"The goal is to demoralize us, exhaust us, overwhelm us, and stoke fear. They want us disorganized. They want it to be nearly impossible to fully process the relentless stream of horrors. And perhaps most perversely, they are energized by our reactions. The Trump Regime thrives on chaos."
https://www.marytrump.org/p/gradually-then-suddenly
#Trump #demoralisation #MoveQuicklyAndBreakThings #USpolitics
Gradually, Then Suddenly

12, Jan 2026

The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump
This may all be #disinformation of course, but a fascinating read, nonetheless. https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/ #demoralisation
39 years ago, a KGB defector chillingly predicted modern America

A former KGB agent named Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov claimed in 1984 that Russia has a long-term goal of ideologically subverting the U.S.

Big Think

@gabriel
> Is the Drr a further acceleration of printing?

Quite possibly, but its more a reference to the general aura of abject stupidity out there after a generation (approx 15 years) of #dementation and #demoralisation. They are also purging entire groups of people out of the #banking system over the past year.

Mostly bitcoiners it would seem, but also people based on specific brands of #xenophobia.

#cloudFlareIsTheMalware

@lightweight
Maybe linux.con.au was a Freudian-slip?

It seems 20 years of #demoralisation results in a population with little to no moral fibre left?

And we are being kind.

#demoralisation

FYI this is what happens when you #printMoney for #wallstreet, #siliconValley and #mafias like the #military and #paramilitary.

Its called #demoralisation.

If you think many #police are not on the side of the #protesters, you may be wrong.

The Century of the Self - Part 1: "Happiness Machines"

The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud's ideas