That story says that Rodgers lied to a reporter, by saying, “Yeah, I’m immunized” in response to a question about his vaccination status, but that he was under the unvaccinated player protocol with the Packers. It seems like he wasn’t vaccinated, but didn’t lie to the Packers or the league about his status.
If that were true he would have been wearing a mask during his press sessions. He wasn’t, so the Packers believed he was vaccinated, or they ignored the rules for him.
I have no particular knowledge of the situation, but the third sentence in the article cited is:
Rodgers has been reportedly working like a player who has not been vaccinated this season,
Unvaccinated protocol requires players to wear a mask during in person press conferences. He wasn’t. So somewhere along the line people thought he as vaccinated or were ignoring the protocols.
When your car’s been carjacked, you get quicker police response by reporting that a child was taken along with the car. However, don’t lie about it
That reminds me of the guy who called the police because he was missing an orange juice from his McDonald’s order. He called 911 and refused to accept that the line was for emergencies.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1903486_1903487_1903411,00.html
Just do a web search on “crazy 911 calls”.
But a quotation from one site: “Fear, anxiety, and outrage have a way of clouding one’s thought processes. We’re assuming that’s the excuse these people are using.”
Or look for this single season TLC series:
“Definitely not going to jail. Sorry I have blonde hair white skin a great job a great future and I’m not going to jail,” she wrote.
Ugh, I don’t want to come across as defending her, and I absolutely agree that she is in fact a “Stupid MFer in the news”, but I don’t actually think she was saying she wouldn’t go to jail because she has blonde hair and white skin. I think she was issuing a sarcastic “apology” to “haters” for having blonde hair, white skin, a great job, and a great future. I think she thought she wasn’t going to go to jail because she genuinely thought that she “did nothing wrong.”
I think that in her world, there are “haters” that want to make white people feel guilty about being white, that want to make financially successful people feel guilty about being financially successful, and that want to falsely portray a “peaceful demonstration” against a “stolen election” as a violent riot, and she isn’t having any of it.
Which, I think is actually in a lot of ways worse than if she were bragging that her appearance and status would keep her out of jail - if that were the case, she would in fact be acknowledging systemic bias.
Precisely. Right wing folks won’t admit that being white is ever an advantage.
I hope she loses her job at the very, very least. There are plenty of decent people that are looking for work. Let her spend 60 days in jail and then look for a job.
I wouldn’t hire her to pick weeds.
It’s problematic though when nearly half the county are morons.
She’s that real estate broker. She’s probably self employed, but of course, she could still lose customers. But probably not in Texas.
If Twitter is to be believed, she may never work as a real estate agent again in any state, since having a license means not having a criminal, especially a federal, record.
Caveats: I am not a real estate agent and I am not aware of the license requirements. It’s Twitter.
I see how that’s a defensible interpretation, but it’s not the one that her sentencing memo went with. And having looked at the smarmy grifter’s twitter posts (bleah, not recommended), I really think she was defensively declaring her “Americanness” with that remark, and proclaiming her faith that “people like her” don’t get sent to jail.
She does not seem to have the self-awareness necessary to figure out that yeah, that’s an acknowledgement of the existence of systemic racism.
More recent tweets from her:
I’m sure she figures that Trump pardon is right around the corner, although she probably figured it would have already come on Tuesday via the mediation of JFK Jr.
Here’s the full text of the tweet in question:
Definitely not going to jail. Sorry I have blonde hair white skin a great job a great future and I’m not going to jail. Sorry to rain on your hater parade. I did nothing wrong.
The sentencing memo and the article cited seem to be parsing that as:
[I’m] definitely not going to jail. [I’m] sorry[, but] I have blonde hair, white skin, a great job, [and] a great future, and [that means that] I’m not going to jail. [I’m] sorry to rain on your hater parade. I did nothing wrong.
I think a more likely parsing is:
[I’m] definitely not going to jail. [I’m] sorry [that] I have blonde hair, white skin, a great job, a great future, and [that] I’m not going to jail. [I’m] sorry to rain on your hater parade. I did nothing wrong.
Just gramatically, that makes more sense to me. But, this is very much not a hill I want to die on. Either way, she is very much a stupid MFer.
Also from the sentencing memo:
In the midst of a riot meant to disrupt the certification of a presidential election, the defendant chose to promote her real estate business, boasting that “I will f***ing sell your house.”
I…I just…I can’t even…what the actual fuck?!
Hey, she can hook up and make a team with Melanie’s anti-Bully campaign.
A quick Google check says that (GASP!) Twitter is ignorant. It varies from state to state. In some states she wouldn’t be able to get a license but in others it would be fine.
In Texas, specifically, it depends on the crime. Here’s a blog discussing it:
The crime she committed was a misdemeanor and specifically is “parading in the Capitol”. My guess is that the Texas Real Estate Commission wouldn’t even bat an eye at that one.
I had a suspicion, but wasn’t feeling up to the research. Thanks for confirming my doubts.