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Joe Ricketts hired a P.R. Firm to Make You Like His Son

Instead of issuing a mask mandate or vaccine requirement, Governor Pete Ricketts has decided to throw a pizza party for EMTs, nurses, doctors, firefighters, and … cops? Let’s pretend for a moment that doctors, nurses, and EMTs even have a day off to go fuck off at the park. Does Pete really believe our medical workers would rather have a pizza party than a mask mandate? Free bands rather than responsible leadership? Lemonade instead of a pay raise, a moment to breathe, one day without a crisis in their hospital? Let’s be real though – this event is not for doctors and nurses. It is a P.R. stunt for Pete, and yet another copaganda event sponsored by your local fascists. And not just any fascists: Pete’s dad.

I could write a Stephen King length novel about why everybody hates Pete except (possibly) his dad, but if you are reading this (or live in Nebraska and are not in a COVID-induced coma) you already know why. If you are unsure, just put his name in the search bar on our blog and spend the rest of your day reading about it. As soon as I saw this event pop up, I knew it had to be some sort of PR stunt. So I clicked on the button that said “media contact” and got this.

Kelsey Prichard, head of P.R. for Bozell, claims she is “positively persistent in (her) fact checking“. Excuse me while I LOL myself to death.

What is this Bozell company, I wondered. Well.

Nothing like having the most awkward sentence ever on your website’s landing page. These words don’t even mean anything in that order.

Pete, who believes everything is a business and everyone a customer, got his daddy to hire this P.R. firm to try to salvage his accurate and earned reputation of being a silver spoon asshole who doesn’t care about anyone except himself. And this P.R. firm decided a pizza party with cops was the way to go. How do I know Pete’s daddy paid for it? Look who is the only sponsor of this event:

Also note that even though Pete has declared the pandemic over and everything back to normal, if you get COVID at this event, that is your own damn problem.

Joe Ricketts, whose mind is a rotten hellscape of conspiracy theories, white supremacy, and bison meat, has started his own media company called “Straight Arrow Media” whose tagline is “decide for yourself” (hmmmm sounds familiar). On this website, he helpfully labels the videos and articles as either “liberal opinion” or “conservative opinion” so you don’t have to think about whether that is actually what they are or not. One “explainer” article on the site compares Proud Boys to “Antifa“, calls them both “extremist groups”. Hey pro tip, Joe: if you and the Proud Boys and all the other violent extremist Nazi assholes didn’t exist, there would be no need for “Antifa“. I’m not going to link his website here, but if you are getting your news from Straight Arrow, or if your friends and family are, just know your news is getting shot at you from the bow of a billionaire white supremacist whose goal is to put his idiot son in the White House so he can do to the country what he did to Nebraska. It’s not real news.

Back to Pete’s Pizza Party. The main event of this party is a “tug of war between OFD and OPD” and you will also have the opportunity to “get up close to first responder vehicles”. As someone who has been very up close to “first responder” vehicles more than once directly because of Pete, I am not super interested in this. But this is a great opportunity for the racist, fascist OPD to start indoctrinating the kids who are there for pizza and lemonade.

Listen, if you want to go to this pizza party by all means go and enjoy the food and the bands. But don’t forget this is just a P.R. stunt by Pete’s dad (and also please wear your Fuck Pete Ricketts shirt).

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