Being President: Most Deadly Job in America

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@KnightRaymund 3 года назад

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

@logic0000 3 года назад

Or he made all these happens

@dnw009 3 года назад

@@logic0000 Or likely died aswell a lot earlier.

@toziassmitt 3 года назад

It would only take 2 well placed bombs.

@dnw009 3 года назад

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

@toziassmitt 3 года назад

@@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.

@moralhazard8652 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

Lol

@SirBlade666 4 года назад

Or he's extremely good at it.

@RKroese 4 года назад

Unless he made it happen. 😈

@diazinth 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

@@SirBlade666 😂

@acasualcactus5878 4 года назад

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

@rigira 4 года назад

lmao

@tylerbouldlaire6043 4 года назад

Lol

@mmazvis 4 года назад

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

@Personal_Chizo 4 года назад

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

@seav80 4 года назад

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

@balt. 2 месяца назад

i can imagine why this is being recommended

@iammrbeat 4 года назад

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

@timvanrijn8239 4 года назад

But where does the peach come in?

@a1aaaaaaaaaaaaaa-r6t 4 года назад

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

@robertjarman3703 4 года назад

@@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.

@kumbaya69421 4 года назад

@Wacky Venky UNLIMITED PRIDE

@cameroff 4 года назад

@@kevinstapp328 Obligatory "I AM THE SENATE"

@albertpolak786 4 года назад

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

@davidhong1934 4 года назад

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

@spiderplant 4 года назад

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

@kevinconrad6156 4 года назад

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

@Felixkeeg 4 года назад

@@spiderplant Nuclear tumbleweed, great

@sukositb 4 года назад

Carpet nuke you own country, Belka style.

@kekgaming420 3 года назад

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

@KnightIA 3 года назад

7:15

@AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEIOU 3 года назад

Indeed

@HangmanOfficialUploads 3 года назад

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

@letsdoodlesomethinghome3404 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

What a great reference

@demonetization6596 3 года назад

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.

@SteveMould 4 года назад

The illustration of the awkward situation was perfect

@vividhmariya8566 4 года назад

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

@talsarig5058 4 года назад

What awkward situation?

@AmaraJordanMusic 4 года назад

Fancy seeing you here ☺️

@Mykol225 4 года назад

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

@1.4142 4 года назад

The president is still aroooooouuuuuuuuud?

@Blackstormeagle 4 года назад

"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 4 года назад

Sounds like we have an impostor among us.

@jhat12345 4 года назад

Secretary of HS is lookin kinda sus

@Blackstormeagle 4 года назад

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

@Marinealver 4 года назад

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

@eduardoandrescastilloperer4810 4 года назад

Looks sus ngl

@miker.9138 4 года назад

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

@jakistam1000 4 года назад

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

@yaroslavbolotov7653 4 года назад

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

@ricecake1228 4 года назад

*beside

@pozzowon 4 года назад

Best answer before a question ever

@fhz3062 4 года назад

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?".

@happyrefund 2 года назад

"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 2 года назад

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 Год назад

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 Год назад

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 Год назад

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 Год назад

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

@falcore91 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

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

@michaela644 3 года назад

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

@anonymoususer638 3 года назад

Garfield's assassin was more interesting than him lmao

@commanderdoom9192 3 года назад

@@anonymoususer638 Coming here from sam o nella?

@zeroun92 3 года назад

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

@rmdodsonbills 2 года назад

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 2 года назад

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

@paulstabs 2 года назад

@@waleedmahmood863 Another Vlogging Through History fan?

@thorr18BEM 2 года назад

@@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 2 года назад

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

@auliamate Год назад

@@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.

@anonunknown933 4 года назад

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

@lachlangood8596 4 года назад

Underrated comment

@beccag2758 4 года назад

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

@anonunknown933 4 года назад

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

@marthahealy3941 3 года назад

Now with added tumbleweeds!

@dletetdchanel6104 3 года назад

President vs. Pres TO the ident

@war2theren227 3 года назад

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

@ThatGuyNicho 3 года назад

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

@angelwhispers2060 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

@@angelwhispers2060 the joke is laying next to Garfield

@katerinapeklenk2016 3 года назад

X'D X'D

@TheBluePhoenix008 3 года назад

Tumblr all over again

@inakedsnakei 4 года назад

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

@christoffergernow8481 4 года назад

but by natural causes so that can be debated

@felixwilfing2472 4 года назад

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

@nomoturtle1788 4 года назад

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

@OleTimHerr 4 года назад

@@nomoturtle1788 everyone has a mortality rate of 100%

@ranglix1 4 года назад

@@OleTimHerr Are you sure about that?

@sarahs1368 3 года назад

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 2 года назад

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 2 года назад

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

@mikkor.860 Год назад

@@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

@harsha1306 4 года назад

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

@dralfonzo24 4 года назад

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

@kairon156 4 года назад

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

@Nuclear241 4 года назад

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

@frank3manuel 4 года назад

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

@LiveFreeOrDieDH 4 года назад

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.

@dougim Год назад

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.

@CSStevens2015 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

Yes, you and everyone else...

@grafknives9544 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@coleball6001 4 года назад

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

@mohamedshihadeh4817 4 года назад

Fallout: New Vegas

@tteottaninguiayami 4 года назад

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

@Beggar42 4 года назад

Wasn't there a movie about that?

@popeofsimps2924 4 года назад

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

@mr_willybilly 3 года назад

Procrastinating at its finest

@rickkcir2151 3 года назад

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

@planescaped 3 года назад

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

@NautilusSSN571 3 года назад

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

@DS-tv2fi 3 года назад

Still better then me at doing important things.

@KempQ 3 месяца назад

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

@scritoph3368 4 года назад

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

@sion8 4 года назад

I couldn't have said it better.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 4 года назад

That's how it should work in real life.

@calvinsmith6681 4 года назад

We need T-shirts

@hexlensespectacles 4 года назад

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

@Yobleck 4 года назад

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

@quisken7793 4 года назад

"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 4 года назад

Topper hat

@undefinedvariable8085 4 года назад

@@aarontuplin An "above tophat"

@jimtaylor294 4 года назад

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

@hell0turdle672 4 года назад

*Doug Dimadome enters stage left*

@Arbiter099 4 года назад

@@aarontuplin Toppest hat

@parnikkapore 4 года назад

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

@Pineapply_Queen 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

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

@SorowFame 3 года назад

@Nerd Baby you are truly a wonderful person.

@tommarch.4493 3 года назад

it's called recycling animation

@TsukasaMarryMe 3 года назад

@PippiOnePointOh 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

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

@callmeaprilroseorisha404 3 года назад

Your nephew should be apart of Congress

@joshuagore2478 3 года назад

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 2 года назад

He's going places 😂😂😂

@jmlynr 2 года назад

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.

@BooBaddyBig 4 года назад

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

@classicalsrock 4 года назад

*ding ding*

@johnisawesome18 4 года назад

lol

@parthtripathi3032 4 года назад

pretty much....

@CybernerdShua 4 года назад

Actually, yeah

@CybernerdShua 4 года назад

@@Zorilla10 True

@danm524 4 года назад

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

@SymmetricalDocking 4 года назад

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

@TriTran-qb9eg 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

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

@vyrde 4 года назад

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

@triangulum8869 4 года назад

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

@MrPhoenixQuill 4 года назад

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

@jimtaylor294 4 года назад

Aye. Somebody get her a flame thrower XD.

@nk6197 4 года назад

Rain needed to stop drought

@somemoron9306 4 года назад

The poor soul

@grayeaglej 4 года назад

So Tumbly o.o

@grayeaglej 4 года назад

@@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

@tombraiderstrums09 2 года назад

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!

@jarradtait5322 4 года назад

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

@AtlasReburdened 4 года назад

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

@matronator 4 года назад

Exactly the same thinking. He got us :D

@mango.lightshows 4 года назад

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

@gejyspa 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

@@gejyspa r/iamverysmart

@christiankjaer9286 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

Lincoln and Kennedy...duh?

@christiankjaer9286 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

@@christiankjaer9286 You missed his point

@seansmagee 4 года назад

@@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.

@tocodelray 3 года назад

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

@Deleted1 3 года назад

fr i was about to search it up lmao

@tanfred8629 3 года назад

YES

@styleme111 3 года назад

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

@dinoboy_games5341 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

@@dinoboy_games5341 I bet few Americans knew the answer

@MrFancyDragon 3 года назад

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

@hackman669 2 года назад

Imagine natives having nukes!!@

@mr.voidroy6869 2 года назад

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

@marshallfaulk6144 2 года назад

I hope he makes a video for those later

@DrGaellon 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

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

@lucasharvey8990 3 года назад

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

@theintrepid7583 3 года назад

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

@UD503J 4 года назад

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

@siononalundula1699 4 года назад

Not to brag or anything but I knew 😏

@CaityisPog 4 года назад

Sam O Nella is actually a good Academy

@SimGunther 4 года назад

Didn't want to trigger the new world order bots on RU-vid

@alphamikeomega5728 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

*HEHEHE! NOTHING BAD HAPPENS TO THE KENNEDYS!*

@ZephWraen 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

Always remember, those are stories for another time.

@crazypo0d0g 4 года назад

Its definitely more for him than for us.

@Pineapply_Queen 4 года назад

I hope its forshadowing future videos.

@cameronross8812 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@datadivanet 3 года назад

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

@katamarankatamaranovich9986 3 года назад

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

@cpob2013 3 года назад

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

@zsoltsandor3814 3 года назад

So say we all!

@thetalantonx 3 года назад

@@zsoltsandor3814 So say we all!

@jasonwilkins1969 3 года назад

😁

@MrSkyButWhy 4 года назад

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

@PVS3 4 года назад

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

@goddy5890 4 года назад

Oof

@ZeldaboyOG 4 года назад

It felt like he caught me red-handed.

@SgtPotShot 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

@@SgtPotShot John Kramer who?

@HyperionWasabi 4 года назад

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

@z-beeblebrox 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@jaydmatacarita 4 года назад

Like a carpenter building stairs...

@sirdiealot53 4 года назад

I knew mckinley...forgot about the cat.

@michael_betts 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@seanj4119 4 года назад

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

@PsychoMuffinSDM 4 года назад

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

@JamesNewham Год назад

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.

@benmark2353 4 года назад

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

@TheWaynester101 4 года назад

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

@cougar2k720 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

A video for another time i suppose.

@superbroadcaster 4 года назад

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

@logion567 4 года назад

@@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.

@Rhyzal_ 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

Isn't the plural of staff "staves"?

@joshcain1032 4 года назад

@@blunderingfool Both are valid.

@seneca983 4 года назад

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

@Rhyzal_ 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

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

@hiimryan2388 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@limepop340 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

That's why the title says "In America"

@hiimryan2388 4 года назад

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

@Funtime_1008 4 года назад

@@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

@placeholder4029 2 года назад

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

@jjjjjjjjj99 4 года назад

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

@sion8 4 года назад

Well they are human after all.

@RainaRamsay 4 года назад

That's true. Very relatable

@nathanberrigan9839 4 года назад

And takes days off without officially taking days off.

@starwarssith 4 года назад

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

@jjjjjjjjj99 4 года назад

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

@tornbubble 3 года назад

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

@dannypipewrench533 2 года назад

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 2 года назад

It was not a hard guess

@AdamMGTF 2 года назад

I had to look up the other two.

@rkr9861 4 года назад

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

@jaojao1768 4 года назад

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

@ValkyrieTiara 4 года назад

@@jaojao1768 same lol

@Delgen1951 4 года назад

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

@elanhernandez 4 года назад

@@Delgen1951 Dallas

@melon_grove5694 4 года назад

Explain for the non American?

@leatherneck7778 3 года назад

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 2 года назад

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 2 года назад

@@dannypipewrench533 *mission failed successfully*

@dannypipewrench533 2 года назад

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

@pipolwes000 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

As long as it's Keifer Sutherland

@VxT0TALxV 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@PencilSticks 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@watajob 4 года назад

Sweet mother of Jesus! ANOTHER mistake?!

@zsfekete5211 4 года назад

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

@Gallic_Gabagool 4 года назад

@Ryah Green why

@skylerausten2867 4 года назад

@@zsfekete5211 Since 1890, actually!

@x--. 4 года назад

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

@mpaul236 4 года назад

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

@RetroGameSpacko 4 года назад

It was a perfect fit to my thoughts.

@ryanlong1 4 года назад

Yup!

@ZardoDhieldor 4 года назад

You can tell he has been a teacher.

@nhancao4790 4 года назад

@@ZardoDhieldor He was a teacher before doing RU-vid.

@JLU41 3 года назад

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

@dannypipewrench533 2 года назад

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.

@TheEpiCool 4 года назад

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

@stevencooper4422 4 года назад

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

@Marinealver 4 года назад

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

4 года назад

time stamp: 7:29

@FearsomeMedic 4 года назад

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

@i_am_ergo 4 года назад

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

@hieronymusnervig8712 4 года назад

Ohhh, now I get it

@xKuukkelix 4 года назад

@@i_am_ergo same

@boahneelassmal 4 года назад

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

@jessenicoletta4160 4 года назад

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.

@MarshallChems 4 года назад

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

@screamsinrussian5773 4 года назад

@ELLIE DOUGLAS no problem

@rassicr 4 года назад

@MarshallChems And yet, here we are lol

@-AAA-147 4 года назад

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

@mirjanbouma 4 года назад

@Sgt. VinDoy I was confused, thank you.

@gerstein03 2 года назад

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

@woah-jtv9775 4 года назад

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

@dps3 4 года назад

The more you know

@ashleyoldershaw4425 4 года назад

"Nice" - Me

@rneumeye 4 года назад

Are those real terms? I didn't think there were actual ordinals past thrice. 🤷‍♂️

@Infinite_Archive 4 года назад

@@rneumeye I don't think those are "official" terms but I'm gonna start using them as such now.

@daerdevvyl4314 4 года назад

Not lice, not scary spice, not vanilla ice, not roll the dice, not miami vice, not mice, not fried rice, but eric weiss.

@williamtench2047 4 года назад

Welcome back to the poor person chat!

@_aragornyesyes_7171 4 года назад

@enricocosta4441 4 года назад

Well...

@steelyboi2554 4 года назад

yep, we just cant afford it

@nyooom7467 4 года назад

Ello, what do we ‘ave ‘ere?

@devinlastnamenotneeded8521 4 года назад

Lmao

@debolinabanerjee820 4 года назад

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

@trybunt 4 года назад

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

@debolinabanerjee820 4 года назад

@@Corgi_fax Will have to check it out!

@debolinabanerjee820 4 года назад

@@trybunt Really scary!

@conor_01 4 года назад

Same

@crazeecat7441 4 года назад

Same

@enriquebenedicto506 3 года назад

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 2 года назад

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 2 года назад

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. :)

@kendallcarter3491 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@mateowang6570 4 года назад

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

@marischal3 4 года назад

@@ShadoSpartan44 Same!

@TrigramThunder 4 года назад

@@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 3 года назад

I thought he was science or English?

@harrytaylor9564 4 года назад

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

@user-sn8oe5sb1b 4 года назад

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

@KaNoke101 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

She's a fracking Cylon!

@harrytaylor9564 4 года назад

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

@fmobus 4 года назад

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

@congruentcrib 7 месяцев назад

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.”

@doraorak 3 года назад

Instructions unclear: Some people with animal costumes stormed the senate

@bobbygronert5841 3 года назад

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

@AureliusLaurentius1099 3 года назад

@@bobbygronert5841 You missed the "go home" part

@infinitehonkworks195 3 года назад

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

@SharkOSix 3 года назад

Wait... animals now touring inside fedral areas

@SharkOSix 3 года назад

Wow I never knew

@microlobbies2378 4 года назад

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

@The_Guy_You_Love_To_Hate 4 года назад

Yes.

@dolphinsniper 4 года назад

This sounds like a reference.

@Slayer5301 4 года назад

@@dolphinsniper Family Guy I think

@gordonjohnson2497 4 года назад

320 million

@whoiamiamnot2104 4 года назад

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.

@jamescannon5255 4 года назад

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

@sion8 4 года назад

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

@CodexTestsYT 4 года назад

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

@Z_MIB Год назад

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

@nowaise 4 года назад

"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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

It's immediately understandable to Catan players, though.

@DuckieMcduck 4 года назад

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

@BB_Sebring 4 года назад

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

@Borednesss 4 года назад

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?

@insix3446 4 года назад

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!**

@spazerdazer8421 4 года назад

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

@optimisticnihilist7705 4 года назад

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

@jmallinson 4 года назад

@@optimisticnihilist7705 someone lives in America damn

@optimisticnihilist7705 4 года назад

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

@hongseng3670 4 года назад

WallTz BURN THE RICH they won’t stop us

@optimisticnihilist7705 4 года назад

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

@dolfyrantsparodies608 2 месяца назад

This aged well

@himagainstill 4 года назад

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

@JonnySublime 4 года назад

Simon and GarfieldMcKinley

@owlcowl 4 года назад

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

@JonSmith-hk1bq 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@owlcowl 4 года назад

@@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.

@aaronsmith9688 3 года назад

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

@adt4864 Год назад

Grey throws in some really nice literary assemblies in his scripts

@laotanfaji5728 Год назад

I was looking for this comment

@martin0499 Год назад

done, like those towers

@2rik9 4 года назад

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

@mjengel84 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@pieoverlord 4 года назад

I was wondering if this was on purpose.

@Dsingis 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

@@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.

@DrKlausTrophobie 2 года назад

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

@porchelana321 4 года назад

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

@AxxLAfriku 4 года назад

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

@webbowser8834 4 года назад

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

@alexrogers777 4 года назад

"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 4 года назад

ASk the clock king!

@neatoelectro3687 4 года назад

Where did it go!?!?!?!

@CJT3X 4 года назад

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

@sion8 4 года назад

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

@Stlwartheart14 4 года назад

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.

@CaliforniumEra 3 года назад

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

@alexfido2935 3 года назад

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

@doraorak 3 года назад

Lmao

@lukethompson2714 3 года назад

Yup

@ShamikShah 3 года назад

This vid has never been more relevant

@Ali-xw5nw 3 года назад

CGP Grey is a prophet.

@letsdoodlesomethinghome3404 3 года назад

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

@ThePamastymui 3 года назад

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

@gooberone 2 года назад

100% death rate

@jdcrosier2682 4 года назад

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

@quantumplutonian6414 4 года назад

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

@timothystamm3200 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@cptyolowaffle 4 года назад

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

@haildrop8346 4 года назад

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

@ihaterng452 4 года назад

lmao true

@goldenfiberwheat238 4 года назад

Lol yeah a 100% death rate

@cemalnaciakbulut 4 года назад

@@ihaterng452 I hate your profile picture

@HansMaurer. 4 года назад

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

@goldenfiberwheat238 4 года назад

Hans Maurer I was joking

@mehhhhh421 4 года назад

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

@deprogramm 4 года назад

yes actually

@MasteringJohn 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

more like, congressional bickering.

@agiles5196 4 года назад

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

@deathofgames694 4 года назад

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

@Zulatek666 3 года назад

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!

@martinsedlak1498 4 года назад

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

@Fir3Chi3f 4 года назад

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

@benjisaac 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

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

@kruks 4 года назад

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

@johnchessant3012 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@hereticslayer5721 4 года назад

Garfield was president

@julianstarkey1215 4 года назад

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

@marlonmoncrieffe0728 4 года назад

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

@SubduedRadical 4 года назад

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

@bassplayer2011ify 4 года назад

And we will probably never see a video on it.

@allianabogado1617 3 года назад

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

@jsquared1013 3 года назад

@@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.

@xxpoisonblxx 3 года назад

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

@allianabogado1617 3 года назад

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

@themelonman4303 3 года назад

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

@Vienna3080 4 года назад

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

@joey4592 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

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

@quiphule78 4 года назад

Natalie Vu wasn’t their fault for ABC dropping them

@aaronchristensen8333 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

Its good show

@Nightmare88ish 4 года назад

"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 4 года назад

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 4 года назад

@@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 4 года назад

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

@yozen1995 4 года назад

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.

@ThomasG_ 3 года назад

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 3 года назад

Lol XD

@captivecreative 3 года назад

Lmao

@toastom 3 года назад

Hello, fellow Thomas G!

@ThomasG_ 3 года назад

@@toastom *gasp* Another!

@benschneider3413 3 года назад

But nobody wants him to become president.

@adt4864 2 года назад

I love that the older congress members at 5:55 have older leaves on their wreaths

@KentoKei 4 года назад

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

@dorkmax7073 4 года назад

If all else fails, yes

@braintwo3398 4 года назад

Plan C

@braintwo3398 4 года назад

@Ancient 6.6 Plan P

@BigBangAttack-mt6pz 4 года назад

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

@KentoKei 4 года назад

@@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

@imtoolazyyyy 4 года назад

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

@Tomartyr 2 года назад

Isn't it weird how whenever you ask a branch of government how much power they should have the answer is always yes?

@OrginalDravas 4 года назад

American Government system in a nutshell "Shenanigans beget more Shenanigans"

@Bloodlyshiva 4 года назад

You can blame the ever-fractured nature of the states for that. It's a wonder the place managed to even survive its founding.

@duncanmurphy8085 4 года назад

Government in a nutshell*.

@Hyperversum3 4 года назад

@@Bloodlyshiva That's a good part of It, but also being a democratic system from the 18th century doesn't help. The British may spam about the Magna Carta but it's not the entire Constitution of the modern United Kingdom.

@MrZemme 4 года назад

@@Hyperversum3 I think many Constitutional scholars would argue we have the exact opposite problem. Since we no longer seem to follow the Constitutional as originally intended, we try to act like Modern European Parliamentary Democracies which is a bad way to act for a huge, wildly diverse, and rambunctious republic.

@cmdrblaze6487 4 года назад

@@Bloodlyshiva I'm an american and i can indeed confirm that it is a miracle we've lasted so long, for a wile after the founding it really seemed like we wouldn't, really wasn't till the end of the civil war that we where cemented as a unified country (ironically)

@gjones9356 4 года назад

The “it was Garfield and McKinley” cracked me up.

@medexamtoolscom 4 года назад

Why?

@scottrainey2375 4 года назад

@@medexamtoolscom the two famous assassinations of course are lincoln and kennedy, so the animation of the student raising his hand and Grey saying "it was garfield and mckinley" is answering the implied question "who were the other two?" hope this helps!

@bogueji1 4 года назад

Everyone knows that Lincoln and Kennedy were assassinated, very few people even know who Garfield and Mckinley were, talk less of the fact that they were assassinated.

@emmautterback3927 4 года назад

Booth: I'm racist >:( Guiteau: I WANT TO BE AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE Czolgosz: government is bad lol Booth: Uh I wanted to kill someone idk wait where did that other gunshot come from

@emmautterback3927 4 года назад

(Dis)honorable Mentions: Zangara: wtf rich people my stomach has the sickness ow oof my bones Byck: They lie about what's right, they lie about what's wrong, they lie about the FUCKIN' HAMBURGERS! Fromme: charles manson owo Hinckley Jr.: hey Jodie Foster that movie it uh was a good movie and I love you I love you Jodie Foster marry me if I kill the president you will marry me