• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    5 hours 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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    8 hours 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?

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      6 hours 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

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      8 hours ago

      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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      7 hours 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

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    9 hours 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.

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

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      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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        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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          Should’ve involuntarily added him to the crew of that genius “submarine”. Missed our chance.

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      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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    6 hours 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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    8 hours 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.

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        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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        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.

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        Goddam that speech about death and destruction raining on Iran from the sky!
        Those people are insane.

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