Seth Moulton is a Congressman from Massachusetts.  He also served in the United States Marine Corps and was deployed to Iraq.

He did a town hall on CNN.  The topic of gun control and the Virginia Beach shooing came up.

He decided to get stupid on the topic of suppressors.

Democrat presidential candidate Seth Moulton suggests American’s freedoms should be limited based on need: “We should not have suppressors, you don’t need a suppressor, I mean that’s, that’s something like, you know, assassins need to use” pic.twitter.com/sGmOQz5Su6

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) June 2, 2019

This is lying bullshit from a guy who knows better.  The military has been issuing suppressors for years, including to  Marines.

Then he says this.

Democrat presidential candidate Seth Moulton calls for banning “weapons of war” and says he will declare a national emergency or use executive action to strip Americans of their 2nd Amendment rights

“Weapons of war” is code for semi-automatic firearms pic.twitter.com/29vAXQyOZu

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) June 2, 2019

See, he carried actual automatic weapons in Iraq, given to him by the United States Marine Corps, and swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.  Now that he’s home and wants to be President, he’s going to use that knowledge and experience to deny you the right to have a gun that looked like the one he had in Iraq by executive fiat.

Fuck this guy.

His military experience is not an justification to deny other Americans their civil rights.

If he is going to use his time in the Marines to gut the Constitution of the Unites States, he can shove his military experience up his oath violating ass.

It’s a lovely Sunday morning in Huntsville, so we decided it would be perfect to mow the lawn.

I have NEVER been able to get an OSHA approved safety gas can to fill up the lawnmower without spilling gas everywhere.  Not to mention just how frustrating it is to try and use one of those.  Insert spigot, push down, still doesn’t dispense, have it slip and spray gas, try again…

I have to break federal law and take the spigot off and use a plastic fuel funnel and I don’t spill a drop.

They have regulated my gas can into being so safe on paper it’s a fucking hazard to use in real life.

If federal bureaucrats can make pouring gas into a lawnmower a dangerous, messy nightmare, why should they be allowed to touch anything more complicated?

Yeah, that’s what I think too.

Third time is a charm.

This happened Thursday, but I just caught wind of it today.

From the Brooklyn Eagle:

After 7-year push, ‘gravity knives’ are decriminalized

After seven years and two previous vetoes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday signed a bill decriminalizing so-called “gravity knives” in New York.

The bill, unanimously passed three times by the state Legislature, legalizes the possession of folding knives of the type sold in hardware stores across the city. The vast majority of people arrested for carrying the common knives have been black and Latino men, many who use the tools in their work.

The bill was sponsored by Assemblymember Dan Quart, of Manhattan, and state Sen. Diane Savino, who represents parts of Bay Ridge and Coney Island.

Quart was ecstatic on Thursday.

“The third time really is the charm,” he said in a statement. “After seven years, we have finally managed to overhaul New York’s outdated and discriminatory pocket knife ban. No stage hand, no plumber, and no carpenter should have to risk their freedom to carry a tool they need for work.”

It should be pointed out that Quart and Savino are both Democrats, and that the state legislature passed the bill unanimously.

Cuomo explained his change of heart by saying the ‘legal landscape has changed.’

No fucking shit, the legal landscape has changed.  The news on this topic, Left, Right, Center, and Libertarian all kept pointing out that this law was used to arrest mostly working-class Brown and Black men in NYC who carry knives for work.  Even the fucking unions wanted this overturned.  So did the ALCU and Brooklyn Public Defenders union.  It would be hard for Cuomo to keep going against the desires of so many groups that he needs to back him up on other things.

He was “constrained to veto similar bills” in 2016 and 2017, Cuomo said, because of the “uniform opposition of the state’s law enforcement entities and mayors.” This included Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O’Neill, who were dealing with an uptick in slashings and stabbings in 2016, especially around clubs and bars on weekends.

That’s a load of bullshit.  De Blasio is a commie tyrant and the NYPD police commissioner loves easy arrests to boost numbers.  These stabbings had nothing to do with access to work knives and everything to do with a lack of police patrols and easing up on enforcement.

In March, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York declared the state’s existing “gravity knife” ban unconstitutional. The court reasoned that the existing law could result in arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.

Oh yeah, and there was that too.

It’s a good thing that Cuomo signed the bill into law before a Federal court put his balls in a vice.

From Gothamist:

Cuomo Signs Bill To End ‘Absurd’ Gravity Knife Ban That He Supported For Years

So, what’s changed? The legal landscape, according to Cuomo. Specifically, the governor cited a federal court ruling this past March that found the law to be unconstitutionally vague. In that decision, Manhattan U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty harshly criticized the unreliable “wrist-flick test”—an imprecise standard used by both the NYPD and Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance to see whether the folding knives require force to open.

“While I remain aware of the cautious community voices, I cannot veto a bill passed by the Legislature to address a decided constitutional infirmity in existing law, as recently affirmed by a federal court,” Cuomo said.

His balls in a vice.

Advocates and elected officials celebrated the reversal, while at the same time wondering why the governor spent so long upholding a ban that he now deems “absurd.”

Because he’s a fucking tyrant who thinks he’s the inherited the right to sit upon the Empire State Throne.

“As someone who was arrested and spent time in jail for carrying a knife I used as a construction worker, I think this law should have been repealed long ago,” said Mark Moses, a community leader with VOCAL-NY, in a statement. “That said, I’m glad the Governor finally signed this law so that others coming up behind me don’t need to go through what happened to me.”

True that.

Now all we have to do is wait for the Supreme Court to do the same to New York with its gun laws.

I think next gubernatorial election, a Republican should run on the promise to vacate the convictions of all those convicted of ONLY gravity knife possession.

Really stick it to Cuomo on his way out.

If you have Amazon Prime Video, you have to go enjoy Good Omens.  It is  a very nice light comedy mini series with an interesting theme: Good and Evil must get together to fight… Good and Evil.

Go forth and binge.

As reported in Mother Jones:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Gave a Passionate Speech About Why Housing is a Human Right
“Our access and our guarantee to having a home comes before someone else’s privilege to earn a profit.”

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke with New Yorkers about her efforts in Congress to increase access to affordable housing at a town hall in the Bronx Thursday evening. Housing, she says, should be legislated as a human right. “What does that mean? It means that our access and our guarantee to having a home comes before someone else’s privilege to earn a profit,” said Ocasio-Cortez.

You know where else access to housing was guaranteed over the ability to make a profit?

The Soviet Union.

The problem was, building guaranteed housing was expensive so corners were cut.

Building were just concrete slab construction with exposed plumbing (that often didn’t work), exposed gas lines, and frequently exposed wiring.

They were cold in the winter, hot in the summer, cramped and miserable.

But they were guaranteed

Life inside a Kiev Khrushchyovka: Soviet architecture in Ukraine
An insight into one family’s everyday life in a Soviet-era housing block in Kiev.

Square and simple. Red bricks. Five flights of stairs. No elevator. Branches and dry leaves climb along the facades, between balconies. The structures are drab, dreary, bleak, dilapidated. They all look the same.

The bulk of the Ukrainian capital’s housing stock dates from the times of Soviet leaders Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Leonid Brezhnev. These housing blocks – containing dozens of apartments with four to six square-metre kitchens, thin brick walls, midget hallways and one to three rooms – are known as Khrushchyovkas and represent a big percentage of total housing in Kiev today: 3,055 buildings that include some 211,512 apartments.

These apartments were known as Khrushchyovka, meaning Khrushchev’s slums.

Words do not do justice to how bad these places are.

Here are some videos from inside these Khrushchyovka:

So no room, no privacy, no quality of life, tiny cramped miserable places for people to live.

As a member of the Democrat Politburo, she will have her luxury apartment in New York and Washington and have her Dacha out in the Hamptons.

You and I, however, will have to accept our fate to live in a 500 sq-ft concrete block Ocasiyovka, because housing is our right.  It will be terrible, but at least nobody will make a profit.