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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: AlphaWolf 🐝🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Spirit Airlines is dead
Date: 05/03/26 1:07 PM
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After 30+ years, they’re finally gone. Heckuva job, Senator Warren.

Hmmm, let’s follow this line of thought.

Jet Blue wanted a $3.8 billion acquisition of Spirit Airlines.

The Biden administration’s DOJ sued Jet Blue because they thought the acquisition violated antitrust laws.

Senator Warren said that she also thought the acquisition violated antitrust laws.

In 2024, a U.S. federal judge concurred with the DOJ and prohibited the acquisition.

In 2025, Trump became president.

Trump could have told his DOJ to allow the acquisition, but apparently the DOJ was busy losing frivolous retribution cases that either couldn’t get an indictment or were thrown out of court. Priorities, apparently, being on pictures of sea shells.

Spirit Airlines then requested a bailout deal from the Trump administration, but apparently Trump was too busy getting his picture on coins and passports, renaming buildings and airports (oh, the irony) after himself, getting a swimming pool contractor to fix the Mall reflecting pool, tearing down the White House, enriching himself, and starting a war that no one wanted which caused gas prices to blow up like a Molotov Cocktail (more irony).

Spirit Airlines went broke, high gas prices being the final nail in the coffin.

Faux News ran a story blaming the Spirit Airline bankruptcy on Senator Warren because she agreed with the Biden DOJ and a federal judge.

Dope1, fell for the story hook, line, and sinker.

If I tried to sell this story to a movie producer, I’d be thrown out of the office for telling a story that is less believable than the Fifth Element (which was, at least, a little entertaining).


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