Last week, we endured the first and only vice presidential debate. Senator Kamala Harris v. Vice President Mike Pence (feat. the Fly). That’s right, for those of you who were too busy to sit down for 90 minutes, I’ve got the fact-checked highlights of the night. And no worries, I only mention the fly once, I swear.

So, Kamala Harris enters the ring with a heavy-hitting reputation. We’ve seen her press brett kavanaugh in the supreme court hearing so we know she ain’t nobody to mess with. Mike Pence, on the other hand, he strolls up with his special brand of evangelical milkbread, and what’s that– pink eye? Eww. The moderator, Susan Page [USA Today] has got her job cut out for her, that much we knew. Watching Pence squirm on stage with two powerful women was the night’s true entertainment.

Kamala right hooks Pence straight-out the gate. Topic: Pandemic. Counting the facts off the tips of her fingers, “210,000 are dead in our country over the last several months. Over 7 mil. people have contracted the disease. 1 in 5 businesses, closed. Front-line workers who have been treated like sacrificial workers. We are looking at over 30 million people who have filed for unemployment.” BOOM! A resolute punch. She doesn’t even need to mention the virus outbreak in the whitehouse to point out this administrations failure to deal with it. She concludes by reminding us that cult45 downplayed the virus on purpose (shoutout to Bob Woodward). It really was an immaculate blow, setting the tone for the night.

Pence failed to recover with a competent argument. After his half-hearted condolences to “the people affected by covid”, he kept repeating the imaginary vaccine– You know what, I’ll spare you the bullshit. When his two-minutes were up, he began the new cult45 classic– talking over the moderator. Poor Susan said, “Thank you, Vice President.” ’bout 22 times thruout the night, to no avail. The rest of the debate passed by in a blur. Both candidates did their part in dodging and deflecting direct questions. At some points it even felt like we were watching a fencing match. Kamala’s scathing side-eye won her the night, and let’s not forget her iconic “Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking.”– and that damn Fly! It landed on Pence’s head for exactly two minutes and 9 seconds (arguably, the fly had a better understanding of the debate rules than the Vice President.) And for two minutes and 9 seconds, the whole world watched that fly in amazement. While Pence was discussing Justice for Breonna Taylor, no less.

By the end of the debate, Fly meme’s had already flooded the internet. Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok chewed it up like a bone. We were left with a more typical debate, ripe with nothing important. Nobody’s mind was changed, except for those who didn’t believe a fly could become a star overnight. Thank you, Kamala, for the gifs. Susan, you luke-warm peach, thank you as well. And Pence– don’t move. You’ve got a *WACK* on your head.