Julie Bishop Really <3 Emoji

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November 23, 2014

Let me tell you something about Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. A cursory glance at Bishop’s Twitter account reveals that, despite the occasional gold star awarded to her team, the minister’s emoji use before today was found to be wanting at best. That all changed last night.

Now The Hon. Julie Bishop fucking <3 emoji.

Like all things of great consequence, Bishop’s emoji addiction started with a RT laced with traces of love heart eyes emoji – a gateway emoji if ever there were one – before spiralling ever downward, her feed devolving into an emoji bender.

Bishop was high on emoji: fielding and retweeting deft humblebrags accompanied by dancing women emoji with aplomb; instilling fear into the hearts of her followers with the gurning emoji; narrating her future addresses to the United Nations in crude pictographic form and finally describing her dream getaway in the universal language of standardised hieroglyphs more teens prefer. Just ask a teen. They love ’em.

Then her phone got confiscated and now I guess she’s on emoji crack.

The honourable Julie Bishop. ??@JulieBishopMP pic.twitter.com/5Awt90pOr2

— Georgia Hyland ?? (@georgia_hyland2) November 23, 2014

“@PatsKarvelas: @James_Jeffrey @Wyatt_MP @JulieBishopMP she’s hard not to like”????

— Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP) November 23, 2014

“@bencubby: Gosh @JulieBishopMP sure does love her emojis” ??

— Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP) November 23, 2014

“@gemmacaf: @JulieBishopMP I’ve never been so intimidated by a smiley.”??

— Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP) November 23, 2014

“@sam_armytage: #shine in stores tomorrow…! ????

#laterGram #excitedGram http://t.co/THgNLXaYWe” Congratulations – go girl ??

— Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP) November 23, 2014

“@kimjongeuan: fully expecting @JulieBishopMP to deliver her next address to the united nations entirely in emoji”????????????

— Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP) November 23, 2014

“@Mel_Matheson: Our Foreign Minister @JulieBishopMP onto the international language of emojis. Looking forward to her use of this one: ??”??

— Julie Bishop (@JulieBishopMP) November 23, 2014