Iowa Rep. Steve King On His Racially Charged Comments: "I Meant Exactly What I Said"

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CHRIS CUOMO, CNN: Right now let’s bring in Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa. Congressman, always a pleasure to have you on the show. You have your own comments to explain this morning. You tweeted support of Mr. Wilders who’s running for Prime Minister in the Netherlands. You wrote Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We cannot restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies. This is being condemned by many regions of American politics and citizenry. What did you mean?

REP. STEVE KING (R), IOWA: Of course I meant exactly what I said as is always the case, Chris. To expand on that a little further, I’ve been to Europe and spoken on this issue and I’ve said the same thing as far as ten years ago to the German people and any population of people that is a declining population that isn’t willing to have enough babies to reproduce themselves.

I’ve said to them you can’t rebuild your civilization with somebody else’s babies. You’ve got to keep your birth rate up and you need to teach your children your values.

Stevey King just doubling the fuck down on his outwardly racist comments from the other day. I don’t know anything about anything but this appears to be all the rage in politics right now. By that I mean politicians saying absolutely batshit crazy things (and, in this case with King, flat out KKK racist things) and just sticking to their guns no matter what. We’ll call that the Trumpification of politics. Is sticking to your guns commendable as a politician? Sure in some cases it is but not when a guy like Steve King is quite literally saying, “Hey we need to keep the birth rate for white babies up so we can conserve our civilization.” That feels like one of those opinions where one shouldn’t stick to their guns but by golly Steve King is doing exactly that. I’m sure there’s a certain faction of people who respect him for sticking to his word. no matter how evil his word is. That seems misguided IMO but whatever. One day the Sun is gonna explode and we’re all gonna die anyway so fuck it.