The president is probably a self aware super computer President John Henry Eden in a bunker somewhere.

These are the kind of anthology episodes I would like to see.. different military bases aircraft carriers area 51 hell even a space station episode would be amazing small islands there's so many different scenarios you can come up with to show the beginning of the falling out and all these different types of places.

It is kinda disappointing, that the main show never featured any famous sites of Washington DC. Imagine them search in the White House or Congress for some info on what happened and where the Government went... It's really horrible of the writers not exploring anything at all.

For a long time I thought The Walking Dead would end with 1 of 3 options.
1) The main cast all die
2) The crew would come across the army making a push across country like in WWZ book
3) They walk off unto the sunset just to live another day.

Never could buy that slow moving zombies could over take the military. They eventually could be funneled into kill boxes

The thing about the Wildfire Virus is that there is zero containment. Everyone is already infected, any death from any cause will result in a walker that could potentially create more. All it takes is one unobserved death inside even the most secure bunker can spell certain doom for the occupants.

They basically took the idea of the Enclave from Fallout and applied it to the walking dead with the CRM, Padre, etc. My guess is Maj Gen Beale was the highest ranking official left so he's serving the role of the pseudo president now just based on the line of succession

I want to know how the zombies are still alive 12 years later. I know it’s a show, but literally no science backs up the zombies walking around for 12 years with minimal food and the elements cooking and freezing them. The flesh should have dissolved and fell off within the first few years.

I have to believe when the Alicia actress said she was leaving, the writers vindictively wrote her following the senator as way to humiliate her prior to leaving. Nothing else makes any sense that somebody could write something that stupid.

Doomsday bunker, if he even left the White House. No way Walkers would breach that security fence. The Walkers are so slow just one Secret Service agent could drop a hundred of them in just a few minutes. The White House has snipers on the roof. There are dozens of expert marksmen there with a ton of weapons and bullets. They have a ton of supplies and vehicles. They could drive around the city running down Walkers in the President's limo. That thing is very heavy with bullet resistant tires and windows.

Fear the Walking Dead changed a few dynamics, IMO. We saw someone with enough command authority survive to give legitimate orders to the USS Pennsylvania to nuke Chicago, and of course the beginning of PADRE. In the first seasons we saw the National Guard establishing safe zones with supplies in LA and they had helicopters, supplies, and communication from someone, and a secure hospital, I bet that was a "PADRE Phase 1". I also wonder if the Civic Republic was part of the overall PADRE plan, but it got taken over by someone who saw the old world as gone and they needed to mobilize for a new kind of future.
Also, in "Walking Dead: The World Beyond", we saw Huck's Marine squad clue in to needing head shots within a few hours after the zombie uprising, so it is safe to assume that not all military units lost cohesion and broke apart. It would be interesting to see what happened on any of the nuclear carriers at sea. A Nimitz-class carrier could hold out for a long time and send shore raiding parties for food. A sort of pirate Battlestar Galactica scenario. 😄

I don’t think knowing Who the president was doesn’t matter, but like that senator in fear, The Walking Dead, he might be underground in a bunker too

The problem with the Bunker idea is people are still effected...once one person dies of anything the bunker is compromised.

I felt Deanna as a member of Congress would have been President under the succession law.

When Maggie went into the subway with Negan there were pictographs and cash in suitcases left behind.  I feel this was a setup that never got a pay off.  This seamed like it was about a rich well to do family or someone high up in the government.

That's an interesting thought, I would like to read a series about the third generation in a zombie apocalypse fighting for resources. Each fraction having overriding "authority" from long dead forebears.

  --  The Trust's United States Army, born from a group of Congressmen and whats left of the military industrial complex.

  --  President Teller's United States Army, formed from a Senator and some Generals.

--    The President's continuity of government program taskforce, which only had 3 Joint Chiefs and a former Vice President.

--    The Revolutionary Brotherhood, the offspring of Marines that turned rebellious to save the local town.

--    The United States Navy, started with an Admiral with a carrier group.

As for TWD, without followers a President is just another asshole who can't farm.

I think Stealth from Ex Heroes had it right:
“So the Mount is now under the Army’s control?”

“Technically, unless you seceded from the United States at some point in the past two years … yeah.”

“Which United States are you referring to?”

The question froze Smith and Freedom. It jarred the others, too. The man in the suit coughed once. “I … I’m not sure I understand your question.”

Stealth crossed her arms. “Which states are still united? California has not had a functioning state government for twenty-two months now. There are no social services in effect. No taxes levied or laws enforced. Its borders and lands are not maintained. As a state, California has ceased to exist by any possible definition. From our own limited reconnaissance, I can say with some certainty it is not alone in this respect. Alaska. Arizona. Florida. Hawaii. Massachusetts. Nevada. New York. Oregon. Texas. Washington.” She paused for a moment, then added, “The District of Columbia.”

Smith shifted his feet.

“So I ask,” she continued, “which states are still running and operating to the extent they can form a united nation, one that you and these soldiers can represent?”

Excerpt From Ex-Patriots, book 2 of the Ex- Heroes series by Peter Clines

I think the thing that's always made it impossible for me to take this show seriously is stuff like P.A.D.R.E. Legitimately, whenever the government or military are involved, the show will basically be like "So they built this fortressed area with layers of barriers and a bunch of guards with advanced weaponry and a bunch of supplies and training. But then they all died."

Which leads to the question, "Okay, but how did they all die with all of those preperations and effective countermeasures?"

To which the show's response is universally "I dunno. Zombies broke in and killed them, I guess. No idea how they actually managed to do it, but believe us, they totally did."

In the event of catastrophic, Life ending tragedy like a zombie apocalypse, would anybody really want the government in charge any more?

TWD teased going to Washington and seeing what happened to the government but we never got that we just ran into these communities run by Negan type characters.

In Galveston Texas, there is only one bunker that was built upon. This is an Island, so the bunker is on the highest point, the seawall side. I know this because as a child they turned the bunker into a spook house one year. Now a hotel stands over and around the bunker and it cannot be seen. Older BOI people know what I mean... I don't really want to give this hotel extra traffic, so I won't say their name.