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SatoshiBakura (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#332626: Oct 7th 2020 at 9:43:21 PM

This tweet from Alex Hirsch is perfect.

Pence spent his entire life practicing the perfect gestures to feign empathy and humanity and he just got upstaged by a bug

Edited by SatoshiBakura on Oct 7th 2020 at 12:44:22 PM

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#332628: Oct 7th 2020 at 9:51:50 PM

It's not hard to see why. One's a disease-riddled filthy carrion-feeder devoid of empathy and the other is a fly.

Disgusted, but not surprised
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
Steven (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#332631: Oct 7th 2020 at 10:28:13 PM

Did Pence not notice the fly at all?

Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#332632: Oct 7th 2020 at 10:36:23 PM

Pence is a human corpse animated by a demon so no.

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tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#332633: Oct 7th 2020 at 11:03:04 PM

I didn't see it mentioned here as I was skipping pages because of the debate: Bloomberg sources: a top White House security official is gravely ill with COVID-19; said official got it prior to the SCOTUS nomination at the Rose Garden.

Edited by tclittle on Oct 7th 2020 at 1:04:49 PM

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#332634: Oct 7th 2020 at 11:04:19 PM

They're all probably gravely ill with coronavirus right now.

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#332635: Oct 7th 2020 at 11:07:05 PM

2020: The year a fly may have helped save USA democracy.

Disgusted, but not surprised
CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#332636: Oct 7th 2020 at 11:14:38 PM

Pence's pinkeye flat out tells me he's got the rona.

Mitch's refusal to admit his results tells me he has it.

The question is not if anyone will die but who will.

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#332637: Oct 7th 2020 at 11:35:00 PM

I'm half surprised that the right hasn't called that fly on Pence's head a Deep State Agent yet.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#332638: Oct 7th 2020 at 11:36:25 PM

So we may end up with a situation where both the president and VP are incapacitated by Covid. It's like a GOP nightmare scenario is unfolding before our eyes.

CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#332639: Oct 7th 2020 at 11:40:11 PM

The only reason Barret isn't in the Supreme Court now is because it has already laid waste to their kingdom. Whether the plan would work or not, Trump planned to use his packed SC to give him the Presidency. That is utterly off the rails now and thank the ghost of Ruth Bada Ginsburg or Nurgle for it.

We may have dodged a gold life support throne for the God Emperor of Tackiness.

Edit:

I will say Trump will not yield power to the 25th Amendment willingly. He'll either be in a coma or dead first.

Edited by CharlesPhipps on Oct 7th 2020 at 11:40:55 AM

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DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#332640: Oct 7th 2020 at 11:40:15 PM

[up][up][up] Give it a week - or until one of them checks this thread and steals your idea because those gits are devoid of creativity. tongue

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Oct 7th 2020 at 8:40:31 PM

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#332641: Oct 7th 2020 at 11:41:44 PM

[up][up][up]Well, they only have themselves to blame. If they had taken it seriously from the start they might not be in this mess.

Lazlo74 from A tropical hell-hole Since: May, 2018
#332642: Oct 7th 2020 at 11:45:13 PM

[up]Don't worry, half the Trumpeters on the internet are already making claims that the fly is a deep state agent as we speak and that Pence beat Harris.

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#332643: Oct 7th 2020 at 11:47:36 PM

Speaking of flies and politics...

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astrokitty Happiness is a cup of tea from Somewhere Out There Since: May, 2014 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Happiness is a cup of tea
#332644: Oct 8th 2020 at 12:07:29 AM

[up] That thumbnail is the last thing I needed to see before trying to sleep.

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#332645: Oct 8th 2020 at 12:52:57 AM

Huh so Pence just now got a massive joke on him with the fly.

Reminds me of this one Internet Historian video I watched about this senator or governor or whatever who once ran for Presidency until he made this weird screech at the end of an overenthusiastic speech, which got memed to high Hell, & basically tanked him.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#332646: Oct 8th 2020 at 12:56:49 AM

[up] There's also Jeb "please clap" Bush.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#332647: Oct 8th 2020 at 12:58:12 AM

Sadly, the fly would then go on to run into the web of a MAGA hat wearing spider.

Disgusted, but not surprised
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#332648: Oct 8th 2020 at 12:58:22 AM

@slim: Do you mean Howard Dean? Poor guy had his campaign derailed by a scream, whereas someone like Trump... actually won.

Edited by BearyScary on Oct 8th 2020 at 11:59:02 AM

Do not obey in advance.
AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#332649: Oct 8th 2020 at 1:00:04 AM

[up]x4 That was Howard Dean's "yeah!" and honestly it was quite nothingburger, but nevertheless was spun to make it seem as if Dean had no self-control over his emotions.

As funny as the fly meme is, I'm curious how much of it will translate to general audiences perceiving it as an insult against Pence or a way to make him more relatable and folksy. I know Democrats and those on the left are certainly doing all they can to achieve the former.

Edited by AlleyOop on Oct 8th 2020 at 4:00:20 AM

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#332650: Oct 8th 2020 at 1:04:14 AM

The latter would require the rightwing to have a sense of humor.

Conservatives have a terrible sense of humor.

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