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March 09, 2021 06:42 AM UTC

Tuesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“There is no unique picture of reality.”

–Stephen Hawking

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  1. I have been spending a little time on facebook lately…I am new to the platform still, and somewhat blown away by the sheer number of willfully ignorant fools who refuse to accept the truth.

    Here is a question I have decided to ask…

     Who is the rightful POTUS? If the response is anything other than  “Joe Biden”, the conversation is over. 

    In a particulaly entertaining exchange this morning, I asked a guy who claimed the CDC nefariously inflated mortality rates (he says only 9,000 Americans have died of Covid-19) where he got his number. Get ready..are you sitting down? They come from a website called “RedElephants.com.”…for reals.

    So I asked him how the CDC managed to convince the rest of the world to inflate their numbers?? Still waiting for his response, but I am pretty sure the conversation stops there.

    An aside:…When our congresswoman and her family get together for a cookout, do they call it a Boe-B-Q? 😁

    1. I have some friends from childhood that are Trumpers, and they have been fed a steady diet of misinformation from Fox News, Facebook, and right wing radio for so long it's to the point that I can't even talk to them anymore. They don't bother to verify anything or maybe think about the source of their "news". It's a successful appeal to their emotions and hatred rather than logic or facts, and it's pretty damn scary that something like this can happen in this day and age.

  2. Washington Post joins in the speculation about the storm coming to Denver.

    Then a much bigger snowstorm — potentially a blockbuster — could aim for Denver and the Front Range from Friday into the weekend. Timing and amounts are uncertain, but the threat exists for significant snowfall that might be measured in feet rather than inches. …

    “There is a chance for prolonged significant snowfall,” wrote the National Weather Service in Boulder, Colo., “but there remains a high degree of uncertainty regarding the intensity, duration, and timing of impacts at this time.”

    Some models are showing as much as 5 inches of liquid-equivalent precipitation totals, meaning there’s a chance that totals could, in the most extreme scenario, top two feet.

     

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  3. I feel sorry for the poor schmucks who don’t own a business.  Business owners have been deluged with tax-free money due to Covid.  There was the first round of PPP money where you only had to attest to being nervous about how the pandemic might affect your business — no payback requirement if you actually were not affected.  That gave you up to $20,832 per employee in tax-free money.  Then, the second round of PPP required a quarter in 2020 that was 25% less revenue than a quarter in 2019.  That gave you another up to $20,832 per employee in tax-free money  Then, there is the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) that gives you up to $5,000 per employee, but you have to show a 50% reduction in revenues during 2020.  Never fear — the new ERC for 2021 only requires a 20% reduction in revenues to qualify for up to $7,000 per employee per quarter for all four quarters of 2021 (i.e., up to $28,000 per employee). 

    “Brewster’s Millions” was a movie starring Richard Pryor who was a minor league baseball player who had to spend $30 million in 30 days to inherit $300 million.  He learned that it’s not easy to spend large amounts of money.  Today, we have Biden’s Trillions.  And, it’s not easy to spend 2 Trillion dollars.

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