if i could direct this to kilmeade i would, "get on one of those tankers and pilot it through yourself coward"
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Same message could be given to US naval superpower. "Just go near Iran you chickenshits." instead of staying out of drone range. The tankers in question were supposed to be getting US navy escorts.
Yeah what are you a bunch of capital lists wanting to be certain you will make a profit?
(Sarcasm)
Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade who still has a job after saying we should kill the homeless and people with mental health issues (while his other co-hosts were talking about throwing them in prisons or mental institutions)?
That Brian Kilmeade?
Hey he didn't say we should kill them he said we should "involuntarily euthanize" them. That's the problem with politics today people refuse to acknowledge nuance. /s
He’s the only person to be on Fox and friends since the early 00s the others have cycled in and out, I’m not shocked that he’s the worst
I swear I heard someone else on the network say the NYC teenagers that threw snowballs at police should get the death penalty.
This is why we do t like republicans. They think everyone not like them should just die.
Propaganda machine goes BRRRRRRRRR
Trump is about to find out that ship owners won’t risk hundreds of millions per ship on an uninsurable voyage just to stroke his ego.
It's not even just the price of a ship and cargo at risk. Lead times are around 2.8 to 3 yrs for crude tankers and around 3.5 yrs for LNG carriers. That's a long time to not be able to conduct business even if insurance did pay out. It is 100% rational to sit out a few weeks to figure out how to resume operations safely rather than trying to sneak through and hope for the best.
Yeah, especially since they have promised its only going to be 3 weeks. It's almost as if that was a lie.
Alternatively wasn't he floating some kind of mandatory insurance scheme? mandatory in the sense that the insurer can't refuse. Sounds like a great time to liquidate some ageing stock for yhuge profits.
No. Reinsurance "scheme" lets an insurer transfer all risk. If US government is willing to pay the insurer $100M, then they will charge the ship $99M for the voyage. But the ship is not obligated to pay $99M instead of staying where they are. Brian Kilmede will not volunteer to be crew on the ships no matter the pay, either.
Oddly, due to maritime law, it's the cargo owners who would have to pay if the ship was only damaged but not sunk.
Lol the peer pressure argument for oil tankers.
What an absolute moron! I don't know any other democracy that has such stupid people so regularly on TV.
For fucks sake USA is a shithole country of the worst kind.
England has some pretty stupid people on TV regularly.
That's true, clearly worse than we have here in Denmark. Of course we also have stupid people here, but they are generally not exposed broad and wide on TV.
But UK is still no match for USA from what I have seen. But clearly it's not a problem for a politician to be stupid and also be successful. Theresa May, Boris Johnson, and Liz Truss. Are all examples of that. It's astounding that a known liar like Boris Johnson was allowed to lead UK to vote for Brexit.
30 years ago we had a party leader Svend Auken that was caught in an outright lie. That cost him his political career.
Any examples? I'm in Ireland, and none in the UK would come close to the stupidity of some of the Americans in my opinion.
Not only that, some of them were picked right out of their pundit jobs to be in the administration like Kegsbreath
Goddam that speech about death and destruction raining on Iran from the sky!
Those people are insane.
Lol. Listen to insurance or Brian, what will they choose?
They should fly him over on to one of them and meet him show everyone what he means.
i was going to say insurace companies hate this simple trick but iirc, they tend not to cover for act of war loses
US Government should directly insure then use military to back that up.
They created the mess they should own it.
Even the us government doesn't have that kind of money
You sure about that? We’re talking insurance, not all tankers would sink, the war itself is billions per day.
The US government investing that much into a bunch of oil tankers would actually make them bigger targets because it would be another vector from which to bleed America's coffers dry.
Yeah we can't afford that either.
Nah, we can just parlay on Polymarket
Rofl
I'm not sure I really want my tax dollars to be insuring oil tankers traveling through a war zone.
I'd rather my tax dollars insure sick people.
Plus, who would be dumb enough to believe that Trump would ever hold up his end of a bargain like that?
Well I agree with this obviously but high gas prices also kill people and I’d like us to deal with any mess we are making.
Is he… being serious..? Lmfao what the actual fuck do Fox News anchors think they’re doing..?
I’m sure a captain sitting in the gulf right now is not watching Fox News. Most are probably not even American.
I wonder if Brian wears a condom when he does it.
I don't think he does it, that might be the main problem actually.
Brian should show some guts
Dumbass