“I’ve seen guys like him before. He genuinely
thinks that because God gave him the ability to throw a ball, he’s smarter than
everybody else. The idea that his brain is just average is unfathomable to him.
We learned during covid somehow he knows more about science than scientists.
Jimmy Kimmel, on Jimmy Kimmel Live, responding
to Aaron Rodgers wackjob claims of Kimmel being on a Jeffrey Epstein list
Absence of Jimmy Kimmel from Jeffrey Epstein list raises stakes for Aaron Rodgers, ESPN - NBC Sports
As usual Rodgers has lied through his teeth, and if he doesn't make it right - by whatever means- ought to be permanently kicked off his ESPN TV platform too. As well as having a multi-million $ lawsuit laid on his sorry ass for defamation.
As Chris Hayes put it:
"So there's this guy Rodgers who's steeped in conspiracy theories and vaccine denialism and who's caused untold damage, now spouting off about how he believes Jimmy Kimmel is on Epstein's secret list".
Which of course, elicited Kimmel's threat to hurl a lawsuit at the imp, which I hope he does. Rodgers, whose season with the NY Jests was rapidly terminated after 4 snaps, still fantasizes he can return to the game and be another Joe Flacco - now leading the Cleveland Browns into the playoffs. Ain' gonna happen. Rodgers is a legend in his own snarled brain and not much else.
Recall after the January 2022, game in which the Niners took down the Pack ( which had attained NFC top seed then lost in the Divisional round) Mike Florio noted Rodgers as "way too caught up in himself, his head and his personal dramas."
The degraded imp was also called out a year earlier by Jaime O'Neill:
"Here's the deal on Aaron Rodgers, and why I'm no longer likely to take pleasure in seeing him make a 35- yard touchdown pass. Since he revealed what a jerk he is, refusing to get vaccinated, taking the horse medicine, and considering himself to be a "critical thinker" for choosing to believe a guy like Joe Rogan over Dr. Fauci, he's just kinda forfeited his "golden boy" shine. He played cute when he told reporters he'd been "immunized," a lie based on a whole bunch of homeopathic crap he'd taken, along with drugs available only to very rich people."
The year before a USAToday sport writer took this gasbag down after losing at Lambeau 13-10 to the Niners, writing:
"Aaron Rodgers seemed tired and uninterested, almost as if working overtime to spread fake science and conspiracy theories was more important to him than getting the Green Bay Packers to the Super Bowl ....Rodgers is as self-centered and arrogant as star athletes come, convinced perhaps by his stint hosting “Jeopardy!” that he knows answers others can only guess. He had no compulsion during the season pretending he was vaccinated, disrespecting his teammates and putting them and everyone else at Packers headquarters at risk of catching COVID-19."
Around that same time Rodgers was blowing out hot air, not only on the vaccines, e.g.
"This idea that it’s the pandemic of the unvaccinated, it’s just a total lie.”
Despite the unvaccinated being 29 times more likely to get it. But about his "right" to spread the virus:
"What about ‘My body, my choice? What about making the best decision for my circumstance? "
Not conscious of the fact that in the case of a virus like Covid "your body, your choice" doesn't factor in. The reason is that you can be an unknowing agent of the disease and infect others.
Rodgers went on to rant in one Joe Rogan appearance:
“Why do people hate ivermectin? Not just because Trump championed it, but because it’s a cheap generic, and you can’t make any money off it!"
Because, you dumbass, it's a frickin' HORSE de-wormer! Get it? Maybe not. Which was why, at the time, I noted this link:
I pointed out in that post that all the horse de-wormer patients - or rather most- have had to carry around extra pairs of diapers because of loose bowels. Why? Because that's the way a de-wormer works! By aggressively flushing out the parasites with bowel contents. But ivermectin was intended for horses, not humans.
But this is the way Rodgers rolls. He fancies himself such a football legend that he's entitled to blab away any of his daft opinions. And the worst thing that's happened since has been Pat McCaffee giving him his own blabber spot on his show - and paying him to appear. That show, this past Wednesday, is when he let loose with his Kimmel comments.
In fact, as a recent WaPo piece as noted, Rodgers has become nothing more than a blithering right wing troll, e.g.
Aaron Rodgers was a provocateur with a purpose. Now he’s just a troll.
"These days, when Rodgers wakes up in the morning with that weaselly smirk on his face, he seems intent on fanning more chaos into the world. His message no longer connects with the general population — or at least the demographic of sports fans who will tune in to “The Pat McAfee Show” for some low-consequence entertainment. Instead, Rodgers has chosen the side that would rather criminalize the nation’s leading infectious-disease expert and casually accuse a late-night talk show host of being linked to sex trafficking.
During his weekly paid appearance with McAfee on Tuesday, a show sidekick teed up Rodgers to say something inflammatory regarding a list of associates tied to Jeffrey Epstein, and Rodgers obliged.
“There’s a lot of people, including Jimmy Kimmel, really hoping that doesn’t come out,” Rodgers said, dropping Kimmel’s name from out of nowhere."
"Mr. Stahl further damages his case (defending global warming) by presenting as a credible information source the NYTimes which is, of course, the Left's flag rag of record. He also gives us Fauci, the government's smirking, highest paid confirmed liar we currently have on record....And Hopkins? To suggest that Johns Hopkins cleanly and truthfully reported COVID statistics is just silly, noting that in receiving $2.5 billion federal dollars annually it must tacitly toe the party line (C'mon, man!)."
That response was written after I had shot down the nonsense spouted by Alana Sullivan (in an earlier Integra response) as I also had in this blog post:
But Simmons, like Aaron Rodgers, couldn't resist conflating his wacky climate pseudo-skepticism with his anti-vax stance. Condemning not only the esteemed Dr. Anthony Fauci, but Johns Hopkins University as well - of which Ms. Sullivan earlier claimed to be an immunologist. (So she worked for an "untruthful" organization related to Covid stats?) All of which prompted Janice to ask (on reading the Integra rejoinder):
"Wait. These people are really a members of a high IQ society?"
Alas, yes, because to get in all you need is a certain qualifying score or aptitude level. Common sense or functional intellect need not be applicable.
As for Rodgers, he now needs to be held accountable for his reckless gaslighting and bloviating on a prime sports network. In my opinion, Disney - the owners of ESPN - need to tell Pat McCaffee to cut this miserable troll loose, or lose his own show.
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by Jaime O’Neill | January 12, 2024 - 7:44am | permalink
Excerpt:
There are several ways to explain the dramatic collapse of intelligence in the United States. We seem to be failing a national intelligence test nearly every damn day. The quotient produced by dividing our intelligence by all the truly ignorant stuff so many of us routinely buy into makes our national IQ a low number across a wide range of subject matter. We don’t know history, and it seems we’d rather not. Our kids don’t write well, nor do their parents. Vocabularies shrink as reading recedes. We don’t read much, and it seems we'd rather not. What a majority of people would rather do, adults and kids alike, is stare into their “smart” phones which seems to be having just the opposite effect on intellectual growth.
You all know who Aaron Rodgers is, right? He’s the quarterback who had to sit out his entire new season with the NY Jets. He hurt himself in a way that made tossing air wrapped in pigskin to other millionaires who would run with what they’d caught until some opposing millionaires knocked them down. People like to watch that sort of thing. In fact, they’re crazy about it, with crazy the operative word in the relationship between athletes and those who go apeshit in their fealty to the teams those jocks play for and the cities that those teams represent.
And:
Aaron Rodgers reaches new low after taking Jimmy Kimmel grudge too far (usatoday.com)
And:
Pat McAfee Apologizes Over Role in Aaron Rodgers-Jimmy Kimmel Feud - The New York Times
Excerpt:
"Pat McAfee on Wednesday apologized for airing comments that Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers made toward Jimmy Kimmel on McAfee’s ESPN television show a day earlier suggesting the late-night talk show host had a connection to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein."
And:
Pat McAfee reacts to NY Post story on paying Aaron Rodgers $1 million (jsonline.com)
And:
Aaron Rodgers wants RFK Jr to debate vaccine with him vs Travis Kelce (jsonline.com)
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