Chris Barberich

Democrats have become the party of well-intentioned policies that have the opposite outcome. A thread 🧵 1. Under Biden, Democrats allocated $7.5 billion for EV charging infrastructure.

Inflation is completely out of control, you can’t even take 3 kids to a Detroit Tigers game anymore without spending an arm and a leg! Crazy!

It’s hard to understand what the other 39% are thinking. Once you drive a Tesla, it’s like driving an all-seeing sensor with a super computer behind the scenes doing all the decision making, driving and navigation. Also, you never have to go to a gas station.

my parents bought a tesla model 3 and there's nothing else like it. the most astonishing capability is self-driving. their tesla can drive them from their driveway to their destination, including parking in a busy parking lot, without disengaging once. comparing Tesla's self-driving to other automakers is like comparing an iPhone 17 to one of those grey brick phones from the 80s. it's kind of embarrassing. a week before they bought the tesla, my dad told me he didn't think he'd be driving much longer since he's pretty old. the tesla just extended his independence by years. feeling grateful for all tesla has done.

@SawyerMerritt that’s like going to the moon and back 21,000 times.

Tesla's global fleet has just officially crossed 10 billion miles driven on FSD (Supervised)! Tesla owners are collectively driving on average 1,000 miles every 3 seconds on FSD, which is 28.8 million miles per day.

“approximately 50 violent groups or gangs in Oakland with an active membership of between 1,000 and 1,200 people, which represented just 0.3% of the population … were responsible for up to 85% of the city’s homicides”

JetBlue wanted to buy Spirit in 2022, but the U.S. Department of Justice, along with several states, sued to block it. Their main argument was that Spirit is one of the few low-cost airlines, and getting rid of it as an independent competitor would likely push ticket prices up. Federal judgeYoung agreed with that argument and ruled against the merger, saying it would hurt competition in the airline market. No merger. I learned yesterday that what the DOJ used to challenge and block the merger comes mainly from federal antitrust law, the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914. That law specifically lets the government stop mergers that would “substantially lessen competition” or create a monopoly before they fully happen. If two companies want to merge, they should be free to do so, and the market should sort out whether that’s good or bad. Government overreach is always bad. Spirit collapsed and now there's no competition- so it was all pointless.

so you're telling me spirit airlines was in trouble, knew they had to do something, and attempted to participate in the free market by allowing jetblue to acquire them. the government then stepped in and said, “no, you’re not allowed to participate in the free market, " denying the acquisition. so then spirit, knowing that they were about to fail, seeks a government bailout, only to be told, "no, you must participate in the free market” to which they were denied participation in. this doesn’t seem like free market capitalism to me.

The main problem for the Palestinians is they want to murder Jews and Jews really don’t like being murdered. One of those two attitudes has to change for there to be peace.

Thanks to Elizabeth Warren, who is now two for two for American consumers! She vowed to block the sales of Spirit Airlines because the "merger would have led to fewer flights and higher fares." Now we have a bankrupt Spirit Airlines and NO flights for those people. She vowed to block iRobot to Amazon to "protect competition and consumers." They went bankrupt instead and got sold in a fire sale of debt to a Chinese company. This kind of short-sighted interventionism is a far cry from the democrats in the Clinton era who understood business and business success were essential for a stable, growing, democratic society and not the enemies of the state.

@JamesSurowiecki @RichardHanania Jetblue’s offer was $3.8 billion in cash. No stock.

Setting aside that most acquisitions, particularly acquisitions done in stock, destroy value for the acquiring company, I'm confident that if JetBlue knew that jet-fuel prices would skyrocket in 2026, they would not have offered $3.8 billion for Spirit. As I said, I would have approved the merger, but these "oh, the humanity" tweets are predicated on a delusional view of what a JB acquisition would have meant for Spirit workers and for consumers.

I think Jet Blue's acquisition of Spirit should have been approved, but all of these tweets about Spirit are ridiculous. Spirit was not economically viable in its current form, and JetBlue would not have kept it as is if the deal had gone through. Routes would have been cut, prices raised, thousands of people laid off. Better than going under, but it's not as if this was a healthy company that was unfairly killed.

Lizzie Warren took an ax and gave the airline 40 whacks / and when she saw what she had done / she doubled down and blamed Iran

Off by a few months.

@MorePerfectUS Is this a test to see how dumb your followers are?

Elon Musk was paid $158 billion by Tesla last year. That is double the entire budget of the U.S. Department of Education.

Nice work, Pete. This all really worked out well.

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.

will she ever have to answer for this? will she ever have to answer for anything?

Thank you Elizabeth Warren for killing Spirit Airlines, a budget airline for low income consumers

The bankruptcy of Spirit Airlines is a direct result of the policy failures of Biden Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. Here's Buttigieg bragging about blocking the JetBlue Sprit merger that could have saved the airline. His incompetence in office was just breathtaking.

So Lina Khan blocked the merger with Jet Blue because she said the loss of an airline would hurt consumers. The end result: not only the loss of an airline but mass unemployment. A socialism story.