On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Rapture Bomb or Rapture Bombing is an internet meme that started and spread because of Harold Camping, the pastor who predicted that the would would end on May 21. That date has long past and the elect are still with us. After that failure he went on to say that the world would end on Oct 21. Which is this Friday, on the internet the world ending in 2011 does not seem to be the accepted trend. 2012 seems to be the date people are most comfortable with.
On Twitter the hashtag to follow would be #rapturebomb or #rapturebombing. Here are pics from the meme that have been spreading that shows you what the world would look like without the elect. A spin-off would be the Rapture Dad who is sitting all alone without his kids. Check out these fantastic photos and images below.
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