Because It's Friday

Rich People Are Assholes, Especially Kit Bond's Family

It takes rich, self-entitled assholes to poison a neighbor's trees because the neighbor's trees are blocking their view, but Arthur and Amelia Bond from Missouri are such assholes.

Suspicious deaths in an idyllic seaside community and detective work that points to poison sound like themes from a classic murder mystery. But the victims in this Maine whodunnit were trees that stood in the way of a wealthy family’s oceanfront view, allegedly felled by well-heeled killers who, while ostracized and publicly shamed, remain free.
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To make matters worse, the herbicide used to poison the trees leached into a neighboring park and the town’s only public seaside beach. The state attorney general is now investigating.
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Amelia Bond, former CEO of the St. Louis Foundation, which oversees charitable funds with more than $500 million in assets, brought the herbicide [Tebuthiuron] from Missouri in 2021 and applied it near oak trees on the waterfront property of Lisa Gorman, wife of the late Leon Gorman, L.L. Bean’s president and grandson of L.L. himself, according to a pair of consent agreements with the town and the state pesticide board.

Bond’s husband, Arthur Bond III, is an architect and the nephew of former U.S. Sen. Kit Bond. Their summer home, owned by a trust, is situated directly behind Gorman’s home, farther up the hill.

When the trees and other vegetation began dying, Amelia Bond told Gorman in June 2022 that the tree didn’t look good and offered to share the cost of removing them, Gorman’s lawyer wrote in a document.

Instead, Gorman had the trees tested.

$4,500 for illegal use of pesticide, $180,000 to the town for violations, $30,000 for environmental testing and $1.5 million to the nieghbors. That's probably a drop in the bucket for the Bonds.

That's what the rich do: Break the law and, if they get caught, pay the fines. At least Toll-Booth Ned claimed he didn't know about illegal tree-cutting, but the Bonds sure as shit knew what they were doing.

Our Best Frenemy

More allegations have surfaced that Saudi intelligence did surveillance work for al Qaeda in advance of the 9/11 attacks.

It's no secret that what is commonly called "Islamic terrorism: is really "Saudi terrorism", as it is the Saudis who have funded a number of those groups and who have promulgated an intolerant and hostile strain of Islam.

Goodbye, Hawkeye

Donald Sutherland, the prolific film and television actor whose long career stretched from “M.A.S.H.” to “The Hunger Games,” has died. He was 88.

Kiefer Sutherland, the actor’s son, confirmed his father’s death Thursday. No further details were immediately available.

“I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film,” Kiefer Sutherland said on X. “Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that.”

"A Round Room With a Madman Screaming Inside of It."

That is the description of the Trump White House by one of his cabinet secretaries.

The TOFF went through five secretaries of homeland security, four secretaries of state, four secretaries of defense, four directors of national intelligence and four chiefs of staff. His presidency was marked by security breaches by him, rampant instability in governance and cozying up to dictators and their ilk.

That anybody would consider voting to put him back in power boggles the mind. It leads me to the conclusion that anyone who would vote for him is either brain-dead, someone who hates the United States or figures that they can make some money as the country implodes and they don't give a fuck as long as they get theirs.

Iterating These Down, Here

Character Matters, (But IOKIYAR)

Flip things and imagine what the Republicans, the Far Right and the Christian Taliban would be saying if the Democrats were running a candidate with 34 felony convictions, who tried to incite a rebellion and who was found of culpability for sexual assault.

Just imagine the outrage, the self-righteous vitriol. You don't have to go far, look up what they said about Bill Clinton, who didn't do two or three magnitudes of what Trump did. Hell, look at Al Franken, who was turfed out of the Senate for, in comparison to Trump, the henious crime of spitting on the sidewalk.

Character matters to Republicans, but only if the person in question is not a Republican. If the person is a Republican, then even serial murder would be OK.

Republicans Are Following the TOFF Off the Cliff of Stupidity, Trade Ed.

RNC spokesperson Anna Kelly saying, “The notion that tariffs are a tax on U.S. consumers is a lie pushed by outsourcers and the Chinese Communist Party.”

Ms. Kelly is either dumber than a sack of rocks or she is an intellectual prostitute who is mouthing crap that she knows is a lie.

Anybody who has even of smidgen of knowledge about how tariffs work knows that tariffs are a tax paid by the consumer. I've explained it before and it only takes a few paragraphs to do. Of course, a few paragraphs is more than than Demented Donnie will ever read.

It Doesn't Get Much More Childish Than This

A Republican state lawmaker from Vermont has apologized for repeatedly pouring water into a Democratic colleague’s bag, after he caught her doing it on video.

State Rep. Mary Morrissey publicly apologized to state Rep. Jim Carroll, colleagues and the citizens of Vermont from the House floor on Monday. Both are from Bennington, a town of about 15,000 in the southwestern corner of the state.

“I am truly ashamed for my actions,” Morrissey said of “her disrespectful conduct” toward Carroll.
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Carroll told The Associated Press that the tote bag he hangs in a hallway at the Statehouse was soaked a couple of times per week in January and February. Then, after he was charged with driving under the influence in February and returned from rehab, his bag was soaked almost daily, he said.

"Truly ashamed", yah, sure. You can safely bet she'd still be doing it if she hadn't been caught on camera. She's 67, which would be pretty old for childish behavior, excepting her party leader.

Felonious Donnie's Appearance at a Black Church Was to an Audience of White Folk

Trump is definitely going to win the Black vote…by filing a Black church with white folks for his rally 🤦🏽‍♂️

“The Blacks won’t notice.” pic.twitter.com/m7jWEAvAKO

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) June 15, 2024

The Detroit pastor who hosted Donald Trump’s controversial surprise roundtable at a Black church on Saturday said people laughed in his face when he suggested coming to the event. Pastor Lorenzo Sewell appeared on MSNBC on Sunday night to discuss the turnout at 180 Church for an event intended to be about tackling issues facing Black voters. Photos and footage from the event showed the pews packed with white crowds.

So, just another disgusting scam by the FOFF. One that a lot of the MSM swallowed, too, for they mentioned that the Convict from Queens was at a Black church, but they didn't mention all of the white folk brought in to fill the pews.

Meanwhile, the Republicans are lying about who pays the cost of tariffs in order to disguise the Russian Asset's plan to bring back massive tariffs and crash the world economic order. Once more, the fact is evident that the TOFF and his bootlickers have learned nothing from history, but both are topics for another time.