“It breaks his heart that Blackbeard falls in love. Sex is sex on that ship. Sex is sex in that environment. But falling in love is something else, and seeing how quickly Blackbeard fell in love with Stede and how deeply he fell in love with Stede, it breaks his heart. And like a lot of people like that, he lashes out.”
- Con, on why people like Izzy and why Izzy is the way he is
I know season 2 of ofmd is gonna be good because at the panel when taika and rhys were asked about ed and stede relationship they literally had hearts in their eyes
I don’t know WHAT art Taika is referring to but does anyone know the piece with Blackbeard leaning back in suspenders and fishnets buying Stede a drink? I must know for personal reasons
Con saying that he’s bored of gay relationships being portrayed as an obstacle, and talking about how beautiful and kind it is that Ed and Stede are just allowed to fall in love 🥺🥺🥺
President Joe Biden said for the first time Wednesday he would halt some shipments of American weapons to Israel – which he acknowledged have been used to kill civilians in Gaza – if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the city of Rafah.
“Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett in an exclusive interview on “Erin Burnett OutFront,” referring to 2,000-pound bombs that Biden paused shipments of last week.
“I made it clear that if they go into Rafah – they haven’t gone in Rafah yet – if they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities – that deal with that problem,” Biden said.
The president’s announcement that he was prepared to condition American weaponry on Israel’s actions amounts to a turning point in the seven-month conflict between Israel and Hamas. And his acknowledgement that American bombs had been used to kill civilians in Gaza was a stark recognition of the United States’ role in the war.
The president has come under extraordinary pressure, including from members of his own party, to limit shipments of arms amid a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Until now, the president had resisted those calls and strongly supported Israel’s efforts to go after Hamas. Yet a looming invasion of Rafah, the city in southern Gaza where more than a million Palestinian civilians have been sheltering, appears to have shifted the president’s calculus.
“We’re not walking away from Israel’s security. We’re walking away from Israel’s ability to wage war in those areas,” Biden said.
Biden said while the US would continue to provide defensive weapons to Israel, including for its Iron Dome air defense system, other shipments would end should a major ground invasion of Rafah begin.
“We’re going to continue to make sure Israel is secure in terms of Iron Dome and their ability to respond to attacks that came out of the Middle East recently,” he said. “But it’s, it’s just wrong. We’re not going to – we’re not going to supply the weapons and artillery shells.”
Already, the US has paused a shipment of “high-payload munitions” due to Israel’s possible operations in Rafah without a plan for the civilians there, according to the Pentagon, though it said a final decision on that shipment hadn’t been made. The administration has said it is reviewing the potential sale or transfer of other munitions.
In an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett last night on Erin Burnett OutFront, President Joe Biden says that he'll halt the shipment of certain weapons to Israel if it launches a full-court invasion on Rafah. Good move, Biden.
From the 05.08.2024 edition of CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront:
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