Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is apparently considering Aaron Rodgers as a potential running mate in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.
Despite it being the ticket out of sports that Rodgers seems to be looking for and the best option for a much-needed reprieve from the somehow always-aggrieved QB the rest of us need, it’s probably not the greatest idea in the world.
Rodgers potentially being placed in a meaningful leadership position for an entire country is a petrifying thought.
At his core, he only cares about himself. Bombast is his ethos. He lives for self. He loves pushing conspiracy theories out there — not for the betterment of society, but only to hear himself talk. It feels like he’s got an incurable case of main character syndrome that veils up logic and common sense.
Case in point: Rodgers was reportedly pushing Sandy Hook conspiracy theories claiming the murders of innocent children were staged, according to CNN. Those are the sorts of theories Rodgers dives deep into. That’s what this man is about.
I’d love to claim to be surprised by that, but Rodgers has been showing us that this is who he is for years.
1
That time he lied about being vaccinated
Back in 2021 when the NFL was making its comeback in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, players were being questioned about their vaccination status.
When asked if he was vaccinated, Rodgers told the media he was “immunized” from the virus.
Many took that to mean that he’d taken the vaccine. Turns out he lied — he wasn’t vaccinated. And then he caught COVID-19. Then he got mad at everyone who questioned him about it afterward.
2
The COVID toe thing
Yup. More COVID-19 content, unfortunately. Rodgers just wasn’t taking any of this seriously. Rodgers had a fractured toe, but insinuated that he had “COVID toe” on The Pat McAfee Show.
Plenty of people bought into at the time because, well, we knew absolutely nothing about the virus. And it’s actually a real thing that real people suffer from.
That didn’t stop him from joking about it.
3
Insinuating that 9/11 was somehow fake
Aaron Rodgers seems to think the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 was…fake? At least, according to Deshone Kizer, anyway.
Kizer shared some of his wildest Aaron Rodgers stories on the Adam Breneman podcast. This one came up.
Here’s more from Sports Illustrated:
“The first thing that comes out of Aaron Rodgers’s mouth was, ‘You believe in 9/11?’” he said on The Breneman Show podcast. “‘What? Do I believe in 9/11? Yeah, why wouldn’t I?’”
To which Kizer said that Rodgers simply responded with, “Should read up on that.” Kizer said Rodgers wanted him to do research on some of the conspiracy theories around the event.
Yikes, man.
4
Baselessly accusing Jimmy Kimmel of participating in sex trafficking with Jeffrey Epstein
Rodgers baselessly claimed ABC late show host Jimmy Kimmel was somehow involved in sex trafficking crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein. He insinuated that Kimmel would show up on the “Epstein list,” which was a court document that named people associated with Epstein.
Kimmel fired back. Then Rodgers went on an entire tirade on McAfee’s show where he complained about being silenced… while on a nationally syndicated television program. You really can’t make this stuff up.
5
Rodgers seems to attack Travis Kelce for being in a Pfizer commercial
Yep. We’re back to the COVID-19 stuff. Rodgers seemed to call out Travis Kelce on The Pat McAfee Show (surely, you’re seeing the theme here) for appearing in a Pfizer commercial. He called him “Mr. Pfizer.”
“I think there’s some sentiment that there’s some sort of moral victory out there that we hung with the champs and our defense played well and Pat [Mahomes] didn’t have a crazy game and Mr. Pfizer, we kind of shut him down a little bit. He didn’t have a crazy impact game.”
Very weird stuff, man.
6
Pushing dangerous conspiracy theories on podcasts
This one isn’t as specific as the rest, but it might actually be the worst thing here because it truly gives you a look into the way Rodgers thinks.
Awful Announcing did the torturous work of listening to Rodgers’ appearance on the Look Into It podcast where he just spouted theory after theory after theory. And, folks. Let me tell you something — it’s gross. Very gross.
Here Rodges talks about “experimental gene therapy” through the COVID vaccines.
“They shut the country down. The largest transfer of wealth ever. These pharma companies made billions and billions and billions of dollars for an experimental gene therapy that changes your DNA. That you have bizarre extra death numbers going on.
“If you follow diet suddenly, and you follow and you track healthy, youngish, or even healthy athletes who got jabbed, just dying. Not to question any of it. Like, any, this is a little bit strange. You’d probably be the same people in the 80s going, yeah, nothing wrong with AZT.”
This is the kind of person we’re talking about here, folks.
