Grandpa Shit*ypants Wants to Build a Force Field: A News Round-Up

Thanks, Daddy Trump...For Nothing

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 [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss]. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com [http://www.wesawthedevil.com] Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil [http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil] Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 [https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4] Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil [http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil] Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast [http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast].

Tucker Carlson Quit, the Senate Hates Him, and the Pond Won

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 it worse, then sold to the public as sabotage. Box cutters. A 350-foot slit that grew sixty feet mid-sentence. Five arrests over a pond. From there it only gets worse for him. Three federal courts ruled against this administration in a single Monday, on voter data, food assistance, and the retaliatory subpoenas aimed at Tim Walz, where a Bush-appointed judge used the word "risible." JD Vance flew to Switzerland to sell an Iran deal and got fact-checked and snubbed by Iran in real time. An Israeli cabinet minister told a country of six million to burn, and a platform called it a public service. Tucker Carlson quit the Republican Party. The Senate openly turned on him. Ken Paxton discovered he loves IVF the same week his own party voted to ban it. And Tulsi Gabbard cleaned out her desk by lobbing one more pre-pardoned Fauci grenade on the way out. Every story this week is the same story. Botch something, refuse to own it, invent an enemy, point the state at whoever's standing closest. We connect the dots, name the systems, and separate what's confirmed from what's spin. I'm Robin. This is We Saw the Devil. Go read the ruling. Page one, it's laughable. Keywords: political comedy podcast, political commentary, news comedy, leftist podcast, progressive podcast, Trump reflecting pool, Lincoln Memorial algae, Trump meltdown, SAVE voter purge, noncitizen voting, Tim Walz subpoenas, JD Vance Iran, Ben Gvir Lebanon, Tucker Carlson quits, Ken Paxton IVF, Texas IVF ban, Tulsi Gabbard Fauci, James Comer, SNAP MAHA, Senate Republicans, current events 2026, We Saw the Devil, Robin Coleman Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss]. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com [http://www.wesawthedevil.com] Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil [http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil] Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 [https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4] Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil [http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil] Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast [http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast].

Donald Trump & The 3AM Presidency: Insomnia With Nuclear Codes

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 in * The receipts: age, chronic venous insufficiency, the bruised hands, the aspirin, the sleeping caught on camera * Marco Rubio telling a congressional committee the sleeping man was awake * The 3 a.m. posting sprees, sundowning, and the late-night pattern his own side's doctors flagged in writing * The "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 followed * Who gets paid to say he's fine: staff, party, family, donors, doctors, the press * Strength theater: the parade, the tanks, and what the spectacle is really hiding * Sanewashing, or how the press launders a meltdown into a policy headline * The Biden hypocrisy nobody wants to sit next to * A short, ugly history of hidden presidents: Cleveland, Wilson, FDR, JFK, Reagan * The 25th Amendment that exists on paper and will never get used * Gerontocracy: the bigger rot underneath all of it Listen, then come find us: Website and full episode archive: wesawthedevil.com Get on the email list so the algorithm can't bury us. Support the show and unlock bonus episodes: patreon.com/wesawthedevil Instagram: @wesawthedevilpodcast TikTok: robin_wstd Everywhere else: @wesawthedevil Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss]. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com [http://www.wesawthedevil.com] Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil [http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil] Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 [https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4] Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil [http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil] Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast [http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast].

The Show Above. The Damage Below: How the UFC Cage Hid the Crime Scene

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 slogans, and the outrage while the machinery underneath keeps moving. Robin breaks down the White House UFC-style event, the racist and transphobic attack on Michelle Obama, the silence from the Trump administration, Bud Light’s corporate cowardice, and the broader pattern of cruelty being treated as entertainment. From there, the episode follows the damage below: the secretive Iran ceasefire deal, Congress being kept out of the loop, the weaponized Department of Justice, charges against Minnesota protesters, federal agents escaping accountability, attacks on civil rights protections, DHS election concerns, healthcare denial, medical debt, and the public rage surrounding UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, and Luigi Mangione. This is an episode about authoritarian spectacle, Trumpism, political distraction, corporate silence, healthcare profiteering, voter control, civil rights, protest repression, and the systems people are encouraged not to notice. **Topics include:** Trump, White House UFC event, Freedom 250, The Show Above. The Damage Below, How the Cage Hid the Crime Scene, Michelle Obama, Bud Light, Dana White, Joe Rogan, Josh Hokit, Iran ceasefire deal, war powers, Department of Justice, DOJ retaliation, James Comey, Letitia James, Gavin Newsom, Minnesota protests, ICE raids, Department of Education, disabled students, civil rights protections, DHS, election security, UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, Luigi Mangione, healthcare denial, medical debt, authoritarianism, American politics, propaganda, and political spectacle. **We Saw the Devil** covers power, propaganda, corruption, authoritarianism, extremism, media spectacle, and American politics. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss]. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com [http://www.wesawthedevil.com] Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil [http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil] Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 [https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4] Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil [http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil] Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast [http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast].

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, cunt!" 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 asshole! 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, motherfucker, 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 [https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-unfiltered-political-analysis--4433638/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss]. Website: http://www.wesawthedevil.com [http://www.wesawthedevil.com] Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil [http://www.patreon.com/wesawthedevil] Discord: https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4 [https://discord.gg/X2qYXdB4] Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil [http://www.twitter.com/WeSawtheDevil] Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast [http://www.instagram.com/wesawthedevilpodcast].