Brutkey

𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"
@Lana@beige.party

Article 1, Section 9: Powers Denied Congress

"No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

Without this paragraph, MAGA Congress can now declare Donald Trump king of America, and foreign dignitaries can now legally shower him in billions of dollars of gifts and bribes.

8/🧵

Servelan
@servelan@newsie.social

@Lana@beige.party What's on congress.gov is a printout, a representation, not THE Constitution.

Some a**hole just removed it from the public eye ON THAT WEBSITE.

On constitutioncenter.org and a number of other websites, you can still read the Constitution in its entirety.

Article I, section 8, was also removed from Congress' website; that talks about tariffs.

Jess👾
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange

What they post "as a joke" today is what they're going to try to do tomorrow. And tbh I don't have a lot of confidence that SCOTUS would stop them from just doing that.
@servelan@newsie.social @Lana@beige.party

Jess👾
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange

Though I've also seen speculation that it could be an even stupider reason, like they just fucked up something in a site or CMS update

https://bsky.app/profile/vurcease.bsky.social/post/3lvqhpgt77c2k

@servelan@newsie.social @Lana@beige.party

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@Lana@beige.party

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @servelan@newsie.social

Continuity across multiple documents, and specific interrelated portions of law that just happen to be the ones Trump is violating is not a goof or a clerical error. This was deliberate.

The best case scenario here is it was done deliberately as a form of protest. Somebody trying to hack the news cycle to bring attention to Trump's unconstitutional actions.

The medium case scenario is it's someone at DOGE or whatever deliberately doing this for the memes or the luls or whatever the fuck.

The bad case scenario is it was done deliberately by someone in Trump's inner circle as a trial balloon, to see what they can get away with.

The worst case scenario is it's exactly what we all think it was.

There is no plausible scenario here where this was not a deliberate action by SOME actor. It doesn't pass the sniff test.