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A small insect in Mike Pence’s hair becomes the star of the US election campaign. How party strategists benefit now.
Fly into my apartment? No, just on Mike Pence’s head.
Photo: Twitter / djmbeltran
On Wednesday night, the two vice presidential candidates, Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Mike Pence, met for the first time in a televised debate. Important issues were discussed: climate change, for example, but also the crown crisis and the trade war with China. But what really interested the Internet the next day was not the exchange of blows between the candidates
on these issues. It was a fly on Pence’s head. But see for yourself:
Democrats sell fly swatters
The campaign team of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden saw their opportunity and reacted immediately. In no time, he acquired the domain flywillvote.com (German: The fly will vote), which he forwarded to Biden’s website iwillvote.com (I will vote). The production of a fly swatter labeled “The Truth About Flies”, which was recently launched in the Online store team, but it’s already sold out.
Joe Biden didn’t miss it either, posing with a fly swatter in hand to ask for donations for his campaign:
The fly conquers Twitter and a dictionary
The hashtag #flygate and “Flies” are among the most searched terms on Twitter. Some users took advantage of this and created their own Twitter profiles for the bug. There should already be more than a hundred such accounts, one user said. Some already have tens of thousands of followers, even if they are only a few hours old.
Many Twitter users wondered what this fly was all about. That black dot on Pence’s head was real, without a doubt. But this woman first had to make sure that the insect was not in her own apartment:
But why did he land with pennies and stay there for two minutes and three seconds? Or was it a bug placed by the deep state? “Illegal espionage has really gotten out of control,” joked Republican Senator Rand Paul.
Others wondered what Jeff Goldblum had been up to all this time last night. In the title role of the 1987 horror film “The Fly,” the actor played a scientist who turned into a fly after a failed experiment.
Jeff Goldblum as a fly monster: Scene from the horror movie “The Fly”.
Photo: Film Publicity Archive / United Arch / Getty Images
But suppose it was actually a normal fly. But what is a “normal fly” anyway? Apparently, by Thursday night, many were no longer quite clear about exactly what kind of being he was. As announced by the American dictionary “Merriam-Webster” on Twitter, the English term “fly” is currently one of the most searched, for the first time.
Given this great interest in knowing more about this fly, or about flies in general, an interview would be recommended. Lo and behold: CNN has already contacted the star last night. Your flying friends should be happy.
Many puns
The English word for flying, “Fly,” is great for puns. So the American media and Twitter users did not skimp on that either and let their imagination run wild. Here are some examples:
Aus «Black Lives Matter» wird «Black Flies Matter»:
The next president of the United States will be elected in a few weeks. The elections passed in a jiffy, said House Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The word “fly” is also used in the construction of English sentences for “as in flight.”
Pence is quite “fly”, so cool, for a white man, titled the “Guardian” jokes.
Does a fly decide the options?
Pence is not the first to be besieged by a fly in front of the camera. Barack Obama too
had the honor. However, he got rid of the insect relatively quickly:
Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton also achieved during a 2016 TV debate Visit of a fly. He then lost to rival Donald Trump. Therefore, some Twitter users see the fly as an electoral oracle that decides who will lose.
America thirsts for liberating humor
The media argued Thursday morning who won yesterday’s television debate.
Conservative broadcaster Fox News sees Pence as the winner, while liberal news broadcaster CNN sees Harris. However, some Twitter users already have another winner:
The fly can no longer appear on the current ballot. In four years, however, it will be
the next elections. One Twitter user suggests the duo Kamala Harris and Fliege:
It is quite surprising that a fly becomes a show overnight. Maybe it’s because it stayed on Pence’s head unnoticed for more than two minutes. Perhaps it is also because many Americans need a change from the stressful election campaign. Americans were looking for a hero, or at least liberating humor, said one Twitter user.
