The first #WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event in the WWE (then the WWF), took place OTD in 1985 in Madison Square Garden in New York City https://cromwell-intl.com/oliver-cromwell/crom-fu-fighting.html?s=mb #wrestling #history #kayfabe @PopeGrover
@gimulnautti I don't think it's true that it's the most followed sport in the country, but it is true that our politics are now wrestling. "It's all wrestling" in regards to the #kayfabe coming from the right has served me well.
I was told that the fake thing americans call "wrestling" is actually the most followed "sport" in the whole country..
Is this true?
Culture is upstream from politics, so kind of would figure in what's happening there right now.. 
The Kayfabe project is finally on Mastodon, so this is a perfect time to do a little #introduction. Kayfabe is a performant, easy-to-use social media app written in modern, safe languages and with privacy in mind!
Oh, one other thing: Kayfabe does not exist. This account satirizes popular app development communities. But despite not existing, you can make Kayfabe real (and thus make it a real kayfabe!) by pretending it is real and then participating!
Michiharu Toyonobori, born OTD in 1931, retired from #sumo and became a professional wrestler https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/kyoto/nishiki-koji-dori/?s=mb #travel #Japan #kayfabe
Salvador Lutteroth, the founder of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, was born OTD in 1897 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/mexico/cholula-puebla.html?s=mb #travel #wrestling #kayfabe
Japanese professional wrestler Eiji Ezaki, who died OTD in 2016, was better known under the ring name Hayabusa, or "Falcon" https://cromwell-intl.com/oliver-cromwell/crom-fu-fighting.html?s=mb #wrestling #history #kayfabe @PopeGrover
The first pillar of kayfabe is convincingly and repeatedly insisting that you have no idea what kayfabe is.
#kayfabe
Ric Flair "The Nature Boy", born OTD in 1949, has been ranked by peers and journalists as the greatest professional wrestler of all time https://cromwell-intl.com/oliver-cromwell/crom-fu-fighting.html?s=mb #MartialArts #history #kayfabe @PopeGrover
Rhonda Ann Sing, born OTD in 1961, wrestled professionally in Japan under the name Monster Ripper https://cromwell-intl.com/oliver-cromwell/crom-fu-fighting.html?s=mb #wrestling #history #kayfabe @PopeGrover
Trump’s kayfabe (bluff) is based on the apperance of being in control.
Don’t give him that. Appear in control to steal the show!
It’s all a wrestling match, even if the stakes are real. But you have to play it like one, because that’s the game in town right now.
@petergleick 
To understand how the Trump regime works, Peter, you must understand "kayfabe":
A slang noun usually applied to professional wrestling, but now the essential Trump tactic.
It's the portrayal of events as real; for example, the acceptance of professional wrestling and its accompanying storylines as not staged or simulated -- whereas staged and simulated are exactly what they are. Trumpism is pro wrestling writ large.
#USPolitics #Kayfabe #Deception #TuckersBalls
Joseph Raymond "Toots" Mondt, born OTD in 1894, revolutionized the #wrestling industry in the early to mid-1920s and co-promoted the World Wide Wrestling Federation https://cromwell-intl.com/oliver-cromwell/crom-fu-fighting.html?s=mb #MartialArts #history #kayfabe
One word #kayfabe : Acknowledging the staged, scripted nature of (US) professional #wrestling
This is what unlocks the Trump presidencies: His relationship with the audience that acknowledges kayfabe, and are now enjoying the show in #uspolitics
This #audience is not moved by ”Trump is a threat” or ”Trump is evil”, that just means the kayfabe is working
The script can be flipped, realities rolled-in at any time to become a part of it. The most #postmodern show
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Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as governor of the US state of Minnesota OTD in 1999 https://cromwell-intl.com/oliver-cromwell/crom-fu-fighting.html?s=mb #history #kayfabe @PopeGrover
Today is #BoxingDay, commemorating Oliver Cromwell's invention of Crom-Fu https://cromwell-intl.com/oliver-cromwell/crom-fu-fighting.html?s=mb #CromFu #boxing #history #kayfabe
Today is #BoxingDay, which commemorates Oliver Cromwell's invention of Crom-Fu https://cromwell-intl.com/oliver-cromwell/crom-fu-fighting.html?s=mb #CromFu #boxing #history #kayfabe @PopeGrover
Junji Hirata, born OTD in 1956, is best known by his ring name Super Strong Machine (or スーパー・ストロング・マシン, Sūpā Sutorongu Mashin) https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/fukuoka/day-and-yatai.html?s=mb #travel #Japan #kayfabe
