Oh, CNN missed a trick
Yeah, I know. My point was: it wasn’t a lie. It Really Happened. This pic is a real person. There’s a real terrorist (failed terrorist) with his flabby ass seated in that cell.
This all happened the same week that the NOLA bomber and the Tesla bomber attacked, but nothing was reported by the bigger news outlets.
TL;DR News happened. Owners - “Meh, take the day off Lois & Go Bang Clark”.
It is the part of Freedom of the Press that gets overlooked: we decide what you don’t get to see. They promote what they want the narrative to be (TrumpTrumpTrumpTrumpTrumpTrumpTrumpTrump) and ignore/suppress the stories that fail to support their (avertisers’) narrative.
This is going to be HUGE in the next few years. There are all kinds of ways Trump will be able to pressure legacy media to show only what he wants shown–and a lot of them (as we’ve already seen) will Obey In Advance in the hopes of not coming to Trump’s attention at all.
Speaking of the press Obeying in Advance, noted appeaser Jeff Bezos got skewered again by the WaPo editorial cartoonist who resigned when her cartoon featuring him worshipping Donald got axed:
Too late to edit, but: @Stranger_On_A_Train corrected my error in thinking today’s cartoon, shown just above, is by Ann Telnaes. It turns out that several editorial cartoonists have been encouraged to submit variations on her original, and the one shown is by Barry Blitt.
A very worthy project.
In the near future, trump’s syphilis and dementia will cancel each other out resulting in a super brain which will solve all our problems. It is so written.
Sharpie or Crayon?
Pixels.
My mother voted for Trump all three times, primarily because He’s Not A Democrat.
I agree, but he sure didn’t refuse the accompanying publicity.
I don’t know what to tell you dude, she sounds horrible.
Neither was Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, Genghis Kahn, Mussolini, Idi Amin, Mao Zedong, Saddam Hussein etc.
Why are they attacking this artist? After all, she’s just expressing her creativity and control over her body. That’s what Republicans want, right?
This seems like a prime “Air Bud” oversight in the laws, in that no one thought that a 9-year-old would want to get inked.
The implication in the poorly-written article is that her parents gave their permission for her to get the tattoo.
I understand the tattoo artist’s rationale for doing it - the parents and girl made it clear that if he didn’t do it they’d get it done elsewhere, so at least he could talk her into a more sensible tattoo in a more sensible location (I mean, a Trump neck tat? That makes me ill to think about.) and in a clean and sterile environment. He was doing damage control on the behalf of some very stupid people.
ETA: If you click through to the Post article, the parents were Turkish immigrants who wanted to express their appreciation for America. And what better avatar of immigration is there than Donald Trump? 
That seems like a reasonable assumption, unless she saved up her money and walked to the shop. I agree it’s not well-written.
Can a small child even consent to a painful procedure like a tattoo? If you heard about a guy who spent a couple of hours jabbing needles into a 9-year-old, would it matter to you if her parents were cool with it?
More importantly, forgetting that the economy cratered in Trump’s last year.
Yes, covid happened, but a left-wing president would still have been largely blamed for that. It’s all the fault of woke shutdowns and welfare! (well, not the corporate payouts or farming subsidies. Welfare just means when poor brown people get money)
…And also oblivious to not only the economy recovering under Biden, but beating the trajectory the country was on if covid hadn’t happened. It’s madness how out of kilter Americans’ perception was with reality, but…that’s something we’ve obviously done to death.
It was cratering even before COVID. Trump’s tariffs had a lot to do with that.
One of the most appropriate analogies I’ve seen recently about the upcoming Trump administration is this:
Some people never learn. Because they don’t want to admit they were wrong/ignorant in the first place.
We’re gonna’ need an electric boat.
So are they complaining that the artist did a tattoo on a nine year old or that the artist engaged in cancel culture by refusing to do Trumps face.