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Gonna get hate on this, here we go. It was a dumb mistake. "Come now, let us reason together."
(Not trolling you guys or simping for Trump. I'd honestly like to hear any rebuttals.)
Nah, don't think it was a "coding error" but when whoever explained whatever to whoever, that's how it was interpreted. Or, public relations figured that would be a more acceptable answer than whatever dumber mistake was made. LOL, somebody fucked up the copy/paste?
They seemed to have cut off entire blocks, big chunks off the end of Article 1. Plenty of other items in there than what we're talking about. If they had been more surgical I'd be screaming.
Who the hell wanting to read the Constitution goes to constitution.congress.gov? I've looked up bits of text 100 times, wasn't even aware this site existed. Besides, not like this is the one authoritative online copy, it's not even the only government copy.
The site isn't high on the search results from either Google or Bing, and it was even lower yesterday. Feel free to check me! Search "united states constitution" then "united states constitution before:2025-08-04".
What would the Trump administration, or anyone else, have to gain? The only people looking here are probably already familiar with these vital chunks, not like the administration can say, "Nuh uh! That's not in the Constitution!" All risk, no reward. Anyone thinking this was nefarious has to confront that question head on.
Lastly, with all the staffing cuts and an inept administration, a dumb mistake fits Hanlon's Razor quite nicely. I could also see some MAGA staffer pulling this on purpose, dumb enough to think it would make a difference.
tl:dr; No damn cat, and no damn cradle.
You know in movies when the head of a crime organization thinks there's a leak so he tells 5 people 5 different places where the next shipment is coming in to see if the cops go to any of the locations?
It's kind of like that, in this case the media is the cops. (It's not a perfect analogy)
Change things, see who notices, see what you can get away with. They're testing to see if anyone is watching, I bet this kind of low hanging fruit is happening all over so they can find a weak spot and exploit it.
If you do this to everything you're bound to find somewhere vulnerable.
Maybe money doesn't make it to FEMA. No one notices? Perhaps it ends up in a memecoin. Someone does notice? Oops, accounting error! Silly us, we figured it out though. Nothing to see here.
OK! I can bite on that! But still, changing the stupid website changes nothing IRL. I could see a staffer pulling this on his own, OR, try this on:
Trump's being told that he can't do X, Y or Z because Constitution. "I don't like that. We should change that." Some idiot takes that as an order? I've seen stupid shit exactly like that in private enterprise.