"Will you shut up, man?" US Politics October 2020

let's ask the president for steroids

let's ask his son for coke

Took this in 1960-style; first half on the radio coming home, the rest on TV. Does make a difference, even absent any five o'clock shadow on Pence. Can't see that anything happened that will stick. Harris was mostly fine (better on TV, when you could see her reacting to Pence), Pence typically unctuous and just plain weird. I thought Harris's last answer was her best. The one time I thought she really missed was not coming back hard at Pence when he was going on about her politicizing vaccines. She couldn't have been clearer in her answer just before: she'd be first in line if the doctors okayed it, but she wouldn't go near one on Trump's say-so alone. She should've gone back to that, but she didn't.

XP He'd give us Borax.

Didn't think Susan Page was very good in cutting Pence off.

insane shit is gonna happen in about 12 hours and no one's gonna remember a thing from this

a thing from what?

Should have said Will you shut up, man?

:)

this is kinda funny though

Pitch in $5 to help this campaign fly. https://t.co/CqHAId0j8t pic.twitter.com/NbkPl0a8HV

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 8, 2020

just heard that Biden staff sent out a pic that's just him with a flyswatter

Now I'm wondering if the reason Harris is not making an issue of Pence talking all over her time is to further alienate the GOP from women voters.

lol xp

(xpost) Good point. It's like they gave that a test run in the first debate and found it worked really well.

www.flywillvote.com

huh good point

I'm wondering if the reason Harris is not making an issue of Pence talking all over her time is to further alienate the GOP from women voters.

― nickn, Wednesday, October 7, 2020

And the fly
On your head
And the fly
Means you’re dead
In your hair
In your hair
It is crawling

In your hair
In your ha-a-air
Zombie
Zombie
Zombie-eh-eh-eh pic.twitter.com/T5BQIQsaik

— DJP (@djperry1973) October 8, 2020

The limitations of radio: I missed the damn fly.

I've seen a lot of jokes calling the fly Pence's first black friend.

I'm wondering if the reason Harris is not making an issue of Pence talking all over her time is to further alienate the GOP from women voters.

― nickn, Wednesday, October 7, 2020

― Dan S, Wednesday, October 7, 2020

100% yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svcAqVL2l28

Pence's one answer was ludicrous: never mind the 200,000 who have died from COVID, if Obama hadn't gotten lucky, two million would have died from Swine Flu!

The fly was at the end, clem.

Harris really could have taken advantage of the split-screen perma-close-up format with the occasional rolleye and down-camera headcock towards Pence on bullshit she wasn't going to bog down in

One thing I don’t need is a bunch of white dudes passing Harris GIFs with “yaaaaaaas” captions so I’m very glad she didn’t do that

Ban reaction gifs imo

Damn, could have seen it--I moved to the computer in the next room towards the end. Didn't Obama have a famous moment with a fly? Maybe it was a fifth-generation descendent of Obama's fly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Y-pCGjMuc

*searches twitter for a DJP-scowling selfie to caption "yaaaaaaas" *

return of the fly
return of the fly
with Vincent Pence Price

this one was much cooler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45j8CtSm50U

I know everyone's sick of fly jokes but coming from a Congresswoman...

The fly needs to quarantined. https://t.co/0HzCtVVQy3

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) October 8, 2020

everyone's sick of fly jokes

yeah jesus this isn't 'covfefe'

Patton Oswalt:

Everyone who's tweeting, "I'm bored" -- this is SUPPOSED TO BE BORING. POLITICS SHOULD BE BORING, COMPETENT PEOPLE TAKING CARE OF SHIT SO YOU CAN LIVE YOUR LIFE. IT SHOULDN'T GOBBLE UP ALL THE OXYGEN IN EXISTENCE. The fuck is wrong with everyone?

shut up and say "Pretty fly for a white guy," Patton

RIP fly memes, 10:17pm–10:47pm EDT

Wish Ilhan (and pretty much everyone who posts online) would proofread.

oh, how fast memes do.....................................................................................fly

https://i.ibb.co/DR4xDb6/121090043-10158895947589433-2076813707138232610-o.jpg

A version of Oswalt from 538: "Americans Relieved To Hear People Evade Giving Honest Answers In Calm Voices."

help me

The Biden transition team is considering John Kerry and John Podesta as possible climate czars: https://t.co/PDltaoIHCl

— Kevin Robillard (@Robillard) October 7, 2020

Hard for that not to read as big "fuck you" to Al Gore

So. Old.

The Fly 😂#VPDebate #flygate pic.twitter.com/zYYbHR8i3i

— Jack©️ (@Jackasaurus3) October 8, 2020

"joe biden is not going to ban fracking. that is a fact"

- kamala harris, earlier tonight

hey, i believe them

Blew through the moderator SEVEN TIMES just now.

Pence is lying constantly, not just in general, but about what Harris said literal seconds previous. It remains complete electoral malpractice that this is not corrected by the moderator.

Blew through the moderator three times, has now cut in to Harris and has taken up her entire time, without the moderator saying a word.

Pence continued to roll the moderator btw. Look forward to her givng a post-game interview, like Chris Wallace, saying she didn't expect it so couldn't possibly react.

Susan Page of USA Today criticized for hosting off-the-record event honoring Trump appointees

oh.

"joe biden is not going to ban fracking. that is a fact"

- kamala harris, earlier tonight

hey, i believe them

― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Thursday, 8 October 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Tfw nothing matters

Kamala Harris wants this video of her saying "There is no question I'm in favor of banning fracking." off the internet.

Please don’t share this pic.twitter.com/Pm47ttbLvN

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) October 8, 2020

can we all just agree this format is spent and move on? (not talking about the US itself...... OR AM I)

why not subject each candidate to a series of three tough interviews with a journalist? you could have one hosted by fox, another hosted by msnbc, and another by pbs.