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Too many businesses have become co-dependent on loans to stay afloat, just paying one off to take out another. If these company heads don't stop pillaging and start allowing for enough functional capital to operate for more than two weeks without being forced to take out a short term loan, a lot of these companies will inevitably tank. Many, of course, will blame the economy rather than mismanagement, even though consumer spending is relatively high.

@JMFL06 @Rothmus Just as well the JetBlue merger hadn't gone through as if it had JetBlue would have likely died with spirit. A lot of businesses in the USA and other countries are on a knife edge. I've already read JetBlue as 'financially fragile'.

Pete Buttigieg argued that a JetBlue-Spirit merger, which would have controlled just 9% of the market, would somehow force the Big Four airlines, which already dominate 75% of the market, to raise prices. He appeared genuinely convinced that adding more low-fare carriers and increasing competition would lead to higher ticket prices. Seriously. This wasn’t limited to Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren. State attorneys general, such as Colorado’s Phil Weiser, actively partnered with the Department of Transportation to block the Frontier-Spirit merger and targeted Frontier over its COVID policies in 2020, all while touting his aggressive airline antitrust efforts. In the name of “protecting American families” and “airline competition,” Democrats have once again delivered the opposite: stronger big airlines, reduced competition, fewer consumer choices, and higher prices.

🚨 CALL TO ACTION 🚨 Only One Week Left to Hold Dr. Anthony Fauci Accountable The clock is ticking. On May 11, 2026, just one week from today, the five-year statute of limitations expires on Dr. Anthony Fauci’s congressional testimony from May 11, 2021. That’s when he denied under oath that the NIH funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,the the same lab at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a crime to lie to Congress. Millions of lives were lost globally, and 1.2 million Americans were killed. American families and businesses were shattered and left in ruin. With his former top adviser David Morens recently being indicted for allegedly hiding records and evading FOIA requests, the evidence and momentum against Dr. Fauci are stronger than ever. This is our last chance. 🚨 TAKE ACTION NOW: 1. Call the Department of Justice — Demand they act before the deadline. • Main DOJ line: (202) 514-2000 • Urge Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche @DAGToddBlanche to file charges for perjury and related offenses. 2. Contact Your Representatives & Senators Tell them to publicly pressure the DOJ and support full transparency. Find their contacts at Congress.gov. Justice delayed is justice denied. Fauci allegedly lied to Congress, funded risky research linked to the origins of the scamdemic, and helped orchestrate one of the greatest cover-ups of our time. He cannot be allowed to walk away with book deals, speaking fees, and zero consequences. Fauci For Prison! @POTUS

@wprice17 @Rothmus They had already filed bankruptcy twice and needed billions to become solvent. They didn't fail due to geopolitics. They failed due to an incompetent CEO and board members.

If all it took was 2 months of fuel prices being slightly higher (less than their peak during/after COVID) to crush them, they were doomed to fail. They needed a $500 million federal government bailout just to pay off short term debt, and needed billions to make them solvent. They collapsed because of mismanagement by an incompetent CEO and board members.

@Rothmus That's a heck of a pretzel. Let's make it simpler. No Iran war and spirit would still be flying today.

How do people believe importing physicians from countries with inadequate healthcare, a culture that cannot provide essential services, and high mortality will work out for the countries receiving them? The numbers make the contradiction obvious. US physician density is roughly 2.7 doctors per 1,000 people. India sits at 0.7–0.9. Pakistan around 1.1. Philippines 0.8–1.7. Much of sub-Saharan Africa is near 0.4 or lower. We see posts on X telling us its criminal to not accept them.. without acknowledging the reality that they are needed far more in their home countries. These are not systems producing surplus talent that the US desperately needs. They are systems struggling to deliver basic care to their own populations. Yet the policy pipeline keeps pulling thousands of IMGs into the US every year through provisional licensing, J-1 waivers, and fast-track paths that bypass the full US residency Americans must complete. The 1997 Balanced Budget Act froze Medicare-funded residency slots nearly 30 years ago. Congress had decades of warnings, hearings, and bills to lift the cap. They chose not to. Instead they quietly expanded the alternative routes. The result is a two-tier system: American graduates carry massive debt and full oversight while foreign-trained physicians often enter with reduced training requirements and different practice norms. The system is designed to suppress American doctors while replacing them with foreign alternatives. Patients get less transparency about training pathways. Hospitals get cheaper, more compliant labor. Source countries lose doctors they cannot afford to lose. And the belief persists that importing from failing systems will magically improve outcomes here. This is managed replacement built on the same engineered scarcity that has been policy for three decades. Citations (APA) Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2025). Health at a Glance 2025. OECD Publishing. World Health Organization. (2025). Global Health Workforce Statistics. National Resident Matching Program. (2025 & 2026). Results and Data: Main Residency Match. Salsberg, E., et al. (2008). US residency training before and after the 1997 Balanced Budget Act. JAMA. Federation of State Medical Boards. (2026). States with Enacted IMG Licensure Pathways.

"Remove Obstacles and Get Result!" That is how Erickson Immigration Group markets its PERM services, the employer-driven green card process, where a company must prove no qualified U.S. workers are available before hiring a foreign worker, making the “obstacle” the American workers. The law requires the employer to conduct a real, good-faith test of the U.S. labor market. Attorneys and agents cannot interview, screen, reject, or control U.S. worker applicants. Why? Because the immigration lawyer’s objective is to get the foreign worker’s green card approved, not to protect U.S. workers. Yet, EIG advertises an in-house PERM recruitment team. Then EIG-linked immigration employees appear inside major employers as “global mobility,” “immigration specialist,” or “employer contact” roles at Salesforce, DoorDash, Zendesk, eBay, Twitter and others. So how fair is it for Americans when an immigration-firm-trained agent is embedded inside the employer to control the PERM process, while making it look like the employer is actually conducting the recruitment? They have one job and one success metric, to get the case approved, not to hire Americans. See the comments for more evidence!

Medical Tuesday. No one ever voted for this mess. No one every would. The only thing harder for an American student wishing to practice in their own country compared to foreigners is trying to practice in another country. Did you know there are zero repricocity laws in place with other countries while our politicians let foreign physicians with years less education and debt waltz right in take a test and start practicing? Becoming a physician in America is one of the most expensive and grueling paths a young American can choose. Average medical school debt now exceeds $220,000, often $240,000 or more when undergraduate loans are included. Students invest 11 to 15 years of their lives and hundreds of thousands of dollars only to hit an artificially capped residency system that has been frozen in place since the 1997 Balanced Budget Act. Meanwhile, policy quietly built an easier, cheaper parallel track for International Medical Graduates. More than 18 states now offer provisional or fast-track licensure that lets experienced foreign-trained physicians practice with reduced or bypassed full U.S. residency requirements. In the 2025 and 2026 NRMP Matches, non-U.S. citizen IMGs reached record numbers of positions while thousands of qualified American MD and DO seniors went unmatched or were forced into SOAP. Hospitals and health systems love the two-tier system. They get lower effective labor costs, more compliant staff on visas or provisional licenses, and higher billing margins. American patients receive less transparency about training pathways. Source countries lose the doctors they spent decades educating. This was never put to a public vote. No referendum asked Americans if they wanted their children buried in debt while foreign pipelines expanded around the frozen domestic supply. Politicians from both parties have had nearly 30 years of warnings, hearings, and bills to lift the residency cap and protect the American pipeline. They chose not to. They do not care about our health outcomes or act in our best interest. They serve institutional, economic, and compliance interests instead. Citations (APA) Association of American Medical Colleges. (2025). Medical Student Education: Debt, Costs, and Loan Repayment Fact Card. National Resident Matching Program. (2025 & 2026). Results and Data: Main Residency Match. Federation of State Medical Boards. (2026). States with Enacted Additional IMG Licensure Pathways. Salsberg, E., et al. (2008). US residency training before and after the 1997 Balanced Budget Act. JAMA. Council on Graduate Medical Education. Multiple workforce reports, 1990s–2010s.

AOC cost 25,000 people their jobs in Queens by opposing Amazon’s project. Elizabeth Warren and Mayor Pete cost 17,000 people their jobs by opposing the JetBlue-Spirit merger. Gavin Newsom cost 82,000 people their jobs by driving Tesla, SpaceX, Oracle, Chevron, Palantir, Charles Schwab, and HP out of California. Joe Biden and Kamala cost 11,000 people their jobs by shutting down construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. None of this was a mistake. It’s a policy choice by Democrats. Unemployed and displaced workers turn to and become dependent on government social programs. Without welfare recipients and illegal aliens, Democrats don’t have a base.

Indian fraud and scam networks that are taking American tech jobs and hurting the American economy, through H-1B visas, bought degrees and fake certifications Manav Bharti University (MBU), reportedly sold 36k fake degrees for less than $5k each for H1B w-j.co/s/cf029

Catch-and-Release policy expansions (2008-2021) One Policy That Screwed American Workers: Catch-and-Release policy expansions (2008-2021). Under these policies, large numbers of illegal border crossers were released into the interior with nothing more than a court date they often ignored. This created a revolving door that encouraged more illegal crossings and flooded labor markets with unauthorized workers. American workers in construction, hospitality, and agriculture faced increased competition and suppressed wages as a direct result. We stopped detaining people who had no right to be here and pretended it was humane. Bookmark if you need to reference this. Share if you've seen the long-term effects in your industry. Comment if you’ve seen this pattern where you live. Follow for more Illegal Monday.

@grok @howdawg420 @fllgator1 @chadfelixg Thanks Grok 👍

Businesses and wealthy people are leaving many blue-led cities/states (CA, NY, IL) for red ones (FL, TX, TN) due to these key factors, per IRS/Census migration data showing billions in AGI outflows: 1. **High taxes**: Top income rates (CA 13.3%, NY ~10.9%) vs. 0% in FL/TX. Wealth/exit tax proposals accelerate this. 2. **Regulatory burdens**: Heavy rules, permitting delays, and labor/energy costs raise expenses and slow expansion. 3. **Crime/disorder**: Elevated urban crime, homelessness, and sanitation issues hurt safety, hiring, and operations. 4. **Cost of living/housing**: Strict zoning drives sky-high prices, limiting talent attraction. 5. **Fiscal policies**: Pension debts and spending erode competitiveness. Data shows net domestic migration to lower-tax, business-friendly states for better take-home pay and stability.

No one making the argument that black Americans won't have fair representation in government has explained why or how. This seems to be an assumed truth. Black Americans must have specific representation. But why? For what? Why can't black Americans be treated as Americans?

@howdawg420 @fllgator1 @chadfelixg @grok please review this thread and offer detailed analysis for the question I asked you previously.

It's all they've got. He redirected the conversation after not being able to prove me wrong on the original assertions, excluding the fact that businesses and wealthy people are fleeing blue hellholes. I can't wait to see them crumble under the weight of their own policies when enough of their local tax bases exit. Speaking of, @grok, why are businesses and wealthy people fleeing blue districts? List the reasons, including details for each.

@howdawg420 @fllgator1 @chadfelixg Don't bother, dude. I've come in contact with doorknobs that had higher IQs than this one.

@fllgator1 @JMFL06 @chadfelixg What did he say that's racist if anyone is hurting the black community it's you making baseless claims like that

I never said blacks were better off in red districts - not once. I simply said they should have the option to choose without being lumped together as if they all think and vote the exact same way. We're done here. You're arguing in bad faith, spewing hypocrisy everywhere while trying to make the case that I'm a racist for wanting to make sure that black voters truly have options.

@JMFL06 @chadfelixg I’m going after your argument that blacks are better off in red districts No they are not, the economic engine of this country is blue districts

So now you're redirected to the performance of some districts prior to the supreme court ruling, as an indicator that that's how black people should vote. You don't even see your own hypocrisy. This doesn't prove your original argument - it basically says that you believe they should vote blue simply because some blue districts perform well financially, which is business related, and that percentage is falling as businesses decide to relocate to less heavily regulated, more tax friendly red districts, because blue policies are getting so absurd that businesses can't function, driving out the wealthy tax base. Again - you've not provided any proof to back your assertions.

@JMFL06 @chadfelixg it’s blue districts in red states that drive red states economies red districts are the shtholes

@fllgator1 @chadfelixg You're being obtuse. As the districts were drawn prior to the ruling, that was absolutely a valid question worthy of evaluation. If you're going to quote people, at least do it accurately. You're being intentionally vague and deceptive.

@JMFL06 @chadfelixg ‘why are blacks represented by…’ “why do blacks choose the representatives of their choice, instead of my choice?”

@fllgator1 @chadfelixg I've literally never argued that. I can't believe people arguing that black people should be treated equally, and be counted like everyone else, aligning with federal law, and the 13th-15th amendments of the US Constitution qualifies people as racists, but here we are.

@JMFL06 @chadfelixg arguing black people should not be able to choose their representatives while whites should is not a valid argument you are racist

Still haven't provided literally anything proving me wrong, or proving yourself right, for that matter. Towing the party line while subjectively framing those whom you disagree with cultists, racists, nazis, and fascists doesn't exactly paint you as a particularly bright individual who can do research and think for themselves. That's peak cult behavior.

@JMFL06 @chadfelixg You are arguing against black americans choosing their representatives You are the reason VRA was passed You dont have a case