The Twelve Dissents of Christmas: The First Day

Never stop fighting

On the first day of Christmas:

Masha Gessen, who has lived under autocracy most of his life and has written extensively about the Russian pig Vladimir Putin, wrote this piece in the aftermath of Trumps electoral college victory, and in a nutshell says fuck Obama's conciliatory tone and fuck Hillary Clinton's far too nice concession speech because we are in a world of shit.

His six rules for surviving Trump (condensed by me):

1. Believe--no matter how insane--what Trump says.  He is going to do it.
2. Do not believe that any of this is normal, no matter how mundane.  It is not.
3. Congress, the Supreme Court, the Media, the military, and any other U.S. institution that you've believed in your whole life will not save you.  They will fall in line.
4. Be pissed off.  And stay that way.
5. Do not fucking compromise.  Ever.
6. Always remember, no matter the disaster, that there is a future.  Things will change.

In the words of Lou Reed ("Legendary Hearts"), "...You've got to fight to make what's right...."

Fuck Donald Trump,

emaycee