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[–] 255 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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?

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  • [–] 92 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I swear I heard someone else on the network say the NYC teenagers that threw snowballs at police should get the death penalty.

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  • [–] 152 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 88 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 70 points 8 months ago

    Lol the peer pressure argument for oil tankers.

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago

    Lol. Listen to insurance or Brian, what will they choose?

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    A house slave, a Karen, and a Nazi walk into a bar...

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago

    After you, dumbass.

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago

    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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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago

    What a piece of shit.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago

    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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  • [–] 62 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    England has some pretty stupid people on TV regularly.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

    Peter Hummelgaard is a bitch for Palantir and still gets way too much exposure.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago

    They should fly him over on to one of them and meet him show everyone what he means.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    i was going to say insurace companies hate this simple trick but iirc, they tend not to cover for act of war loses

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  • Yeah! Just grow a pair and Mojo Risin that shit. What consequences could there possibly be?

    🛳️+🛢️+🔥

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    He must not have their insurance underwriters in his stock portfolio.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Is he… being serious..? Lmfao what the actual fuck do Fox News anchors think they’re doing..?

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    [–] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I wonder if Brian wears a condom when he does it.

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    [–] 11 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    US Government should directly insure then use military to back that up.

    They created the mess they should own it.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Even the us government doesn't have that kind of money

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    You sure about that? We’re talking insurance, not all tankers would sink, the war itself is billions per day.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Number of captains who took his advice: 0

    The power of this guy starts and stops with No-Brain individuals in America.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I miss Bobby Moynihan’s Kilmeade.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I wonder if following through with that advice would be grounds for a lawsuit by the shipping company's insurance

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    [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Strap Kilmeade on the prow and ductape his mouth shut. See how it goes.

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