Anyone Care to Wager How Long It Will Take?

[Frank D. Lincoln]

47. Spot on.

The scenario you painted is entirely plausible, but I think things will be a lot worse even than that.

Tens of thousands of civil service workers being fired. Musk and Ramaswamy imposing their draconian DOGE budget cuts. The loss of FICA protection on our savings. Employers being empowered to stop paying their workers overtime pay. Veterans benefits being slashed. A crackdown on unions, worker pay, and fringe benefits. The loss of the Affordable Care Act. The return of pre-existing conditions. The privatization of Medicare and massive denials of claims. The gutting of Medicaid and food stamps. Medical bankruptcies soaring. People dying because they can't get access to healthcare. Tax cuts that are going to raise the national debt even higher. The stock market collapsing. Life savings wiped out. Eventually a recession if not a full-blown depression.

All of that calamity (plus what you mentioned) with an autocratic, sociopathic, treasonous convicted felon at the helm who's controlled by Putin and with a Cabinet that'll function like a wrecking crew. All thanks to Trump voters.