Aside from being a perennial MVP candidate in the NFL, Aaron Rodgers has evolved into one of the most on-point political commentators in the entire sport. Whereas some like Colin Kaepernick emote their way into woke renown, Rodgers offers reasonable takes on hot-button topics.
Reasonable, with some fiery language. And hilarious, Trumpian “Make Green Bay Great Again” shirts. Coming off a hot Joe Rogan appearance in which the entire interview was summed up by the host declaring to “vote Republican” to end this madness, Rodgers next showed up on Bill Maher’s weekend podcast and kept the arrows slinging.
Speaking to Maher during an appearance on Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, Rogers tore into California’s far-left policies that made life miserable. Particularly, he blasted the COVID-19 policies and how the sent the state downhill. Referring to the stay at home demands that led to bars, restaurants, and other small businesses closing, Rodgers said, “State’s going to s*** but I’m hanging on.”
He also lamented the decline of small businesses in small-town California, with low populations and the COVID-19 policies, in his view, eviscerating those businesses that needed the foot traffic to stay around. He said, “I grew up in a small town, very little cases up in Chico, California, but all the small businesses? F***ing gone.”
And Rodgers didn’t stop with the past Covid insanities. Despite being two-and-a-half years removed from the initial two-weeks-to-flatten-the-curve madness, California still sees fit to legislate thoughts and remove medical decisions from the hands of providers.
That came when he commented on AB 2098, a bill that would allow the discipline of doctors who promote “misinformation” about COVID-19, giving extremely broad definitions of both “misinformation” and “disinformation.” Rodgers said he is against the bill.
Tempering his apparent level-headedness with these issues was a disappointing take on Roe. Somehow, despite being a proponent of bodily autonomy, Rodgers apparently thinks the Supreme Court’s decision was too political and prefers the federal bureaucracy to decide certain matters.
Rodgers will likely do down as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all-time, which is saying something considering he filled the shows of another great, Brett Favre. That was no small feat. It’s a shame politics have trickled into sports, but since they have, we might as well have a few voices of sanity speak a few truths from time to time to counterbalance the woke narratives.
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