This was useful information. Is there others threads on this?
Sorry, I just re-read the post and, as I tend to spew these out in a couple minutes, I noticed some repetitive/redundant phraseology at the beginning. I know a lot of people think that I'm constantly posting, but I type at a remarkable speed (my co-workers have remarked about it), most likely due to this old lady at my Jesuit High School who taught us typing on these very old typewriters (not keyboards then) which required a lot of pressure to work. And often I get comments about my tone, which tends to differ very much in writing than if I were speaking directly to people, as again, I'm interested in just getting the substance out and pay little attention to any tone or, rather, perceived tone.
In any case, there are different facets to Apostolicity: of Faith, of Holy Orders, and of Mission (aka ordinary jurisdiction). There's a clear hierarchy of these. You could possess the material offices, but if you don't have the Apostolic Faith or valid Holy Orders, you lack Apostolicity. You can have valid Holy Orders (like the Orthodox), but they too don't possess Faith or Mission (jurisdiction). Given that in this Great Apostasy, no one has all three, the Apostolicity of Faith and of Holy Orders, the two primary ones, we find only Traditional Catholics in possession of (without any distinction between R&R and sedes on this point that the OP was trying to inflame).
In any case, all jurisdiction derives from the Pope, but even in ordinary
sedevacante periods, with there being no pope in actuality (vs. in potency), the Church goes into a holding pattern where no new episcopal appointments are made (except in necessity during periods of long SV, and they need to be affirmed by the Pope that follows). Nearly all theologians hold that jurisdiction derives from Christ to the Pope and then from the Pope to the bishops, though a minority hold that Christ supplies it directly to the bishops in some capacity. But, in either case, whatever jurisdiction there is during regular periods of SV is supplied directly by Christ to the Church and is supplied to whatever extent is necessary to keep the Church functioning. So, in other words, priests continue to have jurisdiction to hear Confessions, and bishops jurisdiction to perform whatever is necessary to keep their dioceses functioning. Christ is actually the Head of the Church, and the Pope merely His vicar or stand-in, so in times of SV, Christ will supply the degree or level of jurisdiction / mission to Catholics who retain the true faith as is necessary for the salvation of souls until the Crisis is resolved.
This is also where Salza & Siscoe slip up, where they claimed that Mission or ordinary jurisdiction is THE only criterion for determining membership in the Church, so that they must conclude that Joe Biden is more Catholic than Archbishop Lefebvre. It's utterly absurd. This JJoseph might be a Salza/Siscoe follower, minion, or perhaps even one of them. I think that Salza and/or Siscoe have been banned from here a few times already.