In an interview on The Colbert Report shortly before he died, Where the Wild Things author Maurice Sendak dismisses one of Colbert's children's book ideas as "so bad that it not only will sell, it will make pots and pots of money." Like Colbert's fictional counterpart, Mike ...read more
On Sunday's episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, America's favorite bespectacled former British citizen dedicated the bulk of his show to tormenting America's least favorite anti-gay religious fanatic, Vice President Mike Pence. During the segment, in which he detailed ...read more
Vice President Mike Pence made a move forward on the “war on women” yesterday during his keynote speech in Tennessee at the 2018 National Religious Broadcasters Convention. With organizers Susan B. Anthony List and Life Issues Institute looking on, Pence launched into his ...read more
Tens of thousands of teenagers will undergo conversion therapy before they turn 18. This has already happened to around 350,000 kids and another 350,000 adults, and will happen to many more if action isn't taken to stop it. Vice President Mike Pence is widely rumored to support ...read more
This is not the deepest and most insightful story you're going to read today but it's good to know that even Mike Pence still has enough of a soul left to feel shame: A Maryland pastor condemned President Trump’s comments calling Haiti, El Salvador and African nations “shithole ...read more
California Representative Dana Rohrabacher, who never took a position the Kremlin didn't like, showed his true colors again when he brought Holocaust denier Charles C. Johnson to a meeting with Senator Rand Paul this week. Rohrabacher, who previously called the Charlottesville ...read more
This week, Donald Trump's Commission on Electoral Integrity, led by Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, met in New Hampshire to discuss their findings. These findings, however, have not withstood scrutiny from officials at organizations like the ...read more
In a Daily Beast article this week, Emilie Plesset reveals that Indiana is removing voters from the lists without telling them, thanks to a new law that violates the National Voter Registration Act (aka the Motor Voter Act.) Back in 2014, Indiana, under then-governor Mike Pence, ...read more
Vox's Ezra Klein recently interviewed MSNBC's Chris Hayes and Hayes makes a compelling case that Donald Trump has zero interest in being leader of the United States. Instead, he's much happier leaving all the tough decisions to his staff so he can focus on watching cable news ...read more
If you wanted to summarize the Trump Administration's priorities when it comes to repealing Obamacare getting their bastardized health care plan passed, Vice President Mike Pence did just that on his Twitter page. In what looks like an attempt to reassure the hardliners, Pence ...read more
I think about Mike Pence a lot. Mostly because I think a lot about how the hell this gelatinous, orange death train of an administration will come to a stop. Will it catastrophically derail? Find itself dragged back to the station? Non-ceremoniously switch conductors and then ...read more
One day after God-Emperor Donald Trump announced that the US was withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord his faithful minions hit the airwaves to defend the decision. Kellyanne Conway visited ABC's Good Morning America, where she repeatedly refused to answer host George ...read more
While lampooning Donald Trump on a daily basis is the way some of us in the media cope with the absurdity of the political situation we find ourselves in, the truth is that the President of the United States isn't just incompetent, but clinically deranged. This isn't hyperbole, ...read more
Mike Pence is visiting the most populous Muslim country on earth -- Indonesia. And on Thursday morning he said something that you wouldn't expect out of the man who is second fiddle to America's Muslim-hater In Chief. "As the largest majority Muslim country, Indonesia's ...read more
A few months ago, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan caused an internet firestorm when he posted a selfie of himself with the Republican interns on Capitol Hill. The photo showed Ryan surrounded by a sea of fresh, young and very white faces. After the outrage it elicited from people ...read more
Last night, Rachel Maddow did a short segment about just how ignorant Trump and his transition team is about even staffing the White House, much less running the country. It started off with Trump's son-in-law asking how many of the people who work in the West Wing would be ...read more
During an interview with in Columbus, OH, Mike Pence ran headfirst into Trump's disgusting comments about women and gave the worst answer possible. When asked how he would respond to an 11-year-old girl's painful admission that when she "hears [Trump's] words in campaign ...read more
Mike Pence seems rattled by the sinking ship that is Donald Trump's presidential bid, but not enough to abandon it. Perhaps that is because this won't be the first time that a legitimate scandal has destroyed his chances at a public office. When he was running for Congress in ...read more
One of the most disgusting tactics Republicans have used in recent times to hammer the Democrats with is the smearing of charitable organizations that do an immense amount of good. Not content with trying to take down Planned Parenthood -- an organization that provide vital ...read more
At last night's debate, the contrast between how Pence and Kane view the role of religion in government could not have been more severe. On the one hand, Pence is a theocratic fundamentalist who supports punishment for women who have an abortion. On the other, Tim Kaine is a ...read more
Expectations for Republican politicians are low -- so low that stringing coherent sentences together is generally seen as a remarkable achievement. And by that standard, Mike Pence beat Tim Kaine in tonight's vice presidential debate. Pence stayed calm during the event, and ...read more
Over an hour before the vice presidential debate started, the Republican National Committee declared Mike Pence handily beat Tim Kaine. Why? Because they are a bunch of witless amateurs pretending to be a bonafide political party. Here's what the the RNC website stated (screen ...read more
In case you missed it, mainstream media idiots are swooning over the 11 year-old kid who asked Mike Pence a question at a rally in North Carolina Thursday: So, that kid, whose name is Matthew Schricker, went on MSNBC Friday morning, and before you let your tolerance for ...read more
You may have seen this already, but probably not all of it. Trump fans booed and heckled a military mom named Catherine Byrne at a Mike Pence rally on Monday because she asked Pence how he can stand next to a guy who is constantly attacking our military. Yes, before you ask, ...read more
It has to be a joke. The entire Trump campaign, that is. Given the level of derp on display among the Trump Republicans, how can it not be? In fact, the sheer volume of horrendousness is making it increasingly challenging to compile all of the atrocious dumbness erupting from the ...read more
Well that was an interesting weekend. More to come on the DNC email leak, Putin's involvement and what this could mean for the future of America's relationship with Russia. Hillary Clinton has chosen a running mate for her bid to become president, and despite it being an ...read more
Historians will spend countless years examining why too many white Americans were so bent out of shape in 2016. If we look to past eras in which rage was the order of the day, what exactly instigated it? Is it the economy? Probably not this time, given how most economic ...read more
If there is a God, he/she will make Elizabeth Warren Hillary Clinton's running mate for president, if only to see the savage beating she will dole out to Donald Trump and his new BFF and presidential running mate Mike Pence. This morning, Warren literally went apeshit on both ...read more
Donald Trump held a press conference Saturday morning at which he talked about other shit for 30 minutes, then introduced Mike Pence. Pence then delivered a short snoozer of an acceptance speech that had Chris Matthews tingling in his jeans, apparently. Right after the speech, ...read more
In a shocking twist of events, Donald Trump has chosen a Christian conservative, white male as his running mate for the presidential ticket this November! While Trump is still yet to officially announce his VP pick, it has been corroborated by several media outlets and the pick ...read more
