We Saw the Devil: Unfiltered Political Analysis

We Saw the Devil
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Unapologetic. Unfiltered. Unafraid. Like NPR if NPR was an angry woman that said "f*ck it" and meant it. This is politics the way it actually happens: raw power plays, broken systems, and the daily chaos coming out of Washington and statehouses across the country. No both-sides theater. No corporate talking points. Just sharp, evidence-based breakdowns of the stories that shape your life, your wallet, and your future. If you’re exhausted by polite pundits and hungry for someone who will call the b******t exactly what it is, subscribe and join the conversation. Hosted by Robin, We Saw the Devil cuts through the noise, propaganda, performative outrage, and both-sides nonsense to talk about what’s actually happening in American politics, power, corruption, extremism, civil rights, media failures, and the people using democracy like it’s a rental car they never planned to return. Although left-leaning, this is not a polite little politics show for people who want everything softened, centered, and served with a bipartisan garnish. We Saw the Devil is sharp, furious, researched, and allergic to pretending cruelty is just another “perspective.” Like NPR if NPR was an angry woman that said "f*ck it" and meant it. No spin. No filter. Just facts. We don't do fair. We do factual.  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support.

  1. 19h ago

    Octogenarian Octagon

    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 Bud Light logos on every wall Monster Energy sign bigger than God Seventy-nine going on eighty Turns the whole country into his birthday party Pay-per-view, eight-ninety-nine a month While pilots scream "I can't see the runway, c**t!" They said it was America's two-fifty But it's just one old man and his UFC grift Commodores bailed, Young MC dipped Vanilla Ice is the only one left on the ship OCTOGENARIAN OCTAGON! His face on the coin, We the People on the back! OCTOGENARIAN OCTAGON! Autopen signed it, he was too busy to sign! You turned the Mall into a parking lot brawl And called it freedom, you senile a*****e! OCTOGENARIAN OCTAGON! Happy birthday to you, America's gone! Ring girls in flag bikinis on Flag Day Violating federal code in the most American way "Respect the flag!" they screamed for ten years straight Now it's ass cheeks and stars on the Octagon Girls stage Crypto dot com and Bud Light holding hands TKO stock in the president's pants Sixty million dollars, seven agencies deep While North Carolina can't afford to show up and weep They starved the real commission, funneled the cash To a cage fight and a coin with his face on the stash Eleven-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine For a chunk of gold that's worth half that time OCTOGENARIAN OCTAGON! His face on the coin, We the People on the back! OCTOGENARIAN OCTAGON! Autopen signed it, he was too busy to sign! You blinded the pilots over Reagan at night Sixty-seven died there, but the lights were too bright! OCTOGENARIAN OCTAGON! Happy birthday to you, America's gone! Jane Fonda's eighty-eight throwing a real show Patti Smith, Bette Midler, five thousand rooms saying NO While you're in a chair watching men grapple for cash On ground soaked in marches and blood from the past They tore up the reflecting pool like it was nothing Made the Washington Monument your corporate backdrop You wanted your name on the Kennedy Center too Judge said "scrape it off" and thirty-five thousand cheered while it flew OCTOGENARIAN OCTAGON! We the People are watching you lose! OCTOGENARIAN OCTAGON! Your grift's showing, m**********r, choose! Bud Light cage, Monster sign, coin made of shame States walked out, musicians bailed, only the grifters remained! OCTOGENARIAN OCTAGON! This ain't a birthday, this is a con! OCTOGENARIAN OCTAGON! We're burning it down before the next one! Happy two hundred and fifty, you geriatric clown The cage comes down Monday But the receipts? They're staying around. OCTOGENARIAN OCTAGON! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.

    4 min

  2. 20h ago

    Trump's UFC White House Cage Fight: How America's 250th Birthday Became His 80th

    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 landing at Reagan National. Host Robin, a jaded Poli Sci major and full-time political obsessee, follows the money through the UFC, Paramount, the $110 billion merger that needs Trump's blessing, Jane Fonda's rival concert at 88, the ring girl outfits that violate flag code on Flag Day, and the six states that refused to attend their own country's birthday. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.

    1h 6m

  3. 2d ago

    The Karmelo Anthony Case: Four Minutes. Two Boys. One Country.

    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 self-defense claim, the Texas provocation doctrine, and why the jury got this verdict right. Then she turns to the part almost no one covering this case will say in the same breath: the grief and rage coming out of Black America over this verdict is rational, documented, and backed by data. Brock Turner got three months. Ethan Couch got probation for four deaths. Lakeith Smith got 65 years for a killing a cop committed. The double standard is real, and this episode brings the receipts. Also in this episode: why the viral "two knives, two verdicts" comparison to the Caysen Allison case doesn't hold up, and the one question inside it that does. The all-white jury and the Batson appeal that's coming. The death penalty calls that were unconstitutional from day one. Jasmine Crockett's false claims, the $630,000 GiveSendGo, the white nationalist rally a grieving father had to denounce, and the entire economy feeding on two dead boys. A verdict can be correct and a system can be broken at the same time, in the same courtroom. If you can't hold both, that's a you problem. We don't do fair. We do factual. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.

    1h 14m

  4. Jun 6

    Donald Trump Gets a Pass. Graham Platner Gets a Woodchipper: The Impossible Democratic Purity Test

    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 about the larger question Democrats keep refusing to answer: what exactly is the standard? Because Donald Trump has 34 felony convictions, was found civilly liable for sexual abuse, owes millions in defamation damages, and is still treated by Republicans as perfectly fit to govern. But Graham Platner, a Marine combat veteran and PTSD survivor running against Susan Collins, gets treated like an extinction-level event by his own party. Also in this episode: Trump cries election fraud while his own candidates are winning in California, Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon slashes recognized faiths and leans harder into Christian nationalism, Republicans briefly flinch at a $1.8 billion weaponization slush fund before protecting the possibility of bringing it back, Trump’s White House ballroom donors rake in billions in federal contracts, and the House moves to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War. It is corruption, hypocrisy, purity politics, and institutional cowardice all the way down. Keywords: Graham Platner, Susan Collins, Maine Senate race, 2026 Senate election, Democratic Party, Democratic purity test, purity politics, Trump corruption, Donald Trump, Democratic double standard, Graham Platner allegations, Susan Collins Maine, Maine primary, Senate Democrats, Chuck Schumer, John Fetterman, Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna, Janet Mills, Project 2025, Heritage Foundation, Independent Women’s Forum, Brett Kavanaugh, Trump felony convictions, E. Jean Carroll, Pete Hegseth, Department of War, Department of Defense, Christian nationalism, Pentagon religion policy, Trump election fraud claims, California primary, Xavier Becerra, Steve Hilton, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Trump ballroom, White House ballroom donors, federal contracts, weaponization fund, Democratic leadership, We Saw the Devil, political podcast, left wing politics, anti corruption, authoritarianism, media hypocrisy, Democratic infighting, Susan Collins challenger, Graham Platner Maine Senate Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.

    1h 16m

  5. May 29

    "Shut Up You Ugly F*ck": The DNC, Stephen Miller, Ongoing Iran War & the Extraordinary Paradise

    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 numbersDell's $9.7B Pentagon payday and the $250 Trump billIran War, Day 90: bombing for "peace" in the Strait of HormuzA carrier off Cuba and the next war's pretextTrump's mail-in ballot order and the gutted Voting Rights ActThe DOJ comes for E. Jean Carroll"Shut up you ugly f**k": the DNC vs. Stephen MillerMartina McBride walks out of Trump's State Fair I don't do fair. I do factual. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.

    1h 14m

  6. May 27

    Republicans: The Party of Life (Terms & Conditions Apply)

    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 statewide. Meanwhile, the Associated Press published a devastating investigation revealing that at least 10 people have died by suicide in ICE detention since January 2025, the worst year in the agency's history. Seven had no record of violent crimes. Their average age was 32. The government called it "extremely rare." Also this week: the U.S. bombed Iran during a ceasefire and called it "self-defense." Cuba's foreign minister warned the UN that American military threats could cause a "bloodbath." Thomas Massie lost the most expensive House primary in history ($32 million) after pushing to release the Epstein files, and now says he'll release more names. And Ken Paxton, impeached, indicted for securities fraud, and divorced by his own wife on "biblical grounds," just won the Texas Senate Republican primary with Trump's endorsement after the GOP spent $100 million tearing itself apart. Pro-life? They're the party of forced birth, disposable people, profitable cruelty, and extremely selective compassion. Please subscribe, rate, and leave a review. Website: wesawthedevil.com Instagram: @wesawthedevilpodcast, @robin_wstd TikTok: @robin_wstd Topics covered: North Carolina abortion ban, life at fertilization, HB 1232, fetal personhood, ICE detention deaths, ICE suicide investigation, immigration detention, Ken Paxton Texas Senate, Paxton impeachment, Paxton securities fraud, Thomas Massie Epstein files, Massie primary loss, Iran ceasefire violations, Iran war 2026, Cuba U.S. threats, Marco Rubio Iran deal, Trump endorsements 2026, Republican pro-life hypocrisy, reproductive rights, GOP midterms 2026 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.

    48 min

  7. May 25

    Performative Activism Is Peak Liberal Bullsh*t That Changes Nothing

    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 the black squares that literally buried actual BLM resources, the whole corporate Pride grift, and those pink p***y hats (yeah, sorrynotsorry). I'm also dragging those Notes app apologies written by publicists and the little award show pins that basically became a perpetual red carpet accessory. Basically, if your activism doesn't actually scare the people in charge, it's just marketing, and you're the product.  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.

    58 min

  8. May 21

    The Week Every Guardrail Fell: Massie, AIPAC, the Slush Fund, Cuba, and Spencer Freaking Pratt

    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 crime? Pushing the Epstein files. Fighting the war in Iran. Introducing a bill to make AIPAC register as a foreign agent. His replacement is a man with no public platform, no public birthday, and $34 million in outside money from pro-Israel lobbying groups and three billionaires who have never been to Kentucky. Meanwhile: The DOJ created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded "Anti-Weaponization Fund" that could pay out January 6th defendants, Proud Boys, and Oath Keepers, and gave Trump permanent IRS audit immunity as a bonus. Two Capitol Police officers are suing to shut it down. The Trump administration indicted 94-year-old Raul Castro on Cuban Independence Day at Miami's Freedom Tower, directly next to the future Trump Library, in the middle of an oil blockade that has left Cuba without electricity and healthcare. Justice or political theater? (We both know the answer.) The Senate finally advanced a war powers resolution on Iran. On its eighth try. The House still can't get it done by one vote. The guy who led the fight just lost his seat. Spencer Pratt, the villain from The Hills, is running for Mayor of Los Angeles. His campaign is staffed by MAGA operatives. He compared himself to Obama. We need to talk about it. This episode breaks down who paid for what, who benefits, and what it means that every single institutional guardrail designed to prevent authoritarian consolidation is either neutralized, captured, or under active assault. TIMESTAMPS:  00:00 | Cold Open: The $34 million hit job on Thomas Massie and the MTG quote that should terrify everyone. 02:15 | Housekeeping: Socials, Patreon, and a warning that this is a heavy one. 04:00 | The Indictment That Isn't: The DOJ indicts 94-year-old Raul Castro at a staged ceremony next to the Trump Library. On Cuban Independence Day. During an oil blockade. 14:00 | The Most Expensive Hit Job in American History: AIPAC, three billionaires, and $34 million to destroy the last Republican who asked questions about Epstein and the war. 26:00 | The $1.776 Billion Loyalty Bonus: Trump's taxpayer-funded slush fund for insurrectionists. Two Capitol Police officers are suing to shut it down. 34:00 | The Eighth Time Is Sort of the Charm: The Senate finally advances a war powers resolution on Iran. The House still can't. The guy who led the fight just lost his seat. 40:00 | The Villain Arc Nobody Asked For: Spencer Pratt is running for Mayor of Los Angeles. His campaign is staffed by MAGA operatives. He compared himself to Obama. 46:00 | The Good Murdoch: James Murdoch buys New York Magazine, Vox.com, and the Vox podcast network. It might actually be good news. 51:00 | Reality Check: Who benefits, what's gone, and why the exhaustion is the strategy. Count the guardrails. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.

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Unapologetic. Unfiltered. Unafraid. Like NPR if NPR was an angry woman that said "f*ck it" and meant it. This is politics the way it actually happens: raw power plays, broken systems, and the daily chaos coming out of Washington and statehouses across the country. No both-sides theater. No corporate talking points. Just sharp, evidence-based breakdowns of the stories that shape your life, your wallet, and your future. If you’re exhausted by polite pundits and hungry for someone who will call the b******t exactly what it is, subscribe and join the conversation. Hosted by Robin, We Saw the Devil cuts through the noise, propaganda, performative outrage, and both-sides nonsense to talk about what’s actually happening in American politics, power, corruption, extremism, civil rights, media failures, and the people using democracy like it’s a rental car they never planned to return. Although left-leaning, this is not a polite little politics show for people who want everything softened, centered, and served with a bipartisan garnish. We Saw the Devil is sharp, furious, researched, and allergic to pretending cruelty is just another “perspective.” Like NPR if NPR was an angry woman that said "f*ck it" and meant it. No spin. No filter. Just facts. We don't do fair. We do factual.  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support.

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