You know how, sometimes in the summer, a fly keeps coming back, landing on your arm, or worse yet, flying right in your face, and no matter how many times you brush him away, he keeps coming back, taunting you, almost daring you …. Well this ‘gentleman’ has been the fly in my face for a few weeks now and it is time to deal with him. So please give your usual warm welcome to this week’s Idiot of the Week, none other than Representative Steve King from Iowa!
Mr. King has been in Congress for fourteen years, and as you will soon see, is an excellent example of why we need term limits. Mr. King has so many qualifications for this award, going back to at least 2005, probably much further. Let’s look at some of those oldies but goodies before tackling his latest idiocy:
- In August 2015, King was named the least effective member of Congress by InsideGov due to his persistent failures to get legislation out of committee.
- King received a score of zero from the Humane Society in 2012, after voting against penalties for bringing a minor to an animal fight and also against penalties for transporting fighting animals across state lines. His reason? That it would be putting animals above humans if it was legal to watch humans fight, but not animals. (Never mind, I guess, that humans do not fight to the death and do have a choice in the matter, whereas animals are given no choice and fight to kill!!!!)
- In July 2012, King introduced an amendment to the House Farm Bill that would legalize previously banned animal agriculture practices such as tail-docking, putting arsenic in chicken feed, and keeping impregnated pigs in small crates. (Grrrrrrrr …)
- On October 7, 2014 King was one of 19 members of Congress inducted into the LGBT civil rights advocacy group Human Rights Campaign’s “Hall of Shame” for his opposition to LGBT equality. This came after King commented that the Iowa state legislature “must also enact marriage license residency requirements so that Iowa does not become the gay marriage Mecca.” (What planet did this a** drop in here from?)
- King was one of 11 in Congress to vote against the $52 billion Hurricane Katrina Aid package.
- Of Mexican immigrants he said, “For every one who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds—and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.”
- In 2008, when then-Senator Barack Obama was running for president, King said, “I don’t want to disparage anyone because of their race, their ethnicity, their name—whatever their religion their father might have been, I’ll just say this: When you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected President of the United States – I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world? What does it look like to the world of Islam? I will tell you that, if he is elected president, then the radical Islamists, the al-Qaida, the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11.” (OH FOR …..)
- During last year’s long, painful election season, Julian Castro, then Secretary of HUD, made the statement that the “GOP can kiss the Latino vote goodbye.” King, who is of Irish, German and Welsh descent, fired back with, “What does Julian Castro know? Does he know that I’m as Hispanic and Latino as he?” This left many scratching their heads, and one person sent him a chart to help him with his confusion.
Obviously, Mr. King did not just now enter the state of idiocy, but has been there for most of his career, if not before. Predictably, King supports racial profiling, is a climate change denier, and displays the confederate flag on his office desk. But let us put the past behind us for now and look at what he has been up to in the past two days.

Peter Siebelt, Geert Wilders, Steve King
King is a supporter of Geert Wilders, the populist candidate for Prime Minister of the Netherlands. Mr. Wilders, like Donald Trump, takes a very narrow view of immigration and is often referred to as anti-Islamic. On Sunday, tweeting his reasons for supporting Wilders, King said:
“Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”
The next day, he defended his original comment, saying he meant exactly what he said. “It’s a clear message. We need to get our birth rates up or Europe will be entirely transformed within a half century or a little more. And Geert Wilders knows that and that’s part of his campaign and part of his agenda. You’ve got to keep your birth rate up, and that you need to teach your children your values. In doing so, you can grow your population, you can strengthen your culture, and you can strengthen your way of life. If you go down the road a few generations, or maybe centuries, with the inter-marriage, I’d like to see an America that is just so homogenous that we look a lot the same.” (Aside from the fact that this is an asinine statement by any standards, has anybody told this BOZO that we are suffering an over-population crisis???)
And guess who came out in support of King and his comments? Yes, none other than former KKK wizard, David Duke, tweeting, “GOD BLESS STEVE KING!!! #TruthRISING”
Feeling ill yet? So, for all of the above, but most especially for your comments over the past two days, Mr. King, I have found you more than deserving of Filosofa’s Idiot of the Week award. Personally, I hope you choke on it enjoy it immensely. I may actually have to award a secondary, combined Idiot of the Week to all the people in Iowa that have voted this man into office eight times now!!!
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Is he one reason Trump came out in the win column in Iowa. Who would elect such a man?
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He probably didn’t hurt Trump any, but Iowa is in the farm belt, and they are typically Republican all the way.
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This is a fantastic piece. First of all, you had me at your hashtags about animals. You really laid out the case for someone in this district to fight tooth and nail to get this turd, this mad cow PRION out of office!
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Thank you!!! Yes, I have a soft spot … a VERY soft spot for animals. Could explain why we have 7 rescue kitties in our family! How Steve King has been elected to office 8 times is beyond me! How people can share his beliefs is beyond me. But then … sigh … much is beyond me these days. I think perhaps I have outlived the world I once thought I knew. Sigh. Thanks again for your kind words! They brought a huge smile to my face!
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And now you’ve brought a smile to mine. And 7 rescue kitties! Bless you.
Let’s print your post out and do a leaflet drop from a plane over Steve King’s district. IT’S ON, STEVE KING!!!
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That’s a great idea! 😀 Might be cheaper to take out an ad in a couple of Iowa newspapers, but the leaflet drop sounds like fun! 🙂
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Apparently he has a confederate flag on his desk…
Iowa (Union) Civil War Stats
76,242 served (out of pop of 674, 900). 13,000 died, 8,000 survived wounds.
No other state North or South had a higher percentage of males between 15-40 who served.
I rest my case.
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There’s that lovely American word that describes him……Jerk!
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Exactly!
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Dear Jill,
And you know what I despair of, is the amount of TV air time that this idiot has been granted because of his disgusting comments.You would think that the people of Iowa would be embarrased but no, they are not.
According to the 7/24/16 IowaStartingLine article, he keeps getting re-elected in his Western Iowa district. He won with 62% of the vote in 2002, 63% in 2004, 59% in 2006, 60% in 2008, 66% in 2010, 53% in 2012 and 62% in 2014. He’s beaten well-financed, well-known challengers with nearly as much ease as the Democratic candidates with few funds or little name ID. His district became less Republican in 2012 when redistricting picked up Democratic-leaning cities of Ames and Mason City, but it’s still a R+5 district on the Cook partisan voting index – doable, but difficult.
Hugs, Gronda
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That is indeed interesting! Makes you wonder how he keeps winning … maybe some corruption? Because some of the things he has said and stood for seem like they surely would have made his constituency have second thoughts. The good news is that this latest has even some of his fellow Republicans in Congress turning against him. I sincerely hope he loses next year. Thanks for the info! Hugs!
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When they send people to Congress, they aren’t sending their best. They’re idiots, and numb-nuts, and some, I assume, are good people…
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Oh, that is a GOOD one!!! 😀 😀 😀
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It beggars belief that this man keeps getting elected. And the thought that we would all eventually look a lot like him if we kept the race “pure” gives me the creeps. It’s a thought to keep a person awake at night!
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It is, indeed! I am so puzzled at how anybody can believe that the tone of one’s skin indicates either superiority or inferiority.
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They seem to abound in the present American political climate…. 😉 Hugs!
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Oh yes, we have many. Would you like me to send you a few? 🙂 Hugs!
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We have our own here..albeit not as many… 😉 Hugs!
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Please tell me that King’s family came over on the Mayflower so his Welsh descent is a long time ago before I die of shame.
xxx Massive Hugs xxx
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😀 Actually, perhaps not as far back as the Mayflower, but definitely before your time, so no worries! Many, many hugs, dear friend!
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