If you don’t like the unemployment numbers, just fire the guys who calculate them.

Right?

If you don’t like the outcome of the most secure election in American history, just pressure Georgia’s secretary of state to find you 11,780 votes — is that really asking too much? — or submit a slate of fake electors . . . or pressure your Vice President to throw the election into the House of Representatives . . . or rally the Proud Boys to storm the Capitol and maybe hang the Vice President, watching on TV for hours as the violence continues, ignoring pleas to call it off.

And . . .

If you don’t like an ethics investigation, just axe the investigators.

To wit:

US ethics officials removed for inquiring into improper access of mortgage files.

It’s quite a story, and totally in keeping with a corrupt authoritarian regime.

Andrew R.: “This reminds me of a line from Last Man Standing, following the narrator’s murdering three men: ‘The sheriff didn’t disappoint me: he investigated the whole thing and arrested the hooker.’”

> Support “my” 26th annual DNC LGBT Leadership Council dinner even if you’re not L, G, B, or T and even though you can’t come tomorrow.  An adequately funded opposition party is absolutely necessary to restore checks and balances.  Next year: give to candidates.  This year: to infrastructure.  Thanks!

HYMC

Up another buck yesterday, I’m selling a chunk in my tax-sheltered IRA for a triple.