January 1, 2026

"So what are they going to get me for?"

Nick Shirley defends himself preemptively:

Can the phrase "virtue signaling" be applied to this (jocosely?)? 

Pretty unusual for a man to tell the world he's a virgin.
I don't drink alcohol, I don't do drugs, I'm a virgin, I don't have sex with random girls, I don't have addictions, I don't have vices, so what are they going to get me for? I believe in God. I'm religious. I'm everything that they hate.

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Captain BillieBob said...

They are going to get him for something. Count on it.

Peachy said...

The evil corrupt Soviet mob left want you dead, buddy. Be careful.
speaking truth and uncovering leftwing democratic corruption is dangerous.

Peachy said...

Reddit leftists.. are they etching their bullets?

bagoh20 said...

It's the left. They will do whatever it takes with no limits or regrets and then say you deserved it. Remember Charley.

Temujin said...

He's white. He's a male. He's a Christian. Those are three serious infractions in the mind of the progressive. They'll attack him for those listed reasons. They may call it something else, but it'll be for those reasons.

Unknown said...

He didn’t admit to being a virgin, Althouse. He said he doesn’t sleep with “random” women. That leaves room for sleeping with women with whom he is in a committed relationship. He’s saying that he doesn’t hook up, not that he doesn’t have sex at all.

Peachy said...

Indeed. Never Forget Charlie Kirk - and how the corrupt leftist cult-mob and loyalists lied about who killed him.

F Kimmel and his horrid vile bottom feeding f*ing horrid white leftist wife.**

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Twenty-three is pretty young nowadays. He’s getting death threats for doing the work overpaid journ-0-listers refused to do. God bless him.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Reading comprehension strikes again!

bagoh20 said...

We live in a society where innocent people now have to risk their lives to do innocent things, things most us know are righteous, things they do out of love, things that simply expose the truth.
This is where the left has gotten us. Where bad parenting, and dysfunctional education has taken us. This is the poison of neurotic and relentless progressivism.

Mr. T. said...
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Mr. T. said...

Well now he's getting death threats by leftists calling for him to be (Charlie) "Kirked." No small part led by leftwing hack sites like Politico and the usual gutter trash fake media sites like Salon, New Republic, Rolling Stone, CNN (did they get hisnrace right?), The Guardian, and the Atlantic. And Walz too, like he had his own man assinate his own party members, the Hortmans, to save his corrupt ass.

Sounds like too like Shirley is his putting out his background to lay the grounds in preparation for ligation for the eventual libel spewed out by named above outlets.

Tom T. said...

They're going to call him an angry incel.

Peachy said...

Dude - the entire corrupt left and their army of maddow a-holes want you dead.
You don't uncover leftist -democratic tax payer fraud... without consequences.

Be careful. Please!

He needs a go-fund-me for mass security. That's life under a corrupt leftist regime.
the corrupt Soviet Mob left want him dead.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Maybe those ancient dead guys were onto something with that whole seek Truth and Beauty thing.

Original Mike said...

They make shit up, Nick.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

We’ve reached the stage where “I am a virgin” is a debatable statement requiring interpretation.

Peachy said...

X @WilliamWolfe

"It's becoming increasingly undeniable that every left-coded "government program" that woke Christians used empathy to defend and demand we support...

Daycare, healthcare, refugee resettlement, welfare, etc.

Are all just fraudulent ponzi scheme kickbacks for godless Democrats"

Leland said...

Unknown said...
He didn’t admit to being a virgin, Althouse.


12 second mark of the video "I'm a virgin". It's not even a long video, even if you want to claim Althouse misquoted it.

Quayle said...

In other words, he’s a typical LDS unmarried believer.

Which means (to me, anyway) that he is also informed by LDS beliefs that if he is devoted to truth as he understands it, and is ready to meet his maker, what can they possibly do that wasn’t done to his exemplar Christ? And why should he expect better than Christ got, who said “Remember the word that I said to you, ‘Servants are not greater than their master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you.”

And from the revelations given to Joseph Smith (who himself was killed by opponents):

“ If thou art accused with all manner of false accusations; if thine enemies fall upon thee; if they tear thee from the society of thy father and mother and brethren and sisters; and … thou be dragged to prison⁠, and thine enemies prowl around thee like wolves for the blood of the lamb;

And if thou shouldst be cast into the pit⁠, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep⁠; if the billowing surge conspire against thee; … know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience⁠, and shall be for thy good.

The Son of Man hath descended below them all. Art thou greater than he?

Therefore, hold on thy way, … for their bounds are set, and thy years shall not be numbered less; therefore, fear not what man can do, for God shall be with you forever and ever.

RCOCEAN II said...

wha? He believes in Christianity? Boy thats "weird". Real men spend all their time buying whores or chasing one night stands. Cause your dick is the No. 1 thing in the world.

Skeptical Voter said...

Young straight white male. What's wrong with that?

Spiros said...

This is a pretty good opportunity for him to have sex with random girls. So he is not an involuntary celibate.

mindnumbrobot said...

Pretty unusual for a man to tell the world he's a virgin.

Not for a man of deep faith, which seems to be a trend.

RCOCEAN II said...

Interesting how whenever any "non-leftist" reporter or writer finds something that hurts the Left, *He* becomes the story, not what he finds.

TaeJohnDo said...

If the left doesn't kill him, he's going to end up with a hot wife who adores him, and who gives him many babies. No nose ringed blue hair hag for him!

Peachy said...

HIs problem is not that he is a square - he is a square who helped uncover basic truths about the corrupt left.

He is now a target.

Hassayamper said...

They're sure to find some black guy to accuse him of using a racial slur in a playground fight in 5th grade.

That seems to be the universal get-out-of-jail-free card for black defendants being tried by black juries these days. Apparently we are all meant to believe that not only is there is an epidemic of elderly 95-lb Asian ladies going around calling hulking young black thugs the N-word to their faces, but that such evil words excuse the vicious beatings, robberies, and murders that supposedly are triggered thereby.

TeaBagHag said...

Never forget that MAGAts are looking for a reason to murder. Never forget that a MAGAt raised white boy, from a red state, trained to shoot by his MAGAt parents, shot and killed Charlie Kirk.
Be best!

Peachy said...

Tea hag - no one on the right is killing anyone - you lying sack.

Original Mike said...

I noticed yesterday that the left was "slurring" him for being Mormon. Tolerant bunch, the left.

RCOCEAN II said...

It used to be - before say 1900 - chastity was a virtue. And being a "Man-pig" as Teddy Roosevelt described it, was considered a vice. I think that changed primarily because (1) they found a way to treat VD and (2) birth control became widely available.

Fornication was looked down on, just like Adultery. Its not that it didn't happen, its that no one celebrated it much in Anglo America.

The standard pattern was (1) establish yourself financially and (2) find a wife and get married.

Peachy said...

yeah - Tea hag - no one with conservative parents ever rebels. You are such a liar and a pile of crap - you belong on the corrupt lying left. Stay there.

Peachy said...

That's what lying leftists do - they inspire murder, then blame others.

Hassayamper said...

He needs a go-fund-me for mass security.

GoFundMe will close it and keep the money for months as soon as a leftist complains about it. Use GiveSendGo for any cause that is in any way conservative, patriotic, or politically incorrect.

Birches said...

He's a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For the women he's interested in marrying, being a virgin is a huge plus. And if you're faithful, there's none of this "technically" word games: second base is out of bounds before marriage.

I await the next few comments discussing soaking as if it's actually real....

Wince said...

"Virtue signaling" is a pretense used as a sword to claim the moral high ground that confers upon them moral superiority and authority over others.

Shirley simply asserts his actual lifestyle is an effective shield against the tactics of those who would seek to destroy him while signaling their own virtue.

Limited blogger said...

Nick is identified by the MSM as a "MAGA You-tuber".

His research and findings are therefore declared illegitimite.

Old and slow said...

The All-In podcast new year's episode last night had him on as a guest. It was pretty good. Nothing groundbreaking, but worth a listen. I think it's great that he is LDS. It means there will be far less for his enemies to grab onto to demonize him.

Ann Althouse said...

"He didn’t admit to being a virgin, Althouse. He said he doesn’t sleep with “random” women."

He literally said, "I'm a virgin."

You may think the next phrase limits the meaning of the word "virgin," but I don't.

Joe Bar said...

At this point, I believe all Blue State governments are just money laundering organizations.

bagoh20 said...

"Pretty unusual for a man to tell the world he's a virgin."
Depends on the reason:
Voluntary virginity = successful self-discipline.
Involuntary virginity = failed effort.

Peachy said...

"The now-alleged shooter — who is not registered with any political party — had discussed how he “didn’t like” Kirk or “the viewpoints he had,” with a relative who responded that the now-slain 31-year-old Turning Point USA leader was “full of hate and spreading hate,” according to Cox and an affidavit."

Curious why leftist think that Charlie Kirk was "full o hate" and needed killing?

Howard said...

So being high on LSD is his excuse

Peachy said...

"Ghoulish liberals appallingly celebrated Kirk’s assassination, while even some Democratic lawmakers and officials blamed the conservative and Trump’s MAGA movement for the bloodshed."

Strange how the left celebrated Kirk's murder - but still blame Maga.

mindnumbrobot said...

RCOCEAN II said...
"Cause your dick is the No. 1 thing in the world."

Austin Millbarge: They do seem to be headed in that general direction. Maybe your dick's not so dumb.
Emmett Fitz-Hume: It got me through high school.
--Spies Like Us

Peachy said...

There is ZERO evidence that Trump supporters like to kill other Trump supporters.
It reveals the left's absurd cognitive dissonance, and their collective immoral cultism.

Peachy said...

The collective vile left: Charlie Kirk needed killing - but we didn't do it.

Christopher B said...

"Can't get laid". The go-to mean girl insult.

Achilles said...

Pretty unusual for a man to tell the world he's a virgin.

It is going to be in vogue pretty soon.

The pendulum is already swinging on this one.

Many many people have figured out that in order for a society to be founded on pair bonding you have to actually pair bond.

Peachy said...

Mormons have morals, kindness, honesty, selflessness, honor, and respectful social obligations build into their cultural and religious groundings.

Leftists hate those.

narciso said...

Shirley was also one of the figures who investigated the protesters (spontaneous ons, right)

bagoh20 said...

I'm a failed virgin.
"I'm afraid the strain was more than he could bear."

Achilles said...

Howard said...

So being high on LSD is his excuse

There must be something wrong with him. There just has to be.

Kakistocracy said...

I watched Shirley's video in it’s entirety. It included videos from many other cities. It showed money and guns stashed in a house in Edina and showed how money was sent to other states. How this is a national organization. Then near the end it stated that the video is FICTION but it explains that the video shows how this could really happen.

Whatever fraud there may be and there does seem to be a goodly amount of it, I doubt some kid with an iPhone and a podcast has any real facts to share with this story. He's just interested in clicks on his site to get paid and when you need clicks you do or say anything to get people ginned up. Wanna know the facts, follow real news sources as the facts are discovered and disclosed. Wanna waste your time, follow influencers.

Wilbur said...

I belive Howard meant to tease you people by playing upon The similarity of LSD to LDS.

Howard, please correct me if I'm wrong.

bagoh20 said...

Duck.AI is terrible. I asked for the dialog in "Tombstone" after the death of Johnny Ringo, and it gave a half dozen lines in quotes that never happen in the movie at all, let along that scene. They didn't even make sense for the characters to say them. It also refused to explain why it got it wrong.
Grok nailed the question first time. It's a simple question even for a human, so wtf?

narciso said...

Evil people dont recognize the good two generations later the diana christensens rule the roost

bagoh20 said...

"He's just interested in clicks on his site to get paid and when you need clicks you do or say anything to get people ginned up. Wanna know the facts, follow real news sources as the facts are discovered and disclosed."

Got to admit that every so often your humor is spot on.

Quaestor said...

Just being a Mormon is enough to ignite Howard's maladroit scorn. Arrogant atheist or religious bigot, which is he?

narciso said...

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/12/31/high-electricity-prices-are-a-choice-blue-states-make-every-day/

planetgeo said...

I'm guessing Howard actually meant to say "he's high on LDS". Howard's smart, but he can be dyslexic about religion.

bagoh20 said...

"I doubt some kid with an iPhone and a podcast has any real facts to share with this story."

Without him, there is no story from the "real news sources".

Since when does unedited video from an iPhone fail to provide facts about what it's recording? Maybe if it was pitch black, but even then it provides facts.

Peachy said...

He must be discredited. He revealed leftist Dem fraud.

This isn't hard.

Peachy said...


X
@MargoinWNC
"No wonder Western North Carolina couldn't get trailers for housing last year, I mean fake Somali children had to go to fake daycare while APPALACHIAN AMERICANS LIVED IN TENTS AND BEGGED FOR HELP."

Biden-Walz 'merica - is a cruel fraud shit show.

narciso said...

Yes indeed, it was a kleptocracy

FormerLawClerk said...

"What can they "get" me for? ... I believe in God. I'm religious. I'm everything that they hate."

So was Charlie Kirk.

The Democrats have a plan for people they can't "get."

They will just execute him.

Just like they tried to execute Trump when they couldn't "get" him on something.

This guy won't make it for another 2 weeks. He's a dead man walking.

planetgeo said...

I second Wince's correct interpretation of "virtue signaling" and why Shirley, this guy's not doing it. People (well, like every leftist) who do it expect that they will be given adulation for having done so. This guy knows he's about to be "gotten"...somehow...for something...for just exposing the truth.

Birches said...

Kak, what are you talking about? His video was just Minneapolis daycare and home health centers?

Peachy said...

yo Bernie and AOC - YOUR party is the Oligarchy.

Yancey Ward said...

They will come after him if they can't debunk the fraud allegations and the ways they will come after him are not all legal or nice- assassination is always an option for the left.

Paul said...

I'm all for the guy... and yes they hate him... cause they keep telling everyone to party and be happy and if it feels good, do it.... abortion is just tissue removal... being high is good... sleeping around is 'normal'. And they hate to see an example of a good person. Is he without sin? Oh, no he isn't. But is he a very good person. Yes.

And selfish Godless people hate that.

planetgeo said...

Oh, Kak, Happy New Year! I want to take this occasion to publicly thank you for making last year a ridiculously prosperous one for me with your awesome financial predictions about Musk's companies and Trump's tariffs. Dude, got any new predictions for 2026 so I can do the exact opposite as always?

Fred Drinkwater said...

bagoh20, some ai helped me look for the opening hours of Whole Foods by creating two new, closer Whole Foods stores, complete with lists of holiday hours.
Last year an ai magicked-up well-rated restaurants in Nova Scotia, complete with effusive customer reviews.
Now I only use Grok, because it explicitly lists its sources with links.

Eva Marie said...

May a thousand Nick Shirleys bloom.
I’m listening to Tom Holland’s Dominion.
Nick Shirley reminds me of early Christians in Rome, who faced persecution for refusing to compromise their convictions. Similarly, this conservative voice seems determined to expose corruption fueling America’s national debt, without being intimidated or silenced.

Eva Marie said...

Inadvertently, lefties have solved the problem of purpose for conservative incels.

bagoh20 said...

It's sometimes difficult to imagine what possible take a TDS infected mind will come up with, since it often involves fantastical leaps of logic and denial of obvious facts, so I would like to also thank Kak for providing those insights from Bizarro World. You have expanded my vision like a garden of Psilocybin mushrooms grown in pure bullshit.

bagoh20 said...

Virginity is quite an accomplishment for a young man today with all the young teachers trying to bang you in middle school. Something I often imagined back then, but never saw.

Eva Marie said...

By the way, I expect LDS membership to grow. Nick Fuentes has talked about the necessity of remaining celibate. Any young woman he marries would feel enormous pressure from lefties to turn on him for lucrative book deals and talk show invites (I’m paraphrasing his dilemma). That’s a legitimate concern. Lefties couldn’t wait to turn Reagan’s unremarkable children into vocal opponents of his presidency. It would be much safer to find a match in the LDS community.

john mosby said...

Planetgeo: "he can be dyslexic about religion."

Like the dyslexic agnostic, who wondered if there really is a Dog. CC, JSM

FullMoon said...

"bagoh20 said...
Virginity is quite an accomplishment for a young man today with all the young teachers trying to bang you in middle school. Something I often imagined back then, but never saw."

In 8th grade, girl behind me handed me a note: "Stop staring at Miss (teacher;s) ass"
When I opened it, half the class started laughing. Guess everybody noticed. Made it a point to be more subtle from then on

FullMoon said...

Not to mention my voluptuous Puerto Rican Spanish teacher.

Big Mike said...

Hard core lefty Althouse makes fun of Shirley's virginity as part of her virtue signaling.

Iman said...

Full Moon and Miss Edna Krabappel?

No way!

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

How long is the trajectory From “Just a YouTuber” To “Nobody who will be missed? These days, anybody can be kirked for saying unpopular things.

john mosby said...

My anecdotal impression is most LDS twentysomethings are not virgins. Because most of them are married. The working class ones get married early, as most working class people do. The professional ones get married in college, as their universities (both BYU and secular Utah state schools) seem to accommodate married students. One of my many beefs with the American RC church - Catholic colleges don't seem to do anything to encourage marriage and immediate baby-making.

Shirley seems to have fallen through a crack as he didn't go to college but is leading the sort of professional life usually led by elite university grads. CC, JSM

Iman said...

Tea Bag Hag returns after “not an oldster or much of anything” disappears.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

What if you change your pronouns? Are you still a virgin?

narciso said...

sounds a little like Dana Ward, a lecturer on permanent sabbatical from Pomona college, that used to haunt blogs back when the Sandbox was heating up,

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

What’s worse? Being a virgin? or feeling stupid because you didn’t think you could become a millionaire just by moving to Minnesota and lying on a few forms?

Hassayamper said...

Grok is the only AI I use. I admit that a small part of that is because Elon Musk is a hero of mine, the most important man of the 21st century, and I want to spit in the faces of the inconsequential piss-ants who hate him.

But it's primarily because Grok is so much better than all the alternatives. I have carefully tested its output in a couple of fields in which I am a well-educated, credentialed, publicly acknowledged expert with decades of experience, and it gets things 98% right. That's better than some of my colleagues (but not me, I'm at 99.9%.) As best I can tell, it never confabulates things out of thin air like its psychotic competitors.

narciso said...

AI has been given license to lie, 'it has become like breathing'
for them

Iman said...

Apologies to Weird Al…

They got beat, quite a feat
Skinny crew, they all voted blue
But he made them feel
Yeah, he made them feel
Up Shit Creek, without a canoe

Oh, like a surgeon
Caught… it ain’t their very first crime
Like a surgeon
Save us money, while droppin’ a dime

Dr Weevil said...

Wilbur (11:28):
In Star Trek IV, where they time-traveled to San Francisco to save the whales, they explained Spock’s weirdness by saying “He did too much LDS in the ‘60s”. I taught at a Mormon school and they all thought that joke was hilarious.

Big Mike said...

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

What’s worse? Being a virgin? or feeling stupid because you didn’t think you could become a millionaire just by moving to Minnesota and lying on a few forms?


What color is your skin, Lem? Do you seriously think you could get away with all that if you don’t have a race card to play?

Eva Marie said...

“As best I can tell, it [Grok] never confabulates things out of thin air like its psychotic competitors.”
O yes it does. Once on issue that was important to me, once - constantly - about an issue that was unimportant. Since then I always cut and paste (I use Perplexity as my back up) if the answer is important. Be careful even with Grok.

William said...

Well Kavanaugh claimed that he went to his marriage bed a virgin. Yeah, right. It wasn't just Christine Blasey Ford. There were hundreds of women who came forward with accusations of rape against him. The man was worse than Harvey Weinstein. Who are you going to believe--him or his multiple accusers. Shirley he's lying.

narciso said...

that was a striking bit of journalistic malpractice, enabled by the New Yorker and a host of other outlets, there was even a Buckley's lament writer, whose name escapes me, who tried to grok some logic out of CBF's lies,

Humperdink said...

Kak offers us news junkies a hot tip on where to go for our facts: “ Wanna know the facts, follow real news sources as the facts are discovered and disclosed.”

And who might that be, oh wise one? Lemme guess, Rachel Maddow, Jon Liebowitz, Jim Acosta, Jimmy Kimmel, Morning Joe, The View????

Old and slow said...

I use Grok more than any other, but it has told me some wild stories that were made from whole cloth. You ought to try Google's Gemini as well. It has become very good.

narciso said...

there is a font of fiction of a Tartuffe nature, in the ridiculous rumblings, of the Media class, which not only miss important stories, but in their baroque architecture, create ever more elaborate permissions for fraud,

Kai Akker said...

It's not about Nick. His video caught a moment.

....there is absolutely zero doubt that there has been an enormous amount of fraud in Minnesota’s Somali community. Some of it relates to child care. In fact, child care fraud came to light a decade or more ago. A number of fraudsters, I believe all of them Somali, were prosecuted and went to prison.

The Feeding Our Future scandal has been in the news since January 2022....The Feeding Our Future scandal was investigated by the FBI and was blown open four years ago by a series of FBI raids on fraudulent sites. Prosecutions have been handled by the United States Attorney’s office in the Twin Cities, as state enforcers led by Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison have been out of the picture, I assume for political reasons.

.....That [one Medicaid housing] program ballooned almost overnight from an initial cost of around $3 million to more than $100 million. The investigation showed that not a single dollar spent on that program was legitimate. Every cent of the $100 million-plus was criminal fraud. Again, the perpetrators were Somalis.

..... and lots more detail and fact here, from John Hinderaker:

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/01/a-dose-of-reality-on-the-minnesota-frauds.php



narciso said...

i think low balled by a factor of 100

Kai Akker said...
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Disparity of Cult said...

Sampling YouTube, local news channels in various markets are doing their "Somali community reacts to rhetoric, worries over backlash" reports.

Kai Akker said...

@n: My excerpts ran two different programs together poorly. I was just amazed by the fact that not a single dollar in one was legit.

Ultimate number $18 billion, U.S. Attorny estmates at least half fraudulently. You have a friend in Somalia.

Mason G said...

"Sampling YouTube, local news channels in various markets are doing their "Somali community reacts to rhetoric, worries over backlash" reports."

Any reports of Somali regret over rampant fraud being committed by their community?

Didn't think so.

bagoh20 said...

"And who might that be, oh wise one? Lemme guess, Rachel Maddow, Jon Liebowitz, Jim Acosta, Jimmy Kimmel, Morning Joe, The View????"

Don't forget Jeffrey Toobin. He's got a story for our lefties to swallow.

bagoh20 said...

""Stop staring at Miss (teacher;s) ass""

That explains the moniker.

narciso said...

https://x.com/jtLOL/status/2006822875387617623

Disparity of Cult said...

It doesn't stay warm for long.

Rosalyn C. said...

I think he meant "celibate" but said virgin because very few people understand what celibate means because it's ambiguous. Is a celibate someone who has never had sex or someone who has sworn never to have sex or someone who abstains from "casual sex" when not in a committed relationship. He's not sleeping with random women which is a form of celibacy imo. He's so young maybe he's only had one girlfriend, from our society's standards he's practically a virgin. But he's probably had sex, so maybe that's how the Left will go after him, for lying. I expect to see some stories about his behavior in high school and/or if he had a jilted girlfriend who wants to trash talk him. The media will dedicate to investigating him, not the fraud.

bagoh20 said...

You are not going to believe how bad some peoples' luck is:

"... a Somali-run daycare in Minneapolis claims that someone conveniently broke in during the early morning hours, smashed up a wall, and walked off with the one thing investigators would care about most: records on employees and children. Not cash. Not electronics. “Important documentation.”"

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/01/01/the-most-convenient-burglary-in-history-hits-somali-run-daycare-in-minneapolis-n4947772

Hassayamper said...

Wow, that burglary is almost as coincidental as the guy who came in to Comet Pizza and shot up nothing but their computer server.

Hassayamper said...

When I say Grok doesn't confabulate things out of thin air, I mean that I have never seen it create a citation in the academic literature of my professional field that in fact does not exist. If one of you knows otherwise, I'd be interested to hear more of it.

I've read that the same cannot be said for ChatGPT and some others, which have made citations to nonexistent articles by nonexistent or misattributed authors that have actually made it into courtroom briefings and pleadings, to the enormous embarrassment of those who depended on AI to do their work. To me, that is inexcusable, on the part of the AI system as well as on the part of the fools who used it that way.

Rocco said...

FullMoon said...
"In 8th grade, girl behind me handed me a note: "Stop staring at Miss (teacher's) ass"

This is how I'm imagining the view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M4_Ommfvv0&t=121s

Vance said...

I applaud Shirley's apparent keeping of the commandments. I bet he's a returned missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and what he is describing as his lifestyle is in fact one that is what the Church teaches as the proper form of conduct. Yes, you are expected to keep the law of chastity, which is no sexual relations except with your husband or wife to whom you are legally and lawfully married. So no fornication, no adultery, etc. Yes, you are supposed to go to your marriage bed having remained celibate.

And believe it or not, it is possible, and faithful young members of the Church of both genders regularly actually do this; no matter how "unusual" it may be in today's world.

Shirley is just putting it out there that he is a faithful member of the Church because by keeping those commandments you immunize yourself against a lot of the left's favorite tactics to destroy someone. And it's a preemptive strike against being "Kavanaughed".

bagoh20 said...

This is incredibly cheap for what you get back:

"Daycares in Minnesota donated a combined $35 million to political campaigns in the last two years."

https://x.com/beaverd/status/2006806805486408080?s=20

Vance said...

That being said, the left is already signaling that it is a-ok to kill Shirley, so I fully expect him to be executed or assassinated soon, and I fully expect nothing but silence or praise from our leftists in America... no condemnation, certainly. It will be a repeat of Kirk: "We are so, so glad he's dead and it must have been a Republican upset that Democrats are being wrongly accused! Trust us, would we lie?"

lonejustice said...

Something about this, other than his fake videos, makes me think he is an incel living in the basement of his parent's home.

bagoh20 said...

When we say "until they run out of other people's money", we underestimated just how much there is of it.

Original Mike said...

Well, that's enough for Walz's government to drop their "investigation", itinit?

gadfly said...

And he obviously believes the bullshit prescribed by Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller who is, according to political insiders, the one pulling the real strings.

Here is Miller's long answer, filled with lies, about sending illegally captured brown skin residents of the US to the infamous Salvadoran gulag.

So Nick Shirley, whose first God, as a Mormon, is named Joseph Smith, obviously loves the viscious policiies of Miller who happens to be Jewish, and spent his early life sleeping around.

bagoh20 said...

Grok: "Nick Shirley, the 23-year-old independent YouTuber and journalist grew up in a Mormon family, attended high school near Salt Lake City, and served a two-year LDS missionary assignment in Chile around 2019–2021. In a September 2025 post, he mentioned having "moved out of Utah recently," citing concerns for his safety amid threats related to his coverage of protests and Antifa activities in the state. No public details confirm his exact current residence or whether the move was permanent, though his family appears to remain in Utah based on older references. His lifestyle is highly nomadic due to frequent on-the-ground reporting trips across the U.S. (e.g., Minnesota, Texas, New York, Portland, Chicago, Ohio) and abroad (e.g., El Salvador's CECOT prison, Israel, Gaza border attempts). There are no public indications of him owning property, renting a specific apartment, or living with family or roommates—his focus remains on independent journalism funded through his content and audience support."

bagoh20 said...

"So Nick Shirley, whose first God, as a Mormon, is named Joseph Smith, obviously loves the viscious policiies of Miller who happens to be Jewish, and spent his early life sleeping around."

Well, that settles it. Drop the whole thing. Nothing to see here.

Original Mike said...

"Daycares in Minnesota donated a combined $35 million to political campaigns in the last two years."

Wow.

Original Mike said...

I know others have said it, but I hope Shirley has a security team. We know how the left deals with people they consider a threat.

bagoh20 said...

I don't know if the $35 million claim is true, but the source is at the link I gave. It seems low to me. If the MN fraud is really 9 billion, that's only 0.4% in kickbacks. Cheap.

n.n said...

Progressives wield the liberal license to entertain abortive ideation in order to sequester perceived "burdens" of status as a wicked solution to a hard problem. Beware jackasses braying with high audacity virtue hallucinations and transhumane religious bigotry.

Original Mike said...

But would you expect the kickbacks to be in a public database? Thats pretty brazen.

bagoh20 said...

I would expect there are other pipelines of cash keeping the cow well fed.

Iman said...

Go have sexual Congress with your Duroc, lonejustus @4:12pm.

Vance said...

Enter gadfly, self proclaimed Democrat and part of the Really Tolerant And Loving left, not at all like you Maga bigots, to totally be bigoted and attack a Christian faith. And of course to completely get his attacks wrong.

Hey Gadfly: We do not worship Joseph Smith, any more than Jews worship Moses. But you probably hate Jews too, so I'm sure you don't care that you are wrong and a hatefilled bigot.

narciso said...

Brundlefly

n.n said...

Grifters, gropers, and groomers are the three legs of the liberal triad.

Original Mike said...

"Enter gadfly, self proclaimed Democrat …"

Actually, just like virtually every lefty here, he claimed to be an erstwhile conservative.

Humperdink said...

Lonejustice chimes in with “facts”: “Something about this, other than his fake videos ….”

Fake videos? And you know this how? Look we know you just spout off crap. If you are an attorney, you are pretty sad excuse for one.

Not Illinois Resident said...

Charlie Kirk Jr. Personable, seemingly clean-cut young man who professes faith and clean-living principles. Wish him best of luck, and several burly bodyguard buddies 24/7. His kicked the beehive, the progressive democrats are swarming to bite, the worker-bee male Somalis swearing vengeance.

Iman said...

Indiana: Kickin’ ass and takin’ names!

Iman said...

Phorid Fly

Char Char Binks, Esq. said...

Male “virgin” = incel = angry misogynistic right-wing terrorist mass shooter/spree killer, to the Left. He gave them what they’ll get him for

Achilles said...

bagoh20 said...

I don't know if the $35 million claim is true, but the source is at the link I gave. It seems low to me. If the MN fraud is really 9 billion, that's only 0.4% in kickbacks. Cheap.

The real kickbacks are the voting blocks and the mail in ballot harvesting.

Original Mike said...

"The real kickbacks are the voting blocks and the mail in ballot harvesting."

Yes.

Jim at said...

There were hundreds of women who came forward with accusations of rape against him.

Just when I think our leftist trolls can't get any worse .....

Peachy said...

YES ☝️

Peachy said...

gadfly - Liar and pile of shit.

Peachy said...

notice I didn't say "piece" - he's the whole pile.

Disparity of Cult said...

Binders full of women...

narciso said...
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Curious George said...

"Iman said...
Indiana: Kickin’ ass and takin’ names!"

Alabama has given up. Hoosiers are keeping the pedal to the metal.

Original Mike said...

I hope Beasts hasn't taken to drinking the Bloody Mary dip.

Peachy said...

Mormons do not deserve the bigoted crap they are given by Religious zealot crooked lying leftist democrats like gadfly.

CJinPA said...

I fear his video was oversold, a lot of "fraud" will prove to be not fraud, and the incidences of actual fraud will lose their impact.

Watching so many people stake their credibility on a guy they never heard of until 5 minutes ago was not enjoyable.

narciso said...

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2006853069318008851

narciso said...

Actually we have been following him for months now

buwaya said...

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/12/31/high-electricity-prices-are-a-choice-blue-states-make-every-day/

Good catch narciso. As I've been saying for years.

narciso said...

Andy Ngo on X: "Wow. Five of the 10 Somali day cares in Minnesota that @nickshirleyy visited were registered “meal sites” for the unprecedented Feeding Our Future Somali fraud. Those five day cares received nearly $5m from Feeding Our Future. The nonprofit stole atleast $250m of public money to" / X https://share.google/rLVm7Lu5kBfkc7PV3

buwaya said...

John Hindraker (powerline) on the scandal(s).
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/01/a-dose-of-reality-on-the-minnesota-frauds.php

Shirley managed to "break" part of this much larger story and get it enormous publicity. His role has been to be an effective publicist. Which is good. The scale of all this is enormous, with very significant effects on the US budget, and it needs a thorough cleaning, in the course of which many thousands should be indicted.

The sheer scale of this stuff will have economic effects as they are worked through. Something like the post-Cold War recession of the 1990s I'm thinking.

Jim at said...

Watching so many people stake their credibility on a guy they never heard of until 5 minutes ago was not enjoyable.

The left's insane reaction to the video tells me we're over target.

Grundoon said...

I'm with CJinPA at 5:48. I think prankster Nick and anonymous Dave are cruisin' for a defamation lawsuit. I did not get a warm vibe watching him that his accusations of fraud will stick.

1. Numbers on a paper.
2. Locked door.
3. ?
4. Fraud!

Nick is long on accusations and short on evidence, he sprinkled his video with his own lying, and documented it for 100 million people to see.

Narr said...

Celibidace is overrated.

buwaya said...

This (a vast concatenation) of fraud, waste and abuse has been going on for decades. It makes up a significant part of public spending, as well as wasted private spending (an forced inefficiency) on regulatory and legal "compliance". Its only rarely that a wave of public rage has been worked up about it. This rage against corruption and inefficiency should be a regular feature of any healthy polity.

Original Mike said...

"he sprinkled his video with his own lying, "

What lies are you referring to?

Big Mike said...

It wasn't just Christine Blasey Ford. There were hundreds of women who came forward with accusations of rape against {Kavanaugh].

Yup, including women who were never within the same state as he was.

Who are you going to believe--him or his multiple accusers. [sic]

Him, of course. Women lie. Liberal women lie reflexively, even when they would be objectively better off telling the truth.

narciso said...

Its ploesti and dresden in one (over the target)

narciso said...

Freah elderberries

Mason G said...

"The left's insane reaction to the video tells me we're over target."

They've moved on from the video to slandering the video creator, so it's clear they can't refute the information that's now out there in public for everybody to see.

narciso said...

Now this seems to be the sop on operations in an arc from afghanistan to sudan (probably even farther east see the rakhimovs and other kazakh boyars

buwaya said...

I think its very unlikely that any of the "businesses" he highlighted could pass an audit. Legal discovery may force such audits, so I doubt he will be sued. All you lawyers can comment. There is lots of history (see Hindraker etc above) here that points to the general truth of his claims.

buwaya said...

You all have to accept the fact that the US is the most corrupt country in the world, on the metric of sheer scale of the swag.
It is only the cosmic size of the US economy that hides the stealing.

narciso said...


When the cats away
https://t.co/ZoLtMOcjr6

tommyesq said...

The three days of silence before they got their marching orders (you can't let anyone visit a daycare for safety reasons, look, people showed up a week after the video, etc.) shows that it was true. A real daycare would have pictures of kids' parties, holidays, promotional pictures and the like, which no one came up with to refute the charges.

Narr said...

"You all have to accept the fact that the US is the most corrupt country in the world . . . "

America, fuck yeah! We're number one!

rehajm said...

This rage against corruption and inefficiency should be a regular feature of any healthy polity.

There are poor incentives. Government has good incentives to discover, or invent, private corruption, like tax evasion. The check on government corruption against taxpayers are scarce. Whistleblower laws are only effective if government chooses to act. Often they won’t. So ultimately it is voters who serve as the check bit unfortunately most voters loathe finance and as is seen here in this very post if there’s a perception the corruption helps their side they’re all for it…

tommyesq said...

It wasn't just Christine Blasey Ford. There were hundreds of women who came forward with accusations of rape against {Kavanaugh].

Actually, it was three - Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez (who says that Kavanaugh exposed himself, which is quite different from rape, and Swetnick, whose accusations were looked at along with Blasey Ford.

Marcus Bressler said...

How is it legal for any entity that receives federal and/or state grants to donate money to any political campaign or person???
That, right there, is the avenue for kickback donations. They're getting tax money and giving it away to politicians! W.T.F!!!

narciso said...

Thats was all dinosaur sized droppings (metaphor for you peachy)

tommyesq said...

You all have to accept the fact that the US is the most corrupt country in the world, on the metric of sheer scale of the swag.

A - we do not have to accept someone named "buwaya's" assertion to this effect, no idea who he/she is or what they may know; B - I am willing to accept that the corruption here is high, if only because (taking foreign aid into account) we appear to be one of the only large, flush countries in existence. Not exactly sure what the point is, however.

Mason G said...

"I am willing to accept that the corruption here is high, if only because (taking foreign aid into account) we appear to be one of the only large, flush countries in existence."

The Eurotrash wouldn't be where they are today without US taxpayer support.

Iman said...

WTF… doesn’t Spain have some problems that need resolving?

No U.S. citizen needs to accept that horseshit pronouncement from a foreigner, FFS.

Iman said...

There’s plenty to rub a Spaniard’s nose in.

Iman said...

Bastards sided with the Soviets during the Cold War… just for starters.

buwaya said...

tommyesq - you have not been here long?
I am a retired engineer. At one time I was a consultant to the Asian development bank (ADB) which turned me on to macroeconomics. One of my hobbies has been playing with data. The world gives us lots of data and, fwiw, Bill Gates in person sold me on Excel.

Comparable metrics is one way to estimate fraud waste and abuse. OECD figures on medical spending for instance.
https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2022/09/understanding-differences-in-health-expenditure-between-the-united-states-and-oecd-countries_cafc404c/6f24c128-en.pdf

All driven by legislated or legal imperatives btw., artificially forcing higher medical costs. Why? We can easily suspect why. There are many other operators than State politicians and Somalis.

The US wastes more on this alone, vs OECD comparables, than it spends on the DOD (or Department of War now), as % of GDP.

I actually started on education costs, when I was freaked out about the San Francisco school district budget and how it compared to parochial schools, over 25 years ago. Its quite interesting.

Anyone can just look all this up, it doesn't take an engineer.

narciso said...

But siad barre did switch in the early 80s kind of nimeiri in sudan but the regime did not hold together and oligarchs rose

Original Mike said...

"Not exactly sure what the point is, however."

He's been going out of his way to dump on the US since he came back. I don't know what the point is, either.

narciso said...

Infact i remember a young officer milley boasted of his time in somalia in the 80s

Narr said...

"Bastards sided with the Soviets during the Cold War"

The Spanish? When, and how exactly?

Original Mike said...

So Grundoon didn't bother to list Shirley's lies. Another driveby lefty?

buwaya said...

Iman, You can accept that horseshit from me, or look it up for yourself, which I've been urging you fools to do for lo these many years. I was living in the US for 40 years, and Im still a US taxpayer (for some things). So I have skin in your games, asshole.

narciso said...

Somalia did as did yemen across the red sea

buwaya said...

Pointing out your real problems, which you fools dont seem to want to bother with. At some point they will do you in, and you will stare at each other, blinking, and asking "why"?
Of course by then I will be dead, probably, before you take away all my US assets.

john mosby said...

I think Trump would agree the US is at least in the running for world's most corrupt country. All the nefarious NGO stuff DOGE uncovered. All the politicians who accumulate 9-digit fortunes on six-digit government incomes. Just the crap he lived through trying to do business in NYC. Starts to sound like his stump speech. CC, JSM

rehajm said...

Bill Gates in person sold me on Excel.

Bill Gates in person nearly ran over me. I was visiting family at their Hood Canal home, went to pick brambleberries across the road on the hillside, heading back to the house I waited for a car to pass- a Ferrari with a bald guy. Hey! Is that Balmer? I asked my wife as I stepped towards the road, just as Gates came zooming along in his Ferrari…Missed me by a couple feet…

buwaya said...

You lot are surprisingly sensitive about comments concerning (mainly) Democrats and Democratic administrations, or Democrat dominated industries amd bureaucracies. I did not realize you loved them so much.

Original Mike said...

"Pointing out your real problems, which you fools dont seem to want to bother with."

Are you fucking kidding? Do you read the comments here? What, exactly, do you think we have the power to do?

Iman said...

F-you buwaya pendejo.

Iman said...

I’m fairly certain an American repeatedly dumping on Spain on a Spanish blog would not be looked at favorably.

buwaya said...

I am here however, so hate me, fight me. I will fight you, with your own unreason and turpitude.

buwaya said...

Therefore about misplaced "amor propio", the sort of unreasoning foolishness that leads to self destruction.

narciso said...

What we are speaking of is the 'deep state' in so many words

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