RattlerGator Report: 10/16/26 - Tesla’s Flying Roadster, Gramsci’s Long March & a French Warning

JB White flies solo on this RattlerGator Report, and it's a "beautiful, beautiful" kind of Football Friday. He previews the Gators at Texas and the Jaguars against the Texans, then pulls up footage of the new Tesla Roadster flipping upside down, firing air thrusters and landing on its wheels. Elon Musk says flying cars are real, and JB walks through the Peter Thiel line that started it all. From there he makes the case for a Global North of America, Russia and China, linked by a tunnel under the Bering Strait, with the U.S. in the lead. He reads a long thread on Antonio Gramsci and the long march through the institutions, and why that grip is cracking in Latin America as Flávio Bolsonaro finishes first against Lula. Next come posts from a Frenchman named Breville: a warning that France already tried everything progressive politicians promise, a look at Hollywood's gatekeepers, and a call for the West to treat abundance as an engineering problem instead of regulating itself into stagnation. JB closes on the Shield of the Americas taking on the cartels and on President Trump's leadership.