James Stout

It's really, really bad to happen, to have this clearly personally motivated weaponization of the FBI against a journalist going through social media records, databases, digital records.

Very worrying, but also Kash Patel funny.

Meanwhile, in the broad world of things falling apart, Spirit Airlines has fallen.

It is effectively no more.

So Spirit Airlines, I mean, has been in financial trouble for a bit, but it has now filed for bankruptcy.

It has grounded all of its planes and fired everyone.

So it is gone.

And it is gone very, very suddenly.

This is not something that was, you know, like there had been long going negotiations, not long going, but there have been negotiations with the Trump administration to try to arrange a bailout.

But they just kind of woke up one morning and sent everyone a letter that said you're fired and canceled all the planes, which left a whole bunch of people stranded.

Not ideal.

Yeah.

And this is a real catastrophe for a lot of people because there are a bunch of routes that Spirit was doing that there just isn't really coverage of for anything else.

And it's also one of the few of these sort of these bunch of airlines are getting just hammered.

by the increase in fuel prices, for people who don't know aviation stuff, as much as airplane companies complain about the cost of labor as they horrifically exploit flight attendants, the actual most expensive part of flying is fuel.

And as fuel prices have skyrocketed, specifically jet fuel prices have skyrocketed, that is taking an absolutely enormous hit out of the bottom line of these companies.

And companies that were sort of just barely getting along and operated on low margins are...

getting hit really badly.

And this is something that's not just...

a Spirit Airlines thing.