Guiteau & Czolgosz.

[@JonSmith-hk1bq]

The mnemonic I always used to remember Garfield was that he was followed by Arthur. So I basically put the two cartoon characters together.

[@spethmanjones2997]

I would listen to them. Hopefully on a crisp, autumn morning in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

[@owlcowl]

@@JonSmith-hk1bq And while Arthur was assuredly no legendary king, he was the only president named Chester & the only one who wore muttonchops. Not much else to distinguish him from the other nonentities who occupied the office.

[@CharletteLin]

Thank you for the concise information delivered in a humorous and well-illustrated way. :D

[@cecil6365]

The “bumping” Thing sounds quite like a coup to me…

[@olivergabrielsen4929]

Just with extra steps

[@holysex1052]

@@olivergabrielsen4929 in the case of the video, quite literally.

[@olivergabrielsen4929]

@@holysex1052 Excatly

[@KentoKei]

The Designated Survivor is basically the government's Backup Backup Plan.

[@dorkmax7073]

If all else fails, yes

[@braintwo3398]

Plan C

[@braintwo3398]

@Ancient 6.6 Plan P

[@BigBangAttack-mt6pz]

Not to open pandora's box but... What happens if they are unavailable for one reason or another

[@KentoKei]

@@BigBangAttack-mt6pz If the entire government, including the designated survivor dies, maybe the governor of d.c or one of the states would take over

[@themelonman4303]

0:42 I like how he immediately answers the question “Who were the other two?” Instantly, without even addressing it.

[@Gilgamesh557]

So complicated... When the amendment could have been written "the president is not allowed to throw dices"!

[@cutecommie]

This is an interesting plural

[@irok1]

"The president is not allowed to die or be mentally ill"

[@theunreadyone]

Death can’t hurt you legally if you don’t let it

[@ninnikins4768]

The plural version of Dice is Die . .. ... .... *THE PRESIDENT IS NOT ALLOWED TO DIE*

[@rawlinanderson6130]

The president is only allowed to throw a die and not die

[@ThomasG_]

So wait, there's only ten people ahead of the secretary of labour in the line of succession? HERE'S HOW BERNIE CAN STILL WIN

[@howedaddy6122]

Lol XD

[@captivecreative]

Lmao

[@toastom]

Hello, fellow Thomas G!

[@ThomasG_]

@@toastom *gasp* Another!

[@benschneider3413]

But nobody wants him to become president.

[@Nightmare88ish]

"Who now just becomes... unemployed." That's an oof. One moment you're big chillin and the next most of the powerful people above you are dead, you get to be come the acting president for a really short moment, then you're suddenly out of a job. gfg.

[@adamcarroll9613]

But you can still put that on your resume, and include it in your memoires, so really, it's an absolute win. You get the prestige of the claim, you can leverage it for wealth and power, without any of the actual problems that come with having to DO the job.

[@jeroenverschaeve3090]

@@adamcarroll9613 I'm sure "I was acting president for 24 hours because the previous five people got abducted by aliens, after which I got fired" gets you any job you want :D

[@knightshousegames]

I mean.....You probably aren't big chillin if the 5 highest ranking members of the US government all died all at once.

[@yozen1995]

I mean they get their own government funded healthcare and security for them and their family on tax payer money, so that's good for them.

[@letsdoodlesomethinghome3404]

“Deadliest job in the world” : *Staying Alive*

[@ThePamastymui]

DJT literally walked into the North Korea's side of the demilitarized zone...

[@gooberone]

100% death rate

[@doraorak]

Instructions unclear: Some people with animal costumes stormed the senate

[@bobbygronert5841]

Don't worry, "we love" them and they're "special". Just a peaceful, violent revolution.

[@AureliusLaurentius1099]

@@bobbygronert5841 You missed the "go home" part

[@infinitehonkworks195]

@@bobbygronert5841 because violent revolutionaries are known for respecting velvet ropes and snapping pictures like tourists

[@SharkOSix]

Wait... animals now touring inside fedral areas

[@SharkOSix]

Wow I never knew

[@rin_etoware_2989]

"prior entitled individual" sounds to me like "if the Speaker of the House disappeared for a month, then Washington DC was wiped clean except for the Secretary of Defense, then Speaker reappears again, Speaker replaces Defense as acting president"

[@acasualcactus5878]

I’d interpret it as “If any prior entitled individual who was holding the office at the time of the President/VP... Dying or becoming incapacitated, they may retake the position”

[@SR2XO]

That's why he said the worse possible interpretation since it wasn't clearly defined and can be argued, that's the issue.

[@bbgun061]

@@darekmistrz4364 If the Secretary of Defense becomes President and then appoints new people to all the other positions, those new people were not "prior entitled" because they are new. The worst case scenario outlined in the video is not how any reasonable person would interpret the law.

[@MrNicoJac]

Yeah, I too interpreted it as Cabinet Member 10 is president until Cabinet Member 5 wakes up from their coma. Or something like that.

[@CGPGrey]

I think this is the sane reading.