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...
So why is 'Moaning Myrtle' now trending on Twitter. First a little background as to who Moaning Myrtly is. According to Happy Potter Wikia - "Moaning" Myrtle (between 1926 and 1932—13 June, 1943), was a Muggle-born witch who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was sorted into Ravenclaw house. She was killed in 1943 by Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk, under Tom Riddle's orders. Now, she is a ghost who haunts the second floor girls' bathroom (and occasionally other bathroom facilities) at Hogwarts. She is more commonly known as "Moaning Myrtle". So why is it trending on Twitter, let's look at some tweets to make sense of this Trending Topic. Moaning Myrtle is trending. Only JK can make a pervy ghost. moaning myrtle, sounds like she's doing more than crying to me moaning myrtle is always sneaking up on ppl. And Moaning Myrtle is trending. Funny enough, I don't recall us trying to make her a TT. Naughty one, she is. Moa...