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SNL’s impression of Theresa May is hilariously on point
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She sounds more like the Queen than Theresa May, tbh, but nonetheless Kate McKinnon delivered a pretty epic parody of “Maybot” on Saturday Night Live.
Robotic and expressionless, McKinnon’s May delves into the British prime minister’s Twitter spat with Donald Trump — and it’s just brilliant.
“I’m not afraid of a little social media fisticuffs. And I’ve never felt more alive,” she remarks.
“Theresa May” also claims she put Trump “on blast” after he retweeted three unverified videos from far-right group Britain First.
“Savage. Flaming emoji. I am practically a troll now,” she says, noting that the “bitch tagged the wrong Theresa May”, a reference to Trump mentioning another Theresa May on Twitter. Read more…
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View More SNL’s impression of Theresa May is hilariously on pointPolitician quotes Dumbledore to make a point about Trump, nails it
There’s no book more vital to a politician’s repertoire than Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
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On the BBC flagship political programme Question Time on Thursday, the …
Amir Khan asked if there’s ever been a female Prime Minister and the internet couldn’t even
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Amir Khan may be very good at boxing, but it turns out he’s not quite as good at politics.
Specifically, the question of whether or not the UK has ever had a female Prime Minister.
Khan is currently a contestant on ITV’s reality show I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!. At the moment the campmates are taking part in a task that involves one of them acting as “Prime Minister” for the camp, and on Sunday night’s show the conversation turned political.
At which point, Amir Khan asked the following:
“has there ever been a woman prime minister” oh amir khan 😂😭😫
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View More Amir Khan asked if there’s ever been a female Prime Minister and the internet couldn’t evenRussian bots dropped 45,000 garbage tweets on us during the Brexit referendum
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Reports of Russian trolls meddling into the U.S. elections are quite widespread, and even subject to a recent congressional investigation.
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Less well-known is Russia’s interference in the UK’s referendum on European Union membership in 2016.
But now a paper — still incomplete — by data scientists at Swansea University and the University of California, Berkeley, is digging into the magnitude of Russian Brexit-related tweets — and the provisional results are astonishing.
Russian accounts that normally tweet in Russian and whose main subject was the Ukrainian conflict swiftly switched to English ahead of the June 2016 referendum and dumped a staggering 45,000 tweets in 48 hours with the hashtag “#Brexit,” paper co-author Tho Pham told Mashable. Read more…
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