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riversedge

(80,281 posts)
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 11:23 AM 13 hrs ago

Breaking: fake journalist, Nick Shirley, discovers mixed-use buildings exist.

Some days it is hard to believe people as stupid as Nick Shirley actually exist!! ---and worse yet, that some people will believe him!!




Breaking: fake journalist discovers mixed-use buildings exist. Film at 11.


The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller

Nick Shirley: “30 voters registered at a California UPS store!” 🤔

@paulmitche11: um, people live above it. Look up, bro. 🙃


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As usual this dude’s *reporting* is full of holes
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Breaking: fake journalist, Nick Shirley, discovers mixed-use buildings exist. (Original Post) riversedge 13 hrs ago OP
I saw an ad for an event here in SW Florida markodochartaigh 13 hrs ago #1
Not to doubt that that group exists but am wondering why there is a necessity for it. efhmc 12 hrs ago #2
I certainly agree with your sentiment. markodochartaigh 9 hrs ago #14
And yet the Repuglican base wonders why Dr. T 11 hrs ago #3
Not planning to go on Twitter, but I almost would just see the replies to that idgits post. mwmisses4289 11 hrs ago #4
Yes he's Stoopid, but stupid works Hassler 11 hrs ago #5
Not sure I have ever heard of this asshole. niyad 11 hrs ago #6
He sees them...he's lying to his audience Prairie Gates 10 hrs ago #9
Wait until he finds out people live in shopping malls. Historic NY 10 hrs ago #7
Ersatz journalism is as legitimate as meatless meatloaf Torchlight 10 hrs ago #8
So, Just Jerome 10 hrs ago #10
As abjectly dumb as he is, ol' Nick is still a genius compared to our current President.... Ol Janx Spirit 10 hrs ago #11
I wonder what he would think BeneteauBum 10 hrs ago #12
Oh, Shirley knew Junipercity 10 hrs ago #13
Did you see John Oliver mentioned him on last night's Last Week Tonight Beaverhausen 9 hrs ago #15

markodochartaigh

(5,326 posts)
1. I saw an ad for an event here in SW Florida
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 11:27 AM
13 hrs ago

Last edited Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:58 PM - Edit history (1)

that he is attending with Madison Cawthorn. It was for a group called Patriots Against Education.

Edit: it was actually Patriots Against Learning

markodochartaigh

(5,326 posts)
14. I certainly agree with your sentiment.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 03:03 PM
9 hrs ago

Authoritarians value indoctrination, not education.

I paid very little attention to the ad and I just tried googling it. I was wrong, it was Patriots Against Learning. The only mention I find of it is the ad with Cawthorn and Shirley. The ad is for an actual event and does not appear to be satire. Maybe it is something new that these reich-wing influencers are floating.

niyad

(131,115 posts)
6. Not sure I have ever heard of this asshole.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 01:21 PM
11 hrs ago

Ooookkaaaayyy. .Let me understand something. .He appears to be standing RIGHT IN FRONT of the building, and does not see the apartments above ground level???

Prairie Gates

(7,671 posts)
9. He sees them...he's lying to his audience
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:21 PM
10 hrs ago

The fact that they don't wonder why he has to lie is the problem. He knows perfectly well that the people registered to vote live in the residential suites of the building. He specifically went out looking for a UPS store in a residential storefront so he could make this dishonest case. He kept the camera tight to the UPS store to make his dishonest case.

It's much worse than if he was merely stupid.

Historic NY

(39,889 posts)
7. Wait until he finds out people live in shopping malls.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:12 PM
10 hrs ago

vertical villages with food courts and fine dining.

Torchlight

(6,626 posts)
8. Ersatz journalism is as legitimate as meatless meatloaf
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:17 PM
10 hrs ago

His Doctorate of Fallacy degree from YouTube University degree is advertising itself.

(Grandma once made meatless meatloaf for me... it's worse than it sounds)

Ol Janx Spirit

(893 posts)
11. As abjectly dumb as he is, ol' Nick is still a genius compared to our current President....
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:28 PM
10 hrs ago

"Some days it is hard to believe people as stupid as Nick Shirley actually exist!! ---and worse yet, that some people will believe him!!"

Turnip says: hold my Diet Coke....

I mean, our current POTUS thinks magnets don't work when you get them wet....

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-declares-nobody-knows-magnets-225344348.html

He also doesn't understand the difference between a "windmill" and a "wind turbine", AND he believes that they cause cancer somehow....

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/04/trumps-faulty-wind-power-claims/

Of course, he thinks something can be reduced by more than 100%--which I wish he would be.

He also bizarrely thinks that a battery powered boat might sink because it is heavy--an interesting misunderstanding of engineering and buoyancy; I guess aircraft carriers are pure magic in his "brain"--and when it does it will apparently only electrocute humans that get in the water and not the shark that is 10 yards away just waiting to eat them.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/06/12/trump-shark-battery-biden-threat-election/74063059007/

Yeah, Nick is nowhere near the bottom of the MAGA barrel.

BeneteauBum

(388 posts)
12. I wonder what he would think
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:30 PM
10 hrs ago

If he learned that I live a quarter mile from my domicile address? On top of that, my home (a Beneteau 321) constantly changes location as the wind changes direction. Oh the horrors we registered democrats stoop to vote!

Peace ☮️

Beaverhausen

(24,693 posts)
15. Did you see John Oliver mentioned him on last night's Last Week Tonight
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 03:05 PM
9 hrs ago

I didn't realize that DHS went to Minnesota because of all the bullshit Shirley was doing with the child care centers when he was there.

I just saw that a republican rep from MN is taking him to the SOTU tomorrow.

ugh.

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