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...
A tearful Dennis Rodman took to the stage and melted people's hearts. Rodman confessed that he would like to be a better father and a better son. Rodman spoke of his early years and his father leaving him at the age of 5. In his late teens he was not getting on with his mom and she asked him to leave home. His wife of 11 years has stood by him which Rodman said he greatly appreciates. The speech is completely from the heart and you need to watch it. "I didn't play the game for the money," he said. "I didn't play the game to be famous. What you see here is just an illusion that I love to be an individual that's very colorful." Twitter has been on fire every since the Hall of Fame acceptance speech was put out by the NBA. With comments like 'OMG his father had 47 kids'. Another tweet said 'Congratulations on the HOF Induction'. Dennis Rodman 2011 Hall Of Fame Speech (VIDEO) by 3030fm An original post by Sociolatte