I can’t help but think of the high profile rats have gotten in Mayor Adams’s tenure. Meet the Rat Czar, who addresses herself to the manifestation of rattus rattus (Public Enemy #1)** as “becoming-rat”:

Mayor Adams Anoints Kathleen Corradi as NYC’s First-Ever ‘Rat Czar’

Mayor Adams Anoints Kathleen Corradi as NYC’s First-Ever ‘Rat Czar’

** Actually it might be billionaires who pay an average of 8.2% federal taxes, due to making a vast amount of their income from investments.