Hey Brian, why don't you use your own money to buy a tanker and go through the strait yourself? Show some guts Brian!
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He must not have their insurance underwriters in his stock portfolio.
Number of captains who took his advice: 0
The power of this guy starts and stops with No-Brain individuals in America.
I wonder how many people in the comments here are also the ones saying "come on Americans, overthrow you government" it's easy to be a tough guy when you know you're never gonna have to do anything but leave comments online
"Take massive financial risks to help Trump mitigate the cost he didn't consider at all, of his dumb decision to go to war-not-war with Iran "
It would not even touch the sides. The master answers to their employer onshore, not some berk on a morning talkshow half way 'round the world. The only thing superseeding their office would be their duty, ie laws of the sea, like if the office told them not to veer off course to answer a distress call.
Yeah! Just grow a pair and Mojo Risin that shit. What consequences could there possibly be?
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I wonder if following through with that advice would be grounds for a lawsuit by the shipping company's insurance
A house slave, a Karen, and a Nazi walk into a bar...
Don't let your kids in uncle Tom's cabin
What a piece of shit.
After you, dumbass.
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
Classic libs not being able to take a joke
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
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
if i could direct this to kilmeade i would, "get on one of those tankers and pilot it through yourself coward"
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.
Oh it is insurable all right. You just have to pay what is called the "war premium". I bet they wouldn't like what comes through the strait anyway.
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.
Well, at least Trump is well known for paying his debts.
Yeah, especially since they have promised its only going to be 3 weeks. It's almost as if that was a lie.
Oddly, due to maritime law, it's the cargo owners who would have to pay if the ship was only damaged but not sunk.
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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.
Peter Hummelgaard is a bitch for Palantir and still gets way too much exposure.
For fucks sake, Peter Hummelgaard is perfectly normal and rational, I'd even say moral person, and he is minister of justice, so of course he gets exposure.
If you for instance read his May 1. speech, yoyu can see he is very sensible.
https://www.dansketaler.dk/taler/hummelgaard-peter
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Not only that, some of them were picked right out of their pundit jobs to be in the administration like Kegsbreath
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Lol the peer pressure argument for oil tankers.
I miss Bobby Moynihan’s Kilmeade.
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.
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.
Yeah what are you a bunch of capital lists wanting to be certain you will make a profit?
(Sarcasm)
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.
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?
I'd rather my tax dollars insure sick people.
Oh, but they are! All that money burned in operation Epstein Fury ensures sick people will stay in power.
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