The Aaron Rodgers idiocy
Anybody who remembers 1969 remembers it as a year touched by a special kind of magic. Sure, the year started badly, with the inauguration of Nixon, but we were largely innocent of the havoc he would bring. For most of us it was and remains the year of Woodstock. It was the year we first walked on the moon. It was the year that New York’s little team, the Mets, won the World Series.
It was also the year of Joe “Broadway Joe” Namath, quarterback for that other lesser New York team, the New York Jets. Namath played football the way he played life, with a kind of bad boy panache. He was just as famous for the passes he made on the gridiron as the ones he made with the ladies. Football player, actor, self-promoted “ladies’ man,” Broadway Joe was a unique American icon, an old-fashioned one of a kind.
They don’t often retire jersey numbers for great football players the way they routinely do for great baseball players, but if ever any team should have retired a number, the Jets should have retired Namath’s number 12. Because the Jets quarterback who wears that number today wears it in ignominy, in disgrace, and without distinction.
His name is Aaron Rodgers, and there are few human beings alive today who are more disgusting, more stupid, more cowardly. Rodgers is an outspoken, rightwing anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist who lied about his Covid-19 vaccine status so he could continue to play football. He is the poster boy for ignorance, routinely playing the victim in the vaccine debate for the losing and loser side.
What’s more and worst of all, it was recently revealed that Aaron Rodgers was and might still be a supporter of one of the vilest, most disgusting and — above all — most inhumane conspiracy theories yet devised by the perverted mind of wretched fools. Aaron Rodgers was and might still be a Sandy Hook denier.
What is a Sandy Hook denier? It’s someone who claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting — where 20 children and six adults were murdered by a demented monster in 2012 — never happened. Sandy Hook deniers claim that the whole thing was a “false flag operation” staged by the government using “crisis actors.”
Most conspiracy theories have innocent victims and, in the case of Sandy Hook denialism, the innocent victims are the most vulnerable kind. The catalogue of victims include the memories of 20 innocent children and their broken, grieving parents.
There aren’t many beliefs in the disgraceful annals of stupid beliefs that do more evil and do more harm than this perverted Sandy Hook denialism, so it required one of the worst “human beings” in the history of stupidity, Alex Jones, to promote it. The mallet-headed fool Aaron Rodgers is on record as someone who also snapped his head back lizard-like and swallowed that bullshit whole and untasted.
Today, and because he is a coward and a liar, Rodgers denies ever being a Sandy Hook denier. But there is no doubt that he was, and it wouldn’t surprise me if he still is. CNN reporter Pamela Brown (and another solid unnamed source) recently revealed that Rodgers accosted her at the Kentucky Derby in 2013, where he verbally attacked CNN and the mainstream media for supporting the “Sandy Hook lie.” But because the other anti-vaxxer idiot Robert F. Kennedy Jr is considering Rodgers for his Vice President in his misbegotten run for the presidency, Rodgers now needs to clean up his act.
It has come down to a Veep shortlist of two for Kennedy, Rodgers and Jesse Ventura. That’s right, the Kennedy candidacy is just that kind of clown show. The idiot Kennedy says he will reveal which idiot he will pick for his idiotic candidacy on March 26.
Meanwhile, I am yet again reminded of one sad truth. That truth is they don’t make years like 1969 anymore. I knew 1969, 1969 was a favourite year of mine, and believe me, friends and neighbours, 2024 is no 1969. And, as ever, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, comrades and friends, stay safe.
Robert Harrington is an American expat living in Britain. He is a portrait painter.