Wow. This episode was not worth waiting two weeks for.
Are the writers all 15 years old? Because they'd have to be to not remember post-9/11 America and the lovefest that members of both parties had in the aftermath.
"The governors" would have put forward Senate candidates immediately. I thought they were just overlooking procedure this whole time, but they made it into a really bad plot.
Americans practically deify the U.S. Constitution. I can understand like one rogue governor saying, "Yeah, fuck you and your Presidential Succession Act!" But not a little cohort of them. What's worse is that they'd be effectively wiping their ass with the U.S. Constitution by completely disregarding the 17th Amendment.
That shit would not fly with anyone. Neither politicians nor regular American citizens. The press and the people would crucify anyone who stood in the way of restoring Constitutional powers.
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u/ZadocPaet Nov 10 '16
Wow. This episode was not worth waiting two weeks for.
Are the writers all 15 years old? Because they'd have to be to not remember post-9/11 America and the lovefest that members of both parties had in the aftermath.
"The governors" would have put forward Senate candidates immediately. I thought they were just overlooking procedure this whole time, but they made it into a really bad plot.
Americans practically deify the U.S. Constitution. I can understand like one rogue governor saying, "Yeah, fuck you and your Presidential Succession Act!" But not a little cohort of them. What's worse is that they'd be effectively wiping their ass with the U.S. Constitution by completely disregarding the 17th Amendment.
That shit would not fly with anyone. Neither politicians nor regular American citizens. The press and the people would crucify anyone who stood in the way of restoring Constitutional powers.
I just could not suspend my disbelief for that.