GLEICHSCHALTUNG: Shopify takes down Trump’s campaign store.

More: Facebook bans Trump for at least remainder of presidency.

We’re witnessing the unpersoning of an American president.

PRIMA DONNA: CNN’s Most Special Flower Jake Tapper Calls Republicans ‘Selfish Dipshits.’

HEINLEIN’S CRAZY YEARS (CONT’D): State and Federal Laws Move To Erase Biology and Women.

COLORADO: Polis doing real damage with COVID response.

Polis’ handling of the nuts-and-bolts of governing in a crisis has deteriorated to the point of earning him the nickname “Controlis” as small business owners facing permanent ruin lash out and parents sour on his approach to school and sports.

Of dubious note, Colorado’s unemployment system is still an epic, historic disaster, as economically displaced Coloradans struggle to navigate the broken bureaucracy run by Gov. Polis, struggling to simply get an unemployment check.

Our governor, a man who famously built a fortune in the technology sector and whom the press frequently casts as an adept technocrat with his hands tightly on the reins of governance, can’t even stand up a website and call center to process unemployment checks.

The results have been devastating. One news account in December noted that, “Colorado’s unemployment system is so overwhelmed that strangers have resorted to helping each other” and described how “forums and online groups have sprung up during the pandemic as the unemployed search for answers they’re not getting from the state Labor Department.”

A broken unemployment system depriving many citizens of a basic social safety net is only the beginning of Jared Polis’ leadership failures.

What a mess.

#UNITY: Doubling Down on Division: Joe Biden Uses Capitol Riot to Demonize Trump’s Entire Presidency.

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

I suspect the drinks will be stronger than usual.

FROM TWITTER’S “WHAT’S HAPPENING” SIDEBAR:

So now they’ll use the I-word.

PRIVACY: Upcoming Apple privacy update has developers desperately seeking dodges.

Early in 2021, an iPhone update will prevent apps from using advertising identifiers known as IDFA without obtaining each user’s explicit consent for targeting. Developers expect more than two-thirds of users will block tracking when they see a popup appear within their apps.

Some app makers say they plan to use invasive tracking techniques such as “device fingerprinting” to work around the new restrictions—even though doing so risks getting them thrown off the App Store if they are caught.

“100 percent, everyone will try doing fingerprints, whether Apple enforces their rules or not,” one mobile games developer said.

If your business model requires hiding your business model from your own customers, maybe your business model sucks.

INDEED: Too Much Stupid To Process. “It takes a special kind of stupid to let Democrats steal two senate seats and a senate majority exactly the same way they stole Georgia’s electoral votes, but Georgia’s GOP establishment seems to have just that kind of stupid.”

KOWTOWING: The Economist Refers To Chinese Businessman Disappearance As ‘Regulation’ And ‘Boosting Competition.’

CHARLES LIPSON: This is not what a constitutional republic looks like. “The scale and symbolic significance of this attack are new and profoundly troubling. But it is also the culmination of several disturbing trends. For months now, we have witnessed a degradation of public order — mobs roaming city streets, unpunished; an effort to take over and firebomb a federal courthouse in Portland, unpunished; delegates attacked on the streets of Washington after the Republican convention, unpunished. And now this, far worse than anything that came before.”

THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: Kamala Harris Called Riots ‘a Movement’ Last Summer, Said ‘They Should Not’ Stop.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Welcome to Banana Republic, USA.

“It could be worse,” Igor told Dr. Frederick Frankenstein. “It could be raining.”

And the violence could be worse: Trump could have (and probably actually did) win the election. As Glenn Reynolds asked earlier this morning, “Does anyone think there wouldn’t have been riots if Trump had been declared the winner?”

Of course there would have been.

The Left has put on a four-year-long temper tantrum in response to Trump’s 2016 victory, culminating with them turning 2020 into the worst year of riots since 1968. Worse was the running coup attempt against Trump that began before he was even sworn into office.

“He egged on his supporters” yesterday, the Democrat-Media Complex claims. But that’s exactly what the Democrats have done on an ongoing basis since the morning of November 9, 2016.

The Left projects. Always. If you hear a committed progressive claim that Trump is stealing Easter eggs from children, it’s a sure thing you’ll catch them hiding brightly-colored shell fragments from a crying child.

Read the whole thing, if you don’t mind me saying so myself.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: 2021 Miracle — Media Finally Finds a Mob It Doesn’t Like. “The first thing I noticed while scanning the news was that virtually every conservative commenting on the situation was condemning the violence. Immediately. That stood in stark contrast to high-ranking Democrats and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media spending all last summer telling us that things were peaceful while we were staring at burning buildings.”

GOODER AND HARDER: Washington state’s ‘re-opening plan’ called ‘a roadmap to a near complete collapse’ by hospitality industry. “Inslee announced what is called ‘Healthy Washington–Roadmap to Recovery,’ but it does not actually re-open anything, but extends restrictions.”

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Closed is open.

FWEEDOM RIDER: The Secret Life of Kamala Harris. “I remember sitting in a large group at the coloring station. A few of the kids were talking about their mommies and daddies, but everyone went quiet when I started to cry. The teacher rushed over to see what was wrong. Honestly I didn’t even know. ‘She’ll be fine,’ the teacher assured my classmates. Suddenly it hit me. ‘Pwonouns,’ I blurted out between sobs. ‘Gin-doored pwonouns.’ My parents had to come pick me up. ‘What’s the matter?’ they asked, looking concerned. ‘Twans wives,’ I said, no longer crying. ‘Twans wives matter’.”

Heh™.

HMM: Did Russian State Media Reveal a Mobile ICBM Cheating Program? “In September 2020, state-run RT (formerly Russia Today) published an article that appears to reveal a program for cheating with regard to the limit in the New START Treaty on deployed warheads by means of covert deployment of mobile ICBMs.”

WELL, YES: Republican Lawmakers Objecting To Biden Electors Have A Point: Americans Need To Trust Elections.

DECOUPLING: The NYSE will delist three Chinese telecoms after all. “In today’s announcement, the NYSE said it’s making the decision after receiving ‘new specific guidance’ confirming that yes, the executive order does apply to China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom.”

Related: U.S. Officials Weigh Adding Alibaba, Tencent to Investment Ban.

Alibaba founder Jack Ma could not be reached for comment.

HERE WE GO AGAIN: With 2021 Still Young, We Already Have Trouble from Tehran.

Iran wasted no time setting a terrible tone for its 2021 foreign policy this week, making it clear that Tehran remains firmly committed to expanding its nuclear program and defeating U.S. sanctions.

First, its paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy seized a South Korean-flagged chemical tanker sailing the Persian Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz, reportedly for maritime pollution violations, according to Tehran. The tanker and crew are being held in Iran.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards repeatedly have seized ships in international waters off Iran’s coast as a means of taking hostages to use as bargaining leverage in disputes with foreign countries or companies.

The pollution charges furnish a convenient pretext for a not-so-veiled attempt to squeeze Seoul to release some of the $7 billion in Iranian assets frozen in South Korea by U.S. sanctions. The fact that the ship hijacking occurred shortly before the upcoming visit to Tehran of South Korea’s deputy foreign minister is no coincidence.

It gets worse.

They probably be rewarded handsomely for bad behavior under a Biden Administration.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Every City Needs a ‘New York Post.’

BREAKING: Shots Fired, Pence Evacuated, Capitol Locked Down as Protesters Breach Premises.

IT’S TERRIFYING BECAUSE THEY’RE RIGHT: The Chinese Communist Party looks forward to Joe Biden’s presidency as a “new window of hope.” That’s terrifying.

PJ MEDIA LIVE BLOG: Congress Meets to Certify Electoral College Vote.

CURVE, BENT: UK Woman Arrested For Filming Inside Empty Hospital.