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Having the courage of your convictions is one thing. But being ridiculously stubborn about a belief even when it’s obviously completely baseless, well… that’s something else entirely. Being stupidly pigheaded has been a hot topic of conversation on the AskReddit page after JumpyBend8035 asked this: What’s something you defended for years before finally admitting you […] The post ‘What’s something you defended for years before finally admitting you were wrong?’ – 21 people who chose a terrible hill to die on appeared first on The Poke.

When you’re a kid you dream of having parents who will let you stay up late, watch telly until your eyes turn square and eat Mars Bars for breakfast. And when you’re an adult you humbly realise why they didn’t. They’ve been discussing the wisdom of our elders on the AskUK subreddit after TTNNBB2023 asked […] The post ‘What is something your parents were not strict about but you wish they were?’ – 23 people who were crying out to be grounded appeared first on The Poke.

RFK Jr. is known for many things: his grating voice, his extramarital affairs, his brain worms. Now we know him as an action figure. Unfortunately for the United States, none of those things apply to his day job as head of the Department of Health and Human Services and the country continues to circle the […] The post RFK Jr posted a spoof commercial for his very own action figure and self-awareness must be sold separately appeared first on The Poke.

Magas took their first step towards getting to the center of any wrongdoing exposed in the Epstein Files and they are looking in some very unusual places. For starters, the first person they decided to drag in for 6-hours of questions was Hillary Clinton, who didn’t even know Jeffrey Epstein. Republicans refused to make the […] The post Hillary Clinton revealed exactly how pointless the questions were at her Epstein deposition and it was truly out of this world appeared first on The Poke.

Donald Trump’s biggest crush visited the White House again and the results were just as startling as the first time. NYC Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, proud Socialist, met with the President in his office to discuss a potential housing project in New York City. New York is seeking to secure $21 billion in federal grants for […] The post New York mayor Zohran Mamdani just totally played Donald Trump and all it took was a fake newspaper singing his praises appeared first on The Poke.

Spare a thought – only kidding – for the good people of GB News, who presumably had the cider on ice for Thursday night’s be-election only for their man Matt Goodwin to go down fighting, sorry, crying to the Green party’s Hannah Spencer. And it’s fair to say Nigel Farage’s news channel wasn’t taking it […] The post GB News took Reform UK’s by-election defeat just as well as you’d imagine and they should make this available on prescription appeared first on The Poke.

Donald Trump, JD Vance, and the rest of the current White House administration rode into town on a wave of momentum. It was all based on one thing: anything’s better than Joe Biden. Well, here we are over a year later, and they’re still trying to ride that wave, but it looks like JD Vance […] The post Fox News called out JD Vance on America’s poor economy and his comeback was as wearisome as it was predictable appeared first on The Poke.

We’ve uncovered another politician who thinks he was a part of the gold medal-winning US Men’s hockey team. First, Kash Patel showed up in the locker room to crush beers with the bros. Then Trump trotted out the whole team and made them stand in the stairways while he took credit for America’s winning. Now, […] The post This Maga congressman taunted Canada about America’s ice hockey gold and it was a glorious own-goal for the ages appeared first on The Poke.

If you’ve ever heard Donald Trump speak, you can probably guess his take on education. If that doesn’t do the trick, look no further than his repeated attempts at dismantling the US Department of Education. That ornery relationship might explain this recent post from the Department of Ed’s official Twitter account. Clearly, they’re trying to […] The post The US Department of Education posted how to make America smart again and they should probably go back to the drawing board appeared first on The Poke.

Contrary to a low stakes conspiracy theory that I just made up, America is a genuine place, and not a fictional location invented by the entertainment industry to make it rich. This hasn’t stopped the literally dozens of people who live outside of the US from assuming that things they see on the box are […] The post What’s an American thing you see in movies that you thought was fake but is actually real? – 21 blown minds appeared first on The Poke.