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Remember how he wasn't going to be beholden to Wall Street's interests?

Treasury Department sides with Wall Street, against federal consumer watchdog agency on arbitration rule

Remember when Republicans cared about the deficit? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

U.S. Posts Its Largest Budget Deficit Since 2013

GOP Congress Presides Over Highest Spending Since Obama’s Stimulus

Donald Trump has pledged to defend the Constitution — even an article that doesn’t exist — but he can’t seem to lay off that pesky First Amendment.

Trump has mocked the First Amendment’s right to freedom of religion by calling for a ban on Muslims from entering the country and criticized those who believe in the freedom of speech as “foolish people.” He has also endorsed attacks on protesters and the imprisonment of people who burn the flag.

And he has made it very clear that he doesn’t stand for the freedom of the press. As a presidential candidate, Trump told supporters he would “open up our libel laws” to sue journalists. “We’re going to have people sue you like you’ve never got sued before,” he promised.

Trump the candidate also blacklisted reporters and entire news outlets from campaign events, referred to journalists as “scum” and “slime,” and mocked a reporter for having a disability. He vowed to sue women who reported incidents of sexual harassment and assault, along with the outlets that covered their accounts, and threatened a lawsuit against a Hispanic journalist group for calling out his bigoted remarks.

"I would never kill them but I do hate them,” he said of reporters. “And some of them are such lying, disgusting people.”

This onslaught didn’t stop once Trump assumed the presidency. From the most powerful perch on the planet, he has continued to wage attacks on the free press, further revealing his authoritarian impulses and disdain for the First Amendment.

Below we provide a running list of the attacks that the president has made on the press since assuming office. We’ll keep this list updated since, unfortunately, we don’t expect them to stop.

Trump has:

Said it is “frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write” in a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Threatened to cancel the broadcast licenses of media companies that offer negative coverage of him.

Had the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, call on ESPN to fire Jemele Hill for criticizing him.

Tweeted mocking images of him wrestling a CNN reporter and his campaign hitting a CNN reporter with a train.

Overseen a Justice Department review of policies for subpoenaing media organizations in an effort to crack down on both whistleblowers and journalists.

Pledged to “fight the #FakeNews” with a Polish leader hostile to press freedom.

Attacked reporters while speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has fostered a climate of violence against journalists.

Said that his mission to “drain the swamp” begins “with the Fake News!”

Reportedly asked then-FBI Director James Comey to jail reporters who publish classified information.

Tasked his former chief of staff with looking into changing the country’s libel laws.

Explored the prosecution of WikiLeaks for publishing CIA and State Department materials.

Labeled the “fake news” media “the enemy of the people.”

Accused the media of lying about his “very nice” conversation with the Australian prime minister. Ultimately, a leaked transcript of the call showed it was Trump who was lying.

Urged someone to buy the New York Times to “either run it correctly or let it fold.”

While Trump tries to portray journalists at the “enemies” of Americans, it’s his attacks on the press that amount to an assault on the cornerstone of American democracy: the First Amendment.

Donald Trump Thinks the Freedom of the Press Is ‘Disgusting’

This Republican Lawmaker is already drafting legislation to violate that pesky 1st Amendment.

The fake story really was fake.... As in, the story he was denouncing never actually existed in the first place.

Trump denounces as ‘fake news’ a news report that didn’t happen

In a democracy, all votes should count equally. In our democracy, when voting for the president, they do not.

Because of the winner-take-all allocation of electoral votes, if you don’t vote for the candidate who wins your state, your vote counts for nothing. That violates the Constitution’s “one person, one vote” principle.

We plan to challenge this system in the courts. Join this fight for citizen equality.

Equal Votes

Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military? Really!.....
4:28 AM - Sep 14, 2017

..They have been in our country for many years through no fault of their own - brought in by parents at young age. Plus BIG border security
4:35 AM - Sep 14, 2017

Gotta say; I agree with Trump, apparently.

President Trump and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) have agreed to pursue a deal that would permanently remove the requirement that Congress repeatedly raise the debt ceiling, three people familiar with the decision said.

Trump, Schumer agree to pursue plan to repeal the debt ceiling

I'm used to Republicans only caring about the debt when a Democrat is in office but this is just wacky.

Admins should probably take a hands-off approach when it comes to moderation. Especially, if they are regularly posting highly opinionated comments in the same forum.

No matter what, SOMEONE will question the fairness of any given decision.

The problem with the SPAM mod is that it's a -10 moderation. That causes 2 issue:
    1: Mods can never fully revert it if we think it's in error since we can only ever make a post +5
    2: Because it's a super-mod, now the Admins are forced to manage it. It wouldn't be such a problem if the standard was objective (e.g. only commercial). But, since it's a subjective standard there will always be disagreements.

Is this a solution in search of a problem?

We really don't see much commercial Spam. Why isn't -1 Troll sufficient for the non-commercial "Spam?" Sure, it'll slow the descent into the karma hole a bit but how quickly do we really need to demote people?

Islam is no more inherently violent than Christianity, BUT..

If anyone has a basis to say otherwise it's probably Charlie Fucking Hebdo!

Which they didn't actually say, for the record.

Socialist Juggalos gear up to fight pro-Trump ‘Nazis,’ and the internet is loving it

The Juggalo March on Washington, a protest against the government’s classification of Juggalos as a gang, will take place at the National Mall on Sept. 16, the same day as the pro-Trump “Mother of All Rallies.” There’s no love lost between the two sides.