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~~3rd~~ 2nd in line for the Presidency.
Thanks @Fraylor@lemm.ee
Second. people need to stop assuming the actual president is in line. He's already president.
Come on, you know nobody is assuming the president is "in line" for the presidency. They are just counting from the president at 1 and using the term in line. The speaker is the third person to be president after the president and vice president.
But that's still not what the phrase "1st in line" means. Despite everyone's misunderstanding.
Prince William is 1st in line for the Throne.
Yes people are using the phrase wrong, not assuming the president is "in line" too. It's pretty obvious what they mean.
I'm sure logically it makes sense in the heads of most people, but I see this repeated so often in the last 24 hours since assbag was picked for speaker I felt it could use clarification.