...and kept kinda beating it off beat, but nobody cared. The whole crowd was off beat, all of us, and proud of it.
I was waving an upside down US flag in distress-- but not because I am a pessimist; quite the opposite. If I were a pessimist I would be sitting at home saying "we're doomed" instead of screaming "FUCK DONALD TRUMP" with thousands of other people.
The US flag in distress is not surrender. Denying or minimizing the severity of our situation would be surrender. In any case...