A Perfectly Reasonable Amount of Schadenfreude about Things Happening to Trump & His Enablers (Part 1)

That’s (a) less than 5 billion, and (b) still off by hundreds of millions of dollars.

Pretty sure you are off by a factor of 100. I get $5,368,709.12.

Yup, forgot to convert pennies to dollars :man_facepalming:

Verizon math! (Now Florida math!)

My understanding is that Gallium is even more effective, and isn’t nearly as toxic.

That would be approximately 14¾ tons of pennies.

I’m not going to roll them.

(Oh how I wish SDMB had a like button!)

I recognize that reference

The calculation for a doubling penny is:

2^days / 100

For example:

days = 0 → 2^0 / 100 → $0.01
days = 1 → 2^1 / 100 → $0.02
days = 2 → 2^2 / 100 → $0.04
days = 3 → 2^3 / 100 → $0.08

days = 30 → 2^30 / 100 → $10,737,418.24

days = 64 → 2^64 / 100 → $184,467,440,737,095,516.16

Depends on the exact terms of the deal. @DesertDog mentioned “Do the ol’ chess board thing” several posts above. In that scenario, the total amount after each day is the amount on the latest square PLUS the amounts on all the previous squares – it’s cumulative. If Trump were to be fined an increasing amount each day, that would presuably be how it would work: Each day he’d have to pay a new larger fine, but he’d still have to pay all the previous days’ fines too.

If you started with $0.01 on Day 0 and doubled the amount each day, the cumulative total on Day n would be 2n+1 - 1 cents, or (that)/100 dollars.

Ex-Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg went, himself, to the White House to cut a deal with Dotard about renovating two jets to be AF1’s.

Personally negotiated the deal himself, he did!

It went as well for Boeing as you can expect:

Gah!! I hope to hell the new AF1 doesn’t have that fugly Trumpian livery!

They have two choices for the paint scheme on the new AF1: the present design, an elegant and stylish collaboration between Jackie Kennedy and the world-famous industrial designer Raymond Loewy, or the fugly mess favoured by the orange shit-gibbon. The shit-gibbon has been quoted as saying he wants a design that looks “more American”. That’s right, amongst all available colours, such as red, white, or blue, nothing says “American” more than a dried-blood shade of burgundy.

It’s going to look like a whorehouse in Slovenia.

Given what they did to the Rose Garden, fugly AF1 livery is only to be expected

“I’ve never wished anyone dead, but I’ve read some obituaries with a great deal of satisfaction.” - Clarence Darrow (attrib.)

I’m perfectly willing to hate anything connected to TFG, but before I saw the picture, what I imagined from your “fugly” comment was far worse than that. I actually think it’s rather restrained, considering some of the tastelessness TFG is associated with.

Air Farce One.

One of my favorite quotes, and one I think of frequently in present times.


May he never, ever have the chance to fly in either one.

How about in cuffs from Florida to New York to face trial? I could get behind that.