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Source: https://www.404media.co/constitution-sections-on-due-process-and-foreign-gifts-just-vanished-from-congress-website/
Source: https://www.404media.co/constitution-sections-on-due-process-and-foreign-gifts-just-vanished-from-congress-website/
Source: https://www.404media.co/constitution-sections-on-due-process-and-foreign-gifts-just-vanished-from-congress-website/
Source: https://www.404media.co/constitution-sections-on-due-process-and-foreign-gifts-just-vanished-from-congress-website/
Source: https://www.404media.co/constitution-sections-on-due-process-and-foreign-gifts-just-vanished-from-congress-website/
Source: https://www.404media.co/constitution-sections-on-due-process-and-foreign-gifts-just-vanished-from-congress-website/
LadyofHats
if not a dictator....why dictator shaped?
OnyxPrimal
usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
What fuckers.
JustAnotherRabidToaster
*Rat* not *what*
rupinord
I know the book. It's called “Animal Farm.”
Soonitwillallbeclean
fractalsphere
The wayback machine has a nice clear diff version of the true document and their hatched version https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20250601021212/20250806023110/https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
smallteam
Congress maintains that website, not the White House or an Executive branch agency.
Republican assholes run both the Executive and Legislative branches.
Theshnazzyone
Seems republicans are now unanimous in enabling what the president wants. Among being unanimous in protecting pedophiles.
brainkandle1
They won. For forever in their minds. They don't have to do shit anymore
abbiistabbii
For people who act like the constitution is a holy document, they sure like ignoring it and restricting reading it in full.
Filanwizard
the only part of the constitution they care about is the second amendment and the religion part of the first(if its benefitting Christians), Also the 10th but only if used for red states.
ididntwannadothis
Mithi
baals
Smells like treason
Ankylosaur
That Constitution page has links to annotations and the one for Article 1 is missing the notes for the missing sections/clauses: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/<
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You can see the missing notes in an earlier version on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20250721170235/https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/
This would imply it wasn't a glitch or error, since someone would have had to selectively remove the corresponding parts from two separate documents.
Asadsadsadclown
Considering it's back to normal I would say so.
Theshnazzyone
Sounds more like an draft change that got pushed too early.
AllTheKitties
Lol, in the one they changed, section 1 ends in a semicolon. They didn't even fix the punctuation to cover their tracks..
housev1l
WTF can we even do??
EgregiousMisnomer
Nothing alone: https://www.dsausa.org/get-involved/
BlazeMarshall
The U.S. has been in a Cold Civil War since at least the 90's. This might in fact never end until it heats up.
onemarbleshort
Legally? Nothing.
Ink41d0
Uh ... armed revolt? Just a suggestion, like. Y'know, what with all the guns and people claiming they'll never let the government tell them what to do & stuffs.
LoyalToTheEnd
They seem to have also gotten rid of the Navy and the ability to govern Washington DC
Elroydb
lol as of 2:00 PM EST the annotated constitution on the website is completely down https://constitution.congress.gov/
Catumi
They made a post on bluesky earlier today blaming a "coding error" it's all back up and restored at this point.
fantabuloustimewaster
Jarjarthejedi
A coding error? For reals? What coding error selectively removes a tiny bit of content from a single chunk of text without affecting anything else? That reeks of "oh shit, they caught us, quick, make up an excuse!"
fantabuloustimewaster
nota bene: the White House does not control Congress's websites.
CedricDur
Seriously? You mean the coder in charge has 100% no ties to Trump or can be bought?
Theshnazzyone
Still kind of sus a "random glitch" removed aspects so relevant to what trump is doing.
fantabuloustimewaster
Deleting the final paragraphs of a section is the sort of thing that an array-truncation error might cause. I am currently skeptical of all explanations; I posted my screenshot just to confirm that the news story was real.
quzar
Best case interpretation is that *because* they are so relevant, new annotations were added and in a way that did something stupid like breaking formatting. And since it's just the clowns in charge they didn't test before making it live.
GIRobot
The 'coding error' has the same credibility as me going to find Sofía Vergara in my bathtub with only a whiskey and a smile.
chipjack
Seems it's back now. Probably nothing to worry about. Surely we can trust our government.
SandyRiverDL
So, since nobody's commented on it that I can see, I guess Congress is going to be looking into selling titles of nobility to the highest bidder at some point relatively soon...
INeedMoreGifMeMoreJustOneMore
What the actual fuck are you guys doing over there???
tellm1by
According to the Ministry of Truth, the constitution has never had any section about "due process" or "foreign gifts."
CedricDur
It's like having kids running the shop :D
ThomasTheWankEnglne
just the titution now. cons are no effect by it
IBroughtASpareDrainpipe
It's a website. It doesn't change anything in the Constitution. Let's not get scared for trunt's BS. trunt is 79 years old, doesn't exercise, and eats garbage. He'll be dead soon enough. Then we have to deal with his nazis.
dicedeals
Where's Nick Cage when we need him?
ChelVanin
Huh. Wonder what that’s about.
n0n53n53
just a clerical error, nothing to see here
HastyPuddingPops
Totally innocent I'm sure!
VoidForScreaming
Just a clerical error! No need to worry! Now please scan your government ID to play GTA VI
MapleSyrupMafia
"We can remove it from the website since it's the only way to read the constitution short of reading the real one, but you'd have to ask Nicolas Cage to know where it is!"
Mynamedoesntmatteronlylifematters
They are claiming it is a coding error. Pretty unlikely.
ChelVanin
Well they fired everyone with IQs above room temperature, so they’re bound to start having coding problems. But what are the odds it would be these pages with this administration?
AndroidSoul
My bet is that it's another epstein smokescreen. Removing the articles from a website doesn't remove the constitution, and the legislature can't change the constitution without a virtually impossible song and dance. But you know what they can do? Remove a couple bits of their website, have everyone start freaking out about how they're going to install trump as dictator or whatever, and then put it back with a little whoopsie while the media storms and people generate conspiracies
yqpqfrdp625772
To be clear, congress can’t change the constitution by itself at all. Neither the normal method of amending the constitution, nor a constitutional congress can amend the constitution without the approval of 3/4 of states’ legislatures. ear
NoNameFred
Ah, but when MiniTruth finish scrubbing it from all government records, they can claim that any remaining references are a "libtard hoax", and just ignore it as though it never existed. Because 'officially' it no longer had...
CraftyGiant
In a saner world this would trigger a military coup to stop trump once and for all.
Ink41d0
In a saner world he would've been stuffed in solitary confinement and the key snapped in half by the end of his 1st term at the latest.
Nampoosh
Seems like the constitution is getting the bible treatment of picking and choosing what to follow
woozle
Republicans and the constitution :
KleptoKea
And what of the American People? When do they grow a collective spine instead of letting fascism take over?
randomuser69420
that's the neat part, they dont. just like hungary, turkey, germany, greece, italy, cypress, etc - the majority of the 'global west' has turned towards authoritarianism due to the rise of unregulated capitalism. this totalitarianism was the natural outcome of letting money dictate society.
KleptoKea
Germany, Cyprus and Greece are liberal democracies. Italy is a liberal democracy with populist pressures right now. Hungary is "Competitive Authoritarian" and Turkey is the same, sliding more toward authoritarianism. USA is very much the extreme example to the world of many things, including the results of:
Unbridled capitalism
Uneducated/stupefied population
Mass, population-scale apathy and inaction
blaghart
It is worthless. Laws are only worth the will to enforce them. And the courts and the Democrats refuse to enforce them, because to do so they'd have to upset the status quo by, say, deputizing people to arrest ICE for breaking the law.
woozle
yep. Without enforcement it's merely a suggestion
iamgnat
Not even a strongly worded one. Maybe more like a wish list.
beemarr
Satire, right?
...huh. So checked out the actual congress site. So it's real.
What the hells is going on with your country?
TheGreatSynan
Criminals are in charge and are doing everything they possibly can to loot as much as they can out of the country while pretending that everything they do is reasonable.
KleptoKea
The result of Americans continuing to fail their democracy by posting memes when they should be growing a collective spine like all the other populations around the who rose up against oppressive leadership did throughout history. When 1.4% of the population holding signs for a few hours counts as their "Largest protest in US history", it tells the world a lot about the complicit apathy of the American People.
minipancho94
As someone directly impacted by this shit, I honestly don't blame them. I'm probably not going to fight either, not because I don't want to, but because I know my countrymen enough to know I'll simply be throwing my life away. Rather than paint a target on my back and risk my loved ones being targeted to get at me, for a population that actively scores and loathes me, I much rather just help those I can escape. They won't give a shit until they're on the chopping block, which is for too late.
KoalaOnTheJuice
Transition to dictatorship. It's what a revolution from the top down looks like.
psmith00
the Heritage Foundation spokesman has said that America is in the process of a revolution which can be bloodless if the Left allows it to be. this indicates to me that if the "Left" puts up too much resistance the Right will start the blood flowing. not that they haven't been doing that already. just look at the mass shootings in America, who they are typically done by and who their typical targets are. it's very easy to see that the Right shot first and keep shooting.
n0n53n53
Notice he didn't say it would stop only that it'll either be bloodless or bloody. They're doing this regardless of what "the left" thinks. They carefully point out that it's "the left" who are the only people opposed to this. The intent here is that in order for "the right" to be against what they're doing they must first become "the left" and there are too many people opposed to that idea. The division was step 1
StellarJay77
Update: they say it was a "code issue" that is being fixed as quickly as possible. Which is just buzz words for "this was a dry run to see if you'd notice"; Because what sort of code would happen to cause that specific of an issue on content that has remained unchanged for decades and why is someone messing around in that content anyway?
MaverickTitan
Everything.
minipancho94
We've been sliding towards fascism for the last 70+ years, and now we're finally close enough to the edge for them to make a power grab. People are apathetic and simply want to maintain their status qou. They wanted to believe that simply checking a few boxes on a ballot every 2 years was all they had to do the remain safe and free, and pretend that the Overton windows steady shift rightward and the corporate take over of our democracy wasn't happening before their eyes.
mrblack53012
This.. so much all of this.
Mysocksnevermatch
I want to ask if they genuinely think we'll all just forget these things exist, but then I remember how fucking gullible they are on stupid shit so yea I guess they do
Hured
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlMnc4YTZ2bjYxNnYyY214cHVkNG1oajhmbmswZ2x1Z3hzb3pqY3p2OCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/WnMOl2Ogz2x35sPJMk/200w.mp4
RubberMonkeys
Seventy-four million humans are brain dead because of the systemic erosion of education in this country over the last, at least forty-forty years that I've been alive, for this exact moment in time. Couple that with systemic racism/misogyny/bigotry, a media echo chamber that does not allow critical thinking or the facts get through. The worship of fame and money. All that, plus so much more, is why this country is where it is.
monkeyfly
Testing the waters. Things are getting weird out there friends.
NoNameFred
The two main political parties are "right wing conservatives" and "super-ultra-mega-right-wing terrorists". And currently, the terrorists are in power, threatening to arrest, deport, or murder anyone who doesn't let them do anything and everything that they want. (Including indirect murder, such as withdrawing funds for things like Disaster Relief efforts unless residents surrender and capitulate)
IhopeyougetstageIIIcoloncancer
It's amazing how many people see the Democrats as "the good guys" when their policy basically amounts to "look, we're perfectly capable of empowering the entrenched wealth of the nation to exploit the workers and bleed them dry without demonizing minorities. Besides, the PR efforts alone would cost more than it would help us extract to spend on more yachts, so it's not a pragmatic approach to wealth extraction."
n0n53n53
I think most people see them as the "not about to destroy the country and inserta dictator" guys. Nobody thinks there are "good guys" anymore
qwertdeep
Too many see them as the good guys and ignore any wrong that they do. They act as if they haven’t been appeasing the right wingers whenever they get a chance. Even during the election they were more bothered about jumping even further right than actually challenging Trump. Their views on immigration were basically “we’ll do the same but we’ll be less crazy” whilst they deported more efficiently than Trump could ever dream of
blindedTrickster
I see it more of a timing concern. The Democratic party needs to be addressed, but there's a time and a place to do so safely. Trying to do that now only creates larger opportunities for the Republicans to get away with horrible things.
It's like deciding to fix a cracked foundation during a flood. The foundation needs to be fixed, but trying to do so during a flood only makes it easier for your house to collapse.
Asadsadsadclown
I just checked it and it's there. Temporary technical issues? https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
SamaelQliphoth
Possible. Or it was put back because someone noticed their fuckery and alerted the rest of us to make a big thing about it. Often times it seems that the powers that be expect that everyone has goldfish-level memory and no means to access information to evaluate things. And more often still, as of late, it seems that those powers are intent on crafting that reality where it does not yet exist.
onepinksheep
Rather specific for "technical issues".
Asadsadsadclown
True, but also entirely possible. There is also no reason to read that far into it. We already know they are planning this, they have floated the idea a few times. When they actually try for it they will announce it well ahead of time. Nothing Trump does is even remotely secret in any way. He uses networks like Fox to run propaganda ahead of any major moves to prep his cultists into thinking it's a good thing. It's why Newsmax is currently floating the idea Maxwell was actually a victim.