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kentuck

(111,104 posts) Tue Apr 17, 2018, 10:29 AM Apr 2018

Does anyone watch "Homeland"?

Sunday's episode showed the President's Cabinet, including VP and Chief of Staff, working behind the scenes to use the 25th Amendment against an incompetent President. It was too close to real.

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Does anyone watch "Homeland"? (Original Post) kentuck Apr 2018 OP

on Designated Survivor they are going to do same thing dsc Apr 2018 #1

Yup... sure was... hlthe2b Apr 2018 #2

chief of staff is on the president's side. not clear what game vp is playing. unblock Apr 2018 #3

dsc

(52,163 posts)

1. on Designated Survivor they are going to do same thing

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 10:30 AM

Apr 2018

but against a good President

hlthe2b

(102,298 posts)

2. Yup... sure was...

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 10:50 AM

Apr 2018

Everything this season is scarily real.

unblock

(52,257 posts)

3. chief of staff is on the president's side. not clear what game vp is playing.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 11:00 AM

Apr 2018

they finally got some of the mechanics right, eventually the chief of staff explained that they need 2/3rds in each house to really kick her out.

on the other hand, they had the supreme court challenge whether or not the president could fire multiple member of the cabinet at the same time, saying it was unprecedented.

imho, it's silly to even think that if the president can fire one cabinet member but not fire several at the same time. that makes no sense, there wouldn't be any supreme court challenge on that basis.

also, nixon had his entire cabinet submit resignation letters when he started his second term. ok, maybe not technically "firing", but if they're saying "unprecedented", they could have mentioned this.

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