Kamala Harris is Acting President; ousting out the old triumvirate of Joe, Hunter, and Jill. There was no Constitutional process for this. There's talk this coup was permitted because the 25th Amendment was raised; which as Ace notes means everyone in the chain-of-command knew that it should be raised.
But we are all going along with Acting President Harris, anyway. Hollywood wills, Hollywood's will be done. I recall Harris posters in science-fiction from maybe ten years ago. Hollywood has willed Harris for some time now.
It may pain my readers to read this, but Harris' coup enjoys some precedent. "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too!" became "you're getting John Tyler" scant weeks into the Tippecanoe Presidency. There was no succession-mechanic in William Henry Harrison's Constitution; Tyler just slipped in, gave orders, and dared anyone to say different. Neither South Carolina nor Massachusetts said different.
Tyler's regime had more legitimacy than Edith Wilson did, anyway.
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