Trump Jr. Gets Married in The Bahamas - Courtesy of Umar Kremlev, Russian Oligarch Close to Putin

I had a PS post to the last one, but I figured enough was said about some personal things I'm working on about myself, and then I decided - enough going up my own arse and expecting people to follow 😂

Anyway, in case your news isn't telling you, independent investigative reporting journalism group, ProPublica  - to which I have been subscribed for the last 8 years - investigated Trump Jr's wedding in the Bahamas in May, uncovering the fact that it was paid for by a Russian oligarch named Umar Kremlev, with close ties to Putin.

But pay no attention to the man behind the curtain folks, nothing to see, here  - there were no Trump ties to Russia, remember? 😉

Then again, his followers don't care - and some of them actually admire Putin.

Um ... Putin is NOT cool. 

He's former KGB for the Communist Soviet Union and still runs his country like that - including invading smaller countries to seize resources rather than pay-to-play trade.

The only difference between the Soviet Union then and Russia now is what happens when capitalism runs amuck without checks and balances -  but only for a select few Putin-approved political cronies - whom we call oligarchs.

(Oligarchy - small group ruling over the people. )

An oligarchy has always existed in Communist Russia -  it's what actually always happens with Communism in practice versus theory - it's just out in the open now. 

And you may not realize it, but us attacking countries like Venezuela and taking control of their oil, and about to do likewise in Iran, is essentially the same thing.

(This is one of the many reasons why I said that despite all of Trump and the modern Republican Parties anti-socialist rhetoric, methinks the smeller is the feller. Just because somebody doesn't paint themselves up as a socialist or communist and points the fingers at others doesn't mean he isn't one.)

Of course they accomplish it by claiming these countries have horrible leaders or WMD - that's how they've always justified it since the 1970s.

And even if true, how is who another country chose to elect any of our business?

If they want to elect a total psychopath, that's their business - I mean, have we? 😂

As for WMD, again, I need proof of those in Iran - and hell, Republican Saint Reagan gave them the capabilities for that in the first place!

Also, if it's really about WMD, how come nobody ever goes after China or Russia, or even North Korea, whom we know for a fact have these capabilities, hmm?

Answer: Because there's a chance we'd get our asses kicked  (in North Korea's case because China would help)  - AND - because it's not really about WMD or atrocities committed against their own people and hasn't been for the last 50 years.

It's about what it's always been about, for the last 50 years, OIL - either not wanting to pay for it or crushing any opposition to rights to it.

And yet these people turning a blind eye to all of this are the same people who believe a plethora of wild, baseless, conspiracy theories  without a shred of evidence😂

Trump was right when he said he could literally shoot someone on 5th avenue and not lose followers.

Gas prices and inflation are out of control due to a war he had no plan for, underestimated the ease of, and we're rapidly running out of ammo for - and they still don't care.

Ties to Epstein came the closest to toppling Trump, and yet his followers bought the distraction tactics there too (cough, cough - ICE immigration crackdowns and the Iran War?).

I swear to goodness, someone could have video of him with a 12-year-old girl and they'd still say it was fake news or it's okay, he's he's God's chosen envoy, he can do what he likes. 

And THAT, Ladies and Gentlemen, is when you know that a group and its leader have reached cult-mentality status. 

We joke a lot about that, but seriously - if your belief in a group leader is so strong that it overshadows your intellect, causing you to turn a blind eye to (or make extreme excuses for) things that if others did, you'd lost your sh*t - OR  - causes you to doubt your own eyes and ears in favor of what that leader tells you - what would YOU call it?

Well, at first, I'd call it a dysfunctional family, group, or system mindset.

Throw in ignoring actual criminal and/or deviant behavior, that's the next step up to the most severe form of a group dysfunction - cult mentality.