New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers slammed the entire American political scene as “fake” during a podcast interview earlier this month.
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After a PFT commentator joked about Rodgers’ golfing prowess, saying his shots lean to the right, just like his politics, Rodgers took the bait and ran with it.
“Politics, as I’ve said from the beginning, is total bullshit,” Rogers declared. “All we’ve seen is what they did to Bernie Sanders in 2016, or Podesta’s emails, or the fact that nothing actually changes, and all we’ve seen is what they do, and it doesn’t actually make life better for any of us, whether we’re Republicans or Democrats, and we’re still in a goddamn two-party system. We can’t get Bobby in or anybody else in.”
The Jets quarterback specifically took issue with third-party candidates like RFK Jr. being ruled out.
“We have Bobby and he hasn’t even been given a chance to debate. When you see how ridiculous it is that a third-party candidate can be on the ballot in 50 states, you know this is a total sham,” Rogers said. “Some states require a certain color. Other states require a certain person to submit. Some states require a certain number of votes. It’s a total joke.”
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was excluded from the first debate because he did not meet the eligibility requirements, but he tried to get Rogers to join the independent running as his vice presidential candidate, but ultimately decided to continue playing football.
“Yeah, I thought about it,” he said, “and I just went on living my life.”
If Rogers felt that politics was “fake” in front Perhaps we would now speak out in stronger terms if Joe Biden had been taken off the Democratic ticket, disenfranchising millions of voters.
