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LeBron James had some jokes for the fly that landed on Mike Pence

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James had some jokes while watching last night’s Vice Presidential debate.

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James, like many who were watching Wednesday night’s Vice Presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris, had plenty of jokes for a hilarious moment of happenstance during the debate involving a fly and the head of the Veep.

During last night’s debate, a fly was spotted on the top of the head of Pence, leading to a barrage of new twitter accounts and jokes about the fly landing on his head. LeBron James also had jokes, which he showed people on his Instagram story, comparing Pence to, well, a piece of feces.

James has been against the Trump White House ever since the 2016 election, so it makes sense that LeBron would jump in on the jokes about Pence. With less than a month towards the election, LeBron’s “More Than A Vote” is helping to get more people registered to vote and combat voter suppression against the Black community.

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Tobias Harris, JJ Redick react to fly that landed on Mike Pence’s head

Philadelphia 76ers forward Tobias Harris and former guard JJ Redick investigated a fly that landed on Mike Pence’s head.

It’s election season in the United States as the two candidates go out to try and earn the votes of the American people. There will be speeches and campaign slogans on TV and there will also be debates.

On Wednesday night, it was the Vice President debate between Democratic VP Kamala Harris and Republican VP Mike Pence. Harris and Pence would go on to debate about a variety of important topics, but there was one little thing that stole the show.

A fly seemed to land on Pence’s head without him noticing and it took over Twitter as the jokes went flying. Philadelphia 76ers forward Tobias Harris and former guard JJ Redick tried to figure out what exactly was on his head.

It always is fun to see something unusual and peculiar happen during these rather important debates. Clearly, Harris and Redick are two guys who are trying to figure it out like everybody else was. [lawrence-related id=38209,38206,38203]

Members of the Warriors react to fly landing on Mike Pence’s head at Vice Presidential Debate

After a fly landed on Mike Pence’s head at the VP Debate with Kamala Harris, Draymond Green and Eric Paschall chimed in on Twitter.

After President Donald Trump met with former Vice President Joe Biden for the first Presidential Debate for the 2020 election, it was time for their running mates to square off on Wednesday.

Vice President Mike Pence lined up across from Sen. Kamala Harris in Utah for the only VP Debate of election season. The pair debated a bevy of topics that included the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court, climate change and more.

During the 90 minute debate, a highlight moment occurred when a fly landed on the head of Pence. According to Ian Cull of NBC Bay Area, the fly stuck around on Pence’s head for two minutes, three seconds.

Via @NBCian on Twitter:

The arrival of the fly quickly turned social media into a frenzy of jokes and memes. Many viewers of the debate chimed in on social media with their take on the memorable fly, including a pair of Golden State Warriors.

Via @USATODAY on Twitter:

Both Draymond Green and Eric Paschall shared tweets with their reaction to the famous fly’s unexpected landing spot.

Via @Money23Green on Twitter:

Via @epashcall on Twitter:

 

The second Presidential Debate between Trump and Biden is slated to take place on Thursday, Oct. 15, at Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida. The third and final pre-election debate is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 22, in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Ed Orgeron tells VP Mike Pence that ‘we need football’

Vice President Mike Pence was in Baton Rouge on Tuesday.

Vice President Mike Pence was in Baton Rouge on Tuesday participating in a forum discussing safely reopening colleges and universities while also resuming sports.

LSU head football coach Ed Orgeron also participated in the panel and told the vice president how much football was needed.

“We have our team back. They’re ready to go,” Orgeron said. “We need football. We need to play. This state needs it, this country needs it.”

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Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, United States Secretary of Education Betsy Devos, LSU athletic director Scott Woodward and a host of others, including politicians and medical experts participated in the discussion.

Orgeron noted that a number of players did test positive for COVID-19 once they returned to campus this summer, but all were recovered and doing well.

Pence acknowledged how important it was for all schools to reopen on time, but safely, per Sam Karlin of The Advocate.

“Getting our kids back into schools is the right thing to do academically, but it’s also the right thing to do for our children,” Pence said.

The vice president admitted the recent surge of cases in the South was a concern but expressed optimism that each of the states would get the outbreak of the virus back under control.

With around six weeks remaining until the opening of college football season, there is still time for the 2020 season to go on as planned.

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Steve Kerr, Eric Reid join chorus calling out VP Mike Pence over protest tweet

“You’ve gotta be kidding me. How do you have the gall to say this?”

On Friday, as protests erupted around the country following the killing of George Floyd, Vice President Mike Pence sent out a tweet decrying the protests. But he followed it with a tweet that said, in part: “We will always stand for the right of Americans to peacefully protest and let their voices be heard.”

As many sports fans quickly pointed out, however, Pence had very memorably and very famously not stood for the right for Americans to peacefully protest, when he walked out of an NFL game in 2017 after players kneeled during the playing of the national anthem. In what was pretty clearly a publicity stunt, Pence had done the opposite of what he was now saying in a tweet he was committed to doing.

Sports fans called him out quickly, en masse. And now some bigger names have gotten involved.

Warriors head coach Steve Kerr called out Pence in a quote tweet, asking how he had “the gall” to say what he did.

NFL safety Eric Reid, currently a free agent, also called out Pence.

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Sports fans call out VP Mike Pence’s praising of peaceful protest, citing his NFL walkout

Everyone reminded him of what happened in 2017.

Let’s go all the way back to October of 2017.

It was then that Vice President Mike Pence and his wife attended an Indianapolis Colts game against the San Francisco 49ers. Upon seeing the players take a knee during the national anthem, Pence and his group left. President Donald Trump later tweeted that he asked Pence to leave “if any players kneeled, disrespecting our country.”

Now, come back to Friday.

In response to the deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery and the protests that have followed, Pence tweeted, “We will always stand for the right of Americans to peacefully protest and let their voices be heard.”

This was the response:

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