Everybody’s favorite malignant baboon of a congressman — Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa — is one of those politician dudes who opposes abortion SO HARD that he even opposes it in cases of rape and incest.
Today, speaking to the Westside Conservative Club in Urbandale, Iowa, he offered a defense, of sorts, of this position, by suggesting that if we erased all the children of rape and incest from human history that we wouldn’t have much human history left — and not many humans left at all.
What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled out anyone who was a product of rape or incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?
Considering all the wars and all the rapes and pillages that happened throughout all these different nations, I know that I can’t say that I was not a part of a product of that.
Huh. The fact that bad shit used to happen all the time in human history doesn’t mean that we should keep doing that bad shit for history’s sake. Countless women in history were re-traumatized by having to raise children conceived in rape and incest. Let’s maybe leave that in the past, huh?
You can watch the whole horrible thing in the video below.
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With all due respect to you, Sack, Steve King is only famous for saying ridiculously asinine things. Sure, he’s a politician and might be one of some minor note, but he’s only “famous” for being the colossal jerkwad that is well documented here.
He may be wealthy, I’d be willing to give you that one.
As for fit, well, I Google image searched him, and he doesn’t look like any more of the picture of good health than any other politician – he’s basically just a semi-saggy, fairly shapeless, old, white guy in a suit. Nothing of him, I don’t know, jogging, wrestling a bear, or doing anything else to really say he’s “fit” per se. Please don’t take this to mean that there is anything wrong with being any of those things I named above – I’d like to be an old, white guy at some point in my life myself, too. However, I just don’t think that if your goal is to insult our benevolent host by contrasting him with Mr. King here, fitness is really the feature to highlight.
@sack
Ok, so what? Hitler was “fit”, a politician, famous, and wealthy.
Whats your fucking point, bro?
Are you suggesting that thin people’s ideas are inherently good, while larger people’s ideas are not?
Really, whats your fucking point?
@Sack
Why does you statement need to be made again and again and again, exactly? It’s totally irrelevant.
I don’t think King is famous so much as infamous for being a fascist piece of shit. He doesn’t seem to have anything good about him.
I also don’t see any stats on his wealth, nor do I see anything about how fit he is. Not that that has any relevance to what he says being right or wrong.
Let’s go through these one by one, shall we?
1. Still irrelevant to anything here.
2. Do you not recall this? When he said that he was now back from the edge, and that he survived? To me, being able to bounce back from that is a sign of just how strong David and the community he has built are. Not to mention that after that fundraiser, he is no longer broke even if he was at one point close to broke.
3. Seriously? Your proof is a humorous tweet? There is no shame in staying in one’s apartment, and David has made it clear that he knows this by being able to joke about it.
Next time, maybe try, I don’t know, actually defending your beloved Steve? Or actually providing counter arguments to those that David or commenters propose?
Wait, we’ve got another troll? Which thread?
Please tell me he’s at least vaguely interesting….
@moregeekthan, Victorious Parasol:
I suppose it says something about me that I loved the ‘Silflay Hraka, u embleer rah!’ line near the climax of Watership Down, in part because it was such a bonus for anybody who’d been paying attention to the linguistics, like I was even when I read it at about ten. (Just to date me, I had read the book before the film came out in theatres. And I’d also been reading Lord of the Rings around the same time.)
Regarding abortion, I know I’ve seen at least someone who countered the ‘what if your mom had aborted you’ line by pointing out that she might not have been born if her mom hadn’t aborted her older sibling that the family wasn’t ready to care for yet. Unfortunately, few people have the life experience to be able to pull off that rebuttal. (And of course it won’t work anyway.) Mostly it’s just laying even more bare the hypocrisy of the so-called ‘pro-life’ movement that rather manifestly doesn’t care about the health of anybody after they’re born.
King’s net worth (as of last reporting period) is a quarter million dollars.
Again, you are easily impressed if you consider that particularly wealthy.
I mean, okay, but can anyone tell me if David is fat? I just really need to know if David is fat, and no one is volunteering this information. Please help me. My crops are dying.
@sack of shit
Just kidding, you don’t have to say shit to me. I already know what you are trying to do and what your motives are; I used to be a young shithead too. Its fucking HILARIOUS (aka pathetic), that *this* blog post and *this” comment thread are what you are ready to hitch your troll star to. Weak sauce.
Is this really the convo that you wanna put in your lil troll portfolio?
This is the thread you wanna get troll-cred for with your cyber buddies?
I get it, you wanna be banned for saying the “truth” so you can run back to your nest and tell your troll mentor; maybe *this* time, they will finally give you the acknowledgment and praise that you so crave. But they wont. Because you trolling really, reallllly, sucks.
DO BETTER! At least make us laugh more!!
DO BETTER! At least make us laugh more!!
I’m not interested in “doing better” or making you laugh. I’m just reminding you of a simple fact, one you would prefer to ignore: the men you mock are winners. Your leader, David Futrelle, is a loser. Presumably most of his fans are as well.
Obese. Broke. Shut in.
vs.
Fit. Wealthy. Connected.
@Viscaria
From the Mammoth FAQ:
@Gaebolga
Richard is mainly active in the thread about reusable shopping bags, providing a fantastic demonstration of the kind of toxic masculinity and homophobia that the study discovered.
@Scrotum
So how exactly are the men we mock winners? Last I heard, Roosh and Paul were languishing in obscurity, while David was recently published in the NYTimes. Steve King is almost universally reviled. You are right that Steve is connected. Connected to Nazis. How do you feel about about that?
@Troll: No, U.
“I DON’T NEED TO DO BETTER I AM SIMPLY REMINDING YOU OF A VERY IMPORTANT FACT THAT MY TRIBE IS WAAAAY MORE MANLY AND I AM MUCH BETTER THAN ALL OF YOU FOR LIKING [person attacking tribe] IS! THIS WORKED IN JUNIOR HIIIIGH!”
Funny how that seems to be the only “fact” worth mentioning.
@Naglfar
Thanks for the directions!
Sack, if “we” only followed losers, you’d be getting far more attention.
@Leliel
His power level is over 9!!!
@the most desperate sad sack
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BAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA
You scoundrel! You were trying to make me laugh all along. It just took you awhile to get there. Keep em coming, champ! Er, I mean, WINNING CHAMPION.
@ Sack
*yawn* You are boring.
Re: “What if your mother had an abortion!?”
*teary eyes and shaky voice* “Then she’d still be alive.”
Not true, but it shuts them up.
@Sack
Aww, are you sad the fat man has supporters and is making fun of your hero King? Are you sad he’s what you call a “leader”, that he has people to lead? Are you sad they supported him when he needed them to? Won’t give up on him? That he’s successful by dint of his own talent, but also because people like him enough to support him if he needs it, making him… what’s that word I’m looking for… oh yeah, a winner by all measures you’ve given?
You poor sad creature. You can’t make us hate him for being fat, or for having ever needed help (something I’m sure you, in your glory, have never needed), or for having joked about liking his cats more than people. You shouldn’t even try, you doubtless (?) have better things to do. I can’t tell if you’re old and bitter and full of hate, or young and silly and full of hate, but if it’s the latter hopefully one day you’ll look back on this type of comment you posted and go “oh thank God no one knew who I was.” If it’s the former, go in peace, and I hope the world has more kindness for you than you currently have for it.
@ Sad Sack
I’m pretty much a shut – in (we call it housebound here) most of the time myself as I’m a Parkie, but even I can beat King of the Nazis that you so admire on net worth. Quarter of a million dollars? My house is worth more than that. How do you like them apples? Still living in your parent’s basement are you?
@ Jenora
I love that line a whole lot. I snarl (mentally) it as the occasion arises.
@Sack
So aside of petty insults, which btw are the lowest and most invalid form of argument in the human lexicon and arena of human ‘discourse’; do you have anything to address to the actual topic at hand, like the fact that Steve King is not only a white supremacist but is, apparently given his stance and arguments: pro-rape and pro-incest and that women should be forced to carry to term babies that are products of rape and incest and his stance this is somehow okay.
So are you gonna bother to address that? Because if you don’t it’s indicative of two possibilities:
1. That you aren’t going to address it because you know it’s indefensible and just want to throw around petty insults and distract from the actual subject for craven self interest and “point winning”.
or 2. You actually believe and endorse King’s stance that women should b forced to carry to term babies what are products of rape and incest.
So which is it Sack?
@Victorious Parasol, Jenora
I’ve always been partial to an oath from another of Adams’s novels, The Plague Dogs: Shit in the sky, give me patience!
**stage whisper: It’s the second one.
Too bad his fan-trashtic quip about “punishing the ‘baby’ for the transgressions of the father *or mother*” wasn’t included here. ‘Cuz, you know, if a woman is raped, it’s a “transgression” on her part.
I’m sure this dude’s family tree is one ugly mofo, probably damaged from the root up.
Oops, Moggie, I missed your post! Thanks for pointing it out.