Sean Davis
@seanmdav
Under Twitter’s current policy, the terrorist Ayatollah of Iran can threaten genocide against the only Jewish country on earth, while the President of the United States of America is banned from linking to a story in an American newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801.

Josh Hawley
@HawleyMO
.@Twitter @jack this is not nearly good enough. In fact, it’s a joke. It’s downright insulting. I will ask you - and @Facebook - to give an explanation UNDER OATH to the Senate subcommittee I chair. These are potential violations of election law, and that’s a crime.

The Russian collusion hoax has fallen apart more every day. And we haven’t heard a word of comment from any of the people responsible for pushing it and helping fracture this country.

Saagar Enjeti
@esaagar
Biden campaign responds to the NY Post story. Critically they only say that such a meeting never took place and do not challenge the veracity of the emails or photos

Someone want to tell Facebook?

Abigail Marone 🇺🇸
@abigailmarone
🚨📩 INBOX —> @TeamTrump statement on Biden response to NY Post Bombshell:

“The Biden campaign does not dispute the authenticity of the emails published by the New York Post, which serves to confirm that they are real,” says @TimMurtaugh

Andrew Surabian
@Surabees
It's amazing how fast the press transforms into the Biden Rapid Response Team the moment a damaging story on him comes out. Instead of spinning for Joe, how about doing your job as a journalist & demanding he answers some on the record questions & let voters judge for themselves?

Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheney
Replying to @kyledcheney
Again, stipulating that the suspect email is real, there's literally nothing in it that says Joe Biden met with a Burisma adviser.

"The opportunity to meet," may just as easily have meant Hunter promised a meeting in the future that may never have occurred. //

David Harsanyi
@davidharsanyi
Most of these people are just Biden bodymen, nothing more.

Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
No one should link to or share that NY Post 'report'. You can discuss the obvious flaws and unanswerable questions in the report without amplifying what appears to be disinformation.

Twitter suspended the Trump campaign’s account Thursday after the social media team posted a video that labeled Joe Biden a liar for his dishonesty about his knowledge of his son’s business dealings, which the New York Post revealed on Wednesday after obtaining a copy of one of Hunter Biden’s alleged hard drives.

“Twitter has suspended ⁦@TeamTrump for posting a video calling Joe Biden a liar who has been ripping off our country for years, as it relates to the ⁦@nypost article. 19 days out from the election,” wrote Mike Hahn, Director of Social Media for the Trump campaign.

Catherine Herridge
@CBS_Herridge
SCOOP: A person familiar with the matter tells @CBSNews that Bruce Ohr is no longer working at DOJ. He resigned the day before he was going to be terminated by DOJ over his conduct cited in IG Horowitz report. Ohr was faulted for becoming a kind of backchannel linking dossier

#More Bruce Ohr departure first reported @CBSNews from DOJ Spox Kerri Kupec: “Bruce Ohr retired from the Department of Justice on September 30, 2020. As such, he is no longer an employee of the Department. Mr. Ohr retired after his counsel was informed that a final decision on a disciplinary review being conducted by Department senior career officials was imminent.” IG faulted Ohr for being a backchannel linking dossier author Christopher Steele to the FBI after Steele's termination by Bureau. Ohr’s wife worked for firm behind dossier, Fusion-GPS. //

In the end, the deep state won. The Senate stonewalled until it as too late, the DOJ has produced nothing, and those who helped perpetuate a scandal much larger than Watergate ever dreamed of being will end up with book deals and more cable news hits. Ohr should be going to jail for what he did, but we don’t live under a just system at this point. It is what it is.

Reagan Battalion
@ReaganBattalion
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Leaked audio of @NYGovCuomo admitting that the new COVID lockdowns in New York (targeting Orthodox Jews only) is not based on any science or medical expertise, but rather in his words is a “fear based response.”

Is it illegal to rack the slide of a pistol in order to issue a threat?
Miyamoto Musashi, the legendary swordsman, said something that you might find beneficial. It goes something like this:

“If a man insults you and you feel he must die for his insult, draw your sword and cut him down. If you simply want to humble him but not kill him, keep both your tongue and your sword sheathed for only a fool communicates his intent before he acts.”

Now, to your question:

In most localities, I believe it is illegal. It’s also stupid. If you are carrying, you should have a round in the chamber because violence happens quickly and adding extra movements- especially with the adrenaline dump that often happens when shit goes down- could get you killed. Remember that, in most cases, people experience that dreaded adrenaline dump and lose their coordination among other things.

Do not brandish it to threaten- that’s called “menacing” in many locations. If you are going to draw your firearm, do so because you couldn’t leave safely after the other person showed his/her intent, means, and had the opportunity to do it. At this point, you are drawing to stop a threat from which you cannot safely escape. If the aggressor then moves forward, drop him like a bad habit. It is generally considered self-defense.

If you do, you must be able to clearly articulate “why” you did it, though, or you’re in for a lot of trouble.

Just for fun, let’s say you “rack your slide” to cycle a round and the object of your intimidation tactic is carrying concealed. While you’re showing off, he shoots you and you have a new anus in the middle of your forehead. That’s a terrible reason to die, don’t you think? Getting your head ventilated because you were showing off to intimidate?

On a more calm note, though, I’ve found that when I’ve had to draw (I’m one of those concealed carry folks), the weapon itself is usually enough to change someone’s mind- predators like easy targets and have no desire to get hurt for a number of reasons including that being injured then makes them prey to other predators. I had that experience with a young man not too long ago who apparently thought my Cocker Spaniel and me were an easy target.