🚨 Say Uncle – August 26 2025

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Lead: Trump Not Happy But Won’t Stop Israel’s War Crimes

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Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza and then returned to kill medics and aid workers in a military tactic known as a “double tap.” At least 20 people were killed including medics and at least five journalists.

A double tap means you strike a target and then circle back to hit again, this time killing the rescue workers and medics who rush in. The tactic has been used by the CIA under Barack Obama as well as al Qaeda in Iraq.

Israel issued the usual mea culpas. We didn’t mean it. Hamas is there. We still want our hostages. We will investigate and let you know.

Hamas offered to return all hostages again just last week. This isn’t about the hostages. Israeli media reports that this was not a mistake but in fact was “authorized and coordinated with senior command, and they were aware of it before it was carried out.”

Footage from the scene is deeply upsetting, but it shows clearly what happened.

President Trump said he is “not happy about it” but history shows that international condemnations, UN resolutions, ICJ rulings, ICC investigations, press outrage — none of it stops Israel’s military campaigns. They weather it, stall inquiries, and keep striking. Only the President of the United States could make it stop by cutting off aid to Israel. Why won’t he?

Zelensky Wants $1 Billion a Month — From You

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Ukrainian President Zelensky is demanding that NATO countries send Ukraine $1 billion every month. He argues that Ukraine deserves it because it is “defending a critical principle on the European level” by resisting Russia.

But there’s another path: negotiate peace and end the war without bankrupting Western taxpayers. NATO countries are showing fatigue. In Poland, President Karol Nawrocki just vetoed a bill that would have prolonged benefits for Ukrainian refugees, saying support should go only to those who actually work in Poland (RT).

And let’s be honest — NATO allies don’t have $1 billion a month lying around. When President Trump asked them to contribute more to the alliance, all he got was smoke and mirrors. Yet Zelensky thinks they’ll open the spigot even wider. He’s out of his damn mind.

War Hits Wallets—Shield Yours with Gold

Cities crumble in conflict—and so can currencies. With Washington spending at wartime speed, the U.S. debt has rocketed past $34 trillion and the interest tab alone tops $1 trillion a year. The “fix”? Print more dollars—fueling inflation and eroding your savings.

That’s why central banks and billionaires are piling into gold and silver. Goldman Sachs now pegs gold at $4,500/oz by 2026—because real assets thrive when paper money falters.

My family moved a chunk of our nest egg into precious metals years ago; even our kids hold coins. It’s not a fad—it’s financial self-defense.

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Flag Burning Is Protected Speech

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President Trump signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to prosecute people who burn the American flag.

The order also allows for the government to revoke immigration privileges to non-citizens who burn the flag.

The White House says that this will be punishable by up to 1 year in prison but the executive order doesn’t say that.

The Supreme Court has already ruled—twice—that flag burning is protected speech under the First Amendment. In Texas v. Johnson (1989) and United States v. Eichman (1990), the Court struck down both state and federal flag protection laws, affirming that even offensive symbolic acts are protected political expression under the First Amendment of the Constitution.

This new decree is a direct assault on free speech. Imagine prosecuting a grieving mother who burns a flag after her son was killed in a pointless forever war. The government would not be punishing violence, but anguish—turning sorrow into a criminal act.

We are not in favor of flag burning but if the pandemic taught us anything, it was that we have to defend the speech we don’t like. Free speech means protecting the offensive too — or as Lenny Bruce put it: “If you can’t say ‘fuck,’ you can’t say ‘Fuck the government.'”

News By The Numbers

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$100 million. That is how much Six Flags lost last quarter. Now investors are threatening to sue the amusement park for not having disclosed financial troubles earlier.

12. That is how many days Washington D.C. has gone without a murder since President Trump declared a federal takeover, according to The New York Post.

$30,000. That is how much Justin Baldoni’s team allegedly budgeted per month for a covert PR effort, according to newly unsealed court documents. The texts and emails describe a “pro-Baldoni” narrative campaign — planting favorable stories and boosting his image — though it’s still disputed whether that crossed the line into an “anti-Blake Lively” smear campaign. Pro-him does not necessarily mean anti-her.

What’s Trending?

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Zoë Kravitz is trending because she is rumored to be dating Harry Styles.

Cashless bail is trending because President Trump signed an executive order threatening to cut federal funds from states that eliminate cash bail for serious crimes. States can still do it, but now they’ll pay a price. Cashless bail is a reform that replaces money bail with risk-based release — but the federal government wants to go back to the old way, where bail means money.

Snoop Dogg is trending because he says that he is “scared to go to the movies” with his grandchildren because sexual topics are thrown in where you least expect it.

Trump Wants a Department of War, But the Wars Keep Losing

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President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth say they are working to rename the Department of Defense back to its original title, the Department of War — the name it carried from 1789 to 1947.

At least it’s honest. The Pentagon doesn’t do much defending, but it does plenty of provoking and fighting wars. Reclaiming the “War” label would reflect that reality — though the irony is hard to miss, given Trump’s campaign promise to end the forever wars.

On Inauguration Day, he declared that the U.S. would “measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.”

Today he said this in the Oval Office: “Defense. What are we, defense? Why are we defense? It used to be called the Department of War, and it had a stronger sound. And, as you know, we won World War I, we won World War II, we won everything. Now we have a Department of Defense. We’re defenders. I don’t know.”

We did not win “everything.” We lost in Vietnam, we lost in Afghanistan, we lost in Syria, we lost in Iraq. Need I go on? “Department of War” may sound stronger, but it doesn’t erase the defeats, the quagmires, and the trillions wasted. No one is fooled.

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