What would an indian squaw know about airlines?
Wampum warren knows how to chew deer hide to soften it, knows how to build a teepee, but nothing about business and certainly not the airlines industry.
Ya wanna beer?
Posted on 05/02/2026 5:09:20 AM PDT by DFG
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.
"I've warned for months that a JetBlue - Spirit Airlines merger would have led to fewer flights and higher fares.
Justice Antitrust Division and US Department of Transportation were right to stand up for consumers and fight against runaway airline consolidation.
This is a Biden win for flyers!"
https://x.com/SenWarren/status/1765190540427935859
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.
Excellent summary post of the damage done by Liawatha and other Dems.
Yep, that sums it up pretty darn well!
How does one person who is not even in the majority party have the power to shut down an entire airline? Honest question.
Wonder what the payoff was for her personally?
Had to be something.
These grifters don’t work on OUR tax dollars, for free. There has to be incentive!
I’ll miss the brawls at luggage carousels. But then again, SouthWest Air is still around.
Fourth line in the article:
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.
It seems that everyone here is complaining about Elizabeth Warren when it is clear to me that Spirit Airlines failed because it was not viable as a business.
“I’ll miss the brawls at luggage carousels”
Oh those people will still fly.
They need transportation to and from their carnival cruises don’t ya know. 😉
Warren says no. What does that even mean? Who cares what Two Dogs Humping says? What power does she have?
Princes Grey Beaver musta done the Dead Crow War Dance. The big spirit in the sky handled it for her.
What would an indian squaw know about airlines?
Wampum warren knows how to chew deer hide to soften it, knows how to build a teepee, but nothing about business and certainly not the airlines industry.
Ya wanna beer?
“It seems that everyone here is complaining about Elizabeth Warren when it is clear to me that Spirit Airlines failed because it was not viable as a business.”
You need to check your reading comprehension rather than trying to be a wiseass. Spirit failed because Warren stopped it purchase by JetBlue when it was viable.
Zoo Cruise
Is it also "clear to you" that it was this dumb, bitch squaw that killed all chances for the airline to remain in business?
Do you know how to read and understand English?
Warren may have had something to do with it, but Spirit died more as a result of suicide. Let’s face it, they sucked as a company. If it had to come down to a merger with another company to save it, it probably wasn’t worth saving.
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