We Saw the Devil: Unfiltered Political Analysis

Graham Platner quit the Maine Senate race. He just forgot the one part that legally counts: filing the paperwork. Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell has been in a hospital for almost a month with no photo, no diagnosis, and no proof of life beyond phone calls vouched for by men who want his job. Colorado Republicans nominated a governor candidate who will not say how many people he has killed. ICE shot a...

Graham Platner was beating Susan Collins in the Maine Senate race. Then Jenny Racicot went on the record with Politico and CNN alleging he raped her in 2021, backed by therapist emails, texts, and disclosures that predate his campaign by years. Within 24 hours, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Ro Khanna, Chuck Schumer, and the Maine Democratic Party all told him to get out. He denies everything....

America turned 250 and the party flopped. ecord 102 degree heat, a lightning evacuation of the National Mall, and a president speaking to rows of empty chairs after 11 p.m., where he misquoted the Declaration of Independence at the document's own birthday party. Then came 850,000 fireworks, a Code Red air quality alert, briefly the worst air of any major city on Earth, and a 100+ post Truth Social...

Three presidents died on the 4th of July. Two of them on the same day, five hours apart, on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration, to the day. Tomorrow is the 250th...and the octogenarian we have in office is supposed to give a 2 hour+ speech in the 105 degree sun.  At least 2 episodes per week.  Support the show with no ads and no sponsors: patreon.com/wesawthedevil Become a supporter of this p...

The Court's last day of the term, and they emptied the clip. Birthright citizenship survives. Campaign finance gets gutted. Trans girls get banned from girls' sports. One win, one robbery, and one where I break from my own side and tell you why. I read every page so you don't have to. Real case for and against all three, then a Reality Check on what these rulings actually do to this country. Spoil...

Today was not “Trump becomes king.” That’s too simple, too tidy, and frankly too flattering to the man currently dry-humping a football he doesn’t realize is on a leash. On this episode of We Saw the Devil, Robin breaks down the Supreme Court’s decision day and the story most of the coverage is already getting wrong: Trump did gain power, yes. But the Court gained something bigger. It kept the key...

Y'all. Wednesday was not a weird day for this administration. It was a normal day, and that is the whole problem. Donald Trump canceled a bipartisan housing bill that would have lowered rent for millions of people. He killed the signing ceremony hours before it happened because he wants Congress to pass the SAVE Act first. That is voter suppression dressed up as a national emergency. He is holding...

This was not a normal bad week. This was the week a bunch of people who spent years pretending the emperor had clothes all looked up at the same time and went, oh no. We open where the country opened: a rotting reflecting pool. A no-bid, $14.5 million renovation that bloomed bright green algae and peeled its custom "American Flag Blue" paint into the water, fixed with hydrogen peroxide that made i...

The most powerful man on the planet is eighty, bruised, posting in the dozens at 3 a.m., and nodding off by the afternoon. His Secretary of State looked at a video of him asleep and told Congress he was awake. Thirty-six doctors signed a warning into the Congressional Record and nothing happened. And every single person close enough to know the truth has a paycheck, a seat, or a legacy riding on t...

In **The Show Above. The Damage Below: How the Cage Hid the Crime Scene**, **We Saw the Devil** looks at what was happening underneath the spectacle of Trump’s White House cage-fight event. The fight night was sold as patriotic entertainment, but the real story was never just the cage. This episode tracks how political spectacle works: keep the audience focused on the lights, the microphones, the...

America was supposed to turn 250 this year. One man turned it into his own 80th birthday party instead: a cage fight on the people's lawn, a beer sponsor, party lights bright enough to blind a pilot on approach, and a twelve-thousand-dollar coin with his face on one side and We the People on the other.  Lyrics: South Lawn's got a ninety-foot claw Eighty-seven-foot cage where the rose garden was Bu...

Trump turned America's 250th birthday, the country's semiquincentennial, into a $60 million UFC cage fight on the White House South Lawn for his own 80th birthday. This episode of We Saw the Devil breaks down the entire Freedom 250 disaster: the pay-per-view cage match, the beer and crypto sponsors, the commemorative coin with his face on it, and the party lights that nearly blinded a pilot landin...

On June 9, 2026, a Collin County jury convicted Karmelo Anthony of murder in the stabbing death of Austin Metcalf and sentenced him to 35 years. Within hours, the country split into two camps, and both of them are wrong. In this episode, Robin walks through what actually happened at Kuykendall Stadium on April 2, 2025, fact by verified fact: the trial testimony, the five words that destroyed the s...

Graham Platner is leading Susan Collins in one of the most important Senate races in the country, and instead of asking how Democrats can win the seat, half the party seems busy feeding its own candidate into the purity machine. We break down the allegations against Platner, what he has admitted, what he denies, and why the political background of his most prominent accuser matters. We also talk a...

WELCOME TO THE EXTRAORDINARY PARADISE Stephen Miller called this an "extraordinary paradise." Same week: inflation up, Dell got $9.7 billion, the Iran War hit day 90, and the DOJ went after the woman a jury said Trump assaulted. So let's talk about who paradise is really for. This week: The "paradise" lie vs. the actual inflation numbers Dell's $9.7B Pentagon payday and the $250 Trump bill Iran Wa...

The "party of life" is not hypocritical. It's selective. And this week, the receipts are overwhelming. North Carolina Republicans filed House Bill 1232, the "Human Life Protection Act," a constitutional amendment defining life at fertilization that would classify abortion as first-degree murder and authorize deadly force to "protect" a fertilized egg. Legal analysts warn the bill could ban IVF sta...

t’s almost June, which means every brand is about to slap a rainbow on their logo and send emails saying "we see you." Meanwhile, they’re quietly funding politicians who back Don't Say Gay bills. But yeah, thanks for the rainbow debit card. Super brave of you. This week I'm honestly just going off on all the performative activist bs that’s been clogging our feeds for a decade. I'm talking about th...

Thirty-four million dollars. That's what it costs to buy a congressional seat in America. Not rent. Buy. Outright. Like a foreclosure auction, except the property is a democracy and the bidders live in a different country. This week, Thomas Massie, a seven-term Republican who voted with Trump 94% of the time, was primaried out of Congress in the most expensive House primary in U.S. history. His cr...

$1.7 billion of your taxes to January 6th rioters, including convicted child sex offenders, from a secret fund the president controls. A billion-dollar ballroom and a 250-foot "Arc de Trump" next to Arlington Cemetery. The hantavirus response led by a penile implant specialist whose YouTube show was called "Erection Connection." The FDA run by Don Jr.'s turkey hunting buddy. The FBI director snork...

You know that feeling where you read a headline and your brain glitches? Where you think, "Didn't they literally say the opposite of this yesterday? On camera? With their face hole?" You're not imagining it. And you're not losing your mind. In this episode, Robin breaks down the documented, studied, historically proven strategy behind the constant contradictions coming out of Washington. This isn'...

You showed up in a hoodie, said you'd fight for the poor Beat a TV doctor, man, we couldn't love you more You were tatted up and angry, you were everything we need Then you got to Washington and sold us out for clout on Fox News at speed You said you'd be different You said you'd be real Now you're confirming fascists And calling war "no big deal" Fuck you, John Fetterman You Carhartt-wearing con...

The president said, on camera, that he doesn't think about Americans' financial situations. "Not even a little bit." He said it while inflation hit a three-year high, gas hit $4.50 a gallon, and the war in Iran crossed $29 billion. Then he got on a plane to China. This episode covers all of it. Trump's "I don't think about anybody" quote in full context. FBI Director Kash Patel calling a senator a...

The Voting Rights Act is dead and they killed it in three days. Tennessee gutted its only Black-majority district. Alabama's House Speaker called for overturning the 14th Amendment. On camera. Virginia threw out a voter-approved redistricting plan. The new counterterrorism strategy puts trans people in the same threat category as ISIS. The Pentagon dumped 162 blurry UFO files. The Iran war grinds...

This week on We Saw the Devil, Robin tears through the most chaotic news cycle of the second Trump administration so far. Donald Trump told a White House crowd he'll be in office "eight or nine years from now," and they applauded. Politico reports the President personally offered Senator John Fetterman a "financial windfall" to switch parties (usually a bag of cash), on the record, while a sitting...

The president had 60 days to ask Congress for permission to keep fighting a war with Iran. Today was the deadline. He didn't ask. He sent a letter saying the war is "terminated," while 50,000 troops remain deployed, the naval blockade continues, oil sits at $118 a barrel, gas is at $4.12, and the Secretary of Defense told the world he could resume strikes "at the push of a button." Meanwhile, his...