We are all Sally Albright.

 

Nevertheless, I personally have been not just surviving, but thriving. Since January 20, I have only cried at most once per hour AND I have slept through the night peacefully and soundly as many as twice! I. Am. CRUSHING IT-uh. Can you, like me, additionally crush it also? Probably! Here are some tips that have led me to success.

#1: Spend Every Waking Moment Reading News on Social Media

This is key. You can’t #resist effectively unless you know what you’re #resisting, and you can’t know what you’re #resisting unless you’re in it up to your hairline 24/7/365.

You👏must👏stay👏panicked👏 or👏everyone👏ends👏up👏in👏camps👏

I can’t stress this enough.

#2: Take Breaks from News on Social Media

This is key. A great way to do this is to delete social media apps from your phone and then use the extra two seconds it takes to load the sites in a browser as moments to manifest healing.

Better yet, give yourself 24 hours off social media and spend them watching MSNBC. Did you know they’re remaking themselves in Fox’s image and so they’ve hired Greta Van Goddamn Susteren and replaced a woman of color with prominent racist Megyn Fuckshitting Kelly? This will have you screaming at your television so much you’ll forget Twitter even exists!

Remember: Self-care is vitally important. Take time for you.

#3: Use Social Media to Pick Fights With Family, Friends, and Family and Friends of Friends

Listen, this is key. Your racist aunt is definitely not going to respond to your Facebook status where you’re all “I’D LIKE TO THANK THE FAMILY MEMBERS I’M BENEVOLENT ENOUGH TO NOT TAG HERE FOR DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE,” but she sure as shit will think about what she’s done and vote for Elizabeth Warren in 2020 if you low-key shade her, and you can take that to the bank fucko.

Also. Your BFF’s cousin who insists Steve Bannon’s evil can’t be proven without verified video footage of him eating the head off a live baby while screaming the N-word NEEDS you to berate him about the fundamentals of economics and the warning signs of autocracy!

How else will he learn?

#4: Self-Flagellate as Often as Possible

This is key. There will be moments when you can’t stop thinking about how to escape the gay concentration camps and you’re so exhausted and terrified and heartbroken you decide to jerk off for a moment’s distraction but you start uncontrollably barfsobbing so instead you’re naked with your dick in your hand staring up at the ceiling hyperventilating and cough-choking on your sob-snot and before you know it you’ve wasted 30 entire minutes you could’ve spent #Resist-ing.

You mustn’t allow this to happen or seriously everyone will frfr die.

Here’s a quick meditation for when these moments arrive.

Curl up into a ball in the corner of your bathtub with the water raining down so hot it hurts your skin and say to yourself:

“No one is going to save the world if I don’t and if I pull back for even a moment the shit will hit the fan out of cosmic retribution for my weakness and I will deserve every bad thing that befalls me and everyone will resent me and never speak to me again except to say “Must be nice to have enough privilege to afford a 5-minute break from the horror show you SHITFUCK” and also it has always been true that no one will ever love me but it is even truer now because of how selfish I am so”

Then turn off the water, apply burn cream to all affected areas, and go back to reading Twitter. You’ll be back in the fight in no time!

#5: Remember That All of Your Wildest Nightmares Are Coming True

This is key. IDK about you but my entire life has been about trauma, failure and disappointment and I’ve only recently escaped the cycles of abuse and self-harm that have threatened not just my mental health but also my very survival.

But! If there’s one thing I’ve learned since January 20 it’s that any and all progress made before January 20 no longer matters after January 20. Kellyanne Conway reminds you of being bullied in high school and Trump dredges up memories of being sexually harrassed and Pence plunges you back into the abuse and rejection you suffered at the hands of your parents for being gay? Go with it! Remember: Feelings, not facts, are truth and your instincts to return to a life of crumbling inward without hope for happy endings are precisely correct. You can’t just talk about it, you have to BE about it!

#6: Lean on Food, Substances and Other Bad Habits

This is key. As a friend recently bellowed at me: NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO GO PALEO, and she couldn’t be less wrong. Eat your feelings. The fat you gain will remind you what a lumpen piece of shit with a face like a ball of bread dough and a physique like an infant except 6′ tall (okay fine 5’11” okay fine 5’10–1/2″) you are and also that no one will ever love you except cheese sticks so order another basket you fat shitfart, and this will spur you on to keep fighting!

#7: Remember That You Are Totally Useless Unless You Are DeRay McKesson or a Lawyer for the ACLU

This is key.

I’m going to give you the unvarnished truth:

You may be doing more than most but you’re not doing as much as many and that means you’re doing nothing.

While you may be doing all you can — calling Senators, protesting, meeting with members of your community to coordinate direct action to initiate change — other people are doing way more than you like such as for instance winning cases in federal court that directly impede the President so sit down.

 

And most important:

#8: Never Forget Your Dreams and That None of Them Are Coming True Now Because We Now Live In an Irredeemable Hellscape

This is key.

We’ve lost everything if we lose our capacity to dream and then remind ourselves that there are literal Nazis in the White House and we will all be dead within the year.

So when you get scared, remember your dreams and the fact that a sentient hiking bladder filled with absinthe and Satan’s precum is the actual President and he will with 100% certainty kill us all.