This has to be the best #nottheonion content I've ever seen.
- "Does Eric eat fish?" Adams said, referring to the primary-eve stakeout of a Brooklyn brownstone apartment he listed as his primary residence despite the refrigerator containing what appeared to be salmon. "Does he eat a hamburger? Does he do this, does he do that?
Hahahhahahah! Good job, NYC, you elected a wackadoo.
There is now War on Cheese fanfic.
Sometimes it's incredibly hard not to be bitter about how far in life utter fuckwits can get.
Right? I mean we're clearly selecting for idiot sociopaths, at this point, and it seems to be getting less partisan.
His perfectly reasonable "Eat more plant-based meals" message is destroyed by having salmon in his fridge? Off-hand misquoting a study he saw years ago?
Um. Okay... if that's the most productive use of those peoples' time and resources, they might want to think of getting another job. A "Rage Influencer" isn't one of the options I saw on career day...
I agree, plant-based meals are great. They're good for you, and they'll help us save the planet. I didn't interpret the article as undermining that message so much as revealing Adams' fairly strange relationship with his diet. Of course, the media exacerbates things by shining a light on any minor dietary hypocrisy.
What matters most are the decisions he makes as mayor, and he hasn't made many yet. But this isn't the first time he's come across as maybe more than a little goofy:
- “When the civil rights battle was on the line, Dr. King wanted the ball in his hands,” Adams told the crowd at Madison Square Garden.
All that said, as anyone from NYC will tell you, hating their mayor is a time-honored tradition. I'm not sure us outsiders are actually allowed to explicitly hate, though, I imagine they wouldn't like that, it's kinda like their thing, or only something they have a right to do, ya know?
But... there isn't even hypocrisy in his statement... he stated the simple - and proven - fact that if most humans switched to mostly plant-based meals, that would do enormous good for the climate.
And that's what he's done... switched to a mostly plant-based diet.
Having a piece of salmon in the fridge doesn't sit outside the logic of that statement or those facts, in any way, shape, or form.
It really tells me more about the journalist than the subject, that they saw this as a newsworthy divergence from the Mayor's really simple message...?
I'm not hating on the mayor or his dietary choices ... just commenting on the fact a writer, editors, and publishers were so myopic to their own biases against the idea of a "mostly plant based diet" that they completely missed the lack of story in there, and had to make up controversy where none existed.
No shade to you or the mayor... just commenting on the quality of "journalism" shown.