Spirit Airlines says goodbye and will we reopen the straight of Hormoos?

We'll discuss all this and more on this edition of the editors.

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So Jim Garrity, we had the sad news that Spirit Airlines is no longer with us being

liquidated after declaring bankruptcy twice, I think, in 24 and 25, and just couldn't escape.

But there's been a lot of focus on this attempted merger with JetBlue that was blocked by the antitrusts delets in the Biden administration.

Basically, there's no merger these people ever saw that they liked.

And for no good reason, it might not have been a great deal for JetBlue at the end of the day,

but it certainly put the cabash on Spirit Airlines.

What do you make of it?

So all weekend long I saw on the Sunday shows and places like that, you know, social media, people arguing, you know, it's Trump's fault that these 17,000 people are losing their jobs because the Iraq, Iran war raised oil prices.

And Republicans saying, no, it was the Biden administration blocking

the merger. That's what you know. And so I decided like, okay, for Monday's morning jolt, I'm going to

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