Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade tells oil tankers to go through the Strait of Hormuz: "Show some guts and go through that strait and do it"
https://www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-relations/fox-friends-co-host-brian-kilmeade-tells-oil-tankers-go-through-strait-hormuz
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Wammityblam@lemmy.world · 260 pts · 195d
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?
hopesdead@startrek.website · 94 pts · 195d
I swear I heard someone else on the network say the NYC teenagers that threw snowballs at police should get the death penalty.
Wammityblam@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 195d
Propaganda machine goes BRRRRRRRRR
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 194d
This is why we do t like republicans. They think everyone not like them should just die.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 53 pts · 194d
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
IratePirate@feddit.org · 11 pts · 194d
Since we're on the topic of nuance: he was fantasizing about "involuntary lethal injection".
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d
Now really is the time of monsters
Wammityblam@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 194d
Classic libs not being able to take a joke
cmbabul@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 194d
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
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 154 pts · 195d
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.
Fermion@mander.xyz · 90 pts · 194d
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.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 194d
Yeah, especially since they have promised its only going to be 3 weeks. It's almost as if that was a lie.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 194d
Every war ever fought was going to be over in a couple of weeks with an overwhelming victory.
Serinus@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 194d
Well, at least Trump is well known for paying his debts.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 194d
Oddly, due to maritime law, it's the cargo owners who would have to pay if the ship was only damaged but not sunk.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 194d
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.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 194d
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.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 194d
Should've involuntarily added him to the crew of that genius "submarine". Missed our chance.
biofaust@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
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.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 194d
Apparently the maritime insurance market writes about $1b per year, around .005% of hull value to 1-3% - which exceeds the profit margin.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 195d
Lol the peer pressure argument for oil tankers.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 195d
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.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 29 pts · 194d
England has some pretty stupid people on TV regularly.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 194d
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.
biofaust@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
Peter Hummelgaard is a bitch for Palantir and still gets way too much exposure.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 194d
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
biofaust@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
Is this sarcastic?
Peter Hummelgaard who said that "We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone’s civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services".
And who eagerly keeps exposing the Danish population to the use of Palantir's Gotham software by the police?
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 194d
That is so stereotypical for anyone in his position. That's not just him, I agree it's a sad state of affairs, and I don't know why this stupidity is so common. But that particular issue any other minister of justice would be more than 90% likely to have the same opinion, after they've been briefed by PET and FET or whatever cancer is behind it.
biofaust@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
I really don't think everyone in this role would be bending the country 90 degrees for the USA to have their way with it.
Especially when you want to appear in any way strongly opposed to them having their way with your colony.
Also, he is the one who (barely) rewrote ChatControl proposal to be able to push it again during the Danish presidency of the EU, so he's actually occasionally a risk for the whole Union.
Clanket@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 194d
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.
TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 194d
Not only that, some of them were picked right out of their pundit jobs to be in the administration like Kegsbreath
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 194d
Goddam that speech about death and destruction raining on Iran from the sky!
Those people are insane.
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 194d
"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 "
redsand@infosec.pub · 33 pts · 195d
Lol. Listen to insurance or Brian, what will they choose?
Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 194d
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?
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 194d
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
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 194d
Hey Brian, why don't you use your own money to buy a tanker and go through the strait yourself? Show some guts Brian!
devolution@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 194d
A house slave, a Karen, and a Nazi walk into a bar...
beejboytyson@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
Don't let your kids in uncle Tom's cabin
ech@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 194d
What a piece of shit.
SirMaple__@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 194d
After you, dumbass.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 194d
if i could direct this to kilmeade i would, "get on one of those tankers and pilot it through yourself coward"
Babalugats@feddit.uk · 18 pts · 194d
They should fly him over on to one of them and meet him show everyone what he means.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 194d
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.
expatriado@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 194d
i was going to say insurace companies hate this simple trick but iirc, they tend not to cover for act of war loses
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 194d
Yeah! Just grow a pair and Mojo Risin that shit. What consequences could there possibly be?
🛳️+🛢️+🔥
chahn.chris@piefed.social · 11 pts · 194d
US Government should directly insure then use military to back that up.
They created the mess they should own it.
mrmaplebar@fedia.io · 20 pts · 194d
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?
IratePirate@feddit.org · 3 pts · 194d
Oh, but they are! All that money burned in operation Epstein Fury ensures sick people will stay in power.
chahn.chris@piefed.social · 2 pts · 194d
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.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 194d
Even the us government doesn't have that kind of money
chahn.chris@piefed.social · 3 pts · 194d
You sure about that? We’re talking insurance, not all tankers would sink, the war itself is billions per day.
Glytch@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 194d
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.
chahn.chris@piefed.social · 1 pts · 194d
Huh good point
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 194d
Yeah we can't afford that either.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 194d
Nah, we can just parlay on Polymarket
chahn.chris@piefed.social · 2 pts · 194d
Rofl
mvilain@fedia.io · 10 pts · 195d
I wonder if Brian wears a condom when he does it.
NorskSud@piefed.social · 7 pts · 194d
I don't think he does it, that might be the main problem actually.
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 194d
“If it’s a couch, it counts!” - JD Vance explaining how he’s had 500 sex partners
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 194d
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
He does, but he doesn’t actually know where it goes
IratePirate@feddit.org · 1 pts · 194d
His dad should have. Now the mess he made is on national TV.
Etterra@discuss.online · 9 pts · 194d
He must not have their insurance underwriters in his stock portfolio.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 194d
Is he… being serious..? Lmfao what the actual fuck do Fox News anchors think they’re doing..?
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 194d
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 194d
Number of captains who took his advice: 0
The power of this guy starts and stops with No-Brain individuals in America.
green_red_black@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 194d
J92@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 194d
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.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 194d
Dumbass
Golden@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 194d
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
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 194d
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.
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d
I miss Bobby Moynihan’s Kilmeade.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 194d
I wonder if following through with that advice would be grounds for a lawsuit by the shipping company's insurance
couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 194d
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/greek-operated-tanker-with-saudi-oil-cargo-sails-through-hormuz-ship-tracking-2026-03-09/
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 190d
Strap Kilmeade on the prow and ductape his mouth shut. See how it goes.