Penn and Teller do a bit with a nail gun where Penn does a monologue about how they are magicians so there is obviously a trick, and that's the point - they want the audience to come along and enjoy the show and watch them do things that seem dangerous, while knowing that even if something goes wrong they aren't going to be complicit in someone getting hurt or killed by encouraging them to take those risks.

Idk, not really relevant to what you said, but I think about that a lot

he's obviously talking about the russia, russia, hoax

Well, with the mcmahon's in trumps inner circle maybe this could change?

Deported straight out of the ring! That's gotta hurt!

"Entertaining" doesn't apply exclusively to pleasant things. Politics and media are extremely entertaining right now. They used to be very boring.

But there is! Infotainment. It's way more engaging than regular news or just dramas. It's just not the good touch.

Anger is worth more than mere entertainment in the attention economy...

No it's just not being able to articulate or communicate your suffering

If ignorance is bliss, why the shit do we keep getting fascism?

Did Americans actually think they were for real? I feel like folks everywhere else understood it but evidently enjoyed the entertaining acrobatics! I guess voting for a rich reality TV star charlatan was definitely in the cards for the US, lol, they can't tell reality from fiction anyway!

I’ve got five words for you: Punk. Rock. Pro. Wrestling. Musical.

Electoral ones, yeah.

And then other get so disgusted by this that they say "oh I hate politics, don't make this political" and disengage, demobilize And you end up with most of the population either kayfabe-dazzle of full demobilized and these two groups weigh more than anyone else in the raw number of voting bodies so that anyone trying to "do a democracy" is completely lost in the noise.

And that's how democracy dies, or rather how it died sometime in the time of Nixon and isn't going to undie, it's undead democracy, we have a "zombie democracy", it's still twitching, it still says

"Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years, Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support any more!"

And then it says

"Ouf! Ouch! Owie! My bone spurs are giving me veinous insufficiency, I need a little time out"

And just in time for Iron Man to come out and save the day with his "America Party"

Funny how that works out.

Wonder how many people remember the decade of the real cults. They would prey on young adults and basically turn them into slaves to support the "dear leader" of the group. And once indoctrinated, no one including their close friends and family could ever convince them that they were being used by charlatans. The only way to free them was to actually hire a "deprogrammer" which was a guy who knew how to finally show them reality. We have too much of the same charlatans today and those who promote them. And the result is zombie like behavior where even if something is good for you personally you reject it because that's what the cult tells you to do.

Pressured to not throw away their vote maybe.

I think it's either Americans who feel angry and betrayed because they actually thought Rey Mysterio was getting choked by Kane, and the other group of Americans who, because they had more than two working brain cells, understood it was just TV but is still annoyed by the first group's antics.

I do

It's the same as watching a news source that for years swears to you that something is true and then quietly comes back and tells you that in fact it was not true. There is a long list of mainstream media "sorry we were only joking" incidents over the years. Yet people continue to watch never questioning whether or not they are being lied to .

The sad thing is that a percentage of people continue to believe nonsense as if they were part of a religion. That group is thankfully dwindling in numbers and more and more people are just tired of being lied to.