But is it a ploy?
At 1:25 pm, California time, the NFL’s Green Bay Packers will take the field against the Kansas City Chiefs and there will be one dominant storyline. The absence of Packers’ quarterback Aaron Rogers who tested positive for the Covid virus earlier this week. Rogers at the beginning of the season told reporters that he had been “immunized” but had not, in fact, taken one of the three vaccines.
Days ago, last year’s most valuable player decides to address the situation directly.
“I realize I’m in the crosshairs of the woke mob right now, so before my final nail gets put in my cancel-culture casket, I think I’d like to set the record straight on some of the blatant lies that are out there about myself right now,” he told Pat McAfee of the Pat McAfee Show.
“It wasn’t some sort of ruse or lie, it was the truth,” he said about his being immunized, and if further questions had been asked “I would’ve said, ‘Look, I’m not some sort of anti-vax, flat-earther. I am somebody who is a critical thinker, you guys know me, I march to the beat of my own drum, I believe strongly in bodily autonomy.'”
Continuing, “I believe strongly in bodily autonomy and the ability to make choices for your body, not to have to acquiesce to some woke culture or crazed group of individuals who say you have to do something. Health is not a one-size-fits-all for everybody.”
Entirely Slater-esque.
Slater himself went on his own pro-choice campaign, recently, opening various fronts against Instagram commenters, doctors and his fellow professional surfers, telling Australian Ironman Matt Poole, “If I know the risks (informed consent) and I judge the choice to be one that benefits/hurts me based on stats and info and my own ability (health), I can choose accordingly.”
And yet, the world’s greatest surfer has been uncharacteristically silent since Rogers’ dragging began.
Not a peep.
Now, I’m no military tactician, but might the 11x World Champion have seen an opportunity to join forces with Rogers and the very popular Joe Rogan and punch through the fortifications of the pro-life side?
A real Battle of the Bulge moment?
Maybe Slater is waiting until 1:25 California time to announce the attack.
It would be wise.
Erwin Rommel-esque.
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Nothing says progress like killing your baby with a vacuum amirite?
You left off the end of Slater’s quote…”I can choose accordingly,and fuck everyone else…”
Yes and no
Clown show and it is hilarious.
This is pretty low brow. The big difference here is that Rodgers flat out lied about his status so regardless of what side you’re on, calling for someone else to speak in favor of Rodgers is poking the fire
My racism indicator is now all mixed up.
Fuck Kelly Slater!! Guy barely graduated high school. Has ZERO college credits, medical training, nor true and factual insight on any of the shit he is spouting about, and NOW,….. If ELO doesn’t bow down and lick GOAT balls, (which he enjoys), The WSL will deny KS11 from competing at, or even being present for the WSL comp at the wave pool that KS11 invented, paid for, built, and chest pumped as his own!!
Just STFU, retire, and go sell eco friendly, UGLY, overpriced clothes to other clueless, overpaid elitists.
Kelly, if you can hold up another CT’ event, Champions trophy, EVER, I will fill a Corona bottle with my own piss and drink it ALL, Live on IG!!
KS11, the WSL, the World Tour, and all governing bodies of Professional surfing will be upside down, defunct, and scrambling for a scrap of clarity for their goals and their future, and Thank Jesus, ELO will be ousted and forever banished from any role in competitive surfing!!
Only for sheep not goats
Seriously? Whether they agree with each other or not is one thing, but why would you assume Kelly Slater, a surfer, need to srick his nose into the business of Rogers, a football player.
You don’t know much about Kelly Slater, do you.
What rubbish
I am on neither side i think, but lets call it what it is, killing/murdering an human being. Lets avoid the euphemisms.
Got that asian fever, always
KDS?
Outerknown, the apparel company that Kelly is co-founder of, mandated the vaccine for all employees. Maybe he finally realized if he speaks up, he’s nothing more than a hypocrite.
So im standing in this beach bar and a chick walks up to me and says hi , i told her to fuck off.
Time for another brownie my Nigerian
Its cultural.
What the hell are you talking about, the pro life side?
I downvote Peter on a matter of principle … got nothing to do with his comment
Down-voting is a gateway drug. Tread lightly.
My name is Billy and I have a problem
There’s some burnt coffee and stale donuts over there in the corner. Pull up a chair and know you’re amongst friends…well, mostly.
It’s no coincidence that all the Latino colonised countries are and always have been ultra corrupt failures
I didn’t realize you were anti-colonialism?
I’m nothing if not inconsistent