KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: What To Do About Media’s Horrible 2020 Election Malpractice. “We need to begin exploring bigger, louder, and harsher ways of exposing the vile pathological liars in the MSM. There can be no letting up. Should Grandpa Gropes make it to the White House, they no doubt will be emboldened and double-down on their truth-free ways.”

OH: Rules for strong passwords don’t work, researchers find. Here’s what does. “In an experiment, users created passwords on a system that simply required them to enter 10 characters. Then the system rated the passwords with the lab’s password strength meter and gave tailored suggestions for stronger passwords. Test subjects were able to come up with secure passwords that they could recall up to five days later. It worked better than showing users preset lists of rules or simply banning known bad passwords.”

COLD WAR II: Chinese embassy in Brazil hits back as Brasilia joins America’s ‘Clean Network.’

China’s embassy in Brazil has hit back at comments made by a senior US official, after Brasilia this week became the latest signatory to an American deal to block Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co. from foreign nations’ 5G networks.

“What the US calls ‘clean networks’ is discrimination, exclusionary and political,” the mission said in a statement released on Thursday.

It came after Brazil on Wednesday signed up to the US-led “Clean Network” proposal, which has already attracted support in dozens of other countries.

Taking flak, must be over the target.

THE FIRST DRAFT OF HISTORY: Every MSM Outlet: Postal Voting Fraud Whistleblower Recants! Whistleblower: No I Didn’t!

BEWARE THE GOVERNMENT-TECHNOLOGY COMPLEX: Biden tapped several Big Tech staffers for his transition team. “A number of Obama staffers got tech jobs during Trump’s term. Now they’re back.”

KRUISER: Republicans Need to Win Both GA Runoffs for Senate Majority That’s Outside the Margin of Romney.

The best thing one might possibly say about a hypothetical Biden Administration is that Romney would join it and open up his senate seat for an actual Republican to fill.

WELL, GOOD: Joe Manchin Eviscerates the Far-Left’s Hopes on Court-Packing and AOC Is Not Happy.

UM, PHRASING: Oregon Grants COVID Relief Funds to Strippers, Lap Dancers, Hookers ‘Who Are Falling Through the Cracks.’

BREAKING: Huge Legal Victory for President Trump in Pennsylvania.

FLASHBACK: Joe Biden Agreed With Voter Who Called Trump an ‘Illegitimate’ President.

HMM: Are Democrats Cornered in Illinois? “One of the most surprising results of the 2020 election was the defeat, in Illinois, of a state constitutional amendment to permit a progressive income tax. The Graduated Income Tax Amendment would have eliminated the Illinois constitutional requirement that tax rates remain flat across incomes. Its defeat is likely the most important political event for the state since I moved here 18 years ago. The proposed change in the state constitution was an effort by the dominant Democratic Party to continue its model of high taxes and high spending to support the base of its political muscle—public-sector unions. The party retains control of the legislature and the governor’s office, but it is politically cornered. Legislatively, it faces a choice between a reform agenda that would undermine its political base or a substantial tax increase on every working citizen.”

Any tax hike big enough to cover Illinois black hole of debt and unfunded liabilities would likely worsen the ongoing exodus from Illinois, particularly among high-income earners. In other words, the expected revenues would never materialize.

Reform is the only way out, and the least likely for Democrats to pursue.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: John Cusack’s Sad Decline, Explained. “The ’80s teen star’s career sank in the Age of Trump with little sign of recovery.”

DEM CIVIL WAR: Democrats’ Shellacking Was So Bad, Pelosi Should Resign, AOC’s Former Chief Says.

IS THERE NOTHING JOE BIDEN CAN’T DO? Dr. Fauci Says Coronavirus ‘Won’t Be A Pandemic For Much Longer.’

SQUAD GOALS: Ayanna Pressley To Mass. Gov: Empty The Jails. “As a spokesperson for the Governor noted in his response, Massachusetts has already paroled and released hundreds of prisoners who were convicted of nonviolent crimes well ahead of schedule. They’ve already reached the point where the majority of people still behind bars are there for serious, violent offenses and/or pose a significant risk of recidivism.”

RECYCLING: The Plan to Turn Scrapped Rockets Into Space Stations.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. President Trump Is Simply Following Hillary Clinton’s Advice.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Hello President Biden, Goodbye Lower- and Middle-Class Wage Growth.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What’s it take to undo three years of wage growth for the people who hadn’t seen any since the late 20th Century?

Answer: Joe Biden’s signature.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Agreeing with the mob is no defense.
• BuzzFeed generates an entirely new buzz.
• That time even Vox argued that elections are rigged.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

PAYBACK: Rankin promotes introducing wolves to Boulder and Jefferson Counties. “Republican State Sen. Bob Rankin plans to put forth a bill in the Colorado General Assembly that would introduce an equal number of gray wolves into Boulder and Jefferson Counties as Proposition 114 will in Moffat County.”

Previously: Wolf introduction narrowly approved; urban vote decides for rural Colorado.

ZOOMING OFF INTO THE SUNSET: Jeffrey Toobin Fired From The New Yorker.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: House Democrats Are the Biggest Losers of 2020 Election. “It’s quite rich that Tlaib is claiming that the Democrats are trying to silence her and her progressive gal pals, as that’s the thing that House leadership has most failed at doing when it comes to them. Pelosi probably crawls into her box of Franzia every night just trying to get away from the sound of their voices.”

DAVID HARSANYI COMES OUT Against ‘Unity.’ “What ‘unity’ really means, of course, is capitulation. America is once again being subjected to the inane brand of pseudo-patriotic sloganeering we saw during the Obama years. Now, as then, the media will pretend that the moral fabric of the nation must be mended after Republican rule. It’s pretty transparent. When Democrats win the presidency, we are treated to solemn calls for national restoration and political harmony, and to the expectation that, for the good of the nation, the opposition will embrace decorum and pass legislation they oppose. When Republicans win elections, grown women put on knitted hats depicting their reproductive organs and stomp around Washington protesting, all to a hero’s welcome.”

‘POST-TRUMP?’ KEEP DREAMING, USA TODAY: Parler, MeWe, Gab gain momentum as conservative social media alternatives in post-Trump age.

Win or lose, Trump and his 72 million voters aren’t going away.

RULE BY DECREE: Biden Likely Would Issue Flurry of Executive Orders on Climate, Abortion, Immigration.

BECAUSE THEY CAN: Why Twitter Won’t Let People Share Sworn Court Documents Alleging Voter Fraud.

These people put their names and necks on the line in coming forward in our charged political environment. A court will now determine whether their claims are sufficient to merit adjudication.

Twitter, on the other hand, is in no position to do so. Yet after my tweet started circulating widely, suddenly the purported non-publisher stepped in and made its own ruling: “This claim about election fraud is disputed.”

It slapped this flag on the tweet. Retweets meet a warning. One can now only share the tweet by adding text responding to it.

The Internet: “Information wants to be free.”

Social Media: “Information is what we say it is.”