Eight years of de Blasio was hell for New York City. He destroyed the city. The anti-cop mayor was replaced by a former police officer. Eric Adams ran on increasing public safety. He wants the anti-crime plainclothes unit back on the streets, which have become shooting galleries after pro-crime city officials have allowed criminality to spread faster than COVID. Adams has a base of support that really isn't grounded in accomplishing what the far-left wants, which is why they didn't like him. The Nation had a lengthy piece about Adams and how he could simply ignore the progressive left should he win. Well, he did. After the ball dropped on New Year's Eve in Times Square, Adams was sworn in as the city's next mayor, and it's off to a rocky start.
I was willing to give Adams some latitude. First, the city will probably not elect a Republican soon. It's just not happening. There are no Rudy Giulianis or Mike Bloombergs waiting in the wings. You might rightfully argue that these two aren't really Republicans. You might be right, but they're the only kind of Republican who can win a mayoral race in New York City. Bloomberg was good for the city. Stop-and-frisk worked. He brought billions in economic activity and investment into the Big Apple. Rudy cleaned it up after a near quarter-century of Wild West-like rule and lawlessness. By 1993, the city was seeing close to 2,000 homicides. It was outrageous. It's deep blue New York. It's New York City. You're not going to get a hardcore Republican in the mayor's office, so a pro-business, pro-police Democrat is what we're going to have to settle on until we do see the second coming of Rudy.
Adams' plainclothes unit should be out there right now. Yet, he also said he wants New Yorkers to go on an all-plant-based diet. What the hell is this? Are white, college-educated liberals hijacking the messaging here because veganism is at the top of the privilege pyramid? There are a great many in this country and elsewhere around the world that simply cannot afford to eat like soy boy urban liberals. Some people will die if they don't eat meat. The late Anthony Bourdain used to shred vegetarians and vegans for being the "Hezbollah" element to any chef.
And now, Adams says that he cannot tell the difference between someone hooked on heroin and someone who is hooked on "cheese." No, I'm not kidding. First, who the hell is addicted to cheese in a way that turns people into strung-out junkies? Seriously? Cheese addiction is a national epidemic, Eric? You're an ex-cop, man. This is stupid. Someone all doped up on heroin is lightyears worse than someone with a hypothetical cheese addiction. It's apocryphal. For starters, maybe cheese addict 1 might have some cholesterol problems, but the heroin addict is facing multiple health crises, multiple organ failure, and obviously death. You're telling me you cannot tell the difference?
I don't even know why I'm asking. This isn't a real comparison (via Business Insider) [emphasis mine]:
Adams, a self-proclaimed vegan who claims to have cured his own diabetes and even reversed blindness he was experiencing in one eye by switching to a plant-based diet, was rolling out new initiatives to encourage New Yorkers "to have as many plant-based meals as possible."
While preparing a bowl of vegan chili in front of City Hall's press corps, Adams veered into a tangent about the addictiveness of certain foods, particularly cheese.
"Food is like a drug," Adams said. "And in fact, the studies show the same level of brain that encourages you to use drugs also addicts you to food.
"Food is addictive," the mayor continued. "You take someone on heroin, put them in one room, and someone hooked on cheese, put 'em in another room, and you take it away, I challenge you to tell me the person who's hooked on heroin and who's hooked on cheese."
Back in 2015, a University of Michigan study was mistakenly cited in a wave of articles claiming "Cheese Is as Addictive as Cocaine" or "Cheese Really Is Crack." Cheese ended up ranking around the middle of a list participants provided researchers when asked which foods were the most difficult to cut down on.
According to the CDC, "overdose deaths from opioids increased to 75,673 in the 12-month period ending in April 2021, up from 56,064 the year before." The federal agency does not track deaths from eating too much cheese.
Because it doesn't happen. This is not a real scenario. This is almost as bad as people believing quack ex-doctor Andrew Wakefield and the insane piece of science fiction that said the MMR vaccine causes autism. Wakefield eventually was stripped of all his medical credentials for his whacko theory. And yet, the people who believed that trash are now die-hard vaccine peddlers who want all of us to get the COVID vaccine. MMR vaccine bad, but COVID vaccine good. That makes no sense, especially since the data won't be released for years.
Democrats are having an issue with their science bona fides. They claim to be the party of science when they're the true tin foil hat brigade. Vaccines cause autism, except the COVID one. Cheese addiction is real, and it's just as bad as heroin addiction. We've gone off the rails here.
I don't think Adams' mayoralty is finished. He'll be the comedy special for a couple of weeks, the butt of many jokes, but he'll survive. At the same time, focus less on veganism and fake addictions, mayor. Clean up the city. Arrest the thugs. Lock them up. Reclaim control of the streets. That should be the number one priority. Not fake cheese junkies who even the federal government can say are dying in droves…because they aren't. They don't exist.
