Flotsam and Jetsam - Scott Bessent Scores

I'm not really feeling a lead-off subject today so let's just start at the top of the Trump administration bin. People are still finding things to enjoy from Scott Bessent's visit to Capitol Hill. Matt Vespa at TownHall, Here's the Question Scott Bessent Pitched to a Dem Senator...and It Really Set Him Off. Cathy Salgado at PJM sees Fauxcahontas get Tomahawked: Bessent Flips the Tables on Sen. Warren Over Affordability “Senator, it may be a bit nuanced for you, but what President Trump is referring to is the media saying that the affordability crisis was generated by this administration, when it was you and President Biden who destroyed the buying power of the American people. So there is an affordability crisis — and you were front and center in it.” Sundance at CTH, Senator Elizabeth Warren Complains that Half of Something She Tripled is Not Less. Victory Girls, Scott Bessent Breaks Mad Maxine’s Broom. From Ace, "Will You Shut Up!:" Low-IQ DEI Congresswoman Maxine Waters "Asks a Question" of Scott Bessent, Then Tells Him to Shut Up When He Answers "The " " " questions " " " were about Bessent's claim that tariffs are not inflationary (so long as they are absorbed by foreign countries and foreign companies)." Twitchy sees Scott Jennings Comes Up Empty in Attempt to Teach Econ 101 to CNN Panelists After Bessent's Testimony. From Sundance, Peter Navarro Warns Congress Seeking to Reinstall de Minimis Tarriff Loophole (sic). From WUWT, CO2 Border Tariff? Don’t Even Think About It, DOE!

Althouse finds "There is an easy familiarity between the two men that allows Bannon to call Epstein a 'schmuck' and 'criminal' and even ask if he is 'the devil' fallen from paradise.", ""At one point, Bannon comments: 'There’s something deeply fucked up with you.' The interview also becomes an exercise in intellectual peacocking as they invoke Socrates, Isaac Newton and quantum physics but pay little attention to Epstein’s crimes. Epstein reveals himself to be a living museum of racial prejudice...." From "'Do you think you’re the devil himself?': highlights from the bizarre, newly released Bannon-Epstein interview/The interview,⁠ revealed in the latest tranche of Epstein files, was reportedly intended for a sympathetic documentary" (The Guardian)." Overton @overton_news, "Bill Maher couldn’t believe he was actually saying it — but he asked the question anyway: “Where does QAnon go for the apology?” ”"

Sundance hosts President Trump Extended Interview with NBC – Full Interview Video, President Trump Makes a Prime-Time Announcement on Healthcare and Lower Cost Pharmaceuticals – 7:00pm ET Livestream and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Outlines Dramatic Decrease in Violent Crime During Briefing.

1945 asserts Russia Can’t ‘Win’ the Ukraine War with 1.2 Million Casualties: Putin’s Great Disaster. I'm not convinced. Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer, "U.S MARINES SECURE FLAG DETAINED BY WHO: The World Health Organization refused to return the American flag that hung in front of it, saying it has not approved the U.S. withdrawal from the agency—and that owes them compensation. Good news: the U.S. Marines now have the flag."

It looks like the carbuncle that is Georgia's 2020 election is coming to a head. From L. Jagi Lamplighter at Defending the Wood Perilous Election Fraud 101. Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke, "It is almost beyond belief that the agent in charge of a major FBI field office sent this astonishingly shoddy letter to the Fulton County election office, effectively giving advance notice of an impending federal action. His firing does not even begin to address the gravity of what he did." From Ace, Fulton County, GA, Election Office Sues to Get Its Dodgy "Votes" Back (So That Tulsi Gabbard Can't See Them), "The cleanest election in the history of the Earth, and a Report: Fulton County, GA -- Home of Fanny Willis and Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq. -- Had 25,000 More Absentee Votes in 2020 Than Absentee Voters, "Whoops! Whoopsie!" Viva Frie on YouTube, Brian Kemp Buried Credible Election Fraud Evidence – Greenlit Fani Willis Trump RICO! Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC, "The Democrat Party is fighting for its very survival in ways it had never had to fight before. Fraud, foreigners, and cheating hold up the Party. All three are under attack. For them, these are not standard political times. The stakes of this for them are extinction." Sundance, SSCI Vice Chair Mark Warner Finds Out DNI Tulsi Gabbard Has Puerto Rico Voting Machines, and is less than keen on the idea, and Senate Intel Chair Tom Cotton Reviews IC “Whistleblower Complaint” Against DNI Tulsi Gabbard and Finds it “Not Credible.”

Matt Margolis at PJM likes how Gutfeld Destroys the Democrats’ Voter ID Double Standard, and It’s Glorious. Althouse, "The Supreme Court... cleared the way for California to use a new congressional map intended to give Democrats five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives." ""In a one-sentence order, the justices turned down a request from a group of California Republicans that would have required the state to continue to use the map in place for the last several federal elections in the state while their challenge to the map moves forward. There were no public dissents from the court’s ruling." SCOTUSblog reports." 

At Insty VodkaPundit calls it UNEXPECTED! Mayor Mamdani is failing at his core job: keeping NYC functioning, and Sarah Hoyt says it's a GOOD THING NY CITY HAS A BUGHET SURPLUS … OH, WAIT: Mamdani Offers ‘Free’ Legal Help for Haitian TPS Holders. John Sexton at Hat Hair VIP wonders when DOT Says No to Free Buses. Will This Help or Hurt Mamdani? Probably help. He's going to need a lot of excuses. Ace, Communist Foreign Jihadi Theater Kid Zohran Mamdani Loves the Homeless So He Stopped All Police Sweeps of Homeless Encampments During Severe Weather.
Now He's Killed 17 Homeless People With His "Caring"

At PJM, Kamala Harris Teaches the Young Hep-Cats About This Whole Internet Thing. Althouse finds "Walz only seemed like a football coach to voters with no preexisting relationship to football. His image embodied the liberal conception of nontoxic masculinity, a reverse Margaret Thatcher." Dave Catron at Am Spec discourses on The Abigail Spanberger Bait-and-Switch, "Virginia voted for a ‘moderate’ — and got a sanctuary state, tax-and-spend ideologue." Matt Margolis hears a Bombshell Report Links Rashida Tlaib to Terrorist Groups. I'm not shocked, are you? VodkaPundit at Insty reports a Newsom Win: High-Speed Rail Sort-Of Almost Nearly Ready to Connect Madera to… More Cows. 

John Sexton hears Mayor Bass Watered Down the Palisades Fire Report and Then Lied About It. LAT admits Bass directed watering down of Palisades fire after-action report, sources say. Say, how's that rebuilding going? From NYPo, CA Congressman Kevin Kiley calls for Congressional investigation into billions of dollars of fraud. From Fox, Four defendants, including 2 Venezuelans, allegedly used 115 stolen identities in massive food stamp fraud. "Joel Vicioso Fernandez and three others allegedly used 115 stolen identities to stock the El Primo Restaurant using fraudulent SNAP benefits."

John Sexton also hears from the NIH Director: 'The Pandemic Was the Result of a Lab Accident', Jay Bhattacharya. Not The Bee reports the FBI finds Chinese biolab in Vegas with vials labeled “Ebola,” “Malaria,” and “Dengue Fever” (the house was also an Airbnb). That's the second one. I'm sure there are more.

From the Chicago Boyz, When Ideology Trumps Everything Else. At Unlicensed Punditry, Mike Smith, claims Power Is a Posture "Why Democrats govern like owners and Republicans like renters—and how confidence, not ballots, often decides who actually leads." Dave Strom, For All That Talk About the 'Far Right,' It Is the Left That Has Radicalized.

Sundance reports Trump Attempted Assassin, Ryan Routh, Sentenced to Life in Prison Plus 84 Months. At Althouse, "Mr. Routh, a former roofer from Greensboro, N.C., never fired a shot during the thwarted assassination attempt on Sept. 15, 2024..." ""... a fact that his lawyer, Martin L. Roth, emphasized on Wednesday. . . . Mr. Routh told the judge before his sentencing on Wednesday that he was a do-gooder, saying, 'I’ve given every drop of who I am, every day, for the benefit of our nation.'" Ace, Would-Be Trump Assassin Ryan Routh Sentenced to Life In Prison, Plus 84 Months "Just when you're looking forward to the end of your life sentence, bang, now you have to serve 84 months." But crazy Democrats remain undeterred. John Sexton reports a Maryland Man Attempted to Kill Trump Official to Prevent 'Fascist Takeover'. A real Maryland man, not a "Maryland" man. Sundance, Maryland Man, Colin Demarco (26), Arrested on Attempted Murder Charges for Plan to Assassinate OMB Director Russ Vought. Driscoll at Insty notes “BIGLAW WOULD RATHER REPRESENT TERRORISTS THAN PATRIOTIC AMERICANS:” Don Surber calls Antifa a wholly owned subsidiary of a billionaire.

Sundance, Ed Martin Removed from Now Dissolved DOJ Weaponization Working Group, Report of Leaked Grand Jury Information. He seems to find it credible. 

VodkaPundit, sees CHANGE: Utah formally expands its Supreme Court by two justices. "Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has signed legislation expanding the state’s Supreme Court from five justices to seven. . .
It’s only unfair court-packing when Republicans do it."

Cathy Salgado hears Riot-Torn Minneapolis Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize "In its Nobel nomination, The Nation gushed inanely about the people who deliberately iced streets to cause federal vehicles to crash and who made assaulting federal officers a daily recreation: “While individuals and organizations have been granted this prize since its inception in 1901, no municipality has ever been recognized."" Capt. Ed at Hat Hair VIP notices What the Media Won't Say About Minnesota: Trump Won. Streif at RedState reports Trump Takes a Sledgehammer to Deportation Process and Sets Up a Court Fight With Another Activist Judge "The Trump administration will publish a notice in the Federal Register on Friday that will demolish the slow-moving process of deporting illegals. The proposed rule aims to streamline the current process and reduce the backlog of cases that has nearly brought the system to a screeching halt. That said, we know it faces an uphill fight as federal judges, acting without jurisdiction, will certainly declare the changes improper at some point." Ace, Another One of Biden's Third World Assassins Kills Four in Highway Massacre, "He was given a commercial drivers license by "moderate" Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro. And he's now murdered four people. Doing the murders Americans just won't do."

Mediaite opines The Washington Post Disaster is an Indictment of Both Publishers and Society. John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte @NolteNC, "Please note that nowhere does he say the Washington Post should stop doing this: · ‘Melania’ Doc Is a Box Office Flop Hoax · The Rural America Can’t Live Without NPR/PBS Hoax · The ICE Detains Five-Year-Old Hoax · The Hegseth ‘Kill Everybody’ Hoax · Trump “Destroying” White House Hoax · Photo of Starving Gaza Baby Hoax · Israeli Troops Murdered Food-Seeking Palestinians Hoax · Trump Tariffs Will Explode Prices Hoax · Maryland Man Hoax · Black Newborns Much More Likely to Die If Doc’s White Hoax · Elon Musk Nazi Salute Hoax · Mass Hysterectomies Performed on Immigrants Hoax · The All-White Trump Party Hoax · Springfield Bomb Threat Hoax · Trump Called for Liz Cheney to Be Executed Hoax ..." Quote Jim VandeHei @JimVandeHei Replying to @JakeSherman @washingtonpost and 3 others. "My breakfast crack at it…You’re on the clock… Mission: Restore @washingtonpost to its glory • 2 reporters on every federal agency, small WH team w/ 3 top-tier reporters and governmentwide specialists in federal rule-making and contracting and spending • Entice Post stars who left to return as service to their city, profession and nation. They talk a big game on X - call their bluff! • Two reporters on each of top local biz sectors: defense, tech, HC, lobbying & influence, etc. . . . " Physics Geek @physicsgeek, "Media when thousands of Americans lost their jobs: Haha, learn to code, stupid peons haha. Media when they lose their jobs: OH THE HUMANITY Everyone else in response: Yes, very sad. Anyway..."Seth Dillon @SethDillon, "If your position at The Washington Post was recently eliminated, please consider applying to write for The Babylon Bee. We are seeking applicants experienced in writing fictional content presented in the tone and style of a legitimate news organization." John Kass seems to regret The Loss of Trust in Legacy Media.

Dave Strom sees the House Judiciary Committee Outline a 10-Year EU Campaign to Silence Americans. News Wax is justifiably upset that the NYC Borough President Targeting Newsmax Called Trump Nazi, Wanted Ban on MSG Rally.

PJM's VodkaPundit hears An L.A. Eviction Lawyer Has a Message for Billie Eilish, and I Can't Stop Laughing. Real Estate Lawyer @SinaiLawFirm, "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sinai Law Firm is offering to evict Billie Eilish from her Los Angeles home on a pro bono basis on behalf of the Tongva Tribe. Sinai Law Firm is the premier eviction firm in the county." The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "'The Injuns Are A-Comin!' Cries Billie Eilish Loading Musket To Defend Home From Tribe Of Redskins https://buff.ly/nmbIt2I" Western Lensman @WesternLensman, ""They don't want to be thrown out of the club." @adamcarolla dissects the Hollywood lockstep leftism on display at the Grammys on Sunday: "If those people started saying, we support Trump, guess who's out? Yeah, you’re f*cking out. . . ."

Fish Pic Friday - Professional Hooker

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Maryland, My Maryland

From the Free Bacon, Wes Moore Says the KKK Chased His Great-Grandfather Out of South Carolina. Historical Records Tell a Different Story. "Moore's great-grandfather preached at a South Carolina church held in high regard by the white community, before he was transferred to Jamaica to succeed a prominent pastor who had unexpectedly died."

Maryland governor Wes Moore, who is widely expected to seek the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, has a powerful family story of racial injustice that he repeatedly tells during public speeches: His grandfather, as a small boy, fled 1920s Charleston with his family in the dead of night after his father—a prominent black minister and Moore's great-grandfather—angered the Ku Klux Klan with sermons condemning racism. Narrowly escaping a lynching, the family took refuge in Jamaica. But Moore's grandfather, just six years old at the time, vowed to return to America, where he eventually raised a grandson who made history in 2022 by becoming Maryland's first black governor.

It's a story straight out of Hollywood, and it was a central feature of Moore's 2022 campaign stump speech, in which he described a version of American patriotism wherein "loving your country does not mean lying about its history." Moore first told the tale of his exiled grandfather in a 2014 memoir and has since retold it countless times as he seeks to reclaim patriotism for the Democratic Party and to contextualize his own unlikely rise to power.

But there's a problem with Moore's story: It's flatly contradicted by historical records and is almost certainly false.

Moore's great-grandfather on his mother's side, the Rev. Josiah Johnson Thomas, did preach in the 1920s at a church in Pineville, S.C., about 65 miles north of Charleston. But historical records housed at the archives of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina undercut the three main elements of Moore's story—that Thomas suddenly fled the country in secret, that he was targeted by the Ku Klux Klan, and that he was a prominent preacher who spoke from the pulpit against racism.

Detailed church archival records, as well as contemporary newspaper coverage, indicate that Thomas, a Jamaica native, on Dec. 13, 1924, made an orderly and public transfer from South Carolina to the island of his birth, where he was appointed to succeed a prominent Jamaican pastor who had died unexpectedly a week earlier, on Dec. 6, 1924. Amid the copious documentation of the life and career of Moore's great-grandfather, there is no mention of trouble with the Klan, which operated openly in 1920s South Carolina but never had a chapter operating out of Pineville, according to Virginia Commonwealth University's Mapping of the Second Ku Klux Klan.

Many families tell larger-than-life stories about their forebears that wouldn't hold up to scrutiny. But your typical family-tree fabulist isn't preparing to run for president. And Moore's fantastical tale of his great-grandfather's escape from the Ku Klux Klan to exile to Jamaica adds yet another asterisk to his remarkably inflated résumé—about which the press have asked him very little.

Moore falsely claimed that he was born and grew up in Baltimore, which he did not; that he was inducted into the Maryland College Football Hall of Fame, an organization that doesn't exist; that he received a Bronze Star for his service in Afghanistan, which he had not; that in 2006 he was considered a foremost expert on radical Islam based on his graduate thesis, which he never submitted to Oxford University's library and can no longer locate; that he was a doctoral candidate at Oxford in 2006, a claim he has no documentation to support and on which Oxford refuses to comment; and that he had "a difficult childhood in the Bronx and Baltimore" despite attending New York City's elite, private Riverdale Country School—where John F. Kennedy went to school—as a child and not living in Baltimore until college, when he attended Johns Hopkins University, another elite private school.

But you're racist if you question the stories. 

Flotsam and Jetsam - WaPoo Listing, Discarding Unwanted Load

From the Free Bacon, Downfall: Washington Post Lays Off 300 Staffers, Shuttering Sports Section and Gutting Foreign Desk as Once-Mighty Publisher Bleeds Subscribers and Money. At Hat Hair Capt. Ed hears The Penny Drop: WaPo on Life Support As Big Layoffs Start? and Mark Judge calls it The End Of the Washington Post. He's no fan after the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation battle, "It was last November, and I was at Georgetown University being interviewed by a writer for Washingtonian magazine. She is doing a profile of me, and was asking me why I disliked the media, particularly the Washington Post, with such bitterness. Yes, there was their evil hit job on me and Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, which I detailed here and in my book The Devil’s Triangle. Yet the writer kept asking me questions, sensing it went even deeper." David Harsanyi @davidharsanyi, "I generally don’t celebrate anyone losing their job, but it's the arrogance and entitlement of journalists who seem to believe they have a God-given right to be paid no matter how much money they lose or how poor a job they do that's staggering." Quote Ben Mullin @BenMullin, "A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."" Althouse, "The cuts are a sign that Jeff Bezos, who became one of the world’s richest people by selling things on the internet, has not yet figured out how to build and maintain a profitable publication on the internet." From "Washington Post Begins Laying Off More Than 300 Journalists/The layoffs will cut into The Post’s local, international and sports coverage, and reduce the number of all its employees by about 30 percent" (NYT). What's it to Bezos? Why doesn't he just bankroll the operation? Make it so good it's worthy of spending money on? Ace, Washington Post Set to Lay Off Hundreds of Employees, "They'll be completely closing down "almost the entire" sports desk. Which struck me as strange -- isn't sports a low-cost but popular section of the paper? I guess there are now so many internet sports outlets that no one cares about what a stinky old liberal thought about the latest "Commanders" game." When Bezos announce an attitude shift (which I haven't see, it seems more like they doubledowned) at the Poo, the writers and editorial staff started rooting for unsubscribers. What did they think was going to happen. FWIW, we've had a subscription to the post since we arrived in MD in 1985, IIRC. We've seen the paper shrink in size and content, and become more virulently "progressive" over the last ten years. Occasionally we have to threaten to quit to get a better deal, but it works. In the last couple of years they went from carrier delivery (which was only a little unreliable) to mail delivery, making it an afternoon arrival, and not on Sundays or holidays. I call it yesterday's news tomorrow. At this point, the only reason to get it is the crossword puzzles, and to yell or snicker at. 

PJM's Stephen Kruiser thinks There's Gotta Be a Lot of Beard Sweat in the Iranian Regime Right Now. Capt. Ed, BREAKING: Trump to Iran: Pound Sand. Virginia Allen at Da Signal, Why the Cuban Regime Is ‘Sweating.’ From Am Con, Trump Sets Course for Regime Change in Cuba, "With Maduro out, the U.S. is tightening the noose around the island nation." Sundance at CTH, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio Lead ‘Critical Minerals’ Strategic Ministerial Gathering, "“For years, American businesses have risked running out of critical minerals during market disruptions,” President Trump said. “Just as we have long had a strategic petroleum reserve and a stockpile of critical minerals for national defense, we are now creating this reserve for American industry,” Trump said during the Oval Office announcement."

Nick Arama thinks it's Priceless when Bessent Completely Levels the Democrats in Fiery Hearing on Tariffs, Other Financial Issues. Dmitri Bolt at TownHall sees Maxine Waters Loses It During House Hearing, Smacked Down by Treasury Secretary Bessent. Althouse posts a TikToc of Nicki Minaj and Scott Bessent. Kinda funny. At RCP, Larry Kudlow maintains Trump Was Right About Tariffs. From Breitbart Bus Dig, Warsh War One: The Battle Over QE. Insty sees INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION: "How the Fed Politicized Itself—and What a New Chair Can Do to Fix It. How did the Fed politicize itself? Gradually, then all at once. . . . In September 2022, about a year after Joseph Wang left his job at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he came across an odd new research paper from his former employer. Wang had been a senior trader on the Open Market Trading Desk, carrying out the Fed’s monetary policy. In his five years there, the usual Fed research covered topics like inflation, labor markets, and bank capital. This paper, though, was titled “800,000 Years of Climate Risk.” “I thought that was very strange,” Wang recalled. “The Fed writing about CO2 concentrations.”"

Hat Hair's John Sexton cites an Axios Reporter: People Are Getting Carried Away With the Epstein Files. Althouse posts a Joe Rogan video with Mike Benz, "You know, if you're if you're a 70-year-old billionaire, you can't walk into a bar... and meet an 18-year-old.... I'm presuming these things are facilitated at private parties..."

At Hat Hair, a Larry video, Dr. Marty Makary Exposes What They Hid About American Medicine.

Matt Margolis at PJM, Tom Homan Pulls 700 Agents Out of Minnesota. Here’s Why That’s Bad News for Democrats. Hat Hair's Dave Strom sees Minneapolis Is Under Occupation By Activist Militias Who Control Movement. Capt. Ed, Homan to Minneapolis Leftists: You Think Illegal Roadblocks Will Stop ICE? Adam Johnston at Da Fed, A Nation That Won’t Enforce Immigration Laws Isn’t A Nation At All. PJM's Cathy Salgado reports DOJ Aims to Revoke Citizenship From Two Predators.

At Hat Hair Larry sees Mark Kelly Whip up ICE Hatred on 'Morning Joe'. Bill D'Agostino @Banned_Bill, "2003: MSNBC host Joe Scarborough worries California may start issuing driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. “By giving these criminals the most accepted form of identification in America, the California Democrats buy votes for themselves.” “This plan seems to me to legitimize illegal immigration once and for all. And it’s dangerous.” “They’re breaking the law. It’s that simple. If you break the law, you shouldn’t get a driver’s license. You shouldn’t be in our country.”" From News Wax, Vance Slams Rep. Nadler for Justifying Shooting Agents. Michael Knowles @michaeljknowles, "journo: "when you accept my bogus premise, will you do what I want?" VP: "why would I accept your bogus premise?" Take notes, conservatives!" Quote captive dreamer @captive_dreamer, "Do you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti?" JD Vance: "For what?" Hat Hair's Beege Welborn, CA State Senators: We Don' Need No Stinkin' Police - Go Ahead and Sue ICE Officers Wearing Masks and Contrary to the Narrative, Illegals in Tennessee Have Been Behaving BADLY and When the Kiddies March Out of School to Larp as 'Anti-ICE Protesters.' From Da Caller, ‘You Will Get Away With It’: Flyer Tells Waiters And Mechanics To Sabotage ICE. TownHall's Matt Vespa thinks How This Black ICE Agent Reacted to This Unhinged Mob of White Leftists Was Gold. Dave Strom, She Did the Work on ICE Watch So You Don't Have To. Thread, Christina Buttons @buttonslives, "Minneapolis’s “ICE watch” network did not arise organically. My 3.5-week investigation for @CityJournal found that a well-funded group of professional activists implemented the operation, deploying a model now being used in cities across the US."

Sasha Stone sees Don Lemon is Ready for His Close-Up. "For most Americans, getting arrested might be the worst thing that’s ever happened to them. To Don Lemon, however, it is, without a doubt, the best." From Spiked, Celebrities for illegal immigration. "Billie Eilish and other anti-ICE celebs have no idea how little ordinary folk care about their luxury beliefs."

Maybe more later, I gotta split, but in the meantime, there's more at The Wombat's In The Mailbox: 02.04.26 (Afternoon Edition).

Tattoo Thursday

Nicola Peltz

At Da Sun, Why Brooklyn Beckham’s decision to hide his tattoo tribute to his dad will leave David devastated.

TATTOOS are the love language of Brooklyn Beckham. With about 110 etchings sprawled across his body, inked-in words of affirmation are how he likes to express himself.

How utterly wounding, both literally and figuratively, it is then to learn the 26-year-old has intentionally covered up tributes to his father David. This, quite evidently, is a wound that runs deep. Having already tattooed over “Mama’s boy”, now it is the turn of his once-beloved dad to be erased from pigmented history. And my God, this will hurt family man Becks.
. . .
To rub salt into the still-drying wound, approximately 73 of his 110 tatts are dedicated to his US wife Nicola Peltz.

At the high cost and trouble to remove tattoos he better be planning to keep her.