"We do not fight absurdity with valor. We fight absurdity with more absurdity! He then turned around and began to twerk. His little giraffe tail bounced up and down to the rapturous applause of an audience that included people wearing inflatable frog suits. Most people in the crowd were drinking."
"The carnival-like atmosphere was a deliberate feature of the State of the Swamp, an event designed as counterprogramming for Trump's most high-profile speech of the year. According to organizers at Defiance.org, the gathering at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C., was also an effort to give Democrats a new, albeit bizarre and often crass, way to push back against a president who is adept at defying norms."
The State of the Swamp, organized by Defiance.org at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., served as counterprogramming to President Trump's State of the Union address. Hosted by Miles Taylor, a former Homeland Security chief of staff, the event featured comedian Rob Potylo in a giraffe costume promoting absurdist resistance tactics. The gathering included prominent figures from the political opposition such as actors Robert De Niro and Mark Ruffalo, conservative lawyer George Conway, voting-rights activist Stacey Abrams, and former CNN anchor Jim Acosta. The event deliberately employed crude humor and unconventional tactics, reflecting a strategy to counter a president perceived as adept at defying political norms through equally unconventional means.
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