 So, for whatever reason, apparently it is newsworthy to see the Senate majority leader make a statement of fact and simply acknowledge that the next president is the person who Republicans don't want it to be. I mean, regardless if you like Joe Biden or not, it doesn't matter what your feelings are of the matter. The fact is that he will become the president of the United States and will be sworn in on January 20th. Just pretending as if that's not going to happen, that doesn't do anything. But because we live in 2020 America when Mitch McConnell finally acknowledged and congratulated Joe Biden for winning the election after the Electoral College made it official, this was kind of a big story. So today I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden. The President-elect is no stranger to the Senate. He's devoted himself to public service for many years. I also want to congratulate the Vice President-elect, our colleague from California, Senator Harris. Great. Now this comes six weeks too late when we already knew that Joe Biden was the President-elect. So I mean, I don't think that Mitch McConnell deserves any credit whatsoever, but I really am enjoying all of the backlash that he's experienced. You see MAGA Chuds online attacking him and I love it. I'm eating it up because this is what the Republican Party, I mean this is the audience who you've been pandering to. Donald Trump is the Frankenstein that you created. This is your monster and now he's unleashed on the world and you no longer have control of him. So when I see Mitch McConnell get attacked by MAGA Chuds and he's called a sellout or a plant by the deep state, I love it. You love to see it because he deserves every ounce of that criticism. Even if this is completely delusional and batshit and sane, he deserves it. Now one individual who in theory should know better because this is supposed to be a serious political person and who's now a political commentator is Charlie Kirk. He did not like that Mitch McConnell acknowledged reality, so he decided to language police Mitch McConnell in a recent episode of his podcast. This was extremely unhinged and pathetic. And so if Mitch McConnell wants to wake up on January 6th and be met with two of his Senate candidates all of a sudden trailing in Georgia, keep talking like this. Go out of your way to use the term congratulate. If he had to and was getting pressure, he could have at the very most today I will recognize. I probably would have taken exception with that. But the term congratulations inherently means that you are applauding and recognizing an achievement of success. When do you use congratulations in your life? When people attain athletic accomplishments, when people get married, engaged. You typically don't use the term congratulations when someone just stole a bank, stole money from a bank. You don't go to your friends or your family members that might be engaging in criminal activity and say congratulations. It's typically not the right way to handle things. I don't know how these folks expect everyone outside of their bubble to take them seriously ever again when you can't even accept the basic reality that Donald Trump lost this election. And maybe he doesn't care. Maybe he knows that he'll never appeal to anyone outside of that right wing echo chamber. I mean, if you want to be taken seriously, just getting outraged that someone acknowledged the fact that the next president will be someone you don't like. That shouldn't be a reason to get this angry. But I mean, here we are. So the problem that Charlie Kirk had wasn't necessarily that Mitch McConnell acknowledged the reality that Joe Biden is the president elect, but it's a specific language that he used. So he didn't say, I recognize Joe Biden as the president elect. He congratulated him. Now, according to Charlie Kirk, that means inherently that you are applauding and recognizing an achievement of success. But isn't it kind of an achievement to be elected the president? Again, you don't like Joe Biden. I don't like Joe Biden for different reasons. But to congratulate him, I mean, sure, you could say that there are more positive connotations attached to that word. But is this really worthy of your outrage and time at all? I mean, what this sounds like to me is you language policing Mitch McConnell for not using the politically correct language that you deem as appropriate. And yet this is someone who his entire career it caters to college campuses and how he wants to move college students away from this outrage culture and political correctness. And here you are literally language policing someone for the most benign reason ever. It's it's honestly embarrassing. Now he also says you typically don't use the term congratulations when someone just stole a bank. First of all, if somebody managed to steal a bank, that would take a tremendous amount of skill. It would be illegal and I'm not advocating for bank robberies, of course. But I mean, the implication here embedded with that statement is that like there was a theft involved, right? So if someone they stole a bank, which kind of doesn't make sense, you would think, oh, wow, that's that took a lot of planning and whatnot to pull off. But it's it's bad. It's moral. It's illegal. But that's that's not what happened here. There was an election and people voted more people voted for Joe Biden than Donald Trump and this time in the correct areas in the states where it mattered, the swing states. So what theft are you referring to? Are you literally saying that this election was stolen from Donald Trump? Because we haven't seen any evidence. We keep hearing about all of the evidence. But yet in what is it now more than 50 or 60 cases, they've all been thrown out of courts. You can't prove it. So are you seriously saying that the election was stolen from Donald Trump? Are you on this bandwagon too? I would suspect so because I mean, Charlie Cook is one of the biggest sick of fans for Donald Trump. But I mean, again, these are folks who are relatively high up in terms of, you know, their credibility within the conservative movement. He speaks at CPAC. He has street cred in conservative circles. So for you to do this, I mean, Trump, he is in control of the Republican Party. But that isn't going to last forever. So this is really short-sighted for you, even if you only care about your career. And furthermore, it's stupid. I mean, Charlie Cook, I disagree with everything that he says, but you can acknowledge that there is, you know, a level of intelligence there with him that isn't there with other politicians. Like when you look at Louis Gohmert or not just politicians, but like pundits, you know, I don't know, name any of them. They're all really pretty obviously stupid. But with Charlie Cook, you could actually tell that he is a little bit more reasonable seemingly on some things. Like I wouldn't say he's a Nazi and there's like a bare minimum amount of intelligence there where he should be better than others. But he's not. Like you're agreeing with individuals like Nick Fuentes here who are rallying around this whole stop to steal bullshit. Look, dude, you lost. It wasn't stolen from you. You just lost. Accept it. Stop trying to police the speech of individuals who acknowledge reality and just suck it up. Deal with it. Facts don't care about your feeling snowflake. So whether you like it or not, Joe Biden will be the next president continuing to deny reality does nothing for you. And if you truly care about your audience, which I'm assuming you're pandering to, then actually tell them the truth. And eventually they will acknowledge that you speaking to them as if they're adults and they can understand basic facts and acknowledge empirical reality. Maybe someday in the future they will, you know, appreciate you being real with them. But if not, then do you really want those folks who are that delusional in your audience who will attack you if you don't say exactly what they want you to say, even if you know what's wrong? I just, I don't get these folks, you know, they're grifters and if really all you're doing is grifting, then sure, you only think in terms of short sightedness and not your long-term credibility. It's just, it's embarrassing, you know. But this is to be expected. This is the fall right in America. And it's not that uncommon to be this out of touch and delusional if you are a Republican. Dole is so much better. Trust me, folks. He's doing a great job. He really is. Okay?