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Like us you might not be overly familiar with the Babylon Bee, which brands itself as ‘fake news you can trust’ over on Twitter and is described as conservative, anti-woke and, well you get the idea. Magas lap it up, basically. Although there was something about this particular wheeze which might have stuck in the […] The post American anti-wokers tried to use AI to mock the idea of a woman president and it was a glorious self-own for the ages appeared first on The Poke.

Despite having all of the knowledge in the whole world in our literal hands in the form of a smartphone, there are still a lot of things that we still struggle to understand. They’ve been chatting about our chronic inability to figure the easy stuff out on the AskUK subreddit after Proper_Emu_2296 posted this: What […] The post ‘What are common misconceptions people could benefit from understanding?’ – 21 things we’re all getting very wrong appeared first on The Poke.

In case you’d missed it, the former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe had an epic parting of the ways with that party and has started his own – Restore Britain. It’s the preferred British option for Elon Musk’s interference, and currently the furthest right of the parties that get coverage from the mainstream media. As […] The post Rupert Lowe vows to defund the BBC because Have I Got News For You mocked him and Musk, if you were wondering how far he can spit his dummy appeared first on The Poke.

This especially patriotic Brexiteer is suffering from a severe case of voters’ remorse after he admitted that the UK’s European exit had left him worse off and done nothing to help the nation ‘take control’ of its borders. So he must be furious – absolutely furious – with Nigel Farage for suggesting Brexit would lead […] The post This Nigel Farage voter now bitterly regrets Brexit but it’s what he says next that really had people hollering into next week appeared first on The Poke.

Like us you might not know an awful lot about Jon Ossify. The Democratic lawmaker for Georgia became the youngest member of the Senate elected since 1980 when he took office five years ago and he’s something of a rising star by all accounts. And if this 41 seconds of his Atlanta rally speech is […] The post This Democratic lawmaker’s A++ takedown of Donald Trump just went wildly viral and it’s 41 seconds of brutal beauty appeared first on The Poke.

Yet again we find ourselves asking, ‘what’s the colour of the sky in Donald Trump’s world?’ after the American president suggested most people didn’t know how to spell dumb. He said this in an especially hard-hitting interview with, er, his daughter in law, Lara Trump. Run VT! Trump: Dumb ends with a B but most […] The post Donald Trump said most Americans didn’t know how to spell ‘dumb’ and the comebacks really did write themselves appeared first on The Poke.

It’s true that ‘word clouds’ aren’t as popular as they once were, but they can still be a useful way of presenting data. In case you weren’t aware, they take a group of words from survey responses and the more frequently a word appears, the bigger and bolder it is shown in the cloud. The […] The post These ‘word clouds’ showing the public’s unfiltered opinion of each party leader are very revealing – and sometimes accidentally hilarious appeared first on The Poke.

It’s been a disappointing time for Donald Trump, recently. One judge ordered him to take his name off the John F Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, another is examining whether his $1.8 billion ‘weaponization fund’ settlement with the DoJ was achieved by fraud – and he still has that hair. To add to […] The post Donald Trump’s response to artists pulling out of his Freedom 250 gig is to book ‘the Number One Attraction’ in the world – himself! 22 hard passes appeared first on The Poke.

Texan anti-vaxxer Alyse became the main character on Twitter for a full-throated attack against what she thought was a British law. We’re not entirely sure what made her offer up this hot take, but here it is. Community Notes added some much-needed context. Curse that dreaded opposition to people falling to a squishy death in […] The post An American mocked the British for having ‘laws keeping people from fully opening their windows’ and got owned into next year – 17 transatlantic clapbacks appeared first on The Poke.

It’s not yet six months since Donald Trump had the John F Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts rebranded to include his name – above that of JFK. The late president’s niece, Maria Shriver, summed up why it was such an outrageous move. The Kennedy Center was named after my uncle, President John F […] The post A judge ordered Donald Trump to take his name off the Kennedy Center, and triggered an unhinged Truth Social rant of epic proportions – 24 schadenfreude-coated reactions appeared first on The Poke.