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The President of the United States is an amoral animal wringing every last drop of money, power, and Diet Coke out of the White House. When he’s not busy fraudulently enriching himself, he’s meandering the country trying to keep his cronies in position to do the same. That brings us to Rockland County in upstate […] The post I went to a Trump rally and lived to blog about it – notes from inside the orange & distended belly of the beast appeared first on The Poke.

If there’s one person on the planet who is unqualified to speak to the merits of military honors, it’s Donald Trump. The President is known for dodging wars, creating fake medical issues, and calling out any soldier who gets killed or injured in combat. And yet, Trump has made a name for himself by calling […] The post Donald Trump explained why the Medal of Freedom is better than the Medal of Honor and his rationale should be dishonorably discharged into the sun appeared first on The Poke.

The best people in life light up every room they enter with their charm and charisma. Then there are people who are the opposite: joy-sucking vampires who always kill the vibe. Obviously you’ll want to steer clear of these tedious folk, but how? Well, you could do a lot worse than to heed the answers […] The post What’s something that instantly tells you a person is going to be exhausting? – 17 signs someone is going to be an energy vampire appeared first on The Poke.

Whoever taught Donald Trump to use the internet needs to have a long hard word with themself. The Orange Buffoon not only uses Truth Social and Twitter to rant about things he’s spotted on cable TV at two in the morning, but he post memes and – for the last couple of years – AI […] The post Donald Trump posted some AI slop of himself throwing Stephen Colbert into a dumpster, and got absolutely dragged – 17 best burns appeared first on The Poke.

Welome to our round-up of the funniest things we’ve spotted on Threads in the past week. It comes to you during the hottest early May temperatures in Europe since records began, accompanied by a humongous side-eye in the direction of climate change deniers, and a brief prayer of thanks for ice-lollies. If you spot anything […] The post 25 Funniest Threads Posts to Give Your Day a Lift appeared first on The Poke.

The great lie about Trump winning the 2020 election has barged its way back into the spotlight, with the president packing his sycophants into the Justice Department, and his cabinet refusing to admit that Biden won – even under oath. Recently, however, Trump introduced a new conspiracy theory – that he got the votes to […] The post Trump says he would have ‘won California’ if Jesus had counted the votes, and there’s not enough ‘Sure, Jan’ in the world – 15 brutal corrections appeared first on The Poke.

Reform UK’s candidate for the crucial Makerfield by-election, Robert Kenyon, has got off to exactly the start you’d expect from his party – with multiple allegations of racism and sexism, fuelled by his own now-deleted or banned social media accounts. Here’s the type of hot take we can expect from Makerfield’s potential MP. Reform’s candidate […] The post Danny Kruger downplaying Reform’s Makerfield candidate’s vile misogynistic comments about Carol Vorderman spoke volumes about where the party is right now appeared first on The Poke.

It’s a golden rule of comedy that if a joke needs an explanation, it isn’t working. Donald Trump, however, has never been one to follow rules — financial, political, legal, or moral. He recently coined the term ‘Dumocrats’ for his political opponents and, at a rally in Suffern, New York, treated the crowd to a […] The post 17 favourite clapbacks to Donald Trump’s ironic revelation that ‘a lot of people’ didn’t know there was a ‘b’ in dumb appeared first on The Poke.

On Friday, SpaceX carried out a test flight of the V3 rocket that Elon Musk hopes will one day carry people to Mars. Its booster, which is designed to separate and complete a powered return, failed to pull off the powered part, falling uncontrolled into the Gulf of Mexico. One of the six engines on […] The post The New York Times described the exploded SpaceX rocket’s mission as ‘mostly successful’, and the takedowns were out of this world – 21 scathing reactions appeared first on The Poke.

Another day, another deflection from the head of Reform UK over the five million quid he was bunged – sorry – given by a Thailand-based crypto billionaire named Christopher Harborne (or Chakrit Sakunkrit). At this rate, Farage’s crypto-millions excuses will have a Wikipedia page of their own. Farage now claims Russian spies hacked his phone […] The post Nigel Farage claims his £5 million crypto windfall was leaked by a Kremlin hacker, and the chinny reckon stretched to Thailand and back – 23 sceptical responses appeared first on The Poke.