We Saw the Devil: Crime & Political Analysis

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 your housing relief hostage. And his own supporters are in the replies typing thank you, daddy like that is a normal response to a man torching your rent relief.Same day he got into a screaming match with a Republican senator, called him a lunatic, then asked Congress for another eighty seven point six billion dollars for his Iran war that nobody voted for and that even Tucker Carlson is now calling him weak over. He threw himself a Ferris wheel party on the National Mall for America's two hundred fiftieth birthday while the Reflecting Pool stayed green behind him. The Supreme Court handed him a win that makes it easier to strand asylum seekers in danger over a technicality about which side of an imaginary line their toes are touching. My home state of Tennessee put up a granite headstone for fetuses on the Capitol lawn while ranking forty seventh in the country at keeping actual mothers alive.And the Democrats spent the week calling the candidates their own voters are actually excited about dirtbags.This episode goes through every receipt. The housing bill hostage situation. The court losses that forced him to Plan B. The Iran war bill. The self inflicted birthday party. The Supreme Court rulings that will get people killed. Tennessee's monument to control. And why the Democratic establishment is more afraid of its own base than it is of any of this. Let's go. Keywords: Trump housing bill, SAVE Act, voter suppression, thank you daddy, MAGA replies, Iran war funding, Supreme Court metering, asylum seekers, border policy, Tennessee maternal mortality, Monument to Unborn Children, Democratic socialists, John Fetterman, dirtbag left, democratic socialists primaries, Trump fitness, Reflecting Pool green, America 250, JD Vance, presidential chaosSupport the show with no ads and no sponsors at patreon.com/wesawthedevil. Five bucks a month keeps it independent and feral.Follow @wesawthedevil on Twitter and Facebook, @wesawthedevilpodcast on Instagram, and find me at @robin_wstd on TikTok and Instagram. Everything lives at wesawthedevil.com. Links in the notes.Take care of each other. I'm Robin. I'll see you next time.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support.Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.comPatreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevilDiscord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevilInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.

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 telling you he's fine. This week Robin takes apart the machine built to keep you from knowing whether the guy with the nuclear codes still has a working brain. This is not armchair neurology and Robin does not diagnose anyone.The story is the concealment: who hides presidential decline, who profits, and why America has no honest way to force the truth out of people who would rather you stayed confused and polite. Not a diagnosis. A cover-up.In this episode:Why "does he have dementia" is the wrong question, and the trap the cover-up wants you stuck inThe receipts: age, chronic venous insufficiency, the bruised hands, the aspirin, the sleeping caught on cameraMarco Rubio telling a congressional committee the sleeping man was awakeThe 3 a.m. posting sprees, sundowning, and the late-night pattern his own side's doctors flagged in writingThe "perfect" cognitive test brag, and what the MoCA actually measures (spoiler: whether you can draw a clock)36 physicians, the Congressional Record, and the silence that followedWho gets paid to say he's fine: staff, party, family, donors, doctors, the pressStrength theater: the parade, the tanks, and what the spectacle is really hidingSanewashing, or how the press launders a meltdown into a policy headlineThe Biden hypocrisy nobody wants to sit next toA short, ugly history of hidden presidents: Cleveland, Wilson, FDR, JFK, ReaganThe 25th Amendment that exists on paper and will never get usedGerontocracy: the bigger rot underneath all of itListen, then come find us:Website and full episode archive: wesawthedevil.comGet on the email list so the algorithm can't bury us.Support the show and unlock bonus episodes: patreon.com/wesawthedevilInstagram: @wesawthedevilpodcastTikTok: robin_wstdEverywhere else: @wesawthedevilBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support.Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.comPatreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevilDiscord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevilInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.

You showed up in a hoodie, said you'd fight for the poorBeat a TV doctor, man, we couldn't love you moreYou were tatted up and angry, you were everything we needThen you got to Washington and sold us out for clout on Fox News at speedYou said you'd be differentYou said you'd be realNow you're confirming fascistsAnd calling war "no big deal"Fuck you, John FettermanYou Carhartt-wearing conYou ran left, governed rightAnd you smile while people's kids get bombedFuck you, John FettermanFrom Braddock to the beltway, what a rideYou traded every principle you hadFor a segment on Fox & Friends at fiveYou confirmed Pam Bondi, you were literally the only oneEvery other Democrat said no, you said, "Sounds fun"You killed the War Powers vote, you were the single deciding voiceThree Republicans found Jesus, you found a different choiceFifty-six percent of your stateSaid they don't want this warYou said, "Operation Epic Fury!"Like a kid in a gift shop at the Army CorpsFuck you, John FettermanJoe Lieberman in basketball shortsYou "revere the market," coolWhile your voters can't afford a quartOf milk or gas or rent, but heyAt least you kept the bombs on timeYou're a profile in courage, JohnIf courage was a fucking war crimeYou call your base "anti-American"From a libertarian podcast setYou called the left "communist"While cashing progressive checksYou won't say "fascist," that's uncouthBut you'll greenlight a bombing runThe bravest thing you ever didWas wear shorts to the Senate, honRemember when you had a stroke and every right-wing hackSaid you were brain-damaged and broken and you'd never make it back?Remember who showed up for you? Who phonebanked? Who believed?We sent you twenty-five bucks we didn't have and now we're feeling pretty deceivedFuck you, John FettermanYou bipartisan little fraudYou've been on Fox more than HannityAnd you think that makes you broadFuck you, John FettermanFrom every door we knocked, every call we madeYou used the progressive vote to get the gigThen you let every single promise fadeAnd the funniest part, the part that really kills meIs he still wears the hoodieLike he's one of usBuddy, that hoodie doesn't make you working classIt makes you a cosplayerWith a Senate salaryAnd a hard-on for Lockheed MartinFuck you, John FettermanFuck you very much**Lyrics and guitar by Robin Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support.Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.comPatreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevilDiscord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevilInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.

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 on while Trump posts AI war fantasy images and watches golf. And 590,000 MAGA supporters got scammed on a phone that doesn't exist. Keywords: tennessee redistricting 2026, voting rights act, louisiana v callais, jim crow 2.0, defend district 9, alabama 14th amendment, nathaniel ledbetter, virginia redistricting, trump counterterrorism strategy, sebastian gorka antifa, radically pro-transgender, trump AI war images, iran war ceasefire, strait of hormuz, trump truth social golf, trump mobile phone scam, pentagon UFO files, hantavirus cruise ship, frontier airlines denver, we saw the devil podcastBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support.Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.comPatreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevilDiscord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevilInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast.