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On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 20:10:53 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:

>On Apr 12, 2025 at 12:24:08 PM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 18:48:18 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Apr 12, 2025 at 11:38:46 AM PDT, "shawn" <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>  On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 17:56:42 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
>>>>  <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>>  Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>  On 4/11/25 10:47 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  Hey! I was able to watch without knowing the revelation, although the
>>>>>>>  Wikipedia article spoils it.
>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  I was impressed with Dan Fogelman's writing. Fogelman has done some good
>>>>>>>  work for tv, The Neighbors (starring Jami Gertz and Lenny Venito),
>>>>>>>  Galavant, and Pitch. He does the 27 simultaneous timelines thing as he
>>>>>>>  did in the pilot episode of This Is Us, also starring Sterling K. Brown
>>>>>>>  and with a huge revelation. That's annoying.
>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  Brown plays Agent Collins.
>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  His kid is played by the son of the actor who played Wallace on Veronica
>>>>>>>  Mars. The president's shrewish ex-wife is played by the evil Tess from
>>>>>>>  Smallville. The president (seen only in flashback) is played by the
>>>>>>>  goofy Prince Edward from Enchanted.
>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  Freckled-face Julianne Nicholson plays another supervising Secret
>>>>>>>  Service agent (I think); 
>>>>>  
>>>>>>  She is definitely not that!
>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  Sarah Shahi is listed but didn't appear.
>>>>>  
>>>>>>  She doesn't appear until episode #2.
>>>>>  
>>>>>>>  Jon Beavers is another agent, Billy, whom Collins relies upon who was
>>>>>>>  coincidentally poisoned and unconscious during the assasination.
>>>>>  
>>>>>>  Not poisoned - just sleeping.
>>>>>  
>>>>>  That was just coincidence? Ok
>>>>  
>>>>  He's a bit of an idiot. More so than one might expect for a Secret
>>>>  Service agent on the President's detail, but it helps the story move
>>>>  forward.
>>> 
>>> Were they really even Secret Service anymore at that point? And were they all
>>> actually former USSS agents?
>>> 
>>> I got the impression that they were essentially just personal security since
>>> the world ended and the USSS didn't even exist anymore and that some of them
>>> may not even have been USSS before it all collapsed. Like the psychopathic
>>> little girl agent. She didn't strike me as former USSS, just someone Sinatra
>>> had embedded into the president's security.
>>> 
>> 
>> I don't know about the girl but the two guys in question were both
>> USSS. Since the guy was officially President when they went into
>> hiding I would say he was still the President and they were still his
>> official Secret Service protection detail. After all isn't the entire
>> idea is to have continuity of leadership even in the case of a nuclear
>> war?
>
>Well, he was still walking around and being treated as president long after he
>would have termed out of office, so things aren't being run "legally" anymore
>in the first place.
>

What would be the legal situation if the President's term was up BUT
there was a war or some other crisis underway such that we couldn't
run an election? Does the President keep acting as President until
such time as there can be an election? Is it just an unknown
situation?