Jed Bratt

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.

@thedooberhead @greggertruck They always avoid eye contact or any possibility of viewing a response to their performative moral posturing. They are weak and sour people.

@greggertruck I hope you shake your head everytime you see it

My elderly neighbor saw my Cybertruck like a week or so ago and shook his head. I park in the driveway now. Shake away Albert.

@greggertruck Make the action button on your phone the emissions testing mode and let it rip every now and then.

They not like us

@BoBbyPleWniaK Great insight, thank you for sharing!

Traders story: how it started and how I got to where I am today with $tsla. Wild story how this all played out. @Jed_Bratt I never traded options until my account crossed $2 million. Never paper traded either. Everything changes when it’s real money anyway. Not my personality wasting time on fake games or trades. I can see the benefit but not something I was interested in. Flash back to late 2019. Fresh off a divorce, I get a $200k settlement check. I’m six months single and just starting to date my now wife. Corporate sales are on fire 125k base plus 20 - 40k quarterly commissions. Cashflow is strong. Total investable money hits around $350k. I start moving cash from checking into Fidelity. On a golf trip one guy is killing it swing trading so I jump into NIO FCEL and a couple other. $be was one funny enough but I could buy more FCEL shares so I bought it. I fall in love with FCEL. Keep buying 1k then 10k at a time until I’m holding 50k shares by year end. Covid hits March 2020, I sell everything else and go all in 150k shares at under $1.25. No options just conviction on the new CEO bonus and green energy. Corporate commissions keep rising so every extra dollar goes into $FCEL. Biden wins late 2020 green energy squeezes. I sell my initial $400k at breakeven and let the rest ride. Late December I cross seven figures then mid January I hit $2 million. That’s when I started researching FIRE on YouTube and come across covered calls. My wife was in a masters program taking a derivatives course and her dad had her selling calls as a teenager. I started selling covered calls on FCEL exited the rest 15 23 from a 1.88 cost basis and the account sat at $2.6 million. Moved into dividend kings but premiums sucked. Then mid 2021, I go heavy into $TSLA. The premiums blew my mind. I pulled $800k in gains and premium by end of year. Figured I could make 10 - 20k a month consistently. After a sailing trip I submitted my resignation and retired at 33 right at the market peak. I knew sequence of return risk was the killer so I stayed 100 percent cash selling puts 20 percent out on $TSLA. Super relaxed making steady income. Then bought the 2022 dip hard all the way down to $150. Took the 55 percent drawdown gut punch but recovered strong. Since then it’s been the same cycle. Big drops, recover, trim and regroup. Each year I get better. That’s the real journey, no fluff. From zero options knowledge to where I am now 5 years later. I’ve done it all during this period. You name it, Ive done it. Some success and lots of failures. More 50% drawdowns anyone should ever experience in 5 years. I’ve had a lifetime of them crammed into these years. Now I’m dialed into what works for me and I do my best to focus on that. Ultimately the underlying has to come though. I’ve picked my horse and riding it out until I’m satisfied.

@elonmusk Will Cybertruck get smart summon before unsupervised?

Cybertruck

Brilliantly done

@JoshWest247 Is this not the Robotaxi version with the rear washer etc?

This is what they sent to pick me and my Wife up.

Well it looks like we just had a major setback with Tesla @robotaxi in Austin! We are now back to Supervisors in the Driver’s seat WITH hands on the wheel!!! What on Earth is going on? Also this vehicle has no “Robotaxi” markings on the exterior.

@BoBbyPleWniaK I'd like to hear more about how you got started on selling options and how you became confident with your strategy... i.e. did you start with paper trading, how do you balance upside loss risk etc.

I keep a running notes app on my phone full of future post ideas. Most days I just open X and write whatever’s on my mind in the moment. Other times I’m not feeling it, so I drop the thought in the notes for later. Longer threads usually get written on flights when I have uninterrupted time. The truth is, I do a lot of this posting for myself — it’s therapy, a journal, and a way to get thoughts out of my head. But now I want to hear from you. You’ve read this far… what should I add to the list? Drop your topic ideas below: finance, $TSLA, travel, early retirement, mindset, or whatever’s on your mind. I’ll get to as many as I can in long-form posts.

@realEstateTrent Ego

@ThinkAppraiser Assessor thinks it’s only 3 units.

$200k per door in San Diego

NASA: "We expect a 6-minute blackout during re-entry due to plasma." SpaceX: "Watch this in 4K."

Send everyone an FSD free trial with 14.2 But don’t make it a 30 day trial. Make it a 1,000 mile trial. It expires after you’ve actually used it.

Tesla self driving is incredible. @cybertruck

Now do unborn babies

@SayNoToTrading This doesn't add up. 98% charged at home, more expensive than "$7" gas? Is your electric $0.60+/kWh?? Doesn't make sense. I can go put any number I want in my app and make it look like it's the same as gas. Ntm the most I've paid at a supercharger even during peak is ~$0.47/kWh.

Even with $7 gas in California, you will only save $7 per year driving a Tesla $TSLA. Unless you want to drive 20 mins away, after 1 am, to sit in a parking lot and maybe get 35-40 cents kWh. If not, you are paying 48-57 cents kWh during normal times people live their lives. EVs are a total scam for fuel savings. Your savings are reduced maintenance costs, that’s it.

I don't think Elon is referring to the Model Y L or Robovan.

Another day of my Tesla driving me smoothly, safely, and effortlessly through Los Angeles while I sat back and relaxed. I didn't have to buy gas at $6 a gallon, I just plugged in when I got home. Why is it that the greatest product I've ever owned faces so much hatred and resistance the forces of the status quo at every angle? Why do so many people lie and try and keep the public from technology that could change their lives for the better? Every time I see a Tesla on the street I smile knowing how hard TSLAQ fought to wipe this company off the face of the earth, and how hard we fought back for a crazy dream that has now become a vivid reality.

@wholemars 😂

no we’re super serious guys

@DBurkland @pbeisel It’s in testing right now. Wide release in a few weeks.