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.”

CORN, POPPED: Nancy Pelosi’s Indecisiveness on Socialism Is the Beginning of the End of the Democrats’ Civil War.

VIDEO: Biden Promised Not To Declare Victory Until Election Is Independently Certified.

TODAY AT 3:30PM EASTERN: VIP Gold Live Chat with VodkaPundit, Kruiser, and Preston.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Voting for Joe Biden Won’t Save You From the Mob.

WELL, WAPO: Washington Post Lies: Postal Whistleblower Did Not Recant.

YOUR CREDENTIALED CLASS AT WORK: NYT reporter calls 4 accurate articles ‘right wing misinformation.’ Gets called out, admits they’re ‘factually accurate’ … but says they’re still ‘misinformation.’

KRUISER: Trump Needs to Troll Dems With 2024 Run if He Loses.

WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT EXPERTS? ‘Unusually high call volume’? You’re being lied to, say experts.

When you get the same recording every time you call, there’s nothing “unusual” about it.

BILL WHITTLE: The Stolen Election, Part One — AMERICAN PRAVDA.

HAVE WE FINALLY TURNED THE CORNER ON 2020? ‘Murder hornet’ nest with nearly 200 queens destroyed ‘in the nick of time.’

BLUE STATE BLUES: New Tax in New Jersey May Drive NASDAQ to Homestead in Texas.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: What If They Held a Biden Inaugural and Nobody But Trump Fans Came?

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What’s a perfectly radical Portland City Council member supposed to do after a busy day of defunding and demoralizing her local police?

Answer: Call them up to settle a petty dispute with her Lyft driver, of course.

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

• Nancy Pelosi won’t denounce socialism, probably because she doesn’t want to be the first with her back up against the wall.
• Team Biden worries Republicans might outnumber Democrats at their guy’s (hypothetical) inauguration.
• AOC introduces the Bolshevik media guide for a “peaceful” transition.

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

PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOULD MAKE THESE AN ANNUAL EVENT: Taiwan Announces Military Exercises With U.S. Marines. “Amphibious joint exercises between U.S. Marine Raiders and the Taiwanese Marine Corps began in Taiwan this week and were described as ‘routine’ by Taiwan’s Naval Command, the first admission of direct Taiwanese-American military cooperation since 1979, according to Newsweek. Taiwanese soldiers will receive a month of amphibious training under the U.S. Marines.”

HMM: Despite State GOP Claims To The Contrary, Georgia Is Ripe For Election Fraud. “The presidential election might come down to Georgia, where years of subtle changes have been chipping away at election security in the state.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Weakened Pelosi May Not Survive as Speaker In 2021. “House Democrats may want a change simply because its upper echelon is getting a little long in the tooth. Pelosi is 80, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is 81, and House Majority Whip James Clyburn is 80. There might be some energetic septuagenarian whippersnappers over there ready to take their places.”

“Party of youth.”

THIS IS MSNBC: MSNBC Host Joy Reid Takes Heat for False Election Claims.

IT’S TELLING THAT IT’S CONSERVATIVES LOOKING FOR FREE SPEECH NETWORKS: Trump Supporters Flock to ‘Free Speech’ Platforms After Facebook Ban.

CHANGE: US plans sale of F-35 fighter jets to UAE in $23B arms deal.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he had authorized the sale in keeping with the administration’s Middle East peace efforts. The notification to lawmakers follows the signing of the Abraham Accords between Israel, Bahrain and the UAE, under which the Arab states have agreed to normalize relations with Israel.

“This is in recognition of our deepening relationship and the UAE’s need for advanced defense capabilities to deter and defend itself against heightened threats from Iran,” Pompeo said in a statement.

Israeli officials have previously expressed some concern about an F-35 sale because it could affect the balance of military power in the region. But Pompeo said it would be “fully consistent” with the longstanding policy of maintaining Israel’s qualitative military advantage.

The sale, worth up to $23.37 billion, includes 50 F-35s, 18 advanced armed drone systems and a package of air-to-air and air-to-ground munitions.

This sale — and the resulting improvement of the Arab world’s defense posture vis-a-vis Iran — wouldn’t be possible without Trump’s “impulsive” Middle East policy.

SURE, BLAME THE VICTIMS OF THE LEFT’S FOUR-YEAR-LONG SMEAR CAMPAIGN: Why were the polls so far off again? Trump voters are near impossible to predict.

THIS IS CNN: Van Jones Breaks Down in Tears Over His Own Fever Dreams When CNN Declares Biden President-Elect.

THE WEEK IS YOUNG: MSNBC’s Joy Reid Just Made Her Most Embarrassing Gaffe Yet

OH: Yikes! State Department Precedent Qualifies This 2020 Election as ‘Rigged.’

TYLER O’NEIL: 10 Reasons Pennsylvania’s Election Results May Be ‘Irredeemably Compromised.’

Tyler left out the 11th reason: Democrats.

ELECTION INTEGRITY, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG: Al Gore’s Revenge.

Now, let’s stipulate up-front that Gore’s arguments had some merit. The punch card system in use in Florida was, in fact, problematic. Hanging chads, and to a lesser extent, “pregnant” chads (dimpled, but not fully punched, ballot holes) could reasonably leave voter intent somewhat unclear.

However, the decision to decommission lever machines is another matter. According to an excellent 2012 article by Eliza Shapiro in The Daily Beast

The machine was developed in 1895 by Republic Steel of Ohio, says Ransom Shoup, a descendant of Samuel Shoup, the inventor of the lever voting machine, and the former president of Shoup Voting Solutions. “At one point,” says Shoup, “there were 8,000 machines in New York’s five boroughs. There were machines in 41 states.”

And the lever machines were, most importantly, mechanical. They relied on gears and sprockets to move, in essence, odometers on the back panel of the voting machines that corresponded to candidates’ names on the ballot. No amount of chicanery, short of reworking the entire guts of a machine, could cause the lever machines to generate false results. And, absent the ability of elections workers or other sinister political operatives to enter a machine and cast bogus votes (a near impossibility in a state like New York, which has long provided bipartisan supervision of all aspects of its voting process).

The lever machines did not do the math for you—elections workers (from both major parties) had to take the data off the “odometers” and hand-tabulate the numbers, and then telephone them in to their county’s Board of Elections. There was a slim possibility for mathematical errors, transposing numbers, or even, in those places with non-existent opposition party organizations, perhaps more sinister acts—but the machines were also exceedingly easily audited. And, with elections workers manually signing in voters (and comparing signatures to a published log) the number of votes cast needed to match the number of voters. It was not a fool-proof system, but it was pretty darn close.

Progress ain’t always better — and do read the whole thing.