Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren
She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements.
Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service.
JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes.
The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%.
For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%.
Warren said no.
She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024.
Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year.
Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug.
510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December.
14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight.
And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms.
Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back.
40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market.
And the math ain’t mathing.
Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%.
That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.”
So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money?
Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years.
Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do.
Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.”
A win.
14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight.
And she’s taking credit.
This is socialism in 2026.
A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company.
She saved you a billion on imaginary paper.
She cost you ten times that in real life.
She didn’t protect consumers from anything.
14,000+ will go from working to welfare.
She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed.
Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything.
She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.
Heading back to Stanford next Monday to talk with the AI Club about building real companies in this new era.
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President Trump, on behalf of the Venezuelan people, thank you for this consequential conversation with you and your administration, one that reaffirms Venezuelans’ deep trust in the United States and in your leadership.
Together, we will build a free and sovereign Venezuela: America’s most reliable and secure ally in the hemisphere.
Thank you, Mr. President.
@realDonaldTrump
🇺🇸🇻🇪🚨| La venezolana Marien Rincón Medina, Oficial Naval de los Estados Unidos sobre los operativos de captura y extracción de Nicolás Maduro. “Soy americana nacida y criada en Venezuela. Soy partícipe de tu gran merecida captura Maduro…Creíste que te duraría toda la vida, pero tenías a personas como yo desde el núcleo de la flotilla, y desde el núcleo de mi ciudad y país natal, en tu contra…A mí me tocó experimentar tu caída desde su origen…La vida es un boomerang y a ti, Madurito, por fin te llegó de regreso”.
Para que la Administración Trump logre una transición real en Venezuela, tarde o temprano Diosdado Cabello tendrá que enfrentar la justicia de Estados Unidos.
Cabello es un criminal y uno de los arquitectos del narco-Estado venezolano, socio de Maduro en la exportación de drogas, violencia y redes criminales que han destruido vidas y envenenado comunidades, dentro y fuera de Venezuela.
Llevar a Cabello ante la justicia no es venganza: es una condición indispensable para una transición democrática auténtica y para la liberación inmediata de TODOS los presos políticos.
With the Iranian uprising and disintegration of the Venezuelan regime, we could well be at a hinge point in history.
My take in @ACLJ:
https://t.co/sxHFYjZakP
No one should be under the illusion that Vladimir Padrino, or Delcy Rodriguez, or Diasdado Cabello are anything other than committed Chavistas who want to maintain the status quo in Venezuela.
We have to be patient, and we have to get this right - but we should move as quickly as we can to enable the Venezuelan people to restore their constitutional order and rebuild their country.
Thanks to this man, Donald J. Trump, political prisoners are being released in Venezuela.
People who were being tortured.
Blessed be the peacemakers. Peace through strength.
🚨Todos los días son más y más los agentes chavistas que están desertando y colaborando con Estados Unidos.
Lo que puedo asegurar es que entre la cúpula chavista se están traicionando a diestra y siniestra.
Alex was the smartest guy at my school / probably the smartest person in Venezuela his year.
Him getting into Stanford was what made me realize it was possible to go to a top uni as a Venezuelan.
Recommend giving him a follow — he has the best / most informed takes on Vzla!
Less than a year ago, President Biden upped the Maduro bounty to $25,000,000.
Removing Maduro was positive for Venezuela.
As a Democrat, I don’t understand why we can’t acknowledge a good development for Venezuelans—and how deft our military’s execution of that plan was.