The anniversary of the 2016 election is almost upon us, and for most of America the hangover hasn't let up. November 8 will be a reminder not only of the day Donald Trump was elected president, but also that, pending impeachment or a toilet heart attack, we're at best a quarter of the way through his term. So how to deal? There's always organizing, donating to causes, and of course drinking. But don't overlook a despairing howl into the unfeeling night.

More than 4,000 people RSVP'd for a (now deleted) event in Boston matter-of-factly titled "Scream helplessly at the sky on the anniversary of the election." But what started as a mere several thousand Bostonians wailing into the void has snowballed into a national movement of people from Connecticut to Texas wailing into the void.

Of course not everyone is convinced that this is, let's say, productive. There've been hot takes that screaming helplessly won't accomplish anything (which is ballsy analysis of something with "helplessly" in the name), but hey, no one really thought they were going to gun down Hurricane Irma either. Nathan Wahl, who organized the New York event, explained part of the appeal on Medium:

Listen, there’s a lot of shit I care about[...] But frankly, I can’t keep up with it all. Every time I think of the laundry list of social injustices on top of my own shit like my actual laundry I get overwhelmed. Every news notification on my phone is a reminder of something over which I am powerless. And I think a lot of people feel that way. So fuck me for thinking it’d be nice to yell about it.

Do what you gotta do to keep from punching your laptop every time Trump's name appears. Just be careful: this sounds like the kind of thing that eventually spirals into The Purge.

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