The best reactions to the VP debate, mostly about a very specific fly.

Our ear-holes have barely recovered from the uberly frustrating shouting match that was the 2020 Presidential Debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, but democracy stops for no one (apart from maybe mail-in votes if Trump has anything to do with it), so we’re back to it with the VP Debate.

Wednesday’s debate marked the first on-air ‘conversation’ between the Democratic pick for Vice President, Senator Kamala Harris and the current Republican VP Mike Pence. Topics touched on included abortion, racism, COVID-19 and the upcoming election.

Pence and Harris agreed on approximately none of these topics. 

Fortunately, there were two rather fetching pieces of plexiglass separating the two, so there were no fistycuffs or, you know, a transfer of a highly contagious infectious disease. 

Watch Kamala Harris and Mike Pence discuss a potential COVID vaccine. Post continues after video.

Yes folks, it was another wild ride. Albeit a slightly more eloquent one, with less blatant disrespect for the rules. 

But what did the internet have to say about the VP Debate?

We’ve gathered the best tweets surrounding the live debate and plonked them all here for your viewing pleasure - including a dedicated section honouring the fly that resided on Mike Pence’s head for the majority of the debate. Bless that bug.

LMAO WHY DO WE STILL NEED TO ASK CANDIDATES IF THEY BELIEVE SCIENCE?! IT IS LITERALLY 2020. I HATE IT HERE #VPDebate

— hannah chambers (@hanchambers) October 8, 2020

mike pence: i would like to go back

moderator: we’ve moved onto a new ques-

mike pence: i would like to go back to 1843

— nate of the living dead (@MNateShyamalan) October 8, 2020

Susan realizing nobody’s going to answer her questions anymore. pic.twitter.com/HiEvMT4wRv

— Jordan Veilleux (@veilleuxwho) October 8, 2020

“Stop playing politics with peoples lives” I gasped

— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) October 8, 2020

Pence dodging answering any questions pic.twitter.com/L2mUV3O2Xm

— Frank Costa (@feistyfrank) October 8, 2020

🗣No, I WOULD LIKE EQUAL TIME!!!!

-signed BLACK WOMEN EVERYWHERE!!!#VPDebate

— Jessica Fyre💫✨ (@TheJessieWoo) October 8, 2020

.@KamalaHarris breaking that fourth wall. #VPDebate pic.twitter.com/t764idHuPz

— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) October 8, 2020

Pence just "my Black friend"-ed Jewish people #VPDebate

— Crowdericka App-eldritch 👻 (@Rodericka) October 8, 2020

Mike Pence’s answers are just the five paragraphs at the beginning of a food blog before you get to the actual recipe

— Sarah Wainschel 💫 (@Swainsch) October 8, 2020

KAMALA WITH THE RECEIPTS THANK YOU SUSAN

— Meena Harris (@meenaharris) October 8, 2020

Every muscle in Kamala's face is beating Mike Pence in this debate right now.

— jess mcintosh (@jess_mc) October 8, 2020

She talks to him the way I talk to my children when I'm angry but someone is watching

— Taffy Brodesser-Akner (@taffyakner) October 8, 2020

Would like this image of Kamala Harris tattooed on my back pic.twitter.com/QZy2i8LuOt

— rachel leishman (@RachelLeishman) October 8, 2020

And now our ode to that blessed bug...

The fly on Mike Pence's hair is gonna have a Twitter account in....3....2....1....

— Paul Begala (@PaulBegala) October 8, 2020

There are already MORE THAN A HUNDRED "Fly on Mike Pence's head" Twitter accounts. pic.twitter.com/KrVmcONHsT

— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) October 8, 2020

You know what flies are attracted to. pic.twitter.com/zivYwN82sb

— amber ruffin (@ambermruffin) October 8, 2020

Kamala Harris brought heat and the truth.

Mike Pence brought pink eye and a fly.

— Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) October 8, 2020

Kamala handily won that debate. The fly gets second place.

— Meena Harris (@meenaharris) October 8, 2020

My mom just texted me that she thought the fly was on her TV and I'm *dying*

— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) October 8, 2020