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riversedge

(80,283 posts)
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 11:23 AM Yesterday

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 Yesterday OP
I saw an ad for an event here in SW Florida markodochartaigh Yesterday #1
Not to doubt that that group exists but am wondering why there is a necessity for it. efhmc Yesterday #2
I certainly agree with your sentiment. markodochartaigh Yesterday #14
And yet the Repuglican base wonders why Dr. T Yesterday #3
Not planning to go on Twitter, but I almost would just see the replies to that idgits post. mwmisses4289 Yesterday #4
Yes he's Stoopid, but stupid works Hassler Yesterday #5
Not sure I have ever heard of this asshole. niyad Yesterday #6
He sees them...he's lying to his audience Prairie Gates Yesterday #9
Wait until he finds out people live in shopping malls. Historic NY Yesterday #7
Ersatz journalism is as legitimate as meatless meatloaf Torchlight Yesterday #8
So, Just Jerome Yesterday #10
As abjectly dumb as he is, ol' Nick is still a genius compared to our current President.... Ol Janx Spirit Yesterday #11
I wonder what he would think BeneteauBum Yesterday #12
Oh, Shirley knew Junipercity Yesterday #13
Did you see John Oliver mentioned him on last night's Last Week Tonight Beaverhausen Yesterday #15
The factual stupidity and lack of logical reasoning Dark n Stormy Knight 15 hrs ago #16

markodochartaigh

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

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
Yesterday

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

(131,159 posts)
6. Not sure I have ever heard of this asshole.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 01:21 PM
Yesterday

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

(7,681 posts)
9. He sees them...he's lying to his audience
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:21 PM
Yesterday

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

(39,893 posts)
7. Wait until he finds out people live in shopping malls.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:12 PM
Yesterday

vertical villages with food courts and fine dining.

Torchlight

(6,635 posts)
8. Ersatz journalism is as legitimate as meatless meatloaf
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 02:17 PM
Yesterday

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

(898 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
Yesterday

"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
Yesterday

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

(24,694 posts)
15. Did you see John Oliver mentioned him on last night's Last Week Tonight
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 03:05 PM
Yesterday

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.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,484 posts)
16. The factual stupidity and lack of logical reasoning
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 02:34 AM
15 hrs ago

skills displayed by MAGAts is mind-boggling!!!

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