@vanillaopinions River north and old town used to be great neighborhoods until the covid riots. A darn shame that Chicago bends its knee to degenerate, crusty, liberal losers.
@jasonlewris Florida home prices coming down is a beautiful thing. why would we want people to spend more of their income on housing when they can spend less and instead spend on their hobbies, save for retirement, etc.
@Garrett_Archer Even 3rd world countries count better than California and Arizona. Literally every state should copy Florida’s voting laws to regain trust in fair elections.
@Libs_OfChicago Chicago desperately needs to start building luxury high rise apartments in the downtown neighborhoods like we were under the Rahm era. The moment 20k luxury apartments start appearing on the market, all mediocre apartments will have to lower prices to compete.
@JohnSmithrar@nickgerli1 SW Florida crash is because a rush of people moved here during the pandemic. Local gov begged builders to build and they did. Now migration is back to normal. There is an influx of homes now because of this supply imbalance.
Meet Matt Doogen, he’s a pilot for @united.
He just changed his cover photo on Facebook to “8647” which is known to symbolize kiIIing Trump.
Would you feel safe with him flying your plane?
Any comment @united ?
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.
@Libs_OfChicago@susanamendoza10 Love your page and your political views, but Chicago needs to get to 5 million people to lessen the public debt load. We need 1 million more housing units as soon as possible. This will lower rents and lower housing prices. More money in your pocket instead of paying a mortgage.
There’s a lot of problems with Chicago, the biggest one being transplants.
Clinton is from Park Ridge, she left after high school & never came back.
Obama is from Hawaii, he came to Chicago in the 80’s.
Pritzker is from California, not Chicago. Even when he officially moved to Illinois to be a carpetbagger he didn’t live in Chicago,