California is heading down a ruinous path after the state's Democratic state legislators and governor implemented Covid-19 shutdowns and restrictions that killed tens of thousands of businesses.

The state is going to ruin my life. I was raised in a small town in California, but all the small businesses were there. He said on the club random show that he had lost his mind.

According to the New York Times, 40,000 small businesses in California would have closed by September 2020. Nearly a third of California's restaurants permanently closed and two-thirds of workers at least temporarily lost their jobs as the first statewide lockdown was imposed a year prior, according to a state legislative committee report.

The four-time Super Bowl champion and four-time Most Valuable Player has gained attention for speaking out against vaccine mandates and other restrictive Covid-era policies implemented in blue states, though he doesn't identify with either party and called himself a "rational thinker."

Rodgers criticized a piece of California legislation that would allow the state medical board to penalize doctors who are deemed to have disseminated Covid-19 misinformation, either by designating them as "unprofessional" or by revocation of their license.

Rodgers asked if it was based on the standard of misinformation.

The quarterback has a stance on the abortion issue as well as Covid-19 prevention.

I have an issue with hypocrisy in society, but abortion has been a hot topic, right? After the decision was made to overturn and send the case back to the states. He doesn't think the government should have control over what we do with our bodies.

Rodgers ridiculed his home state's Covid-19 measures as irrational and counter productive, pointing to an incident in which a paddle boarder was arrested in Malibu for violating the state's lock down.

The beach in California was closed. He told Rogan that the beaches where he lives were closed.

California's progressive leaders, such as Newsom, who was caught at the French Laundry in 2020 while the state's residents were subject to strict social distance and masking rules, were called out by Rodgers.

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