I would love a reporter to ask follow up questions here. Break it up into what? Would having separate companies making iPads versus iMacs make a difference in chip prices?
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.
Y'all thought I was kidding when I said the slippery slope is getting greased up.
3D Printer laws to prevent "gun prints" in the name of safety.
Age verification... again, in the name of 'safety'.
None of it matters if it's feasible. They don't care if you install the patch or not. That's not the goal.
The fact these laws can be put in place give cover to "We need to search your apartment for illegal 3D printers and an OS that isn't properly patched".
I know it sounds crazy, because it is.
Look at the proposed community notes (if you can). It's a bunch of "Well, it only requires you type in your birthday!" as if that is something the gov't has any place in telling you.
This is YOUR computer. This is YOUR 3D printer. This is YOUR firearm. And they will use your ownership against you with these laws.
BREAK: Absolutely horrific news for iPhone users in the UK.
Apple is removing its highest level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data.
This is a move that Apple has never made before in any market.
@BenWallace70@LukeGaughan@tomhfh The people who love encryption the most are the people who use the internet for things like shopping, banking, social media, and really anything else that they want secured. To say that the people who love encryption the most are pedos is the dumbest thing anyone has ever said.
@TRAD3S_@Jimmy_Rohrbaugh@SpockterW@LukeChudoba It is not part of the bracket, a number placed directly next to a bracket without an operator simply implies multiplication. Multiplication and division hold the same priority so you do what comes first from left to right. Also, 2 * (2+2) can be written as (2+2)+(2+2) as well.
@OneREDOctober@SpockterW@LukeChudoba If you were gonna solve that equation through distribution, which is just multiplication, you would start by dividing 8 by 2 and distributing 4 to the (2+2) and your answer would still be 16.
@nonzerosumgain@LukeChudoba The reason the 3(36) is second in that example is because it comes before the /12 when going from left to right. There is no difference between the expressions 3x36 and 3(36), multiplication and division hold the same priority so you do whatever comes first from left to right.
the internet archive got hacked? that’s crazy bro. the thing that has old news articles and old social posts and videos that contradict the blatant lies of the state-controlled media? that’s nuts my guy. right befor the election? that’s bonkers dude