I think this is crochet, and working with chenille yarn, ugh.

Didn't Henry Ford do something similar at the beginning of the Great Depression? But, at the request of the government.

I'm waiting them to shoot a foreign tourist who didn't follow orders because of not being fluent in US English.

Call it what it is, the US Corporate Party. Bought, and paid for.

The next question is, "Will there be people to answer the phones?"