Addition: The only two federal elected offices are President and Vice-President. It looks like this choice by Trump follows the rule of suitability to take over at a moments notice. His every waking moment should be spent preparing for, if not that, the following four or eight years. In this case they would, to an extent, lean on each other.

Hillary of course has proven she cannot lead, nor manage, nor supervise. The real lesson learned from massive failure of both herself and her trainer and responsible supervisor. That's what happens when citizens fail in their responsibility and concentrate only on their rights - to steal, loot, and plunder.

A change that would help is get the Cabinet Secretaries out of the Act of Succession. They have zero votes which in itself is a denial of due process and the role of the citizen in selection. they should be concentrating on their job and training their successors as managers and supervisors - for leadership we presumably have the military itself . It's sort of a peacetime, war time chain of command.

The Chief of Staff in war time should be equal to the SecDef and Called something more appropriate Commander, US Armed Forces would suffice. The top two civilians would still be in charge with two backups selected by the two Congressional Houses.

As for the succession which so far has given us the horror of Pelosi it 's up to the Congress and the President's signature.

I submit that the order should be members of the senate, the Governors, members of the House and if 635 aren't enough we're in real trouble. Better to keep the top two separated.

Why? Votes? Senators are elected by entire States. The approval of the Representatives could be added and vice versa. Which means either a stated individual or the Senator Pro Tem and the Speaker would be the only one with any urgency. Surprise we've gone about 15% of our history without a VP. There is no time requirement for selection or approval.

Governors second and Representatives last due to sparcity of votes. Reps represent about half a million citizens they are elected by a significantly smaller number. Not even Nevada nor Rhode Island can produce less votes for Governor than they can for a Representative.

Last. Same party. That stops a Pelosi style coup. In the main it's a case of due process. The nation votes for hillary and she croaks which looks likely absent a diet and personal trainer, the VP at the same time then the third in line would be one selected by the House or 435 people or the Senate if changed at present. No requirement to keep Pelosi out if Trump were in office and croaked but ....let's not get too much into horror fiction.

First things first. Citizens control the State through their votes. If that situation occurs which is evident the first answer is DON"T vote for them again. The primary culprit is the enablers.

Second is expand control don't lose control. Recall is available at the local and state level and if you are in a state that doesn't have it it's a slave state - get it.

Federal level we should have it but despite the Constitution clearly stating other than age and residency requirements AND leaving the conduct of the selection to the States that somehow these servants of the states are exempt once the Senate or Representative Houses accept them.

The fix for that has never been attempted and it is pay the base salary and let the feds pay the added costs of travel and living expenses. But base salary as primary employment requires taxes and is proof of who employs whom.

That string having been run out You don't punish just one of them with recall it punishes all of them so a bad political party at the federal level can be punished at the state level with recall or not voting them into office. True we don't have None Of The Above but whose fault is that? The citizens. No reason why it can't be implemented along with a straight Yes or No if only one candidate is running. Same as with any proposition or question or proposal.

Any or all of that would have fixed thei problem long ago but the worst part is the eligible voter pool provides only half the registered voters a lot of them don't actually vote. Clearly then half the country has become disintereasted and usually because they have no representation and if they do vote their vote is tampered with by changing the name or results under winner take all rules.

I'm registered this year but only voted in the primary to cover local issues to avoid having my vote stolen and re-assigned to someone else.

You've seen the results of this year and you've also seen how the Government party and it's two halves has moved to block any further efforts at them controlling and rigging the elections Short of Trumps speech the problem is ignored so WHY are you enabling them year after year?

The problem with that it is negates the reasons for any other steps. as long over half the nation is participating in the enabling. In fact it blocks the need for anything further because it clearly shows at least half or more of the nation is not unhappy.

That one little fact is probably why the military hasn't upheld their oath of office which would be the next step but it shows how perilously weak the government really is. They can't remove the military's requirement for that oath except by amendment or ignoring it and that would give the military the reason it needs to act. 'support and defend the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.' A second way is to subvert and suborn the military into also ignoring their oaths of office which considering the way they have been treated by Obomba ain't going to happen. The third way is reduce the size of the military which he has done by half and that the most important half and suborn the remaining half which hasn't worked except for the careerists he appointed.

The next way is also an ongoing Obumbler project is to increase the size of the protective echelon or as you know it the DHS to the size and power of the military. Protective Echelon is from a German term schutzstaffel whose main and real purpose is to protect the government. I'd say most of what they do is in that area of concern. I don't think they take the same oath. Howeveer many are former military.

But the intent of the nation as a whole is 50.5% over half are happy. If tht figure went to 55% or 60% be a different story.

Why should they. Consider the largest tax increase from 2008. Devaluation of the buying power of the dollar, regardless of the price of gas, is still a fact. That's done through inflation and that's done by going heavily in debt and then repudiating or refusing the debt. Welshing is another word. So 30% cut in buying power or one third it's value did NOT show up in COLA but instead two groups got hit and hit hard. Retirees who are done working or cannot work and the unfunded military retirement. Another reason the military does not much care for Obungler they see him as Oburglar.

And there's anothere one coming as the bill to pay his debt is about due. So more inflation, devaluation and refusing the debt by decreasing the value of retirement or college savings or home savings is going to show up again. It was no Recession it was a scam.

Long winded but that 's where we sit. As for armed insurrection? On what grounds? Over half the nation is happy look at the amount voting to keep us in power!

And there it ends.

The solution is

QUIT Enabling
TAKE control
MAKE changes

In that order

In this couch potato nation. Fat chance.

And now you know why we have a Hillary and a Donald as candidates. Remember the saying always take advantage of a good crisis and if one doesn't come along manufacture one?

I give you the present elections Hillary and Trump ARE the crisis.

And they have trapped you once again by controlling who can get on the ballots even before they rig the results.

i really don't think anyone in DC gives a fig which one is elected their power is real and secured by the greatest wall ever built. Couch Potato Citizens who 'don't get it.'

To the point they don't even pretend to honor the Constitution part of Constitutional Republic - except for some fig leafs that like Contract with America will be watered down and disappear until next election.