dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months 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-square69linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-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 · 3 months agomessage-square69linkfedilink
minus-squarerynn@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoUS Government should directly insure then use military to back that up. They created the mess they should own it.
minus-squarethesohoriots@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoNah, we can just parlay on Polymarket
minus-squareeestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoEven the us government doesn’t have that kind of money
minus-squarerynn@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoYou sure about that? We’re talking insurance, not all tankers would sink, the war itself is billions per day.
minus-squareBronzebeard@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoYeah we can’t afford that either.
minus-squareGlytch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months 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-squaremrmaplebar@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months 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-squarerynn@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months 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-squareIratePirate@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months 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.
US Government should directly insure then use military to back that up.
They created the mess they should own it.
Nah, we can just parlay on Polymarket
Rofl
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.
Yeah we can’t afford that either.
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.
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.
Oh, but they are! All that money burned in operation Epstein Fury ensures sick people will stay in power.