The Most Deadly Job in America
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2020
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To be fair, if the first 15 in line are all dead, the department of Homeland security must be pretty shit.
Or he made all these happens
@@logic0000 Or likely died aswell a lot earlier.
It would only take 2 well placed bombs.
@@toziassmitt And a lot of corruption or dead people who are put in place to prevent the placement of 2 well placed bombs.
@@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.
If the Secretary of Homeland Security becomes president, he’s quite bad at his job.
lmao
Lol
No, it means he is the best Imposter.
-Secretary of Homeland Security: "Secretary of war looks sus to me."
Their job shouldn't exist in the first place, so I guess that would actually be pretty good praxis lmao.
If the DHS Secretary became President then it probably means something cataclysmic happened that nobody could have reasonably prevented.
"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.
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.
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
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.
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.
I knew all four, but always struggle to remember those two without pondering a while. Grey saved 99% of the audience from getting distracted.
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.
I mean he isn't wrong
...at all actually
Your nephew should be apart of Congress
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
He's going places 😂😂😂
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.
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.
Lol
Or he's extremely good at it.
Unless he made it happen. 😈
@@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
@@SirBlade666 😂
Secretary of agriculture as the designated survivor is just waiting to use nukes to finally eradicate tumbleweed.
Unbeknownst to him, the Tumbleweed Coalition sent in a spy to monitor his every move.
Tumbleweed: YOU FOOL. The heat has only better activated my seeds!!!
@@spiderplant And spread them over an enormous area, I will eat your country.
@@spiderplant Nuclear tumbleweed, great
Carpet nuke you own country, Belka style.
I didn't even know Garfield died, Jon must be devastated.
He took his own life at the prospect of ANOTHER Monday. Tragic.
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
@@angelwhispers2060 the joke is laying next to Garfield
X'D X'D
Tumblr all over again
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.
Every day, I discover another reason to loathe Woodrow Wilson.
@@waleedmahmood863 Another Vlogging Through History fan?
@@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.
@@paulstabs Yes, but I hated Wilson even before I discovered his channel.
@@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.
"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..."
Sounds like we have an impostor among us.
Secretary of HS is lookin kinda sus
“It can’t be me guys I was doing tasks in the Senate Hall!”
Time for some Democracy, everyone left Vote Mr. Secretary
out the Airlock
Looks sus ngl
Just to clarify, everyone, "impeach" does not mean "force out of office." It essentially just means to "put on trial."
But where does the peach come in?
Right, impeachment is the political office equivalent of an indictment. They're only removed if they're *convicted*.
@@kevinstapp328 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.
@Wacky Venky UNLIMITED PRIDE
@@kevinstapp328 Obligatory "I AM THE SENATE"
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.
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.
"It was Garfield and McKinley", because you know everyone will be trying to remember who else was assassinated besides Lincoln and Kennedy. :)
I only knew about Kennedy. And so did my roommate. (That's not our country, though)
I just kept thinking how those two got assassinated 4 times. I'm not very bright...
*beside
Best answer before a question ever
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?".
This video is basically: Assistant Manager vs. Assistant TO the Manager
Underrated comment
Or, Dwight Schrute: (acting) Manager vs *Dwight Schrute is MANAGEEEEEEERRRRRRR*
@@beccag2758 I support steam doors to sanitize the workers and the workplace.
Now with added tumbleweeds!
President vs. Pres TO the ident
“There is no time”
For both the nuclear bombs and Natives was hilarious XD
Imagine natives having nukes!!@
Its a nod to him hinting at. Nuke or native video and never doing it.
I hope he makes a video for those later
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!
'CGP Grey, why did you release a video on presidential succession?'
'No reason.'
He was praying that the President would die. But now it turns out he just wasted all those hours on this video.
@@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.
@@TriTran-qb9eg ETHER ONE. They are both from establishments.
@@SymmetricalDocking oh boy, politics in the political science video, this will definitely end with a civil discussion
vyrde Any sort of disagreement on the internet almost never ends well lol
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...”
They were pretty forgettable people. Didn't last long or do much in a time when president's didn't really matter.
The most memorable thing about McKinley’s death was that it made then Vice President Teddy Roosevelt take his place.
Garfield's assassin was more interesting than him lmao
@@anonymoususer638 Coming here from sam o nella?
People should ask why this is the case. In those decades the United States became a global superpower. The answer might be surprising.
Love how the last shot has a subtle Battlestar Galactica reference, when the Secretary of Education ends up president of by default.
Yeah, and sits on the Colonial one with survivor count on whiteboard.
The cylons are attacking and you're taking orders from a school teacher?
So say we all!
@@zsoltsandor3814 So say we all!
😁
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.
The illustration of the awkward situation was perfect
How are you not verified. I seriously thought for a moment that it was a troll account.
What awkward situation?
Fancy seeing you here ☺️
Why is it so cool to see the people I watch, watch the same people?
The president is still aroooooouuuuuuuuud?
The Department of Agriculture is STILL clearing out the TUMBLEWEEDS. Respect 100
7:15
Indeed
"So telll me American...!"
-Ocelot
They will never stop!
No seriously… they will LITERALLY never stop clearing tumble weeds, 1 little seed can spark another humongous out break.
What a great reference
"it was Garfield and McKinley" still makes me chuckle, textbook know your audience
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.
i just caught that when talking about the four assassinations he said "it was garfield and mckinley" because everyone knows about lincoln and kennedy
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.
@@dannypipewrench533 *mission failed successfully*
@@Toasteeei *MISSION FAILED, WE'LL GET 'EM NEXT TIME.*
US: imma do this later
US almost 200 years later: oh yeah this exists
Procrastinating at its finest
How do you think the Civil War happened? a can that was kicked down the road for about a hundred years.
Doing one's homework the morning it is due while eating your cereal is the Murican way!
Me with the English homework I should be doing right now instead of watching UA-cam videos.
Still better then me at doing important things.
This is like someone who wrote code without looking at any of the edge cases.
Being a lawyer and having half a degree in engeneering, I can confirm that this is exactly what it is.
@@dralfonzo24 So... programming engenders who happen to be lawyers need to fill in the gaps of the constitution?
Or you know, just code the common cases and forget that edge cases exist
This is why you need to run Tests. Kill the president once in a while to see what happens.
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.
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
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
"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* !"
Topper hat
@@aarontuplin An "above tophat"
"Try Topper Hat. It'll Top yer. No~thing's Toppier... it's the Toppy'ist!"
*Doug Dimadome enters stage left*
@@aarontuplin Toppest hat
If you want to be technical, the deadliest job in america is a supreme court justice. 45 percent die serving rather than retire.
but by natural causes so that can be debated
@@christoffergernow8481 Good point, but by technicality there mortality rate is much higher while being in office.
The mortality rate of people that don't retire is 100%! Get back to procrastinating people.
@@nomoturtle1788 everyone has a mortality rate of 100%
@@OleTimHerr Are you sure about that?
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!
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
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. :)
Welcome back to the poor person chat!
hi
Well...
yep, we just cant afford it
Ello, what do we ‘ave ‘ere?
Lmao
Wait four!? Lincoln, JFK.... "it was Garfield and Mckinley" Oh he's good
And so begins the debate over exactly what the 4th Amendment means by "persons", "places" and "effects".
Exactly the same thinking. He got us :D
Exactly! And the hand at 7:30 when he talks about the Dept. of Energy overseeing Nuclear
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) 🙄"
@@gejyspa r/iamverysmart
The homework analogy works quite well. The 25th was obviously written 5 minutes before class started...
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!
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
Yes, you and everyone else...
"It was Garfield and McKinley." Grey, knowing we wouldn't immediately know the other assassinations.
Not to brag or anything but I knew 😏
Sam O Nella is actually a good Academy
Didn't want to trigger the new world order bots on UA-cam
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.
*HEHEHE! NOTHING BAD HAPPENS TO THE KENNEDYS!*
The sentence at 8:16 refers to a "prior entitled individual," meaning that new appointees wouldn't qualify and bumping wouldn't happen.
0:42 I like how he immediately answers the question “Who were the other two?” Instantly, without even addressing it.
Oh SO THAT is what 'Designated survivor' is all about.
*ding ding*
lol
pretty much....
Actually, yeah
@@Zorilla10 True
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.
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
@@kevinprzy4539 well he took 10 minutes to explain so you aren't proving much here.
@@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
7:35
Love the detail of the prosthetic hook leg for the Veterans.
I love that Battlestar Galactica reference at 10:09, of Colonial 1's interior. If anyone's never seen that show, the Secretary of Education became president as 45th in line of succession.
Poor department of agriculture, she's still dealing with the tumbleweeds.
Aye. Somebody get her a flame thrower XD.
Rain needed to stop drought
The poor soul
So Tumbly o.o
@@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
I love how he just quickly goes “it was garfield and mckinnely” as we were all thinking, uh wait who were other two assasinations.
Lincoln and Kennedy...duh?
@@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
@@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
@@christiankjaer9286 You missed his point
@@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.
I love that the older congress members at 5:55 have older leaves on their wreaths
I love how he showed the Department of Agriculture just trying to fight off tumbleweeds
“Manage Indians” “No there isn’t time”
“Manage Nuclear weapons” “there really isn’t time”
"WHEN'S MY RIGHT TIME, KENT, WHEN'S MY RIGHT TIME"
CGP Grey is now going to have to do video on the US cabinet.
time stamp: 7:29
Instructions unclear: Some people with animal costumes stormed the senate
Don't worry, "we love" them and they're "special". Just a peaceful, violent revolution.
@@bobbygronert5841
You missed the "go home" part
@@bobbygronert5841 because violent revolutionaries are known for respecting velvet ropes and snapping pictures like tourists
Wait... animals now touring inside fedral areas
Wow I never knew
Isn't it weird how whenever you ask a branch of government how much power they should have the answer is always yes?
Thank you for the concise information delivered in a humorous and well-illustrated way. :D
"I know about Kennedy and Lin--"
"It was Garfield and McKinley"
Thank you for reading my mind.
Ah, now I understand, first I was confused since he mentioned there were four but only explained two of them
@@jaojao1768 same lol
Oh you mean President Kennedy who was shot in Dallius and his Secret Service team leader Lincoln?
@@Delgen1951 Dallas
Explain for the non American?
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
Nope, Benedict is still alive and not the pope anymore ;)
@@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.
That's why the title says "In America"
@@SaffronWitch not if the pope calls a crusade against america
@@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
My interpretation of the bumping problem would seem like it was meant to describe if a higher entitled individual was out of commission but not dead. Say the governmental disaster that was mentioned put the secretary of the treasury in charge and left the Speaker in a coma. The Secretary of the Treasury would take over until the Speaker has recovered enough to take over. It reads to me as if it's meant to apply to the original line of succession not any replacements that might be put into fill it out
This is precluded in the same section.
"the removal of the disability of an individual higher on the [line of succession] or the ability to qualify on the part of an individual higher on such list shall not terminate [the acting President's] service." (3 U.S. Code § 19 sub. D) So they cannot bump by virtue of their disability being removed.
However the video is still wrong about how it would work; because the bumping provisions "shall apply only to officers appointed, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, prior to the time of the death, resignation, removal from office...of the President Pro Tempore" (3 U.S. Code § 19 sub. E).
So it seems to me the bumping is for, as an example, if the President through PPT died, and the Secretary of State was unreachable (but otherwise qualified), the Secretary of the Treasury could take over. Upon the Secretary of State becoming reachable, only then would they bump. But a new Secretary of State wouldn't bump them because they were not in office prior to the death of the original President Pro Tempore. (And for reference, the President Pro Tempore is the official cited and not the President, because they are the lowest official that bumping doesn't apply to).
That would make sense, however the "unless a prior entitled individual" line is ambiguous enough either your interpretation of Grey's bumping scenario could be correct. One is a terrible idea, but if both interpretations are constitutional (courts generally try to interpret a laws to prevent them from being struck down if possible), then the one that courts think the lawmakers intended takes priority, not the one that makes sense. So we could have the nighmare of bumping.
We love the battlestar galactic reference at the end
Ah the supreme court judge guy teleporting everyone and looking so done with this shit is too precious
I couldn't have said it better.
That's how it should work in real life.
We need T-shirts
Alrighty ya angry children what do I have to settle now?
I also liked the department of energy smirking like "I got nukes yo"
"It was Garfield and McKinley"
LOL you know us too well CGP Grey
fr i was about to search it up lmao
YES
he'd answered my question before I could even finish asking it
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
@@dinoboy_games5341 I bet few Americans knew the answer
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.”
It’s so mind blowing how CGP Grey literally talks about complicated things in a simple way.
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.
At least he/she wouldn't fuck up our Post Office like a certain other president
@@brendankendall41 I mean the Postmaster-General (during the cabinet days) was mostly given out to the President’s campaign manager soooooo.
Fallout: New Vegas
Liberty. Reason. Justice. Civility. Edification. Perfection.
MAIL.
Wasn't there a movie about that?
I feel targeted by that “McKinley and Garfield” comment. Grey not only knows, he knows what we don’t.
If it wasn't for Sam O'Nella, I wouldn't have known about Garfield either.
Ohhh, now I get it
@@i_am_ergo same
I honestly had to think about that for a while.... wait, why did he only mention two names...
_internally rewinds tape_
ohhhh....
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.
10:04 - Okay I've watched this video a couple of times and I have JUST NOW realized that this was a BATTLESTAR GALACTICA reference! LMFAO
This is such a valuable video, I've watched it maybe 3 times and still enjoy it's educational and entertaining qualities. Thanks.
Everyone: Lincoln, Kennedy....?
Grey: Garfield, McKinley
Man's always on point.
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
I love (love) [love] CGP Grey's little references he does sometimes
Like a carpenter building stairs...
I knew mckinley...forgot about the cat.
7:15 I like how the department of agriculture is still getting rid of tumbleweed
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.
I want to like but that would throw off the balance of the universe. 69 likes must not be touched.
@Nerd Baby you are truly a wonderful person.
it's called recycling animation
Ik
Thanks for this great video! We need to fix these issues in our government just in case the worst happens.
Imagine every US Pricedent carrying a Golden Independent Stick.
Most people: Congress is not relatable to the average citizen.
Grey: Congress procrastinates important work, too!
Well they are human after all.
That's true. Very relatable
And takes days off without officially taking days off.
Oh yeah when was the last time congress actually passed a budget?
webvidaddict lol a continuing resolution is like turning in homework from another student who had the class last year.
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.
Always remember, those are stories for another time.
Its definitely more for him than for us.
I hope its forshadowing future videos.
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.
treehugger0241 definitely is topics he’s interested about doing. Federal lands video was a story for another time from another video
00:40 "It was Garfield and McKinley." The answer is given as the question is being formulated in the mind of the viewer. That is both insightful and proactive. Brilliant!
I’m so glad the Department of Homeland Security was set up. Not because I care about homeland security but because 17 in the Cabinet is SO FRUSTRATING!
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.
At first I thought this was a clever comment, but I checked and it's true, lol! Thanks for this info!
"his accidency"
"Martin van Ruin"
Ah, the 1800s, when roasting people you didn't like was a refined art of wordplay
@@seanj4119 I can't remember specifics, but I do remember hearing all sorts of different mudslinging from those days. So funny.
“It was Garfield and McKinley,” caught me so off guard and it was exactly what I was wondering.
This was so perfectly timed, and delivered with such deadpan "yes, everyone only knows two of them, ugh."
Oof
It felt like he caught me red-handed.
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.
@@SgtPotShot John Kramer who?
Fun fact: not a lot of people know this, but all secretaries and senators are at the State of the Union address… The designated survivor has always BEEN, and will ALWAYS be Kiefer Sutherland… from now until the end of time….
I've scrolled through what must have been hundreds of comments to only find ONE person talking about that show.
I love how you explained who the other two assassinations were because you knew nobody would know about them. I was just thinking “wait, four?” when you said who the other two were
The "there isn't time!" "There REALLY isn't time!" Moments were very funny and I enjoyed them a lot.
Yes, its almost as if Grey could hear me ask "but why?"
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
A video for another time i suppose.
Definitely want to see the part about the secretary of energy managing nukes
@@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.
Him saying it was Garfield and McKinley was awesome he literally knew exactly what a large majority of the audience was thinking
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.
It was not a hard guess
I had to look up the other two.
Great video. I like the touch of the Battlestar Galactica shaped paper in the final scene with the Secretary of Agriculture stick person.
Alright so in both of the “up to interpretation” scenarios, here’s what I’m hoping happens:
A) It is “Vice President and (Cabinet or Congressional Committee)”. The committee is only used when the president it unable but won’t give up their powers and will fire anyone in the cabinet that tries to stop them. It’s a plan B in case Plan A fails.
B) “previously entitled” is chronological, and so if say the VP is incapacitated but not dead, once they become able to assume the powers of the presidency after weeks, the acting president (speaker of the house) gives the position to the VP. If VP is dead, Speaker is acting president until the end of the term.
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!
Isn't the plural of staff "staves"?
@@blunderingfool Both are valid.
@@blunderingfool What's the plural of "stave" then?
@@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. :)
I mean that’s just the best way to mark all the presidential backups in one go 😂
“.... it was Garfield and McKinley” LOL
Preemptively answering our questions! Give this man a medal!!!
It was a perfect fit to my thoughts.
Yup!
You can tell he has been a teacher.
@@ZardoDhieldor He was a teacher before doing UA-cam.
Love the Galactica reference at the end. But if I remember correctly Roslin was originally Secretary of Education, not Agriculture.
Farming young minds...?
@@doogleticker5183 REAL⁉😱
This video is gold!! Love the throw backs to other video. Keys to power. And the tumbleweed.
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.
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.
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"
I enjoyed DS more than KS' other big series, 24.
It's a great show, but Keifer taking off his glasses every other minute just annoyed me too much.
Season 1 was phenomenal, season 2 was descent but had some serious weak points, and season 3 was just terrible.
“McKinley and Garfield” he did not want those comments badly 😭
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@Sgt. VinDoy Oh, thanks!
@@eliannadouglas3408 no problem
@MarshallChems And yet, here we are lol
Inadvertently, it resulted in a bunch of comments like this one.
This is like playing Monopoly with several generations of players that grew up with different rule sets on top of having house rules.
Somehow you always pick really interesting topics and present them in a really entertaining way.
Grey: "We really don't have time."
Me: still in quarantine "I think we have time."
He likes to talk to himself when it comes to time.
Me in school having little time of freedom: "We really don't have time."
Viewer: _Man, look at that juicy, T H I C C tangent_
CGPGrey: *THERE IS NO TIME!*
GAGAGAGAGAGAGA I just saw something very unpretty! I looked in the mirror! GAGAGAGAGAGAGA!! But I am the cool UA-camr with two hazardously hot girlfriends so IT is all good! Thanks for you attention dear iwo
I can't help but to think that was as much a message for himself as it was a message for the viewers.
CGP Grey's personification of the Supreme Court has extremely powerful mom energy.
Wasn’t this the plot of “Designated Survivor”? :D
Ikr
This becomes more relevant... especially the part about deeming a president inable
Literally put this video on this morning in response to last night's events.
Lmao
Yup
This vid has never been more relevant
CGP Grey is a prophet.
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.
As long as it's Keifer Sutherland
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
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.
If they nuke DC then yeah the government is probably done.
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.
I loved the "It was Garfield and McKinley" line.
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
I'm not even an American but this video is so informative and understandable that I can't help but watch it.
Yeah, i couldn't believe that 1/7 die in office
@@Corgi_fax Will have to check it out!
@@trybunt Really scary!
Same
Same
“Not once, not twice, not thrice, not quandrice, not quintrice, not hextrice, nor septice but octanganolice.”
-CGP Grey
The more you know
"Nice"
- Me
69. nice.
Are those real terms?
I didn't think there were actual ordinals past thrice. 🤷♂️
@@rneumeye I don't think those are "official" terms but I'm gonna start using them as such now.
I'm reminded of the Battlestar Galactica reboot where they went deep in the order of succession. Something similar was briefly mentioned in "The Last Man on Earth". I think both ended up with the secretary of education.
We need some way for VPs to declare the president inable here in Brazil. 😭
"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
ASk the clock king!
Where did it go!?!?!?!
Simon Turner *when not if - former presidents are technically still called president.
@@CJT3X
There are constitutional lawyers who hate that practice.
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.