Today in grudging acknowledgments:

Oh hey, did you see? Mitch McConnell congratulated Joe Biden on the Senate floor this morning, acknowledging that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won and are the President-elect and Vice President-elect respectively. And now I suppose he wants a cookie?

Well, he doesn't get one.

Pictured: someone who's never won the
popular vote, seen here introducing his
 third lifetime appointment to the Court.

McConnell went on to say that despite their differences, Joe Biden has dedicated himself to public service and then remarked how wonderful it is that we finally have a woman Vice President. And I'd love to think this was some kind of magnanimous move on the part of someone ready to look past politics, but just so we're clear, this is a guy who sat on Obama's last Supreme Court nominee until after the election so that the people could have a say, and then rammed through Trump's last nominee while every poll in the country predicted the lamest of ducks. 

Well, yes, it is. Good thing there
wasn't any. So maybe pack it in?

McConnell's grudging and belated acknowledgement doesn't make up for what he's put us through and what Republicans who still groundlessly insist that the election was stolen, continue to put us through. I'm all for unity here, but we're not going to find common ground in the middle. Both sides do not have a point. You have people who accept the results of a fair election and then you have rabid-foam conspiracy theorists making up dangerous bullshit because they didn't like the outcome.

Above: a handy guide.

I don't know, it seems like if Mitch McConnell really wanted to do something to bring the country together, he would call off his goons. We know Joe Biden won, tell the Trumpies. They lost. They need to move on and holy shit, stop calling for secession. I mean, when has that ever worked out well for anybody? We're still tearing down confederate statues. Don't get me wrong, there are definitely a few states I think we'd probably be better off without. Florida springs to mind, but that kind of talk never ends well.

Pictured: Basically this.

I feel the same way about the "stop the steal" people as I do the "you can't make me wear a mask" people. Which I suppose is convent as there's a lot of Venn diagram overlap between those two. But the problem is that they're not going away because they're convinced, like, absolutely convinced that they're right. And unless the GOP gets their shit together and shuts them down, they're just going to keep ambling masklessly around from MAGA march to MAGA march, spreading COVID and babbling incoherently about Trump and voter fraud.

A perfunctory and way too late acknowledgement of the validity of an election that we all already knew was valid, isn't going to change their minds and neither is it going to earn Mitch McConnell a cookie.

Cookies are for people who don't undermine our democracy.