RattlerGator Report: 5/8/26 - SpaceX AI Meets Anthropic, Iran's Bluff, and the I2U2 Alliance
JB White opens with Trump dressing down an ABC reporter at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool and uses it to make a broader point about the deliberate destruction of beauty, standards, and journalism as a profession. He then reads Tom Luongo's sharp breakdown of why the Strait of Hormuz standoff is theater, not strength: Iran has no money, no hard power, and is manipulating oil futures because it has nothing else left. JB pivots to the emerging I2U2 alliance between India, Israel, the UAE, and the US, and explains why MBS has been quietly outmaneuvered by MBZ. The episode closes with a big…
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