Remember all the way back to November of last year, when there was great enthusiasm for New York Democratic mayoral candidate Eric Adams for not being insane? Granted, after Bill de Blasio, lots of people look sane by comparison, but Adams, an ex-cop, was widely hailed for condemning the “defund the police” madness, and for beating a variety of truly loony left types in the Democratic primary before beating Republican Curtis Sliwa in the general. His victory in deep blue NYC was seen as proof that even liberal bastions were tired of rising crime and the loony left’s antics.
That honeymoon didn’t last long.
First he announced that he was keeping de Blasio’s unconstitutional vaccine mandate for private employers.
Next he announced he was hiring his own brother to head his security detail at a hefty $210,000 of taxpayer money.
The mayor, who said on Sunday that white supremacy and “anarchists” are on the rise, suggested that he can trust no one in the Police Department as much as he can his own kin.
(rolls eye) Yes, new York City is such a well-known nexus of “white supremacy.”
“Personal security — my life, my life — I want in the hands of my brother with his 20-year law enforcement experience,” Mr. Adams said. “He has the police experience, but he also has the personal experience. He knows his brother, and he’s going to keep his brother safe.”
Nepo, meet Tism.
Now Adams is forcing vegetarianism down children’s throats.
New York City public school students are getting a taste of life under the new Adams administration. Starting this week, city schools will debut “Vegan Fridays” with an inaugural meal of veggie tacos, broccoli, and carrot and lemon salad.
The city is phasing in the shift and plans to offer cheese sandwiches as a backup; officials said non-vegan items will be available by request. One school indicated that vegan breakfasts will consist of bagels and jelly, and cereal. Beverages appear to be exempt from the new rule, and milk will still be offered.
Adams, a proud and vocal vegan, promised to make school meals, which are free to the 930,000 students, healthier during his mayoral campaign.
“Plant-based options in schools means healthy eating and healthy living, and improving the quality of life for thousands of New York City students,” he said in a statement.
Adams supported a pilot project in Brooklyn that became the basis for citywide Meatless Mondays in 2019. Meatless Fridays followed last spring.
So much for “normal.” This sort of crankiness on the left is so long-ingrained that George Orwell noted it about some of his fellow socialists all the way back in 1937:
One day this summer I was riding through Letchworth when the bus stopped and two dreadful-looking old men got on to it. They were both about sixty, both very short, pink, and chubby, and both hatless. One of them was obscenely bald, the other had long grey hair bobbed in the Lloyd George style. They were dressed in pistachio-coloured shirts and khaki shorts into which their huge bottoms were crammed so tightly that you could study every dimple. Their appearance created a mild stir of horror on top of the bus. The man next to me, a commercial traveller I should say, glanced at me, at them, and back again at me, and murmured ‘Socialists’, as who should say, ‘Red Indians’. He was probably right-—the I.L.P. [Independent Labor Party] were holding their summer school at Letchworth. But the point is that to him, as an ordinary man, a crank meant a Socialist and a Socialist meant a crank. Any Socialist, he probably felt, could be counted on to have something eccentric about him. And some such notion seems to exist even among Socialists themselves. For instance, I have here a prospectus from another summer school which states its terms per week and then asks me to say ‘whether my diet is ordinary or vegetarian’. They take it for granted, you see, that it is necessary to ask this question. This kind of thing is by itself sufficient to alienate plenty of decent people. And their instinct is perfectly sound, for the food-crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in hopes of adding five years on to the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.
Even “sane” Democrats turned out to be loony tunes leftists once they get into power.
Tags: Crime, Democrats, Eric Adams, New York City, Social Justice Warriors, vegans
“I have here a prospectus from another summer school which states its terms per week and then asks me to say ‘whether my diet is ordinary or vegetarian’. They take it for granted, you see, that it is necessary to ask this question.”
Today they’d ask for your pronouns too.
We shake our heads and mock this sort of idiocy, but the unpleasant reality is that it is taken seriously by huge numbers (I dare say a majority) of our electorate. Adams, after all, won. So did Larry Krasner (twice), Kim Foxx, George Gascon, Kim Gardner, and Keith Ellison. California voters are fine with Gavin Newsom, and OK with thefts of $950 a day. 59% of Democrats think COVID non-vaccinated individuals should be held in concentration camps.
We’re not voting our way out of this.
370H55V says: We’re not voting our way out of this.
Yup, we are truly screw.
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Regarding all those Dems who “won”, given the shenanigans in ’20 and the long, and well-deserved, reputation they have for electoral fraud, I have to wonder if *any* Dems have honestly won an election in my lifetime.
In fairness, I think he should be cut some slack for hiring his brother for his security detail head–his brother appears qualified–even if Adams is paranoid about white supremacy in NYC.
But the rest of his actions are pure nonsense.
A “healthy” vegan breakfast of a bagel and jelly, packed with empty carbs and refined sugars.
A “taco” filled with processed soy products brimming with phytoestrogens, just what every growing boy needs.
Two words: “Bitch tits.”
This is not a healthy diet for children, or anyone else. As if kids weren’t fat enough already.
Vegans are crazy evil.