Jonathan Heatt's Blog: Teaching Snapping Turtles - Posts Tagged "politics"

"I got a girl, she lives on the hill.
She won't do it but her sister will."

California couldn't/wouldn't boogie with Tesla's ridiculous demands for a battery plant, so Nevada jumped in and sealed the deal by offering 1.3 BILLION dollars in tax incentives.

The new era of Corpocracy: States have to pay for their jobs now.

Corporations are considered people these days, only these people don't have to pay taxes. For decades. Corporate welfare is a scam to be celebrated by grinning governors & CEOs at press conferences. Nevada (pronounced Nevapaytaxes) is the home of the sweet deal as Mining & Gaming corps have always enjoyed lax taxation, but this new Tesla giveaway is unprecedented.

So let me get this straight, regular Nevada folk (a euphemism as there's nothing regular about them, myself included) have to pay property taxes & sales taxes, just not corps who extort states and make them beg & bid for their services like 5 star college football recruits?

Sandoval smiles in public like he nailed the prima donna prom queen, but behind closed doors Elon Musk had him practicing his Deliverance pig squeal. And now the Nevada Republicans are squealing in delight. Though the shrill utterances of swine are still squeals no matter how they spin it. For a supposed libertarian, Musk has no problem suckling the tax-incentive teet of Big Gov.

The writing's on the wall: Sandoval understands that Clark County doesn't need Tesla tax revenue because the water supply will be dried up in a decade. Nevada needs a new cottage industry, and Tesla is it. Why funnel unnecessary tax revenue into the state coffers when the southern half will be a dust bowl? The deal has a certain brilliance to it, however malevolent.

On the positive side, at least NV is subsidizing green technology, and NOT another coal mine, or Honda plant (like southern states love to do).

A solution to corporate welfare: Have federal regulations that outlaw tax incentives. Those companies are not doing us any fucking favors. If they want to build a plant and do business in this country, then they should just do it without handouts. And if they want to go overseas, fine, we won't buy their products.

The entire system is screwed. Real welfare queens are the corporations taking money out of the communities they pretend to help. Creating jobs is fine, but the people shouldn't have to pay for them.

The disappointing 2016 presidential election is between a corrupt DNC and a rich blowhard with mothballs for brains. Clinton vs Trump. Dynasty vs Duck Dynasty.

Our Aristocratic Democracy is a Monarchy. Vote for your favorite Big Money honey. Pay the ticket, and get rode.

I'll think I'll pass. Better yet, I'll "write-in" Bernie Sanders or vote for Jill Stein. People tell me that's a vote for Trump. So be it. I'm done voting for the crooks in the 2 major parties. Sometimes the only way to fix something is to break it. And the 2 party system needs to be broken.

If Trump wins, which is a possibility that the Democrats deserve, then he will be such a colossal failure that changes will be made. Or maybe not, according to Ralph Nader acolytes. But I never had an input in the Primary election process because the Dems rigged it for Hillary. And that is why they won't be getting my vote this November.

If the Dems didn't want Trump to win, then they shouldn't have shafted their liberal progressive base. Hillary's VP choice is a big middle finger to progressives. Well, let's see them win the election without us.

We never had a choice to begin with. How is that a real democracy? It isn't. It needs to be created out of the ashes of the Trump hellfire burn of the Republican party, which has gone so far right that the Democratic Party has taken its place, leaving a void for Progressives.

How can Progressives (especially NV Progressives) vote for Clinton with a clear conscience? After Warren Buffett bought Nevada Energy he swayed the utility regulators to increase rates for solar customers. Then this past Monday, Buffett appears at a Hillary Clinton rally. How can I vote for her? I won't.

There should be an anti-trust suit filed against the Republicans and Democrats for abuse of monopoly power. They pick the shitty candidates that we have to vote for. Not us. So why vote for them? That just encourages bad behavior. The Dems deserve to lose, and the Republicans deserve to fade into Whig Party irrelevancy.

The last two elections I voted with a clear conscience for Obama. But his candidacy was born out of the mire Bush jr created. Maybe a Trump presidency would result in a 2020 multi-party presidential race that best reflects what Americans want.

Sure, some people want Trump, and they will vote for him. Others don't want Trump, and they will vote for Hillary. And yet, a small but powerful minority possessing integrity and foresight will vote their conscience, and choose the candidate that best reflects their values.

Values are something one holds dear, not a commodity to be sold.

Baa "Social Distancing"
Baa "Flatten the Curve"
Baa "Wear a Mask"
Baa "Stay Home"
Baa "Media tells the Truth"
Baa "Education is nonessential"
Baa "Raiders stadium is essential"
Baa "Avoid family gatherings"
Baa "Snitch on your neighbor"
Baa "Get the Vaccine"
Baa "Trust Bill Gates"
Baa "obey"
Baa "Obey"
Baa "OBEY"

(if Biden gets elected: party in the streets)

I make ten resolutions every new year and I’ll be lucky to accomplish about a third of them. This year the most important one is to avoid presidential politics in order to live a happier more peaceful life. So this will be the last thing I ever write about American politics.

Politics is manipulation of public opinion, instead of doing the greater good. It leverages people’s outrage for nefarious purposes. It turns people into vile automatons who wish evil upon their neighbors and fellow man.

Social media has brainwashed normal people into fearmongering fascists who have no critical thinking skills. They are mere receptacles who regurgitate the propaganda spoon-fed to them by mass media. This media is an aggressive 24/7 device of propaganda, and social media amplifies it. I avoid these zombies now. Brainwashed people make bad allies because they will turn on you when told to. They have zero appreciation for civil liberties and history, and anyone who thinks differently than they do is immediately labelled a conspiracy theorist. Liberals today follow the Richard Nixon playbook. America is changing into a fascist technocratic country with these liberals leading the charge. I always thought Bush-type of republicans would be the ones to usher in this sort of fascism, but maybe there’s no real difference. Both parties are controlled by the same power structure. Democracy is a hoax. I knew my vote didn’t matter in 2000, the dudes rushing the capital building recently found out that Santa Claus isn’t real. It's ironic, liberals denouncing that protest had no problem defending the multiple riots of the past year. It's the tower of Babel being destroyed all over again and both sides are being played to dislike each other. This is all planned, and I refuse to participate on either side. The one “language” that could unite the world is democracy and it’s being destroyed by useful idiots on both sides. Count me out.

Adults root for their favorite septuagenarian like rabid teenagers at WrestleMania. Idiocracy is here. Trump is 74 years old, Biden 78 going on a hundred, Pelosi 80 in the shade or else her plastic cheeks will melt and run like mascara. We’re being “controlled” by old Night of the Living Dead zombies. They will introduce legislation to improve our lives right after they get done debating the benefits of alternating current versus direct current. Biden prefers whale blubber to Illuminate the cobblestone city streets. I just received a horse and carriage bumper sticker proclaiming, “Make America great the first time. Vote Biden 1920.” He forgot what year he was in.

Be honest, would you trust your elderly grandparents to go shopping alone in Costco? Yet you have no problem voting for them to run the country. (psst, they’re just figureheads, they don’t run anything but their mouths.)

Biden’s new campaign slogan: Bingo is a young man’s game.

When I turn on the news all I see are a bunch of pissed-off old people angry that they have to spend their golden years debating things that they don’t even care about. Wow, what a waste of time. (disclaimer: this blog post was sponsored by Metamucil and rocking chairs. Vote like your life Depends on it.)

I’m not a fan of Trump but liking Joe Biden is like liking a dog that’s been dead for three days. It stinks, and its glassy eyes and lifeless smile will reaffirm whatever philosophy you cling to. Hypocrisy is supporting BLM protests then voting for the man with dementia who was an architect of the War on Drugs, Mass Incarceration, and student loan debt. “Vote” is basically a phrase to shut you up. Why would a sane human being vote for their oppressor? Creating a strong third party that actually cares about the American people is a more logical alternative, unless you like voting for the same crook wearing a different mask every 4 years. DNC/RNC, two sides of the same coin.

Politicians latch onto divisive topics for their own selfish purposes. They’re more than willing to pull the country apart for their own gains, even though Americans have more in common with each other than they do differences. Everyone loves their family. Everyone wants to make a decent living. Which begs the question, why don’t politicians seek out the ways in which Americans are similar instead of concentrating on the few ways we’re different? The answer is that they are following orders from their globalist leaders. Everything is scripted, the heroes and villains, and the drama unfolds in order to usher in a technocratic authoritarian government, where the citizens are told what to believe and freedom of speech no longer exists.

The fascists on both sides of the aisle have accelerated climate change to the point of being irreversible so instead of doing the right thing they are consolidating wealth and power while welcoming an extinction level event so they can be gods in their gardens of Eden. This is what’s happening now. Climate change mass migration will either weaken their police states or provide the impetus for stronger ones. And when the shit hits the fan in 2050 it will become obvious that the previous oligarchy way of doing things didn’t work. The key to try and change this future from unfolding is to convince the masses now that they’re being played, before the tumult. The free soul screams, yet it seems everyone now is screaming what they’re told. Which will look like a whimper in future history books, if we’re allowed to have them.

The pandemic has revealed people’s true natures: fearful, easily manipulated, vicious, and prone to mob behavior. I want nothing to do with them, or politics. I’m going to ignore the circus and instead, focus on living a happy life instead of blaming my failures as a human being on the political puppets dangled over the nation every four years. Elections are charades of rage. No thanks.