Why would oil tanker crews (which are more than likely made up of non-americans) care about "showing some guts" just so some American gas guzzlers can have cheaper fuel?
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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The idea here is providing Trump public support for attacking Iran. He's in the tank even with his own people, but if a bunch of sailors die he can gain support...I mean probably not but Fox isnt known For its nuance
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?
I swear I heard someone else on the network say the NYC teenagers that threw snowballs at police should get the death penalty.
Propaganda machine goes BRRRRRRRRR
This is why we do t like republicans. They think everyone not like them should just die.
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
Since we're on the topic of nuance: he was fantasizing about "involuntary lethal injection".
Now really is the time of monsters
Classic libs not being able to take a joke
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
Hey Brian, why don't you use your own money to buy a tanker and go through the strait yourself? Show some guts Brian!
"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 "
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.
Every war ever fought was going to be over in a couple of weeks with an overwhelming victory.
Well, at least Trump is well known for paying his debts.
Oddly, due to maritime law, it's the cargo owners who would have to pay if the ship was only damaged but not sunk.
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 $1M or $99M for the voyage, but keep $100M total. Brian Kilmede will not volunteer to be crew on the ships no matter the pay, either.
Should've involuntarily added him to the crew of that genius "submarine". Missed our chance.
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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.
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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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He must not have their insurance underwriters in his stock portfolio.
What a piece of shit.
After you, dumbass.
Yeah! Just grow a pair and Mojo Risin that shit. What consequences could there possibly be?
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if i could direct this to kilmeade i would, "get on one of those tankers and pilot it through yourself coward"
Number of captains who took his advice: 0
The power of this guy starts and stops with No-Brain individuals in America.
Lol. Listen to insurance or Brian, what will they choose?
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.
They should fly him over on to one of them and meet him show everyone what he means.
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.
i was going to say insurace companies hate this simple trick but iirc, they tend not to cover for act of war loses
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
Americans overthrowing their government was good for the world last time, and would probably be good for the world again. I'm not eager to die for it either, but it would be helpful.
Providing more oil is bad for the world in general.
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?
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Is he… being serious..? Lmfao what the actual fuck do Fox News anchors think they’re doing..?
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I wonder if following through with that advice would be grounds for a lawsuit by the shipping company's insurance
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