Steve Mnuchin.. Neck line looks close here
Concur anon not to mention his sweet deal with Kamala Harris, when she was DA, in CA..
Indeed, a little for everyone but the ones who where supposed to benefit the most from it. Seems to have been the case for all programs created around that time frame, it was theft plan and simple.
Truck drivers make it possible for everyone else to work from home
Chet Eby is making sure you are going to get all of the bacon you need for breakfast, or maple-glazed ham for that now-modified family Easter dinner you are going to make, or that thinly sliced prosciutto and provolone sandwich you’ve been craving. It is a Wednesday afternoon, and the 31-year-old has his young sons, Austin and Evan, with him hauling a load of piglets from Cumberland County to Iowa, one of millions of road warriors behind the wheel of a truck traveling across the country every hour of every day making sure the food and necessities you need and enjoy are available at your local grocers. “I am hauling baby pigs from where they're born in Pennsylvania to the farms where they fatten them out in Iowa,” he said from his starting point. He is heading out to Iowa with his truck filled with 20-pound pigs. “So on our end of it with farmers, every eight weeks a new litter of pigs is born and we have to get the little ones out of the barn, the barn needs to be empty so the next batch can come.” “If we don’t transport freight, the country comes to a standstill,” Eby says matter-of-factly. Pigs have to go somewhere to fatten. From there they are processed and delivered to grocery stores and butcher shops in refrigerated trucks all over the country. That is where KLLM Transport Services out of Jackson, Mississippi, comes in, whose core business is in refrigerated transportation. “We have about 4,000 tractor-trailers nationwide with about 25 locations across the country,” said Jim Richards, CEO of KLLM. And they haven’t stopped moving.
There are over 3.5 million professional truck drivers in the United States, according to the American Trucking Associations, who deliver billions of tons of freight from one place to the other every year. In the weeks since the coronavirus has spread across the country, KLLM truckers are the men and women who are making sure perishable foods and pharmaceuticals are delivered across the lower 48 states and Mexico, never stopping or slowing down your ability to get what you need — despite all of the barriers, restrictions, and complications of the coronavirus.
Richards was hired by the company straight out of college for their management training program, which included him getting a commercial driver license and driving across the country with a load. As a future manager, he deeply understood what the life of trucking and hauling meant. Now, he says the biggest change is people not working in the office. “We've never been one that allowed very many of our employees to work remotely. And so, thank goodness that we are a very technology forward-thinking company. And that's really what has saved us,” he said. Each truck has satellite two-way communication, Richards explained. “The technology that we employ, both from a communications perspective on the trucks, as well as location, and also safety has really been a benefit for us during this time,” he said. “Obviously we'd never foresee anything like that. But it enabled us to continue to operate. And our non-driving staff, which we have never been allowed to work remotely, for the most part, we've got about 95% of them all working from home,” Richards explained.
Truckers have become a new wave of front line responders in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic — starting with Eby, who gets the piglet to the farm to be fattened, and the next driver who gets the fattened pig to the butcher, and the next one who gets the refrigerated meat to the store. Before the realities of this pandemic, trucks were often ignored. Their impact on our daily lives was considered an annoyance, as they chugged slowly up the winding hills of our back roads on the way to that grocery store, hospital, department store, or Amazon distribution center. Never mind that they are filled with those essential things we have to have or nonessential things we thought we had to have. Too often, people mindlessly assume what they buy at Target or Walmart or Whole Foods comes from the back room, not from a farm upstate, or a factory four states away.
“I'm glad that our industry is finally getting a little bit of a positive spin,” said Richards, “So many times, you run up and down the highways and all you see is plaintiff attorneys advertising, wanting to sue truckers.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/truck-drivers-make-it-possible-for-everyone-else-to-work-from-home
Interesting anon, do you have sauce?
Newly launched daily virtual campaign events compound Trump media dominance
President Trump is launching a daily schedule of online campaign programming that, combined with daily White House briefings, is part of a double-barreled strategy to woo voters virtually after the coronavirus canceled live events. The Trump campaign plans to broadcast one marquee event on its website and social media channels each day this week and nearly every Monday through Saturday in the weeks ahead. The programming is an acceleration of efforts to reach voters amid a public health crisis that grounded the president’s robust itinerary of stadium rallies and roundtables, as well as similar gatherings hosted by prominent supporters. This blueprint for aggressive virtual engagement is dovetailing with the nationally televised news conferences Trump leads from the White House almost seven days a week, during which he details the administration’s progress toward bringing the coronavirus pandemic to heel.
“The Trump campaign is being smart,” Republican strategist Chris Wilson said Monday. “Any candidate or campaign sitting at home just waiting for this to end is making a likely fatal mistake.” With the coronavirus pandemic taking time-tested methods for appealing to voters off the table, the major 2020 campaigns are scrambling for suitable substitute strategies with just seven months to go until Election Day. In place of field staff knocking on doors to turn out the vote, campaigns are using text messaging. Instead of rallies and town hall meetings to grow coalitions, campaigns are holding a range of virtual events and broadcasting them on the internet. The Trump campaign has already held a few such events that each attracted more than 1 million views. This week, the president’s team unveiled a full slate of online programming: on Monday, Black Voices for Trump; on Tuesday, Team Trump Online; on Wednesday, American Heroes Series; on Thursday, Women for Trump Empower Hour; on Friday, Team Trump Online; and on Saturday, War Room Weekly.
“President Trump’s campaign remains at the forefront of digital campaigning and engagement,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Erin Perrine said. “Sleepy Joe’s broadcasts, which include the candidate himself, are nowhere near those numbers regularly.” The Trump campaign’s assessment of Joe Biden, his likely challenger, is shared by some nervous Democratic insiders, who fret the former vice president has not put forward a virtual campaign to match the boldness of Trump.
The Biden campaign disputes that, asserting that, over the past three weeks, the virtual events it has held or produced have garnered 45 million views collectively across all platforms. Of those, a program featuring Ronald Klain, former chief of staff to Biden when he was vice president and coordinator of Barack Obama’s response to the Ebola crisis, received more than 5 million views, said the campaign, which is continuing to expand capabilities for virtual campaigning. The latest offerings include another episode of Biden’s new podcast featuring an interview with Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, who has battled with Trump over the federal response to the coronavirus, as well as a “kids town hall” with Youtube influencers. While Trump has the benefit of the presidency's bully pulpit, Biden has had to rely on interviews and online broadcasts to break through.
Dane Strother, a Democratic strategist, conceded that Biden needs to do more to compete with Trump and what he described as the president’s attempt to create a virtual “Trump TV” network. But he said some of what the vice president is facing is beyond his control. Significantly, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders still has not exited the Democratic primary, despite his long odds of overtaking Biden in the race for convention nominating delegates. After the former vice president becomes the presumptive nominee, Strother’s guidance for the kind of virtual campaign he should run is simple: mimic Trump. “Once Bernie gets out and we get over this [coronavirus] apex, Biden can grab some of the attention back,” he said. “Hopefully, Bernie moves on.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/newly-launched-daily-virtual-campaign-events-compound-trump-media-dominance