Donald Trump’s victory made one thing crystal clear: Generation X is sick and tired of the left, and Gavin McInnes of “Get Off My Lawn” has some suspicions as to why that is.

“We had ‘Caddy Shack’ and we had ‘Blazing Saddles,’ so we remember when things were fun and funny. I think, unfortunately, Millennials didn’t experience that kind of no-holds-barred language,” McInnes tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”

“We played their game of being politically correct and watching what we say, and it was really un-fun, and it sucked. And now we have Trump’s DA or Trump’s lawyer saying, ‘Hey Tish, we’re going to put your fat a** in jail,’” he says, adding, “It makes me feel at home. I’m no longer homesick for the glory days of comedy.”

And the past four years of being shackled by made-up woke rules have only led more Americans to feel the same way.

“I think that having four years of Biden was the best thing that could possibly happen to us as MAGA extremists, because it did two things. It showed America what life is going to be like under this bureaucracy, this Marxist war on meritocracy. So they saw how bad things can get when the Kamala camp is in charge,” McInnes explains.

“And it gave Trump a chance to sort of regroup and realize that hiring neocons like John Bolton, hiring trans lovers like General Milley, hiring his son-in-law and his daughter, he was screwing up. It was a real learning curve those first four years,” he continues, noting that this is why the break was so good for him.

Not only has the Biden-Harris administration gotten weaker as Trump has grown stronger, but the mainstream media has started to fall apart as alternative media has become the source many Americans trust instead for their information.

“I think you’re going to see the Blaze, Daily Wire, even weird outcasts like Censored.TV become numbers-wise the mainstream. I mean, we see that with Joe Rogan and his podcast. He’s supposed to be the outcast and he’s getting millions, tens of millions more eyeballs than MSM,” McInnes says.

“Hard times create strong men,” he says, adding, “They’ve hammered us so hard, that we’re just stronger and better.”

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Spirit Airlines, the budget airline beleaguered by gunfire in Haiti and incidents of violence involving passengers and staff alike, has now filed for bankruptcy.

In a letter issued Monday and addressed to “All Spirit Guests,” Spirit admitted that it had filed for Chapter 11 in hopes of restructuring its debts. The letter called the move “a proactive step … to position the company for success” and claimed it should be completed sometime in the first quarter of 2025.

The letter also indicated that the Chapter 11 filing had been “prearranged.”

Spirit’s standing as a publicly traded company is likely to change. Spirit told the Business Journals that it expects to be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange sometime soon.

According to the New York Post, the financial situation at the airline is quite dire. Spirit has already lost $2.5 billion in the last four years and within the next year will have to make debt payments totaling more than $1 billion.

In 2022, Spirit tried to merge with another airline. Frontier first attempted a merger but was soon afterward outbid by JetBlue.

The merger with JetBlue never took place either after the Biden-Harris Department of Justice intervened in March, claiming it would cause ticket prices to skyrocket. A federal judge later sided with the DOJ, and the two companies dropped the merger two months later, the Post reported.

In an effort to restructure its finances, Spirit bondholders have now offered $350 million in equity investments that will allow the company to “complete a deleveraging transaction to equitize $795 million of funded debt,” the Jacksonville Business Journal reported.

Bondholders have likewise offered an additional $300 million in debtor-in-possession financing, the outlet added.

Spirit did not go into such details in the letter. Instead, it promised that its agreement with bondholders will “reduce [the company’s] total debt, provide increased financial flexibility, position Spirit for long-term success and accelerate investments providing Guests with enhanced travel experiences and greater value.”

The letter did indicate that the customer experience likely won’t change much despite the major financial shifts behind the scenes. Customers may still purchase tickets and use credit or loyalty points as normal. Its rewards program and credit-card terms likewise remain in place.

Employee wages and benefits will also be unaffected by the Chapter 11 process, according to a website with further information about the case.

However, Spirit’s corporate standing is likely to change. Spirit told the Jacksonville Business Journal that it expects to be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange sometime soon. Once that happens, its stock shares will “have no value as part of Spirit’s restructuring,” the outlet reported.

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The medical examiner of Manhattan testified last week she was certain Daniel Penny was the sole cause of Jordan Neely’s death after watching video of the incident, even though Neely had drugs in his system.

Dr. Cynthia Harris, who performed his autopsy, told jurors she did not wait for the toxicology report to declare his cause and manner of death being asphyxiation, not cardiac arrest, the New York Post reported. Harris said she would stand by that ruling even if Neely had enough drugs in his system “to put down an elephant.”

‘I wasn’t trying to kill the guy. I was just trying to de-escalate the situation.’

Harris had originally listed Neely’s cause of death as being “inconclusive.” She said she changed the cause after watching the video, deciding Neely’s death was caused by “asphyxia” since the video showed Neely being choked and “dying” while Penny’s arm was wrapped around his neck.

“After watching it, I had no further questions about how he was dead,” Harris testified, because “there are no alternative reasonable explanations.”

The toxicology report confirmed Neely had used the synthetic marijuana drug K2 prior to making threats on a NYC subway car in May 2023. Prosecutors have told the jury that while it was understandable for Penny to restrain Neely at first, he went too far by not letting him go after passengers left the car.

“I wasn’t trying to kill the guy. I was just trying to de-escalate the situation,” Penny said in a videotaped interrogation that was shown to jurors.

The controversy around the incident and Alvin Bragg’s office deciding to pursue charges resulted in Eric Gonzalez, who helped Penny restrain Neely, testifying that he lied when he was initially interviewed by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office as a suspect in Neely’s death. Gonzalez said he lied out of fear of being “pinned for” Neely’s death, telling the DA’s office he arrived on the scene earlier than he actually did and claiming that Neely had hit him. Neely was not accused of making physical contact with anyone prior to Penny restraining him.

Penny’s defense is expected to call its own witnesses this week with the prosecution wrapping up a long list of witnesses.

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Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his secretary of health and human services — and Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” couldn’t be more thrilled, though he does have some suggestions.

“I want him to dismantle the money going back and forth from the drug companies, the revolving door,” Glenn tells head researcher Jason Buttrill and Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America.”

Why? Glenn explains that this is because the system is corrupt and currently has little to nothing to do with America’s health and much more to do with the pockets of large corporations.

“The food company goes to their group of known and trusted scientists and says, ‘We need a study that shows yellow number five is safe,’ and they’re like, ‘Oh, we’re going to do that study, it’s going to be fair and balanced and totally on the up and up,’” Glenn says.

“You seem skeptical,” Stu comments, joking.

“A little bit, just like I am with studies that are paid for by the people who are going to benefit from that study. It’s not neutral. The FDA then is given that study after it comes back and says, ‘Yellow number five is fine,’” Glenn continues.

The FDA then approves the ingredient, but not without significant cost.

“Half of the money from the FDA, half of their budget comes from food and pharmaceutical companies,” Glenn says.

“Let’s say if you stopped that, you’d cut the FDA in half,” Stu comments.

“Yes,” Glenn responds. “I want less input from the FDA, and I want an end to the revolving door and the obvious corruption that’s coming from money.”

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A bullet hit a Southwest Airlines plane near the cockpit as the flight was taxiing for takeoff at Dallas Love Field on Friday night, KXAS-TV reported.

An airport spokesperson told the station the gunfire forced an evacuation of the flight, and KXAS added that Dallas Police are looking for whoever pulled the trigger.

‘The fact that it hit so very close to the cockpit seems too much of a coincidence.’

Flight 2494 was struck around 8:30 p.m., KXAS said, citing the Federal Aviation Administration, which added that the plane — which was taxiing for takeoff to Indianapolis — returned to the gate where passengers deplaned.

Police told the station they responded to a shooting call around 9:48 p.m., and no one was hurt.

The runway was temporarily closed Friday night while police conducted their investigation, KXAS added.

A Southwest spokesperson told the station the plane was removed from service.

Police said they’re leading the investigation, KXAS reported, adding an FBI airport liaison agent has been assigned to work with police “and other federal partners as deemed necessary.”

‘A rattle outside of the plane’

The station spoke to Shannon and Jamie Lee who were aboard the flight with two of their children; the couple told KXAS everything seemed normal until they heard the pilot on the loudspeaker.

“He said there’s a rattle outside of the plane, and they needed to return back to the gate,” Jamie Lee recalled to the station.

The couple told KXAS the pilot said the plane needed to be checked to determine if it was functional — then added that the front of the plane was damaged, and everyone would have to deplane.

The Lees told the station everyone was calm.

“We had no idea that something happened,” Shannon Lee told KXAS. “We thought Southwest had missed something in an inspection or something, you know … a normal mechanical issue.”

The couple and their two sons didn’t find out about the gunfire until they landed in Indianapolis around 2:30 a.m. and encountered a news crew, the station station said.

“I had my son with me. He was sitting in the window seat. … And we were just in row 13. So, we were pretty close to the cockpit,” Shannon Lee added to KXAS.

While the Lees told the station they’re grateful for the way Southwest handled the initial sharing of information with passengers, they believe they should have been told what happened before getting on another flight.

“I was surprised that they had shut the runway, not really knowing if there were potentially other shots being fired or where the shot could have even come from,” Jamie Lee told KXAS.

Had they known the plane was shot at, the couple told the station they likely would have gone home that night and delayed their flight another day — or flown out of DFW International Airport instead.

“You have to give people a choice, whether they want to put their safety at risk a second time in one night,” Shannon Lee told KXAS.

The Lees added to the station that they want to find out what investigators uncover and what safety improvements may result before walking away from one of their favorite airports and airlines.

“We fly quite a bit … and … our kids fly on their own,” Shannon Lee told KXAS. “So, it is concerning.”

The station said Southwest sent the Lees an email apology as well as a voucher toward a future flight.

‘Holy cow’

Armen Kurdian — a retired Navy captain and Naval flight officer — told KXAS his “first thought is like, ‘Holy cow, somebody just shot a gun, and it hit a commercial aircraft!”

Kurdian added to the station that investigators will start by figuring out where the bullet came from: “So, what was the orientation of the aircraft when it was actually hit? How deep did the bullet penetrate? That’ll tell you what its speed was. And that’ll give you an idea of the range from which it was fired.”

Kurdian added to KXAS they’ll also be looking into whether or not the shot was intentional: “The fact that it hit so very close to the cockpit seems too much of a coincidence. The odds of that happening, I think, got to be really, really high.”

He also told the station that the damage could be wide-ranging — from something small like an inoperative light switch to something bigger, such as the GPS system not working.

“Now, if [the bullet] hits something more vital, say like a hydraulic system, then the pilots would be alerted rather quickly that there would be … a pressure drop in the hydraulic system,” Kurdian added to KXAS.

He noted to the station that such airliners have a lot of backup systems, and it’s likely a bullet to the cockpit would not have caused a crash — but the whole ordeal presents a security vulnerability.

“Did this put an idea into, say, a non-state or a state actor as, ‘Oh, maybe this is something we can do to disrupt air travel’?” Kurdian wondered to KXAS.

He added to the station that it would be wise for the airport and other agencies to look into safety measures.

“So, does it mean random sweeps outside of the airport while flight operations are going on?” Kurdian asked the KXAS. “Does it mean that there [are] going to be more physical barricades or basically physical barriers — not just fences but things that you actually can’t see through, concrete — around the airport?”

You can view a video report here about the incident.

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