🤩🏆'This is what it's all about, this is the World Cup!'
Some amazing scenes in Mexico City for the first game of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. 🏆🇲🇽
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@WorldCupMedia_ I didn't think any other song could be as unitive as Waka, but here she is crushing it again and bringing the world together one more time
Pope Leo XIV just held mass at La Sagrada Familia to honor 100th anniversary of Gaudi’s death.
They lit up the cross at peak of the Basilica’s Tower of Jesus Christ for the first time and did a light show with a drone visual of Gaudi’s face. Next level.
🚨 The real masterminds and backstage geniuses behind the rose petals falling from the Pantheon’s oculus on Pentecost Sunday?
The Rome firefighters!
Italy at its finest 🇮🇹🔥
Xi Jinping dejó al planeta con la boca abierta. En un banquete con solo 47 invitados, el presidente chino miró a Trump y soltó sin filtro: “Trump está haciendo a América grande de nuevo.” Sí, leíste bien. El líder del Partido Comunista Chino recitó el eslogan MAGA en público. Trump convirtió a Xi al MAGA.
Xi continuó con un discurso épico: “En el 250 aniversario de la independencia de Estados Unidos, los más de 300 millones de estadounidenses están revitalizando el espíritu de patriotismo, innovación y emprendimiento, e inaugurando un nuevo capítulo en la historia de la nación.”
Y remató: “Los pueblos de China y Estados Unidos son dos grandes pueblos. La gran revitalización de la nación china y hacer a América grande de nuevo pueden ir de la mano. Podemos ayudarnos mutuamente a triunfar y llevar prosperidad a todo el mundo.”
Greg Burgess writes....
So apparently Jill and I are on a plane to China with Trump, Elon Musk, half the Cabinet, and a collection of CEOs whose combined net worth could probably refinance the moon.
Totally normal day for Gen X.
And I just can’t stop laughing at how the media spent YEARS telling us:
- China hated Elon
- Trump was “finished”
- America was collapsing
- capitalism was dead
- and everybody important was abandoning the U.S.
Meanwhile, here we are somewhere over the Pacific looking like the cast of Succession meets Top Gun: Retirement Plan Edition.
Remember when China sanctioned Marco Rubio back in 2020 and everybody acted like the geopolitical chessboard had permanently shifted?
Now suddenly everybody’s still showing up to the table because — shocking development — nations tend to like:
- money
- technology
- manufacturing
- trade
- AI
- energy
- semiconductors
- and not being economically irrelevant
Who knew.
The best part is the internet meltdown cycle never changes.
Trump:
“America needs stronger trade relationships.”
Media:
“HITLER.”
Elon:
“I make electric cars, rockets, satellites, AI, and robots.”
Internet activists:
“Yeah but we posted an angry hashtag.”
Cool.
I’m sure Beijing is trembling before your TikTok resistance movement.
And flying with this group is exactly what you think it would be.
Trump walks around the cabin narrating reality like it’s an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Geopolitical:
“Great flight. Powerful people. Very high IQ. The Chinese are saying they’ve never seen anything like it.”
Elon looks like he hasn’t slept since 2019 and is simultaneously calculating orbital trajectories and wondering if the beverage cart could be automated.
Meanwhile Jill and I are sitting there like two exhausted Gen Xers who survived dial-up internet, chain-smoking restaurants, lawn darts, and drinking from garden hoses… wondering how in the hell we became side characters in the weirdest timeline imaginable.
Honestly, at this point if Trump walked into Beijing blasting “Danger Zone” while Elon live-streamed it from orbit, I wouldn’t even blink.
Because the people who told us America was over are still tweeting from iPhones, driving Teslas, using Starlink during hurricanes, and cashing checks tied to the same capitalist machine they claim to hate.
Gen X translation:
The world’s still running.
The adults are still making deals.
And the internet is still confusing hashtags for accomplishments.
Carry on.