Shitty discount carrier Spirit Airlines filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reports on a sure sign that they don’t believe they can survive another four years of MAGAnomics… Or something like that. We’ve gotta fine-tune the whole “jam every picayune little extrinsic occurrence into a political context to make it part of a larger narrative about the failure of the Trump Administration the same way the other guys did with the Biden Administration.”
Like there’s a whole other larger story about how Spirit tried to sell itself to JetBlue to shake off all the debt it accumulated over the years, that a model of charging people for the pettiest, tiniest fucking things they take for granted with other airlines – like $4 for a bottle of water – is pretty freaking obviously not indicative of healthy operating margins capable of absorbing any significant challenges and all that, but who cares when we’ve got an incoming president to radicalize people against? Plus Trump already said his poll numbers were having a positive effect on the stock market before the election, so now he can own this too, 63 days before he actually takes office again.