@PaulDibartolo@Beno10_MFC What is going on is people assume b is 5. The fact is the second formula gives b= +/- 5. So, the true answer is 49 or 51 (solved for + and -5).
@PButtigieg10, @SenWarren and #Brandon did their best to stop the Jet Blue - Spirit merger and prevent less competition. Seems the best laid plans of mice and men always go awry.
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% isnโt a monopoly against 80%.
Warren said no.
She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Bidenโs 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 thatโs 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 womanโs moronic crusade against the market.
And the math ainโt 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%.
Thatโs reality. Not some BS number from a โstudy.โ
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. Thatโs what moronic politicians led by socialism do.
Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spiritโs collapse is โa Biden win for flyers.โ
A win.
14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight.
And sheโs taking credit.
This is socialism in 2026.
A senator whoโs 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 didnโt 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.
@SenSchumer's (TSA) #Folly
Again, the Senate Minority Leader, attempting to project power, after causing chaos at US Airports that will last far longer than wanted, has flipped on an offer he rejected last week. #failure#flipper#chaos_maker#loser
@DanaAndParks there are no bodies from the titanic or Arizona. Everything is, by now decomposed. Bones dissolved within months because sea water has little calcium. Osmotic action!
This is why we always stand for our flag. Our flag flies because of the last breath of every warrior who died defending it.
Freedom isnโt free. ๐บ๐ธ
@1Nicdar Well, you could always come back. But since you put your face up on X, I am sure all of the border agents would love to hear your story to get back into the USA.
@AOC gave a rebuttal concerning her questioning at #DAVOS. From what I can tell, she would have received more respect if she just served drinks than opening her mouth.
Saw this on Fb and wanted to share.
Rest in peace, soldier.
The watch has ended, and history grows quieter. At 102, Jessie Alton Mahaffey, the last living survivor of the USS Oklahoma, has crossed the final horizon, leaving behind the final human voice of that shattered morning at Pearl Harbor. On December 7, 1941, the Oklahoma rolled beneath a burning sky. Trapped steel became a tomb for 429 sailors. Jessie, then only a young man, fought through darkness and flooding, clawing his way to air while the sea claimed his brothers. He did not escape alone, he carried them with him for the rest of his life.๐๏ธ๐บ๐ธโ
Fate was relentless. Months later, the ocean tested him again with the sinking of the USS Northampton. Twice claimed by war. Twice returned. A survivor marked not by luck, but by an unbreakable will and a lifelong burden of remembrance.
For more than eight decades, Jessie stood as a living memorial, bearing witness so the fallen would never fade into silence. Now, his long duty is complete.
He has gone to rejoin the crew he never forgot.
Credit: Anchor of history.
@Mishi_2210 The problem is the undefined English word "half". Does it mean one-half [1/2], or does it refer to รท2 or รท250. It is just as invalid as trying to write this sentence: Which [too; to; two] can you put in this sentence? It will fail when you write it with only one choice.
@catturd2 And now, the 5th Circuit CoA has ruled that Federal District Court judges do not have the right to require bond hearings for illegals before ICE can haul them away because Congress changed the law many years ago.