WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is telling House Democrats that direct deposits to Americans will begin next week under the coronavirus aid package.
So the check is in the mail?
Down the rabbit hole…
I kept reading and reading thinking 'This sounds like (AP)." And when done, checked back at the top. Yep.
No mention of the proportion of money going to huge business bailouts as compared with the proportion going to us, the peasants. I’m guessing all of 45*'s hospitality businesses have already gotten their money.
There you go again, drudging up old fights, and not wanting to work with us to prop up the most vulnerable asset this country has-it’s businesses. 
Mnuchin’s Message: Direct deposits will be delayed for the foreseeable future.
I am so ashamed!!!
I’m sure you’ll think of the businesses large, and some small, but most large that need this influx of cash to tide them over. We can always make more people, but building a Fortune 500 company takes a long time.
So no one is coming to save us?
So Sycophantic Mnuchin…
Is it still “Hortotary but not mandatory” for the $500B Slush Fund that Greed-Over-People Party Dear Covidiot Leader has been salivating to oversee?
Oh wait…he fired the Special IG to oversee it already…
So is Trump’s slush fund $$$ already in his bank account?
“Congress is debating the contours of the next potential coronavirus aid package…”
A humble (but damned important) suggestion for the next round:
Tens of millions of Americans are working remotely from home, connected to employer systems from their home PCs, most of which are Microsoft-based, and many – if not most – of which never got around to upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
The global hacker community is in ecstasy at the moment, exploiting people’s fears – dangling “click here” spoofs for sanitizer or Charmin or Coronavirus prevention tips – with a worldwide market of potential victims they could previously imagine only in their wildest dreams.
The FBI, DHS, and other LEAs are in near-constant contact with IT directors nationally, offering almost daily briefings on the latest cyber-threats, which constitute a spreading pandemic of their own.
Microsoft ended (formal) security patches for Windows 7 long ago, creating an unprecedented opportunity for exploiting and crippling those millions of businesses now relying on home-based workforces.
The next bill needs to include a provision forcing Microsoft to resume security support for Windows 7, immediately and for the duration. This is literally a matter of national security, and one of the most valuable things the federal government could do to help American businesses (and workers)!
(And please don’t anybody say that people should’ve upgraded to Windows 10 by now, or gotten Apple, and so it’s just too bad for them – because it’s too late for that kind of tsk-tsk-tsking, and America’s in a helluva bind.)
ETA: I really hate it when I have to be all seriousy.
Help is on the way!
That, and institute the death penalty for phone scammers targeting the elderly.
Hell, anyone.
I’ll believe it when it hits my account and stays there for 24 hours.
Yea, since last time I used Windows it took days to download and patch, only to have a 1/3 failure rate, that will work just fine. MS can’t find their ass with two hands and a flashlight and you expect them to be able to patch the junk they write.
Last time I used MS, my laptop did not have enough space left to upgrade. I said hell with this and switched distros. Next thing I know the machine is running faster than it did right out of the box and using about a quarter of space. From experience that three quarters used by MS, now freed up, was just the junk they left around, having never once actually cleaned up themselves once a patch and/or upgrade completed.
If that is the sloppy way you treated your computer, never patching, never cleaning it up, never defragging, never dumping old \Temp files, etc. I would hate to see your basement.
You mention you “switched distros”, but Windows is not a “distro”. It’s a commercial OS.
Have fun using apt or yum , zypper , pacman , pkg , swprep, or any of the multitude ways to do things in the multitude of Linux Distros. (Real Men only use BSD anyway.)
Yes. My “favorite” (in the sense of “should be first in line for the slow-turning rotisserie spit and the small flame”) example is the kind of cyberscum who put their drive-by malvertising on websites that carry obituaries, because that’s a convenient way to target mostly older, more vulnerable users.
I can say from personal experience that it’s a very busy time in the security biz.
Was doing all multiple times monthly still had fuck all junk. Was not an aboration to run a clean up program to find 4 or 5 thousand temp files left around. And after switching and being told you will not be able to do this or that never found something I wanted to do that was not covered by at least 3 or 4 programs that did not require Windows. MS fan boys can blow all they want. After 45 plus years writing software for a living, I know I don’t know it all, however, I also know there are always alternatives.