Being President: Most Deadly Job in America
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
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i can imagine why this is being recommended
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.
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"
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.
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 RUclips videos.
Still better then me at doing important things.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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 😂
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
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?
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.
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
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.
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"
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
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
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
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
"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 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.
"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.
“McKinley and Garfield” he did not want those comments badly 😭
@ELLIE DOUGLAS no problem
@MarshallChems And yet, here we are lol
Inadvertently, it resulted in a bunch of comments like this one.
@Sgt. VinDoy I was confused, thank you.
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.
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.
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!
😁
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
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...
Oh SO THAT is what 'Designated survivor' is all about.
*ding ding*
lol
pretty much....
Actually, yeah
@@Zorilla10 True
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.
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 😂
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?
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.
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
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." 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 RUclips
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!*
“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?
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.
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.
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.*
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
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
“.... 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 RUclips.
“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
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.
"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 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.
"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.
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.)
It's immediately understandable to Catan players, though.
What does rolling a 7 mean in DnD context? I thought a 1 was the ultra bad roll.
Gotta thank RUclips for requiring all RUclipsrs to use euphemisms on their "Familly-Friendly" Platform or else get demonetized since we all know kids are the primary demographic on RUclips! Oh, and don't mind the inappropriate ads or ultra-violent "kids" videos that overwhelm the tag system.
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?
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.
“Deadliest job in the world”
: *Staying Alive*
DJT literally walked into the North Korea's side of the demilitarized zone...
100% death rate
The designated survivor's secure location looks like the ship President Laura Roslin used in Battlestar Galactica...
Right up to the whiteboard with the death count. CGP is awesome.
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
She's a fracking Cylon!
@@KaNoke101 yea, that kinda detail in a TV show is what made BSG so good.
@@user-sn8oe5sb1b not only that: she's holding octogonal papers!
The Battlestar reference at the end is top tier, even the paper is accurate.
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)!
i thought he'd use a designated survivor reference, but this is ten times better. Roslin is my president.
I was wondering if this was on purpose.
@@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.
@@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.
One slight correction: The President Pro Tem is the longest-serving senator of the *majority party", not necessarily the longest serving senator.
Sweet mother of Jesus! ANOTHER mistake?!
Yes, the "majority party* is a requirement *longest serving* has only been customary, since the 80s iirc
@Ryah Green why
@@zsfekete5211 Since 1890, actually!
This, is a small error. Not at all fatal to the video. Breathe people, just breathe.
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. :)
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“Not once, not twice, not thrice, not quandrice, not quintrice, not hextrice, nor septice but octanganolice.”
-CGP Grey
The more you know
"Nice"
- Me
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.
Not lice, not scary spice, not vanilla ice, not roll the dice, not miami vice, not mice, not fried rice, but eric weiss.
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
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
"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.
This made me wanna watch the show “Designated Survivor” now
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
It's very good actually, up until the 3rd season. THAT was a dumpster fire.
Natalie Vu wasn’t their fault for ABC dropping them
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.
Its good show
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 RUclipsr 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.
The homework analogy works quite well. The 25th was obviously written 5 minutes before class started...
"The Veep becomes the Peep" this is truly the most eloquent of lines on the entirety of your channel
"Garfield and McKinley" sounds like it could be a folk duo.
Simon and GarfieldMcKinley
@@JonnySublime But they werent feelin' groovy after encountering the competing duo of Guiteau & Czolgosz.
The
mnemonic I always used to remember Garfield was that he was followed by Arthur. So I basically put the two cartoon characters together.
I would listen to them. Hopefully on a crisp, autumn morning in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
@@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.
imagine going from secretary of education to having to order a nuclear strike in a single really bad afternoon
You basically just described Battlestar Galactica.
So, kids... who wants to press the big red button ?
I'd order the strike on Chad's house.
Fuckin' Chad.
I am not sure there is a non-zero number of elected officials in the government who could do anything more in a security crisis that had wiped out the president and vice president and congressional leadership than what the Pentagon told them to do. And that is why such a crisis is probably being planned for by the un-elected brass there.
@@macintalkshow Was about to say this, kudos!
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!**
Liked just for the phrase “.... it was Garfield and McKinley” alone.
Right? The question not asked being "Who were the other two?" because everyone in the US knows about Lincoln and JFK.
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
@@Fir3Chi3f It's even better, I live in central Europe and my first thought was: JFK, Lincoln ... and who were the other two?
Fir3Chi3f
Civil War and because Kennedy is Contemporary (or Boomer) History.
At least twice (not today, thankfully) I've been surprised that four, not two, presidents were assassinated.
I smiled.
0:42 I like how he immediately answers the question “Who were the other two?” Instantly, without even addressing it.
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
I would argue that being a judge on the supreme court is the deadliest job in America
lmao true
Lol yeah a 100% death rate
@@ihaterng452 I hate your profile picture
@@goldenfiberwheat238 Some do step down before dying. Even getting elected pope is no longer deadly.
Hans Maurer I was joking
The sentence at 8:16 refers to a "prior entitled individual," meaning that new appointees wouldn't qualify and bumping wouldn't happen.
It took me so many years to figure out that "attorney general" was the secretary of Justice 😅
It took me 30. In part because I never cared until I watched this video.
so the guy is neither an attorney nor a general but a secretary? can he type?
@@swunt10 he's a big phony!!
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.
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!
Serving your country be like:
President for a week then unemployed.
That's how it should be everyone that's not a violent criminal has to be president
@@timazbill7746 You're joking right.
At least you can add it to the resume
@@f.b.i6889 Nope he's 100% serious, when i become president i'll disband the FBI
@@timazbill7746 Huh?
"There really isn't time!" I feel like he was talking to himself more than us XD
"No, there is not time" 7:10 and "There really isn't time" 7:25
what does he mean by that?
@@duck1sgood If he went off on that tangent, the video would be much longer for us and it would also be more work for him.
@@treehugger0241 ahhhhh ty fam :D
seeings other videos now..
yeah probably
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.”
This is basically about how Laura Roslin became the president of the Colonies in Battlestar Galactica
Which Grey seems to be aware of, judging from the final scene with octagonal paper and a population counter on the wall 😎
@@Bbonno I caught that too, it was a nice reference
@@Bbonno Me three. lol
So say we all
@@Bbonno fracking brilliant!
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.
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.
Marlon Moncrieffe didn’t Washington die because they drained like 50% of his blood to treat strep throat?
Garfield was president
Yea heard of that wasn’t Alexander gram bell tried to invent something to help him? Or was that some other president
@@KillerBot5100 Yeah, primitive medicine practiced something insane called bloodletting.
How many people have to die so a post office worker becomes president
Yes.
This sounds like a reference.
@@dolphinsniper Family Guy I think
320 million
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.
I love that the older congress members at 5:55 have older leaves on their wreaths
The “bumping” Thing sounds quite like a coup to me…
Just with extra steps
@@olivergabrielsen4929 in the case of the video, quite literally.
@@holysex1052 Excatly
Gotta love how the judge looks always so done with everyone's shenanigans.
The apathetic look and omnipotent finger snap makes the judiciary an easy fave
Well, given the shenanigans they must deal with, can you blame them?
And then they he gets up to some shenanigans of his own.
"There REALLY isn't time." -CGP Grey. Probably.
And we will probably never see a video on it.
Can you explain this? Is CGP white supremacist? I honestly don't understand
@@allianabogado1617 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.
@@jsquared1013 He's also implying that those issues were somewhat disregarded/done poorly/assigned to questionably inappropriate categories... kinda, sorta...
@@jsquared1013 ah alright. Sorry. Not really familiar with US laws.
This aged well
"All done, until 2001, Department of Homeland Security."
That statement is weirdly poetic.
Grey throws in some really nice literary assemblies in his scripts
I was looking for this comment
done, like those towers
Everyone speaks of the poor persons chat, what about the students who are forbidden to donate chat?
They're allies. We don't really care about em. Just like the richies don't care a single fuck about us.
@@optimisticnihilist7705 someone lives in America damn
@@jmallinson no, I'm in Indonesia. A small country to others and we still have lots to learn.
WallTz BURN THE RICH they won’t stop us
@@jmallinson don't Blame us, Blame the Corona virus! They caused the economy to be shithole like now.
I see now. All of America’s problems
Are caused by Congress procrastinating
yes actually
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).
more like, congressional bickering.
No. No. Congress acts--badly. All of America's problems are caused by Congress acting badly.
which is why i dont care about who's in congress cuz it's all status quo anyway. smh
Isn't it weird how whenever you ask a branch of government how much power they should have the answer is always yes?
"The Constitution left this as homework for the new Congress. Important homework YES, but due date nooo."
Moral of the story: *always put due dates on assignments.*
I love you
Except putting a due date on _this_ particular assignment is basically saying you're planning to assassinate the president.
An action item without a due date is not an action item.
We also learned Grey is a Stephen Covey fan.
@@busshock Sooooo maybe not a DUE DATE but a SUGGESTION date? Like "maaaaaaaaybe figure this out BEFORE a president dies in office thanks biss"
"Not casting shade on the Secretary of Education, but if something happened that removed the first FIFTEEN PEOPLE in the line of succession, that sounds a lot like an issue that would impact homeland security." 😂 Gold lol.
Plus: Teachers are the last people you want as head of state.
>ahem< Robert Mugabe >ahem
@@jimtaylor294 Laura Roslin though.
@@AC-1876 Good save.
All the better keep the department of homeland security intact so they can respond immediately.
@@jimtaylor294 I'm pretty sure there's others.
>ahem< Benito Mussolini >ahem
Last time I was this early, we were learning about the differences between Great Britain and the United Kingdom
Ah yes the og’s
Marco Last time I was this early, we were learning about whether Pluto is a planet or not
Inconceivable
Video might soon become obsolete too. RIP
Thank you for the concise information delivered in a humorous and well-illustrated way. :D
The Designated Survivor is basically the government's Backup Backup Plan.
If all else fails, yes
Plan C
@Ancient 6.6 Plan P
Not to open pandora's box but... What happens if they are unavailable for one reason or another
@@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
When he says "Garfield and McKinley" at 0:42, knowing we'll forget the two other assassinated presidents... That's only CGP Grey.
Only reason I know them is because Garfield is the funny cat and McKinley being assassinated lead to the best president in a while
7:35
Love the detail of the prosthetic hook leg for the Veterans.
2:30
*Looks at Soviet Union* "So, don't get any ideas."
*Looks at Acting President/VP* "Also, don't YOU get any ideas. I'm still the President." XD
That animation was perfect.
CCCP
That might be the case during the Cold War. But today, it's more likely to be China than Russia.
I don’t know where you got Russia but ok
@@brolythegoat You’re right. Edited.
Wait it wasn’t China either
I love “it was Garfield and mickinley”
I didn't get what he was talking about at all, I mean I know those two got assassinated but there were a total of four assassinations. Then I realized that I the Lincoln and Kennedy were supposed to be the obvious and he gave the other two.
@@funakfunak2740 Who are Lincoln and Kennedy?
@@morthostalisint1720 bruh
@@funakfunak2740 This is what happens when you're an Anarchist that watches Sam'onella.
@@morthostalisint1720 Lincoln is a car, and kennedy is an airport