Slap on the wrist.

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.

oh my god that's like, a fraction of one executive bonus! Or you know, nothing.

I'll save anyone else Googling it: A single new Boeing 737 costs around $100 million.

Guess it says something about me that mine did. What exactly that is, I don't know...

$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 These must be some incredibly outdated laws that are being applied for that figure to be so low.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.

Wow twenty cents

They could 100x this and it would still be chump change to Boeing

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

Don't expect it to improve anytime soon. Cost cutting initiatives are back on the menu! Standard corporate behavior of squeezing until something breaks.

And they work about as well as this fine will.

A whole 3 million! 😱 Don't spend it all at once!