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June 3, 2024 - Lionel Nation
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Exposing Stolen Valor Frauds: Don Shipley and the Greatest YouTube Channel That Has Me Addicted

Exposing Stolen Valor Frauds: Don Shipley and the Greatest YouTube Channel That Has Me Addicted

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Hello.
My friend, the best YouTube show, the best program on any platform is one that is produced...
By a fine American and a former Navy SEAL, which is the basis of this.
His name is Don Shipley.
And Don Shipley has his site, which is, and I'll have all of this below, Don Shipley, former Buds 131.
The greatest show, bar none, for a number of reasons.
Stolen Valor, as you know in layman's term, is somebody who claims that they were a member of either military, they won different citations, medals for valor, they achieved a particular rank, but normally it's theoretically thought of in terms of receiving something from it, maybe a discount or a position.
Maybe getting government services by virtue of this claimed status.
I'm not so sure about somebody who just is a liar, who just claims that he was a SEAL.
But we'll argue this later.
And by the way, there'll be follow-ups to that.
But why this case is important is this is a study of some of the most demented people, psychopathic, I mean, truly, truly off-the-charts psychopaths.
People who have no ability to appreciate consequence.
They have absolutely no qualms.
Remember I've talked about this head-heart connection?
There is no soul, no connection to, I can't say this.
I look like a fool.
And no ability to understand.
Oftentimes by virtue of these medals that they slap together in these uniforms, you would think they would apply a de minimis amount of research just to figure out where ribbons and decorations go and how you can't have eight Medal of Honor citations and how anyone, anyone can claim to be the recipient, not the winner, but the recipient of the Medal of Honor that is.
Sacrilege!
So what he does is, it works like this.
Don Shipley is just a great guy.
He and his wife, Diane, they have the consummate love affair.
They love each other madly.
And one day I'll go into how he interweaves and jump cuts into little episodes and arguments with Diane, makes her wear a Valkyrie helmet.
I mean, it's fantastic.
Family guy, 100%.
With a head of hair that is superhuman, but I won't digress.
Absolutely incredible.
Now, it works like this.
Normally, everybody knows Don Shipley.
And if you're in the fake SEAL biz, and you know enough to know about Bud's class numbers and EODs and blah, blah, blah.
You would think you might not want to run into Don Shipley.
You know, you'd think, it's like there was the old joke, what's the worst thing in the world for you to hear?
It's for your secretary to say, there's a Mike Wallace out here in the waiting room.
Yeah, Mike Wallace.
The worst is Don Shipley's on the phone.
To get a call from a friend of yours and your friend whom you've told you were a Navy SEAL all of a sudden says, hey, I got a buddy of mine here who's in the Navy.
He wants to talk to you.
And normally, when you hear that, hang up.
First of all, how many people do you know when you're talking to somebody and the person you're talking to says, hey, I got somebody I want you to talk to.
What?
I called you.
Why am I talking to somebody?
Yeah, he was in the Navy.
Hang up.
It's Shipley.
You don't understand.
You're dead.
You're finished.
You're through.
But they don't know this.
And many times they do know.
So it works like this.
Somebody will call up and say, yeah, Don, hi, listen.
My name is so-and-so.
I'm at the VFW Lodge here in Eddingtonsboro, Wyoming.
And this guy came in.
And he seems like a nice enough fella.
And, you know, he claims to have received the Medal of Honor and six silver stars and distinguished service.
And he says he was a Navy SEAL.
And, you know, there's just something about it.
Or somebody calls him and says, you know, Don, my mother is dating somebody who I think was.
I think he's after her money.
He claims to have been a Navy SEAL.
And they go and they get tattoos of the Trident and everything.
For whatever reason, they call up Don.
Now, here's what's interesting.
Don Shipley has, by virtue of his connection, his position, a list, a list of every SEAL from when they were called Frogmen to before John Kennedy commissioned them.
I mean, to the Civil War.
I digress.
But I think in the 40s or whatever, he's got every single person.
Who's ever been in any way connected with SEALs, BUDS, basic underwater demolition, slash SEAL, whatever!
And it's not classified, and it's not top secret, and it's right there.
SEALs will tell you.
Being a SEAL is like saying, I was in the Marines.
Okay?
So they will tell you, well, I can't...
And when Don says, hey, Joe, what the...
You happen to know your BUDS number, your team number?
As you see a team fire, when he starts asking you questions, what was your BUDS class?
What was your BUDS class?
When you hear that, it's over.
It's done.
It's done.
You're through.
Pack it up.
So let me give you an example of one.
And Don will always say, hey, go, hey, shipmate.
Hey, shipmate.
I was, you know, in the Navy as well, and I was a bosun's mate.
I married the prettiest bosun's weight in the Navy.
Well, I'll be doggone.
He's just so homespun.
He's setting you up, and he lures you in.
When he gives you the hay, shipmate, it's over.
It's Shipley.
You're through.
You're finished.
Stick a fork in it.
Let me give you an example.
This is a beautiful one.
I'm going to break this thing down as we say and dissect it because I want you to know what to look for.
And if you haven't seen him, you'll be hooked.
Hooked.
Alright?
It goes something like this.
Let me see.
Let's start off.
Now look at the guy on the left.
This is Don's look of disgust.
This is his look of absolute disgust.
Don always says, you know, my blood pressure.
I had better things.
I would rather be with my granddaughter or out hunting geese or whatever he does.
But I got to talk to these people and he has mastered this.
So this guy on the left has no idea what he's in for.
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Sorry, I don't see you listed.
Do you want to name one of the guys you went through training with?
Now, this is what Don Shipley does.
And this is important to know.
How many people do not know what year they graduated from high school?
Or what year they graduated from medical school?
Or what year they got married?
I mean, who does it?
Who doesn't remember the year?
When you've been through six months or six weeks or whatever the hell this butt strain is, that number seared in your...
The number...
It's just you don't forget it.
You'll forget your wife's name and the names of your kids before you remember this thing you went through that everybody remembers when you're meeting.
I'm an old-timer.
And the lower the number, the older you are.
You get somebody who's like, you know, 40, 50. That was 131 in like 1984.
So it kind of gives you an idea.
So everybody knows numbers.
Everybody knows numbers.
Your Bud's class number.
Everybody.
Or if somebody says, well, I may not know the number, but I know the Master Chief or this and that, the Lieutenant.
I know I can name six, seven, eight, ten people that I've remained close with throughout the years.
I've been to maybe funerals.
You know people's names.
You know, you know, you can say stuff that, oh my God, just by virtue of you.
Think about it.
When you went to high school, you may not know everything.
But you can name people.
Okay, you got the point?
Okay.
So when they do this, I don't remember.
It was a long time ago.
Or, I'm a little shingat, you know.
Little trauma.
Or, or, or, it's classified.
Or is it my DD24?
I don't know what that is.
I'm not sure.
It was on my official records.
But they were burned in a fire.
Listen to this nonsense.
One of the LD officers, his last name was Thornton.
EOD officers?
What's an EOD officer doing in Bud's training?
He was one of the training officers.
He was a training officer in that class?
Now right now, see, EOD explosive, ordinance, disposal, now you know this guy really stepped in it.
He's hit some area of like, wait a minute, a what?
In a SEAL class?
What?
You know, what?
Oh, my God.
I got your DD-24.
I'm not going to talk about your DD-24.
You did what?
So now Shipley's got you.
He was in Bud's class, yeah.
Doing push-ups right next to you?
No.
He was...
What was he?
Here we go.
Watch him dig in.
Remember, if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
See Don's face?
Look at that.
He's disgusted.
And he knows I gotcha.
I want to say a second or first class.
An EOD officer that was a second or first class officers are usually, you know, lieutenants.
He wasn't an officer.
Well, he wasn't an officer.
Well, his name was Buddy Strickland, I think.
No, no.
You know, within a long time, I caught a lot of shrapnel.
Caught a lot of shrapnel.
I don't remember his name.
His name was Buddy Jeffords.
No, that's not it.
Did I say EOD?
I didn't mean that, Don.
I meant DOD.
I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.
So he was a first or second class?
Yeah.
As an EOD guy?
He may be.
I don't know, Don.
I mean, you know, buddy.
Come on, give me a break.
It was a long time ago.
I mean, you know, he was a general or a field marshal or something.
Hell, I don't know.
He may have been a chief.
I don't remember.
Why would an EOD guy be teaching Navy SEALs?
He was one of the instructors.
No, he wasn't.
That would be like having a Marine teaching Navy SEAL candidates.
Navy SEAL candidates are taught by Navy SEALs.
Do you know how many times I've verified you over the years of being a fake SEAL?
No, I don't.
That's great.
And they dig.
They dig deeper and deeper.
Well, I don't know.
See, pertinent about five years.
No, see what happened was I got a rocket.
I got what's called an IED.
Straight to the head.
Straight to the noggin.
I'm a little foggy.
I don't remember all of it.
You can imagine, Don.
You know, hell, I've been in a war as hell.
Hell, I don't know.
He was a general or something.
I don't know.
You asked me a lot of questions, Don.
I don't know.
Now, here's the new victim.
This guy, too.
I don't even know what.
By the way, one thing about...
Don Shipley.
The editing, it's like Kubrick.
It's like you don't know what it might be here.
Then his wife Diane is, they're arguing about pork and beans and then back again.
It's great.
Or he's out with his dog.
I love it.
Love it.
Let's go to the next victim.
Terrified you over the years of being a fake SEAL.
That's great.
What was your SEAL training class number?
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
Now, this by...
Stop.
Normally, the numbers are, you know, 120.
Don was 131.
You got an idea.
Three numbers max.
Okay?
Three.
Three numbers max.
You got it?
Hell, even I know that.
Okay, ready?
Now, hang on.
Don does that.
Don's getting his glasses on.
And he's got the sealed database right in front of him.
And he's looking at that.
And also, look at you.
He gives you that look like, you know, that look.
Look, can you believe what this guy's in?
Okay, Don's got his glasses out.
He's going to be looking up.
He's waiting for the number.
Remember, three digits.
I want to say 2-1-0-0-2-1-0-0-5-6-8-6-7.
I think.
Look at Don's face.
What?
This would be in the year 27,000.
What is he talking about?
You can't.
I got it somewhere, but I can't.
I'm going to go on.
I told you.
My memory's shot.
My memory shot.
I was hit.
I was hit.
Direct hit with an IED.
It was one of these Taliban fellas.
I don't know where I am.
Sometimes I wake up.
I mean, I made Biden look like me.
I was born, for God's sake.
Or my sister's got my records.
I don't know.
I'm at work now.
Don, can I call you back?
I got a customer here.
And that means they're never going to call back.
And Don never gets you off the phone.
He never says, yeah, call me back because he'll never hear from you again.
It's been many miles in 30 years, I can tell you, my friend.
30 years?
I believe that was my number.
And what was it again?
I believe it was 100-56-867.
I believe.
I believe that's what it was.
I'm not sure.
I thought they had numbers.
That's a pretty steep number there.
I thought they had them.
Well, you've got to remember now.
When you first go in, you know, you go in as your associate, and that's your six months.
But as soon as you're assigned to the CIA, you're assigned a new number.
That's the number I just gave you.
They've given you a number and taken away your name.
Let's call Johnny Rivers in here, will you?
You know what?
There's two people on this phone who know you're full of shit, and that's you and me.
So, I don't think...
I cut that out, by the way.
There might be youngins watching.
I just want to let you know.
John gets a little salty.
He was a Buds man.
He was a Navy man.
A little salty.
So I kind of cleaned it up a little bit.
I hope you don't mind.
I think your membership's going to get approved.
And I don't like your stories.
I am very, very upset.
Here we go.
I am upset.
And I want to apologize to you.
And thank you for your service.
They started apologizing.
Apologizing for what?
They don't know what to do.
Then they're both upset and contrite and they spew apologias.
I am very appalled and I offended you and you sat there and you listened to everything I said and if you would have traced the date of everywhere I was and what I did you would know.
I also explained to you through the CIA you aren't going to find anything.
You call whatever you want.
I'll come down there right now and show you the bullet holes.
He said, I'm going to show you the bullet holes.
Now see, look.
This...
Sometimes there are folks where you see them on...
There's two kinds of stolen valor videos.
One of them is the guy who's walking around.
He's a little shingad walking around.
He's obviously...
He's one french fry short of a happy meal.
You know what I mean?
Two breaks short of a load.
You know what I mean?
We're not Signal 20. We're talking out of it.
That's kind of sad.
You know, somebody wears like this.
But these folks are not.
You can't believe.
Now, Don will also sometimes show up.
There was a fellow who said he was, oh, a medal of honor.
He met this one guy who said he was a rear admiral.
And he shows up and they're so demented, they're so bulletproof, they're so devoid of any kind of connection to reality that they walk into like a VFW with people who are themselves servicemen, actually, you know, retired and officers and the like.
Who know this inside and out and can tell when a ribbon is out of order or you're not wearing your tie or you're too old to be walking around some seven-year-old man with a gunnery sergeant in a full uniform.
Not wearing his cover, not doing this.
They don't care.
And they're not daft.
They are liars.
They know a predatory mendacity the likes of which no one has seen.
It is absolutely incredible.
So do it.
I watch these, like I said, over and over again.
They are fantastic.
And I want to know the...
And by the way, there were some problems, believe it or not, with the Supreme Court in terms of whether you had a First Amendment right to claim stuff that if you weren't necessarily,
if you weren't the recipient of You know, remuneration or benefits, but that notwithstanding, to go in and to think that there are people who have,
aside from having given their lives, lost their lives, lost their youth, lost their families, people who have done things, and not everybody who's been in the military.
Not everybody who's been in the military suffered greatly.
But, you know, this past weekend, we had Fleet Week here in New York.
And every Memorial Day, we have Fleet Week.
We have ships that come in.
So we have Navy and Marines just walking around and enjoying the sights.
And everybody opens them up in their arms.
And you just see them everywhere.
And I'm thinking, these young men.
And women are on this ship and they're going around the world and they're actually involved in representing and defending the country.
That's what they do.
That's what they're for.
They may look like having a good time, but when it hits the fan, they man battle stations.
They're ready to go.
And these people make this up and they talk about, well, you know, I...
If you have the survivor's guilt, it's enough to make you, and as Don indicates, you cannot believe the hubristic, again, the mendacity, I'm overusing the word, the lying.
You know, the law defines a lie as a misrepresentation of fact with the intent to deceive.
We live in a world with misinformation, disinformation, bad information, and false information.
So we're always into what's fake and what's not.
This is as fake and as horrible as you can imagine.
So I'm going to put all of the links below.
It's the greatest...
This is such a treatment in terms of what you learn about human nature.
So Diane Shipley, his...
By the way, I'll put you...
Her YouTube channel is at NavyMom22.
And Don Shipley, former Buds131.
And he is...
Absolutely superb.
And it's also some of the best cross-examination and luring people into the pit, into the snare, and then, gotcha!
And they can't get out.
Sometimes people will, the saddest ones are, this one older fellow said, I don't know, I was just trying to get attention.
I don't know how.
I'll stop.
I'm sorry.
And others will not.
Others will not.
You can't.
And let me tell you something.
These people may not actually be involved in the taking of a life, but the level of psychopathy exhibited and illustrated by their behavior makes Ted Bundy Don Shipley, thank you so much.
You have no idea.
And Diane, you have brought...
Not only hours of entertainment, sheer entertainment, but I've learned so much about the human condition.
I've learned so much about psychopathy and mendacity and how fantasy and illusion and deception are just how people are capable of this.
It's just incredible.
So, thank you.
And what do you think, dear friends?
Put your thoughts in the comments below.
I want to hear what you think about this.
Are you a fan of...
Don Shipley's, if you're not, you will be now.
The greatest.
The greatest.
So, let me see what you think.
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