Spirit Airlines is now out of business. In financial trouble, it tried to merge with JetBlue in 2024. Joe Biden’s Department of Justice, spurred on by leftists like Elizabeth Warren, opposed and successfully blocked the merger:
I've warned for months that a @JetBlue–@SpiritAirlines merger would have led to fewer flights and higher fares.@JusticeATR and @USDOT were right to stand up for consumers and fight against runaway airline consolidation.
This is a Biden win for flyers! https://t.co/lJFGS3ucv3
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) March 6, 2024
A “Biden win”? That may be an oxymoron. The sequel is that Spirit Airlines has now gone out of business. So instead of preserving competition, Warren and her allies terminated it. Antitrust merger law has always recognized a “failing company” defense. With hindsight, that defense should have succeeded here. But it didn’t, likely due to misguided pressure from the Biden administration and Elizabeth Warren. Warren is now being mercilessly mocked, but it is too late.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that artificial intelligence isn’t completely useless. Not if it can produce videos like this one, where Marco Rubio takes over as CEO of Spirit. To fully appreciate it, you have to realize that Spirit is best known for brawls breaking out among its customers and between customers and employees:
LMFAO 🤣 Marco Rubio finding out he has to run Spirit Airlines. This is an absolute masterpiece 😂
— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) May 2, 2026
It’s an ill wind that blows no good!
