That isn’t as joking as you might think. The Biden administration got the merger of Jet Blue and Spirit Airlines called off.

Damn I actually liked Spirits big front seats for the price of a Southwests regular flight.

To be fair that is how the house in sports betting tries to work. They adjust the odds, the payouts, the spread, or whatever they else need to do to make money irrespective of the result of the game. The house just takes their cut.