Bears at Chiefs - Week 3 - Record: 2-1 - Second Take

Everyone is abuzz about the main thing related to the Chiefs game yesterday, besides the Chiefs quickly regaining the top spot in the AFC West standings for yet another time.

You know what it is.

The Taylor-Travis buzzorama.

I am not going spend more than about four seconds mentioning it. It is all over the place in replays, reviews, remarks, and the ginormous number of memes spewed into the cybersphere.

Thing is, as splendidly splendid as all of this is, I don't know what is going on with Kelce and his now stratospherically elevated stature. It was pretty high before, but this is ridiculous.

The main thing that gets me is he recently appeared in a Covid "vaccine" advertisement, encouraging people to get this wretched injection. He is now just one of the most celebrated parts of the narrative this Covid thing and that Covid thing when all it has done -- the whole thing, the lockdowns and the shots and the distancing and the flat-out discrimination -- is utterly wreck people's lives and livelihoods.

I could add volumes and volumes about the actual true real reality of the Covid situation, and it is indeed heartbreaking to see Kelce hawking this snake oil.

But you know? For one, he is just a prominently featured member of the whole NFL thing, and the NFL thing is just as much a part of the hegemonic mythology makers as anything. It may be reasonably assumed that just about every footballer got the shot or else they'd face the NFLers' wrath, and those few conscientious objectors like Aaron Rodgers wouldn't have been treated like a such pariahs. 

So what of it? Kelce is just a part of the System.

For two, it indeed makes me wrestle with my own emotionally-packed commitment to my own fine young football team, I've said this a number of times, there is a very unhealthy and hopefully very small part of my psyche that genuinely feels I don't care if he's a convicted serial killer, I hope he scores a hundred touchdowns for my team.

Of course, right now there are too many who don't give a rip about the drug, they just want to wallow in the Swiftie spectacle.

This is kind of amazing: just now I saw a television commercial at the two-minute warning of the Rams-Bengals' first half, here on the Monday Night Football game.

It was for -- oh my, it was for the power of institutionally influenced tobacco addiction. The showcased group was "Undo," with the website undo.org I believe it was -- simply to let you know about how much you should break yourself of the habit of smoking or vaping or whatever those things are.

Meanwhile all the Covid protocol poisoning is perfectly fine. All the utterly wicked gambling activity fully sanctioned by these sports leagues -- perfectly fine. All the racialist filth about how intractably racist you must be, that's all perfectly fine.

The irony.

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The photo of Travis Kelce is from the AP website. Thank you. The cartoon was just clipped from the wonderful "Memes to Make Your Day" page over at Off-Guardian.

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