LEMON DROP | MAGA Influencer Nick Shirley & The Minneapolis ICE Disaster!
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Who is Nick Shirley and why did his daycare video go viral?
Okay, so Nick Shirley, I don't know if you guys know the name, but you should. You remember the whole, the thing that went viral, this video of this YouTuber or streamer or influencer or whatever Nick Shirley is going to daycares in Minnesota, right? And then saying, oh my God, I uncovered fraud, all of this. Oh my God, this fraud, fraud, fraud. I don't know if you guys remember that. And so it went viral on every single like right wing streamer, right wing news organization or whatever. He is uncovering fraud. He's uncovering. No one has been talking about this. No one has been talking about this. So first, before I play to you what happened, play you what happened. Let me just show you a couple of the headlines.
OK, so this is from The New York Times. This is The New York Times from back in November. Now, supposedly this is over Christmas is over the holidays. Late December. No one was covering fraud in Minnesota. But this was from the 29th of November, I believe, or the 28th of November from the New York Times. How fraud swamped Minnesota's social services system on Tim Wall's watch. Okay, so they reported, prosecutors say, members of the Somali diaspora, a group with growing political power, were largely responsible. President Trump has drawn national attention to the scandal amid his crackdown on immigration. Okay, so... It was reported on then. It has been reported on before. They are trying to attach it to Tim Walz, the current governor.
But the investigation has been going on even before Tim Walz was governor. So I'd just like to give you some context. And even back then, just to show you, there were streamers who were reporting on this and how it affected Tim Walz. It was not a story that nobody was choosing to report on. Here it is.
Is Minnesota Governor Tim Walz putting Somalis ahead of Americans? That's the question a lot of people are suddenly asking. A new article from the New York Times has people in Walz's own state turning against him. According to the piece.
That's the piece right there that was in the New York Times. Okay, so we have that. So Nick Shirley Goes to Minnesota with a microphone. Again, and this is a problem. I love certain things about independent media, independent journalists, but this is a thing anybody can try to pretend that they are. Anyway, Nick Shirley goes there and I'll show you some of it. This is from a report, him with a microphone going there.
We're from CNN. Can we talk to you? This is MAGA YouTuber Nick Shirley. Back at a daycare in Minnesota, he alleged was a fraudulent facility in a now viral video.
If you are going to say this is a left or right issue, but no, fraud is fraud. I'm not out here trying to put a twist on things.
Shirley's viral video released over the weekend in which he says he's uncovering tens of millions of dollars in fraud at Minneapolis daycares run by the Somali community was retweeted by Elon Musk and Vice President J.D. Vance.
How did mainstream and right‑wing outlets amplify Shirley’s claims?
IN THE VIDEO, SHIRLEY TRIES TO OPEN LOCKED DOORS AND TALK TO PEOPLE AT VARIOUS DAYCARES HE CLAIMS ARE FRAUDS.
DID YOU COME DURING THEIR NORMAL OPERATING HOURS WHEN YOU CAME TO VISIT? the following day later in the day. The point of it is not whether or not I came at the right time of their operation hours. The point is that blacked out doors, they can't give you any information. You call that number, no one answers. I wasn't trying to go inside. There should be a way for somebody to actually be able to call that number and somebody be able to answer. These aren't real businesses.
All right. So blacked out doors and locked doors or whatever he's saying. First of all, daycares do that for kids safety. Of course, the door should be locked to any daycare center, considering the environment that we're in now and the proliferation of guns and people who have mental health issues. OK, so that's it. So Nick Shirley obviously is a kid and is not very bright. And I mean, I hate saying that, but I have the evidence to show to you. But this all blew up. I'll show you the evidence, but first, this all blew up because people put it out there.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Who is Nick Shirley and why did his daycare video go viral?
0:13–2:55
2
How did mainstream and right‑wing outlets amplify Shirley’s claims?
2:55–8:12
3
What did Shirley actually show in his Minnesota daycare visits?
8:12–13:06
4
Why might boarded windows and locked doors not prove fraud?
13:06–17:41