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[-] Wammityblam@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

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?

[-] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Wammityblam@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Classic libs not being able to take a joke

[-] IratePirate@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Since we're on the topic of nuance: he was fantasizing about "involuntary lethal injection".

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

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

[-] AlexLost@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

This is why we do t like republicans. They think everyone not like them should just die.

[-] Wammityblam@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Propaganda machine goes BRRRRRRRRR

[-] cmbabul@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] devolution@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

What a piece of shit.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago

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 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Well, at least Trump is well known for paying his debts.

[-] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, especially since they have promised its only going to be 3 weeks. It's almost as if that was a lie.

[-] biofaust@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

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 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

After you, dumbass.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

if i could direct this to kilmeade i would, "get on one of those tankers and pilot it through yourself coward"

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

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 3 points 1 month ago

England has some pretty stupid people on TV regularly.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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 points 1 month ago

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

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

🛳️+🛢️+🔥

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

[-] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

I’m sure a captain sitting in the gulf right now is not watching Fox News. Most are probably not even American.

[-] moondoggie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I miss Bobby Moynihan’s Kilmeade.

[-] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Lol the peer pressure argument for oil tankers.

[-] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month 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!

[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month 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.

[-] couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago
[-] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah what are you a bunch of capital lists wanting to be certain you will make a profit?

(Sarcasm)

[-] mvilain@fedia.io 0 points 1 month ago

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

[-] IratePirate@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

His dad should have. Now the mess he made is on national TV.

[-] NorskSud@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago

I don't think he does it, that might be the main problem actually.

[-] moondoggie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

“If it’s a couch, it counts!” - JD Vance explaining how he’s had 500 sex partners

[-] chahn.chris@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago

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

They created the mess they should own it.

[-] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

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 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Nah, we can just parlay on Polymarket

[-] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago

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

[-] chahn.chris@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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.

this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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