Quote of the Day
When I was Director of Public Prosecutions, I saw first-hand how knife crime devastates families.
My Plan for Change is turning the tide:
Knife robberies down in the hardest-hit areas.
Over 1,000 weapons taken off our streets in July.
And from today, ninja swords are banned.
Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer
Prime Minister of England
Posted on X, August 1, 2025
In his alternate reality he can say this without a hint of sarcasm, irony, or concern that he is inflicting a severe blow to basic human rights.
This could have been the path we went down. And if we don’t keep up the pressure, it still could be our path.
I wonder if the crowd here sees any irony in this, given the Trump administration’s desire to edit the constitution to remove “basic human rights”: https://nypost.com/2025/08/06/us-news/part-of-constitution-vanishes-from-government-website-due-to-error/
If you think that was an error, I have some beachfront property to sell you.
Any outrage here? Or this insanity ok because it’s Trump and he’s working for stronger gun rights so nothing else matters?
Yes, I’m aware editing an online summary of the constitution has no practical effect, the point is the attempt to quietly remove references to sections they don’t like as precursor to doing it in law. It’s a signal of intent.
This is really too silly to merit any response. Do you actually believe that a web site glitch is part of a dictatorial plot by the current administration? I’m sorry to hear that. Until now I thought you were a source of reasonable comments, often at odds with my view of politics and sometimes rather misguided. But this is a shocking display of foolishness (to stick to polite adjectives).
“Doing it in law” — even supposing that’s real, so what? A supposed law that contradicts the Constitution “is not law”, that was made clear in Marbury over 2 centuries ago. And Constitutional amendments are very rare, and certainly any that significantly impair our liberties are unlikely to happen. It did happen, but only once — the 18th Amendment, and that didn’t last.
Thanks to the 2nd Amendment, any serious attempt at dictatorship will go nowhere. And if leftists actually worry about such a thing, rather than merely pretending to do so, they should do what the rest of us do: get armed.
And you are too blind in your loyalty to dear leader to question it aren’t you. If the dems had done this all you republican Jesus nuts would be screaming holy hell. But since it’s trump you do nothing. Hypocrites.
Well, were doing less cheering for Heir Trump than you probably did for Biden while he was napping his way through being,,,,,,, president?
And his commie bitches were auto-penning over the constitution.
So, there’s more than enough hypocrisy to go around these days.
As for being a Jesus nut? Yup, that’s me. Convicted.
But at least I have the two smartest humans on the face of the earth to back me up. Plus, like, math.
All you got is evolution by super-natural coincidence. And all the evidence satan can purchase for you.
The likes of which Vox Day took a wrecking ball to 15 years ago or better.
Check your egotistical six-shooter dude. You’re out of ammo.
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the light-life.
Like him or not.
“A dictatorial plot?” No. These clowns aren’t that clever. Project 2025 notwithstanding, this was more likely the work of some low level flunky trying to prove their bona fides to management in the hopes of joining the inner circle.
As for “silly,” not really. I looked at the page source and it’s not a dynamically rendered page with individual components for the various sections, it’s just a flat page of HTML with very basic section IDs for intra-page links. So the probability that a “technical glitch” just happened to slice out those two specific sections is very small. This was a human doing the cutting, not a machine.
And like so many things, it’s not the specific event that’s the issue, it’s the reaction to it. The fact that conservatives just shrug as though having people in government willing to try and memory hole sections of the constitution isn’t a big deal should make you worry about our ability to govern ourselves. As another parallel, Gov. Abbott’s attempt to force quorum on the Texas house and criminalize those who won’t play along willfully ignores that breaking quorum has been a political tool used since the 1800s, and runs right into the US House Speaker’s closing down of the session in order to avoid a vote on the Epstein files. Two can play at that game, but in both cases conservatives are fully on the side of ignoring the rules in order to get what they want. And let’s also remember that the whole reason for breaking quorum in Texas is because the Republicans are trying to gerrymander the bejeezus out of the state rather than have an honest election. Not something folks with a winning argument do.
I’m just disappointed that conservatives, who for so long have claimed to be loyal to the constitution, are now willing to flush any part of it that doesn’t serve their immediate needs. Much like Christians reading the Bible and cherry picking what they want to claim as “true.” The hypocrisy is tiring.
Yeah, it’s a good thing the permanent government hasn’t ever done anything like this before in an attempt to cast aspersions on this president.
Except that, of course, they did. Admittedly, those earlier examples at least had the rationale of malicious compliance.
And why would one ‘signal’ an attempt to amend (or somehow endrun) the Constitution? What would be the benefit? You either have to openly support the effort and fight for it, or you have to somehow sneak it in… and in either case, forewarning to your opponents is just stupid. (Your allies can be told if necessary, and through more direct methods.)
No, it’s more likely some DC apparatchik decided to manufacture a story, made an edit, and then told their friend in the press about it.
I’ll buy a false flag explanation long before I buy a “technical glitch” explanation….
You can’t tell definitively from the HTML source whether that HTML is static content from a file, or dynamic content generated by some application.
Definitively? No. Can I make an educated guess? Yes, and that page does not have the trappings of an elaborate dynamically rendered page that’s vulnerable to individual sections being surgically removed by a “glitch.”
“Yes, I’m aware editing an online summary of the constitution has no practical effect, the point is the attempt to quietly remove references to sections they don’t like as precursor to doing it in law. It’s a signal of intent.”
This, plus everything else you were just whining about.
As counterposed by every communist lickspittle from DC to your friends at Seattle city hall that just flat out ignore the constitution and any other law that doesn’t fit their psychotic narratives?
Methinks you protestus too much.
But yes, we don’t like Trump doing it any more than you’all.
Starmer is a hardcore Socialist. He has never seen a God given individual right he doesn’t yearn to trample upon. He’s definitely long overdue for a dirt nap.
Just remember: England does not have a Constitution. Parliament has unlimited power, ever since they wrestled it away from the last absolute king. Pretty much the same is true in other countries, even those that have Constitutions. A particularly warped example is Holland, which has a Constitution that pretends to protect liberties, but then dilutes them with “subject to everyone’s responsibility under the law” which is legalese for “void where prohibited”. And to make matters worse it has article 120, which states that the Constitution cannot be enforced by any court.
Human Rights Act 1998
Equality Act 2010
Just 2 laws in the Uk protecting civil liberties.
Oh and holland sounds like the first amendment a whole bunch
The Dutch Constitution, particularly Chapter 1, outlines fundamental rights such as freedom of speech, religion, association, and assembly, as well as the right to privacy and protection against discrimination.
But you do you.
Yup, and once again, all ignored at will by the powers that be any time it doesn’t fit their psychotic communist narratives.
Thanks Matt. For showing us the bright side.
We now know how Rome collapsed.
There’s a difference between laws, that Parliament may edit or revoke entirely whenever it pleases, and a Constitution that actually restricts what Parliament may or may not do.
Precisely. England has only laws, subject to revision at pleasure. Holland has a Constitution but it is in effect subordinate to Parliament. No need to pooh-pooh me; just go dig up the online text (it’s on a Dutch government webpage, including an official English translation) and go read article 120.
That’s OK. The UK is headed for a civil war, according to this professor who specializes in their study. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h49O0AGxx0&pp=ygURdWsgY2l2aWwgd2FyIGJldHo%3D
I like his analogy (paraphrased): The UK is full of tinder social/economic , but nobody know what the spark might be. However, everyone is trying to beat down potential sparks, and ignoring the sources of all the social unrest tinder building up everywhere. He clearly knows his stuff, and makes some very careful and useful distinctions. Well worth watching, goes well on 1.5x speed.
Also, from the comments: “I used to worry we would have a civil war. Now I’m worried that we won’t.”
First, what is their definition of “ninja swords”? How specific is it — are we talking actual Japanese-style ninja-to only, or does it also include any single-edged Japanese-style sword (to include katana, uchigatana, wakizashi, tanto, etc.), or any single-edged blade longer than, say, 15 centimeters? Are kama (Okinawan karate weapons adapted from rice sickles) also considered “ninja swords”?
Second, how did “ninja swords”, under ANY definition, escape their previous prohibition of — basically — “anything sharp and pointy”? If box cutters and gardening shears prompted police investigations, how did “ninja swords”, or any type of sword-like object, escape scrutiny until “from today”?
Or is he just talking out his @$$, the same way American gun-grabbers do when they claim that food, books, vaginas, cars, and a thousand other things are “less regulated than guns”? (By far the most likely scenario.)
A guy from Idaho weighs in on violence in another country. More senseless news coming soon
Your ignorance and prejudice are showing. I have a stepdaughter in the UK and frequently spend time there. I was last there in April: https://blog.joehuffman.org/2025/04/16/tardis/
Idaho is a very safe place. Pretty place too. And why is a person in another country weighing in on violence in the United States? Ever experienced any in the USA? Because I sure haven’t!
Let me reiterate;
Just head on back to where ever you attended troll school and work on a refund of your tuition.
In case you haven’t noticed (likely), socialist in different countries frequently share bad ideas with one another on how to mess with their people to demoralize and asset-strip them, and reduce freedom of action and from surveillance. So, being aware of what sort of stupid they are trying elsewhere so we can be alert to it here is a basic bit of survival knowledge.