'I can assure you we're not garbage': Packers legend Brett Favre strikes back at Biden's insulting remarks to Americans



Super Bowl champion Brett Favre rallied for Donald Trump in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and told attendees that a vote for the Republican candidate was a vote to secure the future of their children and grandchildren.

"I have never done an event like this before. Do I even have to explain why?" the 55-year-old asked the raucous audience. "I knew I would come back to Green Bay at various times, but I never thought I would come back in this setting," Favre said to applause.

During his speech, Favre seemed personally offended when addressing President Joe Biden's comments that Trump supporters are "garbage."

"I can assure you, we're not garbage," Favre went on. "How dare he say that? Looking out, I see police officers, teachers, nurses, grandparents, students, I see everyday Americans that make this country great."

During his time in Wisconsin, the Mississippi native took time to meet with police officers and military service members, which may shed light on why he took Biden's comments so strongly.

'The stakes are incredibly high.'

The three-time NFL MVP likened his former team the Green Bay Packers as winners and likewise said, "Donald Trump and his organization was a winner."

"The United States of America won with his leadership," he added.

Pointing to his children and grandson in the audience, Favre mentioned he felt it was important to bring the young boy to the rally so he could have the experience. The quarterback then put special focus on the economic policies of the Biden-Harris administration and how they might affect future generations.

"Our young kids ... are the ones who are going to be affected directly," Favre said of the election.

"The stakes are incredibly high. Families across Wisconsin are struggling to make ends meet. People's salaries haven't kept up with inflation. It's getting harder for younger people to buy their first home. People are losing hope in the American dream," Favre continued.

The former football gunslinger hammered home a message about the American dream, saying that while he had already lived it, he wanted to "make sure that future generations get to, as well."

"That would be my grandson Parker and his two brothers."

Favre has not made many political splashes since retiring from football in 2010, but he did support Tucker Carlson during the host's exit from Fox News in 2023.

"I'm with Tucker," Favre said at the time. He then called for a boycott of Fox News "until they come to their senses."

Fox News and Carlson never reconciled, with Carlson going on to start his own network.

Recently, Favre has remarked that he is a fan of the idea of Elon Musk heading up government efficiency programs, and the two have interacted on Musk's platform since the Wisconsin rally.

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Is Aaron Rodgers' flop in New York due to age or injury? Jason Whitlock says NEITHER



Last NFL season, Jets fans rejoiced when celebrated quarterback Aaron Rodgers left Wisconsin for New York, but three snaps into the first game, Rodgers tore his Achilles tendon and was out for the rest of the year.

But now, a healed Rodgers is ready to take on the 2024 season — except it doesn’t appear that he is actually ready.

“The Jets can't score; Aaron Rodgers looks like a shell of himself; he's throwing interceptions; he cost the Jets the game [last Sunday],” says Jason Whitlock.

What’s going on? Is Rodgers’ age finally catching up to him? He is the oldest player in the NFL after all. Or was his Achilles injury a career-ender?

Jason says it’s something else entirely that’s causing Aaron Rodgers to backslide.

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“Football and the quarterback position cannot be your side hustle, and that's what Aaron Rodgers has done to his football career,” says Jason. “The man spent the off season thinking about running for vice president with RFK; he spent the off season in Egypt rather than attending a mandatory OTA [Organized Team Activities].”

“He’s taken the game for granted, and this will not be a replay of the 2015 Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers,” he assures.

However, Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets aren’t the only 2024 flops, according to Jason.

To hear his other predictions, watch the clip above.

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Biden retells yet another story completely differently than in the past, this time about becoming a Green Bay Packers fan



Joe Biden changed the details of yet another story during a speech in Wisconsin about becoming a Green Bay Packers fan while in high school.

The president was at Gateway Technical College's iMet Center on May 8, 2024, in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, speaking about Microsoft's plan to invest over $3 billion to build an artificial intelligence data center in the state.

During his comments, Biden recalled a story about how his Catholic high school influenced him to become a fan of NFL team the Green Bay Packers.

"I went to a Catholic high school in Delaware taught by the Norbertines priests from St. Norbert College ... little town, little team called Green Bay," Biden said, which incited some cheers.

"Now, here's the deal," Biden continued. "We were the only high school in Delaware who overwhelmingly rooted for Green Bay."

The crowd laughed, but Biden pressed on.

"Not a joke, I'll tell you why. Every single Sunday. Not only did they have great teams at the time, still do, but not only that, my theology professor at the Catholic school I went to was a guy named Riley. Last name. And he had been drafted by the Green Bay Packers."

"He decided to become a priest before that, so he didn't go, but every single solitary Monday that Green Bay won, we got the last period of the day off."

While it was unclear if Biden was stating that Riley was the last name or he was reading "last name" off the teleprompter, the president seemingly forgot that he has told this story previously but with several of the details being completely different.

Biden starts rambling about a "theology professor" at his Catholic high school who (allegedly) "had been drafted by the Green Bay Packers" but "decided to become a priest"
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According to Wisconsin radio station 620 WTMJ, Biden told this same story in 2011 to host John Mercure.

"He realized he was talking to a journalist in Wisconsin and started telling this elaborate story about why he roots for the Packers," Mercure recalled.

"Let me tell you something, I was taught, I went to a Catholic boys school in Claymont, Delaware, taught by an order of priests called the Norbertines," Biden said at the time. "The Norbertines had their Abbey house in DePere."

Biden then listed off some of the Packers' players of his youth before continuing.

"Every Sunday the Packers won, the headmaster Father Justin E. Diny would get on the PA system, literally, and say, 'Gentlemen no last period today.'"

"He made everyone of us Packers fans. I have a sentimental place," he continued. "Besides I'm fearful I'll go to hell if I don't root for the Packers. Father Diny may come back. I can't go against Father Diny. He'll come out of his grave if he knew I was rooting for anybody else."

There was no mention in the story of a theology professor named Riley, or anyone being drafted to the NFL but choosing the priesthood; rather, it was the headmaster who allegedly gave the students the time off.

Forgetting which authority gave the free time to the students would be easily mistakable, but the president specifically stated it was a professor who was drafted into the NFL.

The internet then went to work.

America's new President @JoeBiden is rooting for the @packers this Sunday and all Sundays.
— (@)

"According to the All Time Green Bay Packers Draft pick list there is no record of a 'Riley' or 'Reilly' that fits his story," one reader wrote on X.

Another user pointed out that there was actually a man named Maurice "Tex" Reilly drafted by the Packers in 1947.

"1947 Draft — Maurice ‘Tex’ Reilly — no record of him after that ..."

According to the All Time Green Bay Packers Draft pick list there is no record of a "Riley" or "Reilly" that fits his story.

I think maybe his draft record was eaten by cannibalshttps://t.co/EsLiD9Lh6D
Green Bay Packers Draft picks
Seasons: 104 (1921 to 2024)
— Charles R. Smith🔹 (@softwarnet) May 8, 2024

However, that Maurice Reilly actually became a Major General in the Air Force, not in the priesthood.

@PaulBranch1234 @RNCResearch also ... he was from Colorado not the Wisconsin College Biden cited
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This is just one of many of the president's peculiar tales. From the legend of a street tough named Corn Pop to claims he went to Delaware State University, the president seems to forget key details of his stories.

Not to be forgotten, Biden has also changed his story about having an "epiphany" about accepting gay marriage at least four times over the course of nearly 50 years.

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'Anti-vaxxer' Aaron Rodgers' playoff loss sparks celebration among Occupy Democrats, other rabid leftists: 'America needed this'



After Green Bay Packers superstar Aaron Rodgers ripped President Joe Biden last week — the latest sociopolitical critique from the outspoken quarterback now known for defying vaccine mandates and standing up to cancel culture and woke bullies — leftists far and wide were hoping for one thing Saturday: for Rodgers and the Packers to lose their playoff game to the San Francisco 49ers.

It seemed like a pipe dream. Green Bay usually is a graveyard for visiting teams, and Rodgers has been having an MVP-caliber season.

But alas, Rodgers and the Packers managed to cough up the game on a last-second field goal — and on cue, leftists cut loose on Rodgers in a kind of rabid unity, posting delirious, sarcastic tweets as if they won the game instead of the Niners.

What did the leftists have to say?

Seriously, when was the last time you observed Occupy Democrats get so excited about a football score?

BREAKING: Anti-vaxxer quarterback Aaron Rodgers just lost to San Francisco 49ers and got eliminated from the NFL playoffs. RT IF YOU THINK THAT THIS IS GOOD RIDDANCE!
— Occupy Democrats (@Occupy Democrats) 1642915405

"BREAKING: Anti-vaxxer quarterback Aaron Rodgers just lost to San Francisco 49ers and got eliminated from the NFL playoffs," the leftist outfit tweeted. "RT IF YOU THINK THAT THIS IS GOOD RIDDANCE!"

And the venom was still spewing the next day. Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali sure was enjoying the extended Rodgers "roasting," apparently seeing it as a salve for the nation's woes:

Twitter is still roasting Aaron Rodgers. I love it. America needed this. #ByeAaron
— Wajahat Ali (@Wajahat Ali) 1642965128

"Twitter is still roasting Aaron Rodgers. I love it," Ali wrote, adding a "ByeAaron" hashtag. "America needed this."

And Robert Reich — perhaps relieved attention had shifted after his deleted tweet days before about Democrats giving Kyrsten Sinema the "backs of their hands" over the filibuster — was suddenly standing tall with sports knowledge:

Just a reminder: Colin Kaepernick led the 49ers to three victories over Aaron Rodgers and the Packers.
— Robert Reich (@Robert Reich) 1642915064

Here's a sampling of other reactions from left-wing foot soldiers carrying Twitter's coveted blue checkmark:

Once again we all mistakenly believed Aaron Rodgers had a shot
— Keith Olbermann (@Keith Olbermann) 1642915974
I guess Aaron Rodgers also got immunized against winning in the postseason.
— Skip Bayless (@Skip Bayless) 1642911707
I\u2019ve read the same Aaron Rodgers \u201cnatural immunity\u201d jokes 100 times already and still can\u2019t get enough.
— Chris Hayes (@Chris Hayes) 1642912189
Aaron Rodgers gonna wait for all the research to come in before he declares this score final
— Drew Magary (@Drew Magary) 1642911409
.@AaronRodgers12 is blaming the loss tonight on Dominion Voting Systems.
— Don Winslow (@Don Winslow) 1642919259
Aaron Rodgers was winning until they counted the mail in points.
— Akilah Hughes (@Akilah Hughes) 1642918212
Look at the bright side for @AaronRodgers12 he doesn\u2019t have to worry about meeting @POTUS at the White House.
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari Sellers) 1642911033
Unlike Aaron Rodgers\u2019 play calling, vaccines actually work.
— Jon Cooper \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Jon Cooper \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1642945433
Aaron Rodgers\u2019 playoff run thwarted by snowflakes, cancel culture strikes again
— Kyle Neubeck (@Kyle Neubeck) 1642910946
I guess Aaron Rodgers decided to boycott the Super Bowl after all.
— Cousin Sal (@Cousin Sal) 1642911097
The vaccine reduces the severity of COVID so much that Aaron Rodgers is unvaccinated and yet his receivers didn't catch anything significant.
— Steve Hofstetter (@Steve Hofstetter) 1642946433

Oh, but we've long since had a retort from Rodgers

If the giddy leftists reveling in Rodgers' loss hope they're somehow getting to him and contributing to twisting the knife, they may want to remind themselves that Rodgers already said they're a joke to him.

"Now the rules of the game are that you must acquiesce with the woke mob at all times," he told podcast host Pat McAfee a few months back, adding that he's "not a part of this game ... being played out by these individuals. And I see it, I hear it, but to me it's comedy."

Sportswriter calls Aaron Rodgers 'biggest jerk in the league,' won't cast MVP vote for him. Rodgers says 'absolute bum' writer is angry that 'I'm not vaccinated.'



Sportswriter Hub Arkush — one of 50 total Associated Press voters — said in no uncertain terms that he wouldn't be casting a Most Valuable Player ballot for Green Bay Packers' star quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Sports Illustrated reported.

“I don’t think you can be the biggest jerk in the league and punish your team and your organization and your fan base the way he did and be the Most Valuable Player,” Arkush said, according to the magazine, which was citing Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.

But when Rodgers was asked in a Wednesday press conference about Arkush's harsh words, which reportedly included "I think he's a bad guy, and I don't think a bad guy can be the MVP at the same time," Rodgers fired back at Arkush.

'He's an absolute bum ... his problem is I’m not vaccinated'

“I think he’s a bum. I think he’s an absolute bum,” Rodgers said. “He doesn’t know me. I don’t know who he is. No one knew who he was, probably, until yesterday’s comments ... And I listened to the comments, but to say he had his mind made up in the summertime, in the offseason, that ... I had zero chance of winning MVP — in my opinion should exclude [him from] future votes. His problem isn’t with me being a ‘bad guy’ or ‘the biggest jerk in the league’ because he doesn’t know me ... He doesn’t know anything about me. I’ve never met him. I’ve never had lunch with him. I’ve never had an interview with him. His problem is I’m not vaccinated ... So if he wants to go on a crusade and collude and come up with an extra letter to put on the award just for this season and make it the ‘Most Valuable Vaccinated Player,’ then he should do that."

Rodgers then repeated his assertion that Arkush is "a bum, and I’m not gonna waste any time worrying about that stuff. He has no idea who I am. He’s never talked to me in his life. But it’s unfortunate that those sentiments — it’s surprising that he would even say that, to be honest. But I knew this was possible."

Aaron Rodgers just teed off on the NFL MVP voter who said he wouldn\u2019t vote for him because of off field issues. \u201cHe\u2019s a bum\u2026His problem is that I\u2019m not vaccinated.\u201d This is great, enjoy:pic.twitter.com/d1t3THdwZB
— Clay Travis (@Clay Travis) 1641414027

NBC Sports reported that Arkush acknowledged Wednesday that he “made a big mistake” making his voting plans public.

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Rodgers has been in the headlines quite a bit of late for non-football reasons:

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Aaron Rodgers cleared to play on Sunday, only days after COVID diagnosis and Joe Rogan medical advice controversy



Aaron Rodgers is set to be back on the gridiron on Sunday after he tested negative for COVID-19. Only days after his COVID-19 diagnosis, Rodgers will return as quarterback for the Green Bay Packers for their home game against the Seattle Seahawks at Lambeau Field on Sunday, according to NFL.com.

Rodgers is reportedly set to be activated off the reserve/COVID-19 list, just 10 days after he tested positive for coronavirus — the earliest he was eligible to return.

"Throughout the week leading up to Saturday, which is the first day in which Rodgers can be activated, Packers head coach Matt LaFleur made it known if all went according to plan, Rodgers would be in the starting lineup on Sunday," the outlet reported.

After his positive test, it was revealed that the three-time MVP QB was unvaccinated against COVID-19. Rodgers was harangued by the media, sports talking heads, and some fans for not being vaccinated. Rodgers never specifically said he was vaccinated against COVID-19, but previously described himself as "immunized." Rodgers said he has an allergy to an ingredient in the mRNA vaccines.

During an appearance on "The Pat McAfee Show," Rodgers fired back at the controversy over his personal medical decision by pointing out the hypocrisy of leftists for disparaging the COVID-19 vaccines when former President Donald Trump was in office and then praising the exact same vaccines when Joe Biden was elected president.

"When [then-President Donald] Trump in 2020 was champion[ing] these vaccines that were coming so quick, what did the left say? And I'm talking about every member of the left: 'Don't trust the vaccine, don't get the vaccine, you're gonna die from the vaccine,'" Rodgers said. "And then what happened? [President Joe] Biden wins, and everything flips. Shouldn't that initially give you a little bit of pause ... isn't this s**t about health and not about, like, politics?"

Rodgers consulted with doctors as well as Joe Rogan, who was also stricken with COVID-19 while he was unvaccinated.

"I consulted with a now-good friend of mine Joe Rogan," Rodgers said. "I've been doing a lot of the stuff that [Rogan] recommended in his podcasts and ... I'm gonna have the best possible immunity now. And I feel pretty incredible."

Rodgers said he took therapeutics such as zinc, vitamins C and D, and monoclonal antibodies.

Rogan said the doctors who he consulted "threw the kitchen sink" at his COVID-19 infection, which included a treatment of "all kinds of meds, monoclonal antibodies, ivermectin, Z-Pak, prednisone, everything."

During his announcement in September, the podcast giant said he felt "great" after three days of treatment.

"I really only had one bad day, Sunday sucked. Monday was better, Tuesday felt better than Monday, and today I feel good, I actually feel pretty f***ing good," Rogan explained.

Like Rodgers, Rogan also experienced controversy as media outlets like CNN characterized Rogan's human ivermectin treatment as "horse dewormer."