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Uncle Sam Day 2025
Today is Uncle Sam Day. We’ll take a look at this iconic representation of America as the country mourns a shocking murder.
By God We Go
It’s my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can. ~R. Lee Ermey
As early as the War of 1812, the iconic figure of Uncle Sam has represented America.
He’s a star-spangled country gentleman who is often combative, defending this country on the ramparts.
We see him as the grim embodiment of the American experiment, quietly extolling young men to join the fight against evil.
That evil has taken many forms over the years.
This weekend, our wizened national icon is mourning alongside a country shocked by the senseless murder of a man who made a career of expressing his strongly held convictions and openly debating people in hopes of making a difference in their lives.
BREAKING: Erika Kirk gives first public remarks since her husband’s assassination
When you see Uncle Sam, he’s the embodiment of America with his stars and stripes, but Charlie Kirk was a living, breathing embodiment of America today.
Charlie visited college campuses to engage with young people. He wanted them to feel heard.
He wanted to find common ground and see if he could share his love for the concept and founding of America.
Charlie brought the facts, conviction and the love for this country that could sway even the most strident interlocutor.
He didn’t convince everyone, to be sure. Some people are too emotionally attached to their positions to hear what he was trying to say.
The important thing was that he was willing to have a good faith dialog with people who approached the microphone with nothing more in mind than to shriek at him and call him names.
To such people, he was astoundingly patient. He tried to get them to at least consider having a discussion.
Even if he couldn’t succeed in this, he had the good grace to let them have their shrieking catharsis and move on.
It takes a man with huge heart and a soul full of grace to let that slide over and over again in hopes of reaching just a few minds in the madding crowd.
In that respect, Charlie was as quintessentially American as Uncle Sam.
If you can look at who he was and what he was actually doing, you can see someone who embodied the best qualities of America.
Now that he’s gone, we’ll see if he got through to enough people to help the country heal from the rising insanity that has been tearing us apart for the last couple of years.
Enemies, both foreign and domestic, have been willfully tearing at the fabric of the country.
I’d like for it to stop.
I’m from a time between the strife of the 60s and its gradual resurgence in the 90s and I’d like to have that back, actually.
We were on a really great path to complete social integration in the 80s.
Nobody cared what you were as long as you were American first.
I’d really like that back.
We could get there again if we take a look at what just happened this week and take some time to reflect on what we want this country to be.
The country I grew up in was hopeful.
We should be allowed to have that again.
Sam Who?
Who is Uncle Sam?
Here’s a quick history of our national personification, Uncle Sam. I hope you enjoy the video.
Does it matter that he’s a skinny old White guy with a funny goatee?
Not to me.
He could just as easily be a chubby young Black guy with a funny goatee or Hispanic or Asian or whatever.
Old or young, skinny or fat, it doesn’t matter as long as he’s American.
As long as he upholds and defends the Constitution, he can wear a star-spangled dashiki for all I care.
It’s not what he looks like that matters.
It’s what is in his heart. When it’s pumping Red, White and Blue, then Uncle Sam is on the job.
America is an idea, a very good idea.
If you don’t like it, you should probably find someplace else to live.
As simple as that.
If you hate this country and what it stands for, pack your bags and find somewhere that suits your sensibilities and fills your heart with joy.
Go there and live your best life.
Stop trying to wreck my country.
Go find something that fits your needs.
If you can’t, because nowhere will ever measure up to your expectations, then you should seriously think about getting some goddamned therapy.
A lot of what is tearing at this country is all the narcissists who demand that everyone else cater to their myopic demands.
Hostile foreign agents see this strife, and they do all they can to fan it until we’re raised to a fever pitch.
And then something truly ghastly happens, and we stop to take stock of where we are.
As the Governor of Utah noted in the wake of Charlie’s assassination, those who are aligned with his mission and perspective drew together in prayer and fellowship.
We did not burn cities. We did not loot. We did not act like spoiled children who’ve gone off their fucking meds.
We grieved and waited for justice to occur.
The murderer’s parents convinced him to turn himself in.
He will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
He didn’t just kill a man, horrible enough though that is.
He shone a glaring light on the insanity that is tearing at this country today.
He struck at the very heart of what it is to be America.
There is a quote that is often mistakenly attributed to Voltaire is actually from Evelyn Beatrice Hall’s attempt to paraphrase her understanding of Voltaire, and it goes like this:
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
That is exactly what Charlie stood and ultimately died for.
Because his murderer did not hold to that high standard, because he was a deranged man-child, because he became increasingly radicalized and nobody thought to conduct any kind of intervention, a man died by his hands.
That’s the strange dichotomy of free speech.
You have the right to say fucked up shit. We have the right to call you on it.
You have the right to believe in the Flying Purple Spaghetti Monster. We have the right to consider you a nutter.
You have the right to seriously consider the sage words of your neighbor’s dog. We have the right to encourage you to seek psychiatric help.
People will think you’re weird, but you have the right to be weird AF in this country. I should know.
However, you also have the right to be looked after by people who are concerned for you.
If you’re having dangerously weird thoughts, maybe you should think about seeking counseling.
Have a chat with family, friends, clergy, mental health experts. Get some help.
Don’t let crazy ideas fester until you do something you can’t take back.
Get some help, for God’s sake. The country’s big enough for more than one opinion. Take a deep breath and get the fuck over yourself.
When you can stop, interrogate your ideas and consider whether your outrage is justified or simply an unhinged overreaction exacerbated by social media, then you can be considered a rational grownup.
Until then, get some freaking help. You’re not doing anybody any good whipping yourself into a frenzy over other people’s lives. Get a hobby or something. Touch grass. Grow the fuck up and act like an American already.
Uncle Sam is watching, and he’s not especially happy.
Vital Honor And Vital Interest
The prime duty of the moment is therefore to keep Uncle Sam in such a position that by his own stout heart and ready hand he can defend the vital honor and vital interest of the American people. ~Theodore Roosevelt
As was mentioned in the video in the previous section, Uncle Sam not only represents Americans at large but also the government in particular.
Let’s think about a phrase I used above, “uphold and defend the Constitution”.
This is part of the oath of office of every federal officeholder, members of the military and typically of state and local officials.
If you are part of the US Government, then you are bound by the Constitution and the duty to the best interests of this country.
Otherwise, what the hell are you in government for?
The people who started this country created a very robust Constitution in reaction to the overreach of our former British sovereign.
Many of the outrages our forefathers were forced to endure went into our foundational document. Nope, can’t do that anymore. It’s documented and signed.
The purpose of those founding documents was to constrain the power of the government and to ensure the best interests of the governed.
That notion seems to have slipped off the page for some people. Actually, entirely too many people.
The government is a grab bag for some, an avenue to undeserved power for others.
Malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance run rampant at every level of governance.
There is insufficient accountability.
I believe that malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance on the part of elected or appointed officials is inherently a breach of contract and should result in immediate dismissal and, if warranted, prosecution.
The government needs the equivalent of an Internal Affairs Bureau such as one finds in a major metropolitan police department.
There are a plethora of civilian watchdog groups who hound and harass government officials, who treat them like paparazzi and go on about their possibly dirty business.
Amid this noise of voices, there needs to be a tone of clarity. There needs to be a dedicated office of ethics to investigate the claims.
The problem is that there are often so many spurious claims that it becomes a boy who cried wolf scenario.
Another problem is that even when it is blatant, nobody seems to have the political will to act to address it.
If you’re not doing the job, you should not hold the office.
The Founders may have had an inkling that there would be cads, scoundrels and outright villains, but they probably didn’t believe that such people would rise high or remain long.
The country needs a bubble bath.
We need to take some time to relax, soak in the soapy water and scrub off the grime.
We’ve been running on autopilot, apparently. Covertly, we’ve been running on a schedule that isn’t in sync with the actual concept of America.
We’re being led down a path, blindfolded by bureaucratic obfuscation and frantic social mania.
There’s so much noise that you can’t tell who’s genuinely acting on the best interest of the country and who’s just stuffing their pockets for a rainy day.
Uncle Sam’s hat should not be pulled down over his eyes while cheats and scammers run around behind his back.
That’s UnAmerican, and it needs to end, yesterday.
That’s all for today. See you back on Wednesday for the Constitution 📜 and citizenship…