dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 hours agoFox & 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"www.mediamatters.orgexternal-linkmessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1274arrow-down16
arrow-up1268arrow-down1external-linkFox & 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"www.mediamatters.orgdantheclamman@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 hours agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squarechahn.chris@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·7 hours agoUS Government should directly insure then use military to back that up. They created the mess they should own it.
minus-squaremrmaplebar@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up10·6 hours agoI’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?
minus-squarechahn.chris@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 hours agoWell 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.
minus-squareeestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·6 hours agoEven the us government doesn’t have that kind of money
minus-squarechahn.chris@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 hours agoYou sure about that? We’re talking insurance, not all tankers would sink, the war itself is billions per day.
minus-squareGlytch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 hours agoThe 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.
minus-squareBronzebeard@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 hours agoYeah we can’t afford that either.
minus-squarethesohoriots@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 hours agoNah, we can just parlay on Polymarket
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?
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.
Even the us government doesn’t have that kind of money
You sure about that? We’re talking insurance, not all tankers would sink, the war itself is billions per day.
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.
Huh good point
Yeah we can’t afford that either.
Nah, we can just parlay on Polymarket
Rofl