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Arab Social Media Is Convinced It Has Found The Truth Behind The Mike Pence Fly
The vice presidential debate on Wednesday, October 7 in Utah was nothing less of a buzzing event… literally!
When Vice President Mike Pence took centre stage to debate Sen. Kamala Harris on topics such as COVID-19, taxes, China, abortion, employment, health care, racial injustice and police brutality in the USA, viewers couldn’t help but point out the fly that landed on Pence’s head toward the end of the VP debate.
The fly that got social media going NUTS literally stole the show as it clung on to Pence’s white hair for a good couple of minutes and got the hashtag #FlyGate trending globally! And the Arab world believes that they have found the significance of the fly sitting on Pence’s head.
Social media peeps took major digs at the fly-cident and also went a step further by relating it to biblical fly passages
The #FlyGate VP debate incident started trending big time in Dubai after one viewer low-key called Pence a tyrant after relating the incident to a piece of Arabic literature and adding a caption reading,
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Abu Dhabi Ends 2024 Supercross Season With A Bang!The “annoying” fly appears in medieval Arabic literature. When caliphs and kings found the tiny creature irritating they asked wisemen why God created the tiny annoying fly, the wise would respond: ‘To humiliate tyrants.’
So much to learn from Arabic culture
— Rita S Karakas (@RitaKarakas) October 9, 2020
How could social media NOT make a remix out of the FlyGate incident?! HOW?! But many on tweeps were quick to respond by saying that practically all politicians have had to face the unsparing FLY
From Clinton and Obama to Trump.
Happens to the best of them 🤪 pic.twitter.com/j1Z2FvPTj2
— Martha Ω (@MartyOm) October 10, 2020
Even animals couldn’t help being aroused by the ‘Lord of Flies’ making a comfy home on Pence’s head
The only #flygate video you need to watch pic.twitter.com/Ojgl46emBP
— Jerry James Stone (@jerryjamesstone) October 8, 2020
Former US President Barack Obama’s previous fly encounter was also dug out and shared among all the buzz on Twitter and tweeps were left impressed at how effectively Obama handled the sitch
So nice to see and hear a real Prez ‘in action’!
— SDB Smith 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️🌈 All LivesMatter! 😷💉x2+2 (@Stewart15492266) October 8, 2020
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