I don't know how much you know about the economy.
First of all, the elephant in the room is that Spirit's collapse is directly attributed to High gas prices; namely, if the war does not happen, it probably will not collapse. There may be other things that contribute to its demise; it could have been bad management, bad capital flow, reduced ridership, but the direct cause is the high jet fuel price. This is like I am a 65-year-old fat guy, I have Cholesterol up to 130, I am a walking timebomb and can crook any minutes, if I get hit by a car and died, that's my direct cause of death, sure, I may not be able to live for another 2 to 3 years, but that does not mean the car crash did not kill me because I am going to die anyway.
Secondly, JetBlue won't save them, seeing that they fly basically the same destinations as Spirit. In a business merger, you sometimes merge to get a better market, you sometimes merge to get a better cashflow, and you sometimes merge to increase operational requirment (like how Facebook acquire Instagram to open to the line of social media) In JetBlue/Spirit case, this is a hostile merger, JetBlue is not merging with Spirit to save it, it merge with Spirit to force it out of business, because they are literally running the same business, and as a market competitior, and there are only 3 LCC (discounting Allegiant because it's of low market cap, and it does not really do communter travel) in the US, JetBlue, Frontier and Spirit, for JetBlue to merge with Spirit, it basically take over the entire LCC market (which had 54% of US air travel according to Statista) for JetBlue to merge with Spirit, the only things that does is that they will cease operation then, there are no way JetBlue will cover the resource of Spirit had they went ahead again, because they both flew the same destination. All you do is basically make it collapse in November 2024 instead of May 2026
The problem, again, is how many people are negatively affected by this, versus how many people are benefitted from this. How many people do you know that are getting better because of what Trump put us through in Iran? I am a middle-income background, a factory owner, and a farmer. I know roughly 2000 people in the US none of them say they are better off now, and a bunch of those people are farmer, so you know they voted for Trump, I know a bunch of factory owner and worker who are suffering from this due to high fuel price, I myself suffer from this, due to high fuel price, and for Farmer, they are even worse off, you first losing those contract of Soybean and Maze to China because of the tariff, and then now you are talking about planting season in the US with 3 times the fuel cost, and if Farmer suffer, where do you think their food they grow goes to?
It's a wide sentiment that people are A LOT worse off than it was before, I don't know anyone that are in the middle to high income bracket that are better off than it was before. And I am not talking about before 2025, I was talking about before Feb 2026. You may know a few billionaires, I don't know, but if you ask around, you will know this war is making people pay a hefty price for literally no reason at all.
Bringing in NAFTA and USMCA or whatever treaty to highlight the downside of Globalism does not negate the negative BS effect of elitism we are suffering now. I mean, are you better off now than you were before Feb 2026? I don't care about what happened in 1994 or 2017; I don't live in 1994 or 2017; I live in the time period of now.
So, your solution is to bomb the crap out of these people because they have a national directive to pledge death to America? Dude, do you know how many countries out there hate us? Do you know how many countries out there want to see us go? Should we go invade and bomb them all?
This is just like Trolling, the only way you deal with trolling is to ignore them, they can chant death to America for all I care, I care about whether or not I will survive if I go back and live in the US, sure, if you attack us, that's over the line, but as I said, the world is not just having the biggest dick win.
