Nov 10, 2023
WATCH: Legislator Gets Interrupted By Republican Calling For Death To ALL Palestinians
Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon was giving a passionate speech calling for a ceasefire when she was interrupted by Republican Rep. Michelle Salzman, calling for death to "all" Palestinians.
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We are at 10,000 dead Palestinians.
How many will be enough?
I also, one of my colleagues
just said all of them.
- Wow.
- Utterly reprehensible.
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Not necessarily surprising
in modern America, coming out of
the Florida state legislature,
mildly surprising, should be worse.
That was Florida State
Representative Angie.
Nixon.
She had a resolution
calling for a cease fire in Gaza,
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was passionately speaking about
the devastation that we've seen there.
Here's an extra tragedy to throw.
On top of that, the 10,000 number
that Representative Nixon referenced there
is now well over 11,000.
And the Secretary of State
of the United States thinks
that that is probably an undercount.
So tragedy on top of tragedy,
but trying to do to the extent
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that a Florida state representative can,
a little bit of a little bit to help,
calling for a cease fire.
And that was when Republican
Representative Michelle Saltzman
butted in and said, all of them. 10,000 is
not enough. 4000 children is not enough.
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Every single one of them needs to die and
said that in a person's giving a speech,
the cameras are on, the mics are on.
It would be reprehensible, even if they
thought, if Representative Salzman thought
that they would get away with that.
But to saying knowing there was
a good chance that it would get picked up,
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believing clearly that it would help you
for it to get out there,
well, that is truly reprehensible.
Now we have a little bit more
from representative Representative Nixon
reacting to what you saw
in that first video.
One of my colleagues said, all of them,
one of my colleagues also stated
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that this is going to dry up their
fundraising if we vote on this resolution.
I also want like that's
what we've become in this state.
That's what we've become in this state,
where we don't care about innocent babies
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that don't even get the opportunity
to blow out their first birthday candle.
Yes, we don't care.
Or at the very least,
the vast, vast majority of the people
in the room where the representative
is speaking did not care.
And not caring can come
in a variety of different forms.
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Most would not be willing to say
where it could be picked up on camera.
All of them should die
literally calling for genocide.
But there's another way
that you can not care.
You can have a representative calling for
an utterly non-binding call for a cease
fire that will do nothing except send
a signal that perhaps peace would be good
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and it can get only two votes.
That's another way that a state
legislature can show how little they care.
After that passionate speech,
virtually every one voted against that.
We'll have more about this,
including more from Representative Nixon.
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But Ravana, what do you make of that?
Yeah, what she said was despicable,
but all I could think of
while I was hearing it is.
She's just saying the quiet part out loud.
Is her position that different than
the position of the Biden administration?
I would argue it's not.
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Joe Biden, when asked, you know,
if there was a chance for a cease fire,
he said, definitely not.
No possibility.
So for the Biden administration,
10,000 dead civilians is not enough.
You know, upwards of 4000
dead children is not enough.
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They've shown that they do not care,
and I can't see any indication
of the number that will be enough.
So from the outside looking in,
it feels like considering their continuing
endorsement of what's happening in Gaza,
their continuing material support.
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But also another important aspect of this
is the rhetorical support
that they're offering in the media, in
press conferences and official statements
from the white House, from the State
Department that this is okay, no matter
how much lip service they paid to.
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Well, it's sad that innocent civilians
will die, but that's what has to happen
in this case is is what their position is.
And her position is also not
that different
from members of the federal Congress.
Right.
We had Brian Mast say
that there's no such thing
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as an innocent Palestinian civilian.
We had Max Miller say on TV, live on TV
that we are going to use the term we are
going to turn Gaza into a parking lot.
You know, Lindsey Graham has been
calling for the destruction of Gaza.
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These are people
explicitly calling for genocide.
And I'm not seeing the white House policy
push back against that
in any meaningful way.
I mean, we can give humanitarian support
to Gaza, small amounts, but as long as we
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keep giving Israel the bombs, that creates
the need for the humanitarian support,
we're not doing anything meaningful.
It's disgusting.
And the one bright spot of this is that
so many Americans, the vast majority of
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Americans, I mean, 80% of Democrats, but
a majority of Americans want a ceasefire.
And we need to continue to use our voices,
continue to attend protests.
If you can continue to go to cease
fire now, dot com, I believe it is demand
a cease fire from your elected officials,
because at some point
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they're going to have to break
and they're going to have to listen
to the constituents that sent them there.
Because our voices have been
so loud throughout this.
We just need to continue to raise
the alarm and keep the pressure on them.
Listen, the fact that only two people
voted for this and one of them was Angie.
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Well, let me say this first.
Full disclosure Angela and I are extremely
close and we work together on several
campaigns, so I should have mentioned that
before I started giving her praise,
but she deserves it anyway.
And this is not the first time she's went
viral for standing up to her colleagues.
The nasty part.
I think Rihanna said it perfectly.
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The nasty part is we, this whole country,
is comfortable with the idea
that we should kill all Palestinians.
And whether we say it or not,
our policies are supporting that mean
our president jumped on a plane
and went to a war zone to hug
Benjamin Netanyahu in the midst of it.
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And you want to add another tragedy
to the numbers that you said
the ten becomes 11,000 and majority of
them are kids, majority of them are kids.
And and no innocent life is innocent life,
but a child, a child
that many children have been murdered.
And I think this, this idea that America,
sitting silent, somehow clings our hand.
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You know, we are absolutely dirty,
soiled by this incident
that that's happening right now.
This has nothing to do with the conflict
between two governments.
We're talking about civilian populations
and not not caring for them.
When you bomb a refugee camp,
when you bomb a hospital,
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when you bomb an ambulance, you can't tell
me you're concerned with citizen.
Life, even if one homeless person
was in that refugee camp.
What about all the other folk that are
not, and think America's tolerance
for Palestinian pain may have reached
the equality level with black people?
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And that's not a damn good place to be,
because America is extremely comfortable
with the death of black bodies here.
Yeah.
Look, I'm glad, by the way,
that you reminded us of the polls,
because sometimes, like, you have to try
to remember that just because so many of
the most powerful people in the world
are utter, bloodthirsty sociopaths,
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that doesn't mean
that most regular people are mean.
Most regular people, unfortunately, thanks
to American media and American education,
are way too predisposed
to a variety of different forms of hate.
But you're right.
People do want this cease fire.
People around the world
want this cease fire.
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And most countries have voted
in the UN in favor of that.
Unfortunately, here that's considered
a really risky thing
to push for unacceptable.
You can come up with some other like way
of saying it that's a little bit lighter
that skirts around the issue or something,
but there are just way too many people
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in positions of power that are
very comfortable with far more deaths.
I cannot imagine having been a person
with some influence and sitting through
the utterly devastating initial attacks,
and then weeks and weeks of bombings
and an ever mounting death toll, and
thinking what we need now is more blood.
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But for some reason, there's something
about accruing power and money
that makes that seem utterly natural.
By the way, just a slight.
It's a cease fire now.org,
but people should definitely check it out.
And hopefully put some pressure there.
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There are those
that are trying to do that.
- They are generally sorry.
- Ceasefire TODAY.com as well.
Both. Oh there you go.
Yes, I want to read just a couple
of comments from Representative Nixon
who tweeted waking up and all the emotions
are hitting me from yesterday.
Florida Republican legislators
literally calling for the death
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of innocent people on the House floor.
Some of my Democratic colleagues
in full agreement with them.
Well, look, we don't we don't know
if they want the deaths, but they don't
want the ceasefire because they voted
against it, not just the Republicans,
the vast majority of Democrats.
Another of my Democratic colleagues
stated they were more concerned about
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80% of their fundraising drying up
if they were forced to address
the humanizing of Palestinian lives.
Randy Fine called me evil
and whipped the Republican caucus
to stand up and turn their backs on me.
I have never witnessed
so much hate in real life, in real time,
as I did on yesterday.
Republicans and Democrats working together
to ostracize someone,
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simply asking for them to see the humanity
in innocent human lives.
And it's devastating that Representative
Nixon had to go through that.
She's not alone in that.
I mean, the fact that our government,
our federal government,
which can't get anything done these days,
can come together to to censure
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Representative Rashida Tlaib.
Why wouldn't that be a part of this story,
considering our government in 2023, why
wouldn't we have expected that to happen?
But anyway, look,
technically as one more update.
I'll give you guys a chance to jump in.
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The Secretary of State earlier
today did say far too
many Palestinians have been killed.
Far too many have suffered
these past weeks.
We want to do everything possible
to prevent harm to them and to maximize
the assistance that gets to them.
To that end, we'll be continuing
to discuss with Israel the concrete steps
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to be taken to advance these objectives.
Here's the thing, though.
Words have meanings.
So when you say we want to do
everything possible to prevent harm, what
that should mean isn't we want to do like
a little bit of talking and that's it.
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And literally nothing else.
We want to pretend that we have
no tools in our toolbox
to exert influence, to use leverage.
We've got nothing.
We can dispatch Blinken
to say something that sounds kind of nice,
and he's only doing that because they see
the polls, particularly amongst younger
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Americans, that find Biden's position
in the Biden administration's position
to be reprehensible.
So, I mean, that is just like,
yeah, the words are good,
but they mean almost nothing
coming out of Anthony Blinken right now.
What do you guys think?
I listen, I think you're spot on.
Here's here's the tragedy of it.
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I think, you know, to say
that we'll continue to talk with Israel
is is trash to me.
Stop sending money to Israel.
Do they stop bombing people?
There you go.
I bet you I bet you
Netanyahu will listen immediately.
New word for you all immediately.
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If we stop bombing people and I say we
because America has a hand in it.
This is our resources spent
to bomb innocent people without a strategy
other than make Gaza a parking lot.
That is the strategy.
Death of all, all in that space.
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You can't think that you have a strategy
to clean out,
to be precise and, and and use precision.
On this day when we celebrate veterans
who sacrifice so much, you hear veterans
screaming, this is not what it is.
This ain't the look.
This is a bad look for America
and our claim to be the defender
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of democracy all over this world.
Absolutely.
And just to add on a little bit to that,
you know, Israel is essentially
a client state of the United States.
It is able to operate because of the money
that it receives from the United States,
because of the military support that it
receives from the United States, but also
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because, as I mentioned earlier, the
rhetorical support that it receives from
the United States, the defense it receives
from the United States, you know, with
within the UN, the political power there,
but also the way that they portray the
actions that are happening to the media.
Joe Biden could right now end this.
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He could call in Netanyahu
and say, all right, this is enough.
You're done. He's done it before.
He did it in 2021,
during the last major siege on Gaza.
He can do this.
So every time you read leaks,
supposed leaks coming from the Biden
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administration saying that they are
anxious because they feel like
they can't control Netanyahu, just know
that it is a lie to cover Biden's ass.
If he wanted to stop this,
he could stop this.
And that's his State Department
that is claiming they care about
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the lives of innocent Palestinians.
Again, it's just words as they see
this continuing campaign of pressure being
put against, put on them by activists
demanding a cease fire to try to obfuscate
the responsibility and the very real role
that he and his administration is playing
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and carrying out this genocide.
Yeah.
And by the way, that should be enough
reason for people to support this.
But also bear in mind that that sort
of cease fire would at least
open up the possibility that some
of the hostages could be could be saved.
That's supposed to be one of the one
of the main reasons for Israel's strategy,
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you know, and who's to say, if any of
the particular, you know, transfer plans
that have been put across are trustworthy,
but at least it's a possibility.
And and that right now is,
is simply unattainable.
And the continued bombing
also puts those hostages at risk.
So there's a lot of civilian lives
on the line.
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And I just want to remind people,
because I'm so glad that a lot of people
in America, you know, have really stayed
tuned in and caring about this topic.
We are not a country.
We are not a people that often
thinks much about foreign policy.
And I and I'm glad, especially that people
care so much about civilian deaths.
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I think that that should be centered in
our talks about foreign policy far more.
But I want to remind people that,
like, there is a long tradition
of Americans not giving a damn
about civilian deaths until way too long.
I mean, this is utterly devastating,
but how many years of civilian deaths
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in Syria because of our bombing in Iraq,
in Yemen, with the military aid
and the weapons that we like, perfectly
comfortable for years going by, and mostly
because the media doesn't talk about it.
I understand that a lot of it's apathy and
ignorance, like the one standout, I guess,
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is a little bit with Israel and Ukraine.
And then that's that's about it.
For the most part,
Americans are way too willing to let a lot
of civilian casualties just go ignored.
I hope coming out of this, like coming
out of the Iraq war, people, you know,
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maybe were a little bit more questioning
of wars in general that we just try
to center saving as many civilian lives
as possible in future conversations.
But that remains to be seen.
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