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Designated Survivor (Cabinet Member Becomes President)

Posted on 09/21/2016 8:28:35 PM PDT by goldstategop

Designated Survivor - a new series based on the concept of a Cabinet member becoming President. Kiefer Sutherland is outstanding as new President Tim Kirland after the Capitol and top-level US leadership is wiped out in a bomb blast.


TOPICS: History; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abc; designatedsurvivor; hollywood; kiefersutherland; moviereview; presidentkirkland
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To: Impy

Expecting a show like that with impeccable leftist credentials not to attack Conservatives is like putting Anthony Weiner in a room with the girls from the 1st season of “The Facts of Life” and not showing them his pants candy.


41 posted on 09/22/2016 12:57:47 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: doug from upland

One thing you can count on it won’t be Muslims.


42 posted on 09/22/2016 1:19:39 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: fortheDeclaration
Yeah, it'll be "right-wing White supremacists."
43 posted on 09/22/2016 1:28:54 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

He vomits into the sink, does that work for you? :-)


44 posted on 09/22/2016 3:01:06 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: goldstategop

If he was secretary of HUD, the character is a good socialist. It will be a liberal fantasy show.


45 posted on 09/22/2016 3:25:57 AM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: Impy
Re: Anyway, was I the only one who watched that was yelling at Kiefer to take off that damn Cornell hoodie?

Gadzooks, Imp-- Just wait until they have the guy who did the bombing wearing an National Rifle Association t-shirt, a GOP Blazer or something pointing at Donal Trump deplorables.

46 posted on 09/22/2016 3:46:19 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: fortheDeclaration

That was my thought exactly, but I think the producers will leave it hanging until they see the reactions in social media. but their first and favorite culprit will be the Right, just as the Rigt is now the enemy on NCIS NOLA.


47 posted on 09/22/2016 6:44:10 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: catnipman
plot ripped off from tom clancy’s “Executive Orders”.

IMO Clancy's most boring book.
The book leading up to Executive Order, 'Debt of Honor' one of his best.

'Debt of Honor' was very timely. It was published at a time Slick Willy was in a trade war with Japan.
The book ends with a Japanese pilot flying his 747 into the Capitol during a State of the Union speech and killing all the Country's leaders.
Really good book.

48 posted on 09/22/2016 6:46:13 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: aimhigh

Bull was bull.

Too pat and predictible from start to finish.

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DS was good. I hope it maintains. The Kiefer prez is too much like some of the typical Hollywood prez’s. Kiefer certainly seemed to be leaning toward being wimpy — until the private meet with the Iranian ambassador. Maybe more of Jack Bauer will come through in future episodes.


49 posted on 09/22/2016 6:47:42 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: DesertRhino

Continuity of Government is predicated on sacrificing the continuity of citizens it purports to serve.

That is, The idea of CoG is that the government must survive at all costs even if that results in the demise of millions of its citizens.


50 posted on 09/22/2016 7:26:06 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

As an aside, in a just world there would be no “Secretary of Housing and Urban Development”.


51 posted on 09/22/2016 7:47:13 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: T-Bone Texan

Don’t think I agree with you but I am interested in what you believe is a more favorable choice if something like this were to happen?


52 posted on 09/22/2016 8:03:16 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: T-Bone Texan

That I can heartily agree with:)


53 posted on 09/22/2016 8:09:15 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Impy

I have always thought that about the Veep. The Constitution dedignates the VP as the new POTUS so why he is not somewhere else at an occasion like SoTU has always puzzled me. Do the Veeps get such a big kick from sitting behind POTUS? Well aside from Crazy Uncle Joe...


54 posted on 09/22/2016 8:17:01 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Vinnie

Tom Clancy was prescient in many ways.


55 posted on 09/22/2016 8:20:28 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: goldstategop
Reminds me of a Clancy book I read....was it Debt of Honor or Executive Orders?

.....can remember but Jack Ryan makes an Awesome President.

56 posted on 09/22/2016 8:21:27 AM PDT by thingumbob (I'm a bitter clinger...I dare you to take my gun)
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To: xkaydet65
The US Vice President is also the President of the Senate. It is in that role that he attends the SoU.
57 posted on 09/22/2016 8:53:17 AM PDT by garyb
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To: xkaydet65

My opinion was/is that HUD should not exist, nor for that matter several other cabinet-level positions, like both DOEs.

I was not and do not opine on the nuts and bolts of succession.


58 posted on 09/22/2016 9:02:34 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: garyb

I am aware of his Constitutional office. My question dealt with POTUS & VPOTUS being within five feet of each other for 90 minutes every January. SoTU is made in the House Chamber and it is the Speaker’s role as host. The VP is ornamental as no vote of the Senate will be taken. Therefore prudence might indicate he be somewhere else.


59 posted on 09/22/2016 9:31:53 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Impy

It’s not a Constitutional requirement that the SOTU be a speech delivered in person to Congress. Washington started doing it as a speech, and everyone after followed suit.


60 posted on 09/22/2016 9:41:13 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (Bear His image. Bring His message. Be the Church.)
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