Slap on the wrist.
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2026
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Under Trump, corporations can do some of the worst shit imaginable and only face couch cushion fees (take that as you will) - just so long as they extol the ~~viruses~~ virtues of Hair Führer.
(take that as you will)
Without this line, my mind wouldn't have even gone there.
Guess it says something about me that mine did. What exactly that is, I don't know...
A whole 3 million! 😱 Don't spend it all at once!
So it looks an awful fucking lot like they just paid off the FAA early this year, and in turn, the idiots running the show now simply said “ok, great, you can sign your own inspections again - wink wink nudge nudge”.
Mafia-style government is so fucking imbecilic it hurts
I'll save anyone else Googling it: A single new Boeing 737 costs around $100 million.
And they work about as well as this fine will.
If it's Boeing, I'm not going.
$3.1 million?? These must be some incredibly outdated laws that are being applied for that figure to be so low. Boeing planes will become the new Ford Pintos: it's cheaper to kill a few people than it is to fix their shit.
They could 100x this and it would still be chump change to Boeing
Wow twenty cents
oh my god that's like, a fraction of one executive bonus! Or you know, nothing.
Don't expect it to improve anytime soon. Cost cutting initiatives are back on the menu! Standard corporate behavior of squeezing until something breaks.