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🔥🚨BREAKING: Florida Governor candidate James Fishback’s attorney just quit due to James refusing to pay him the $150,000 he owes after he lost his arbitration fight.
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WELL, WELL, WELL... AGAIN.
My website host BANNED me... AGAIN.
Reasons cited:
1. Hate Speech
2. Platform Circumvention
GIVE A GOY A BREAK. DAMN.
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While a survivor was sharing her story, he was so inspired he wrote out a massive check. 😊
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@Stbx4life @ABoredBochur @shimijay @FrumTikTok Hi can you seriously dm me with your PayPal or cashapp and get paid to pay your bills 💸??
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@ABoredBochur @shimijay @FrumTikTok Ah I can't find anything mean to say about @shimijay.
Here's my Cash App
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@shimijay @FrumTikTok Just got paid for talking sh*t about someone, I'm living the life! lol.
And I never said bad intentions just misplaced. You're definitely not a bad person.
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@tyleraloevera So you lost the argument, so now your reverting to conspiracy that happened 2 years ago because "jews" were involved?
Independent journalist they say.
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"You will crawl back into the dirty little hole that you came from". Ironic you'd say that about me given what happened 2 years ago in Brooklyn...
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@ITAAirways I've been trying to obtain a reason for cancellation for weeks. Why is it so hard to obtain?
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@DansDeals Better yet Elal caps their prices on their last few fares at a reasonable cost compared to the crazy prices other airlines offer on their last seats.
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El Al Is Being Sued For Price Gouging, Is That Fair?
Since 10/7/23, El Al has been a lifeline for keeping Israel connected to the outside world.
But it has also taken flak from some critics for alleged price gouging, and there is now a class action suit against it. The suit claims that El Al has used its de-facto monopoly to raise prices.
The suit cites research by Professor David Gilo showing that the price hikes weren’t justified by a rise in operational costs, which have generated record profits for the airline.
The problem with that analysis is that airfares worldwide have little to do with operational costs and everything to do with what the market will bear. Airlines have sophisticated pricing algorithms designed to maximize the revenue generated by every plane. Short routes can cost more than much longer routes, based on the competition in the market and what passengers will pay.
Israel’s flag carrier is in a catch-22 situation. If El Al were to lower the cost of flights below what the pricing algorithms calculate to be optimal for the market to bear, it would create artificial scarcity and make finding available seats even more difficult than it is today.
Indeed, El Al has capped many fares since 10/7 at artificially low prices and continues to do so, which has led to competing complaints about seat availability and the inability to book a flight for extended periods of time. Capping prices is a nice gesture, but that free market distortion leads to artificial scarcity. And it means that there won’t be seats available for those who need them the most.
That explains why El Al finds itself in a no-win situation, even as it reports record profits. Sure, it could technically lower all prices below the market rate, but doing so would create an artificial scarcity of available seats, which would be trading one problem for another. It has tried capping fares on some routes while maintaining more availability on other routes to thread that needle, but that has just caused criticism from both sides of the argument on high prices vs lack of available seats.
Notably, El Al’s profits are not just due to higher pricing. They are also flying at nearly 100% capacity, which is a highly unusual situation for any airline. While US airlines typically sell about 78% of their seats, El Al has been filling about 95% of their seats. As airlines operate on a fixed cost model, the extra 18% load factor is nearly entirely pure profit.
Increasing cargo rates have also helped pad El Al’s bottom line. But these are all supply and demand-based pricing issues that happen in every country. There is simply no good artificial solution for that other than increased competition, which has arrived and is still forthcoming.
Arkia became the 2nd Israeli carrier offering nonstop service to the US, and Israir hopes to do the same. Carriers like Delta are adding more flights to the market.
In the near future, we will see 6 Israeli carriers, which will help shield the nation from the whims of foreign carriers. It may also create a bubble that drives down pricing to a level that is too low to be sustainable, but you won’t see any lawsuits if that happens.
Do you think El Al is price-gouging? Or should they be commended for continuing to ensure uninterrupted connectivity to the Holy Land?
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@Darren94775262 I got a voice note on what's app at 1043 est before this was posted
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President Jimmy Carter loved our country. He lived his faith, served the people, and left the world better than he found it.
President Carter’s many contributions will echo for generations to come.
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4. The only scenario, that I can see to fit the facts here, is that a small number of these sightings are alien UFOs who are testing for our societal reaction to, or preparing us for, revealing themselves soon. That's why the US government can't say what they are but knows that they don't present a danger. It makes sense to reveal themselves now since Congress is hot-on-the-case to reveal our military knowledge of them, military and intellegence whistleblowers are increasing in number, and Trump will be in charge soon and he promises to reveal these secrets. I don't know if I'm correct but I can't think of another scenario to fit these facts.
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The Aegis radar system, used on our advanced Navy ships, can track a bird 20 miles away. There is no chance that the US military doesn't know what these drones are. That's how Admiral Kirby can say that there's no danger but he can't say what they are. He can't say what they are because it's classified.
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