@tomselliott Who cares if literally the worst airline on the country went bankrupt?
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Sean O'Brien
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Elizabeth Warren spent 2022–2024 lobbying to kill the JetBlue–Spirit merger.
She called it “a Biden win for flyers.”
Spirit just shut down. The people she claimed to be protecting are now the ones paying the price for her economic illiteracy.
Sept 2022: Warren writes Buttigieg, demands DOT block the deal. Frames it as protecting consumers from the Big Four — whom, she correctly noted, controlled 80% of the market.
2026: Spirit is gone. The Big Four now control more of the market, not less.
She got the diagnosis right and the cure exactly backwards.
Spirit’s customer base wasn’t Wall Street. Average ticket was $90. The airline existed because lower-income Americans needed a way to fly home for funerals, weddings, job interviews.
Now those flights don’t exist. The “win” was for whom, exactly?
17,000 Spirit workers — flight attendants, ramp agents, mechanics, gate staff — are out of jobs. Median pay roughly $50K.
Warren’s defense this week: blame “Trump’s war” for fuel prices.
Spirit lost 24% of its workforce in 2024 alone — before Iran, before fuel spiked. The plane was already going down.
A senator who builds a brand on “fighting for working people” lobbied to block the lifeline that would have kept 17,000 of them employed and millions more in cheap seats.
Economic illiteracy isn’t a quirk. It’s the cost the rest of us pay.
Elizabeth Warren@SenWarren
Spiking fuel prices from Trump’s war was the nail in the coffin for twice-bankrupted Spirit airline. FWIW, JetBlue merger failed because a judge, appointed by Ronald Reagan, said the deal was illegal. Republicans are desperate to shift blame from higher costs hitting families.
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@acopo1024 @p1huycke @RiverRatOG @crampell No they aren’t. They are required to not serve people under the age of 21 but there is no requirement to check the ID of people who are clearly older than that
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@p1huycke @RiverRatOG @crampell What on earth are you talking about? They are required by law to ask for your ID if you order alcohol
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A friend asks: “Has it occurred to anyone that the MAGAs think you have to show IDs at restaurants because they’ve been eating all their meals at strip clubs? This isn’t even an unreasonable theory”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Blanche: "There's a lot of things we can be doing, like voter ID. Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID. How about you have to show your idea to vote? That's not anything that's crazy."
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@MilesTegWy @NarsGlinley @AdamKinzinger There is also no federal law requiring that. You are just making shit up
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I hate when i forget my drivers license when i go to chili’s
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Blanche: "There's a lot of things we can be doing, like voter ID. Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID. How about you have to show your idea to vote? That's not anything that's crazy."
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@MilesTegWy @NarsGlinley @AdamKinzinger There isn’t a single state law that requires people over 60 to show ID to buy alcohol.
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@NarsGlinley @AdamKinzinger Hmm, the local walmart and safeway both ask every time and type in the birthday. Maybe its one of those things in states that enforce the law.
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@timothy_gumm @moniconga @JamesSurowiecki You inky get ID’d if you are under like 30. There is no requirement to show ID to drink if you are clearly above drinking age.
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"Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID."
Trump turns everyone around him into blithering lunatics.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Blanche: "There's a lot of things we can be doing, like voter ID. Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID. How about you have to show your idea to vote? That's not anything that's crazy."
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@HornsupMatt @MacFarlaneNews Nobody said anything about alcohol and no, if you are old enough you do not need an ID to buy alcohol.
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@MacFarlaneNews Yes when you buy alcohol you do, you fucking dipshit.
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I don’t recall showing ID “everytime” I walk into a restaurant
Am I the only one?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Blanche: "There's a lot of things we can be doing, like voter ID. Every time you walk into a restaurant you have to show ID. How about you have to show your idea to vote? That's not anything that's crazy."
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@ProICE1776 @ray_vanant @HornsupMatt @MacFarlaneNews There is no law in any state that you need to id people that are obviously above the drinking age to sell them alcohol. There is no law that you need to ID literally anyone to allow them into a restaurant.
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@ray_vanant @HornsupMatt @MacFarlaneNews So what you're saying is, because people don't do what the law says, the law doesn't exist? I bet you want due process for illegal aliens too, right? The ones that circumvent and dodge the legal pathways only to cite legal doctrine when it comes time to go home? Disingenuity...
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@Magnum1ooo @kaizen000000000 Yes, a scan with nothing on it is another example of absence of evidence that we would use to as evidence of absence. You are so close to understanding this.
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I realize this might be hard for you…
"Absence of evidence" - LITERALLY, there is NO EVIDENCE.
"Tyson's bear story" - A year's worth of EVIDENCE: tracking snow and dust and other things. A year's worth of findings tha point toward "no bear"
Suppose if you passed out and your doctor wanted to do a CAT scan of your head, and the scan came back negative because they found nothing.
Would you consider that an absence of evidence? Or would you say obviously that is positive medical evidence that there is nothing there?
Absence of evidence would be you literally walking around claiming you are fine because no one has presented any evidence that you have a tumor. (When they've also not measured anything.)
Measuring nothing is the absence of evidence. Doing nothing is the absence of evidence.
Doing something to test whether or not a hypothesis holds, is evidence. It's evidence that something is there or that something is not there. But it's not "absence of evidence"
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@CravenCoetzee @kaizen000000000 Not observing footprints in snow is simply documenting an absence of evidence. Footprints would be evidence. No footprints is an absence of evidence….
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@kaizen000000000 Am I the only one who thinks he doesn’t get it? He’s playing word games. He collected evidence. Lots of it. There was no absence of evidence. In fact, there was a lot of it.
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@barnacle_bouy @TheOnlyTAlan @magee_roy53557 @kaizen000000000 What exactly is the hard evidence he mentioned?
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@TheOnlyTAlan @magee_roy53557 @kaizen000000000 He's also ignoring the fact that there's actual evidence that no creature entered or left by that entrance. So suppose there's no other entrance then there's hard evidence from the chalk that the cave is empty. He's a waffler.
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@VonBism4rck Your evidence is that a judge who is going to retire follows procedure and tells the president that he is going to retire?
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The judge referring to is U.S. District Judge William G. Young.
Says ohh Reagan appointed so therefore must be on team right, yea no this judge is a joke and had to apologize to Supreme Court cause he done wrong. As you can see this judge was also in talks with Biden to find a replacement for him too.
Maine@TheMaineWonk
@VonBism4rck The judge was Reagan Appointee and ruled the deal violated anti-trust laws ie Clayton Act.
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@JAHkuTA @valz_vx @ChocGiddyup @Magnum1ooo @kaizen000000000 That isn’t remotely close to what he said
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@valz_vx @ChocGiddyup @Magnum1ooo @kaizen000000000 How about the evidence in all of nature that points toward intelligent design? Or the theory of the prime mover who is unmoved?
In essence, it's like saying, cave smells of bear, you can see fur and even paw prints in the cave, but you don't see any outside. Hence, cave empty.
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@Magnum1ooo @kaizen000000000 You literally listed absence of footprints, i.e absence of evidence, as your example of positive evidence of absence. Try thinking some time lmao
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Tyson is a narcissistic ass.
And his clever statement in this clip is "evidence of that!" (Pun intended).
The bear story is his attempt to prove that "absence of evidence can be evidence of absence."
But he tells a long fucking story about specific evidence of absence. All the snow footprints that aren't there and the chalk dust and the bullshit - all that is positive evidence that a certain event is not happening.
It's not "absence of evidence being evidence of absence"
He's so fucking pretentious he can't avoid any opportunity to blow smoke and "try to" look smart
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@moby_dobie @RSC_1986 @shipwreckedcrew If they had that email it wouldn’t have taken 11 months and a change of DAs to get these charges to grand jury…
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@RSC_1986 @shipwreckedcrew We don't know what DOJ has
Imagine if he wrote email saying "based on my experience in the fbi, my next tweet will provoke some nutjob to make an attempt which will really sell some books"
If that were the case, he should be convicted
In RL, he wont be, no matter the evidence
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Law-Splainer on Comey "86 47" Indictment and why a motion to dismiss prior to trial is not likely under established Rules of Criminal Procedure.
No pretrial "testing" of Gov't evidence allowed.
Link in next panel down.
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@cyt_yvt @ObviousRises I don’t think any of those would be considered pornographic or obscene enough to lose 1a protection in the US. I personally don’t get why anyone would want one but illegal and in poor taste are two different things.
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@ObviousRises You blind? There's a pacifier in one of their mouths! Those are clearly depicted to be very young children, which drawing them in any perceived sexual manner IS illegal in many states.
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For the actual love of God.
This is my last post for tonight.
Literally nobody ever for any reason move to the UK.
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@thomast1908 @AZBuckeye96 @RossDellenger They would have been even further behind if they stayed in the PAC. Projected rev was nowhere near $48mm in all the options being presented
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@AZBuckeye96 @RossDellenger Correct. But no one anticipated $50mm annual delta from top to bottom shares. Both AD and both U prez should be fired: yet, NW, Mary, Rutgers making full shares and bring zero.
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Big Ten distributes record $1.37 billion in revenue, or $72 million per school (though its newest members - Washington and Oregon - receive a reduced share)
bigten.org/article/59960/
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@LtabCapital @KenGardner11 What? Student loans were federalized decades before Obama…..
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@KenGardner11 Dont forget about his federalizing of student loans and its impact on college tuition
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The things that I still remember most about the Obama years are Obamacare and the JCPOA, along with his Supreme Court appointments.
There is a very legitimate argument that he might prove to be the worst POTUS in American history. It is earlier than you think.
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@ClayTravis Because the constitution gives sole discretion to POTUS to nominate literally whoever he wants for whatever reason he wants
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The argument in light of this ruling is pretty simple: if you can’t racially gerrymander political districts to ensure racial representation, how can you legally racially gerrymander the Supreme Court to ensure racial representation?
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There is a legitimate argument that Ketanji Brown Jackson’s appointment to the Supreme Court — which President Joe Biden specifically said was directly intended to put a black woman on the Supreme Court — was unconstitutional under federal law.
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@totoriscreens @5stringTex @kalifahfattah @CoolCuteJin His point is that if everyone just agrees to press red then nobody dies and nobody is ever at risk
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@5stringTex @kalifahfattah @CoolCuteJin Except the people that didn't, they die. Basically if you prioritize friends or family, you die, if you prioritize yourself you live. Now you're in a new world where only people who put themselves above friends and family exist. Familial bonds are out of the gene pool.
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I made a table for this.
If you pick red, you will always survive.
If you pick blue, you might die.
You should always pick red.
MrBeast@MrBeast
Everyone on earth takes a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press? BE HONEST.
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@JanePublic1776 @SenRandPaul Thats exactly what the amendment does. How else can you update an existing amendment?
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@SenRandPaul This shouldn't be a separate amendment. You should update the existing amendment to be clear about what birthright citizenship means.
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I am introducing a Constitutional Amendment to end Birthright Citizenship.
Under current interpretations of American law, anyone born on American soil automatically becomes a U.S. citizen, regardless of whether the parent was here legally or not. This is wrong and not at all the intent of those who wrote the 14th Amendment.
We are a country filled with immigrants, and legal immigration is valuable and should be protected. But we are also a country whose borders have been too open and our generosity exploited too often. President Trump has moved to seal our border from illegal immigrants more than any other president.
But we will have more to do.
We need to make sure that only children born to legal residents of the U.S. are automatically citizens. I have supported protecting birthright citizenship from abuse since the beginning of my tenure in the Senate, when I cosponsored the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011, and now I am proposing an amendment to protect United States citizenship in case the Supreme Court fails to address this issue correctly.
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