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Everything is fine in Donald Trump’s world, he just needs some of his own people to confirm that for him with some data they cook up. Dressed like an orchestra-conducting penguin, President Trump stood up at his golden eagle-adorned podium to announce that better polling numbers are on their way. Trump: “When the real pollsters […] The post Donald Trump promises better poll numbers as soon as ‘real pollsters’ conduct them – 15 very real, and very angry, replies appeared first on The Poke.

The FBI finally had its chance to explain ‘antifa’ at a congressional hearing and it was like asking a house of cards to hold up in a wind tunnel. The simplest definition of ‘antifa’ is ‘anti-facist.’ That’s it. It’s quite straightforward. Yet, when your entire political movement is built upon defeating ‘antifa,’ it gets a […] The post The FBI was asked to explain why Antifa is their biggest domestic terror threat to the US right now and ended up brutally, humiliatingly owned appeared first on The Poke.

To the US where Donald Trump continues to insist that the American people have basically never had it so good, while at the same time suggesting they might need to ration the Christmas presents they buy for their kids because, you know, money is tight and all that. So how can those two things be […] The post CNN’s Kaitlan Collins dared question Trump’s claims about the US economy and Karoline Leavitt’s meltdown said it all appeared first on The Poke.

It’s that magical time of year when Spotify Wrapped comes out, and we all wonder whether we really need to know that our listening age is 83. Thanks, data collection. However, it is interesting to know what we listen to a lot, and which songs are different from our usual (old person) tastes. They’ve been […] The post ‘What’s a song you like even though you think you probably shouldn’t?’ – 22 people whose musical tastes surprise even themselves appeared first on The Poke.

Donald Trump has never been known for his subtlety. That being said, even for him this latest open admission in front of the press was stunning. In calling for unity, Trump founds himself comparing his ideal version of America to another country. Trump: “We have to be unified. China is unified because they have one […] The post Donald Trump was basically drooling over the idea that America might be more like China and it should be made available to every Maga on prescription appeared first on The Poke.

Over on Twitter @czoob3 shared a picture of his team working late into the night – well, 9.15pm on a Monday night, which is more than late enough for us – and went viral, wildly viral. 9:15 pm Monday night. Not a single Eng has left yet. The only thing to do in life is […] The post A boss tweeted a picture of his team working late but people reckoned it wasn’t the flex he thought it was – 13 hard-working comebacks appeared first on The Poke.

To be filed under ‘it would be funny if it wasn’t so serious’ comes Donald Trump’s apparent determination to do all he can not only to do down Europe but actively split it up. The American president’s blizzard of disinformation went so far as to suggest that many Europeans would quite like him as their […] The post Donald Trump said Europeans would quite like him as their leader as well and the whole of Europe responded as one appeared first on The Poke.

We feature no end of comebacks and takedowns – call them what you will! – on these pages but we don’t recall one quite so entraining, devastating and downright hilarious as this one. It’s an Aussie women who’s had it up to here – up to here we tell you! – with Americans who think […] The post This Aussie cowgirl’s hilarious takedown of ‘Americans who think there’s no place in the world other than America’ is a furiously funny 5-star treat appeared first on The Poke.

It’s true that we live in an age of uncertainty at the moment, and it feels like we’re perpetually on the brink of some sort of massive disaster, but is that true? Or are we just so addicted to doomscrolling that it feels that way? It’s hard to say, but that doesn’t mean that we […] The post ‘What’s are the little things you do ‘just in case’?’ – 21 odd and irrational safety measures people can’t function without appeared first on The Poke.

To the studios of BBC1’s Question Time, which this week travelled to Scotland a week after Reform UK leader Nigel Farage took aim at the ‘one in three’ Glasgow schoolchildren who speak more than one language. The guests included Reform UK’s latest recruit, former Tory Cabinet minister Malcom (Lord) Offord, and leader of the Scottish […] The post This Scottish MP’s magnificent takedown of Reform UK’s newest recruit was so brutal we thought he was going to cry appeared first on The Poke.