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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe

In professional wrestling, kayfabe (/ˈkeɪfeɪb/) is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true", specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalries, and relationships between participants as being genuine and not staged. The term kayfabe has evolved to also become a code word of sorts for maintaining this "reality" within the direct or indirect presence of the general public.

Professional wrestling deliberately sets up fake rivalries and dramas, but outcomes are fixed in advance and have no real consequences. It's not a real sport. In this way, professional wresting is exactly like American politics. Fake rivalries are set up, but the outcomes are fixed in advance and have no real consequences. The public is fucked pretty much all the time, no matter who "wins", because the winning and losing is only among a set of professional actors hired to play the roles of candidates.

There is a lot of history and terminology to professional wrestling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_professional_wrestling_terms

Everyone with a brain knows that wrestling fake, just distracting entertainment, but I say that most US politics is exactly the same thing.

Trump used to host professional wresting at his venues, and is quite familiar with how it manipulates a gullible public that wants to be manipulated. Ironically, I believe that Trump is one of the very few politicians that stepped outside the kayfabe after getting to know it very well. People who win when they are supposed to lose are hated by the industry.

Here's Trump tackling Vince McMahon, head of WWE, where someone appropriately and ironically put CNN over Vince's head: