New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers is one of those bros who thinks he’s a lot smarter than he is. Well, actually, that’s most people. Maybe all people. After all, it’s a necessary coping mechanism for most of us. If Marjorie Taylor Greene didn’t think she was smarter than she is, she’d never get out of bed, and Crayola could finally remove the D.C. emergency poison control number from all its packaging.
Sadly, unaccountably confident people who don’t know what they don’t know have been a scourge on civilization for centuries. And they’re still with us—in spades. They don’t want to defer to experts because that’s for beta loser cucks, so instead they cobble together a worldview from what they see on message boards and social media.
Meet Rodgers, the dude who puts the Q in QB.
Rodgers is best known for spreading joy throughout Wisconsin for the past 15 years and freedom phlegm throughout Green Bay for roughly the past three. He (in)famously claimed to have been immunized from COVID-19 when he demonstrably wasn’t, and he appears to have endorsed virulent anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his long-shot presidential bid. (Full disclosure: RFK Jr. is suing Daily Kos for … reasons.) And now he’s harassing actual experts, claiming that they need to debate nonexperts on the very topics the experts are universally acclaimed experts in.
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