The Apprentice - The Patriarchy & War Crimes Edition (Plus Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem)

The President of the United States woke up on Easter morning, skipped church, dropped an F-bomb, threatened to bomb civilian power plants on something he's calling "Power Plant Day" like it's a Hallmark holiday, said "Praise be to Allah" on the day Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and then went golfing. His spiritual advisor compared him to Jesus 48 hours earlier. Bonus episode just dropped because I physically could not keep my mouth shut today. Make sure to tag your church group. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-crime-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.

Oh good, you're here. Buckle up, buttercup.Trump fired two women from his Cabinet in a month while the men who leaked classified intel and arrested the wrong guy in an assassination case are still gainfully employed and failing upward like it's an Olympic sport. Coincidence? Sure. And I have naturally black hair. This week: Pam Bondi got dumped in four words in the back of a limousine. Meanwhile, Pete Hegseth fired the Army Chief of Staff for refusing to block promotions of Black officers and women, replaced him with his own briefcase carrier, and is currently presiding over a war where Iran shot down a U.S. fighter jet TWO DAYS after Trump told the entire nation that Iran "has no anti-aircraft equipment." A crew member is still missing. Also: Trump says America can't afford daycare because we're fighting wars. The war HE started.  $1.5 trillion for defense. $73 billion in cuts to health, education, and housing. Make it make sense.And we close with a segment on patriarchy, pick-me women, and why the system always eats the women who serve it most faithfully. Bondi. Noem. Every woman who thought she'd be the exception. Spoiler: there are no exceptions. There are only women who haven't been discarded yet.Happy Friday night episode, y'all. Everything is somehow worse. Let's go.Pam Bondi fired, Pete Hegseth, Iran war, F-15 shot down Iran, Epstein files cover-up, Army Chief of Staff fired, Kristi Noem fired, Bryon Noem bimbofication, political podcastBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-crime-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.

family values in the front, balloon tits in the back. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-crime-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.

This week, the line between reality and absurdity didn’t just blur, it packed a bag, told us it was going to the store for milk, and then left town. We are in a war that we are very carefully not calling a war, which feels like when you eat an entire cake and say, “I didn’t eat it, I just emotionally processed it.” Meanwhile, the president is on the golf course, just out there living his best retired billionaire life, while the rest of the world is like, “Should we be panicking? Because it feels like we should be panicking.”At home, everything is also going great if your definition of “great” is “historically alarming.” The Supreme Court is about to weigh whether being born here still makes you American, which I thought we had locked down in the 1800s, but apparently we’re workshopping it again. Red states are passing laws about identity like they just discovered other people exist and took it personally. Political alliances are shifting in ways that make you go, “Wait, am I having a freaking stroke or is Marjorie Taylor Greene making sense right now?”And while all of this is happening, the propaganda war has entered its final form, which is memes. Not even good ones. Just… memes. Foreign adversaries are somehow better at talking to Americans than our own government, which is honestly embarrassing. So this episode is about that. The collision of war, politics, media, and whatever this performance art version of reality has become.---------------------politics, current events, US politics, Iran conflict, war analysis, propaganda, media literacy, misinformation, Donald Trump, Supreme Court, birthright citizenship, political satire, news commentary, geopolitics, foreign policy, digital propaganda, culture and politics, political podcast, societal trends, democracy, government accountabilityBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-crime-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.

***Apologies for the lack of voice. Robin is sick and has lost itThis week we're taking a detour from the usual political hellscape to cover something that is, underneath the celebrity packaging, the exact same story: who gets protected, who gets discarded, and how the machine that hands powerful men unlimited second acts is the same machine running everything else we cover on this show.Shia LaBeouf is thirty-nine years old and currently facing three counts of simple battery in New Orleans, including allegedly punching a bartender, dislocating someone's nose, and headbutting a third person while shirtless during a four-day Mardi Gras bar crawl. His attorney's defense was "frankly, being drunk on Mardi Gras is not a crime." That's the legal strategy.Simultaneously, FKA Twigs (the Grammy-nominated artist Tahliah Barnett) has filed a new lawsuit arguing that the NDA inside her 2025 sexual battery settlement with LaBeouf is illegal under California's STAND Act, and that after she said publicly she didn't feel safe, LaBeouf secretly filed arbitration proceedings to extract money from her for saying it. She hired Mathew Rosengart (the attorney who freed Britney Spears) and she is not seeking money. She is seeking the legal right to describe her own life.This episode: the full legal timeline from 2005 to 2026, the Mia Goth relationship from the 2012 set of Nymphomaniac to the 2024 Pasadena 911 call, to the method acting culture that celebrates self-harm and calls it genius, the Honey Boy credit, the Catholic conversion with full ambivalence, and the redemption arc as a structure that serves perpetrators more reliably than survivors.Plus: why this episode exists, and why the same system protecting Shia LaBeouf is the same one that fired Megan Fox for comparing Michael Bay to Hitler, buried Tig Notaro for being right about Louis C.K. too early, and made Monica Lewinsky the punchline of a generation while the president who was actually in the room got two hundred thousand dollars a speech.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-crime-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.

**This episode is raw and uneditedRobert Mueller is dead at 81. Trump spent the weekend celebrating on Truth Social. Iran is on Day 24 of a hot war the IEA says is worse than both 1970s oil shocks combined. The 82nd Airborne is on standby. Someone placed half a billion dollars in oil futures bets 15 minutes before Trump posted his Iran peace claim. And Donald Trump voted by mail in a Florida special election the same week he called mail-in voting "cheating" and demanded senators pass voter suppression legislation for Jesus.On this episode, Robin covers Mueller's legacy, the MAGA civil war over Iran, Trump's 36% approval rating, Scaramucci's "Trump Reality Syndrome," the Supreme Court's threat to mail ballot grace periods in 14 states, ICE deployed to airports, the woman detained at SFO in front of her crying daughter, the Army raising its enlistment age to 42, and the Charlie Kirk cancel culture hypocrisy unraveling in court.Five scenarios for how the Iran war ends. None of them good. KEYWORDS / TAGSRobert Mueller death, Trump Truth Social Mueller, Iran war update 2026, Iran war Day 24, 82nd Airborne Iran deployment, Kharg Island military plan, IEA energy crisis oil shocks, Iran war oil prices, Trump approval rating 2026, Reuters Ipsos poll Iran war, Trump voted by mail, SAVE Act voter suppression, mail-in voting hypocrisy, Supreme Court mail ballot grace period, Watson v Republican National Committee, ICE airports 2026, SFO detention ICE, DHS shutdown TSA, Anthony Scaramucci Trump reality syndrome, MAGA civil war Tucker Carlson Hannity, Iran war Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly Iran war, Charlie Kirk cancel culture, professor fired Kirk death, Army enlistment age 42, Army marijuana waiver 2026, Pakistan Iran ceasefire talks, Amazon AWS Bahrain drone attack, Iran oil futures insider trading, left wing political podcast, anti-Trump podcast 2026, progressive news podcastABOUT THE SHOWWe Saw the Devil is a left-leaning political commentary podcast hosted by Robin. Sharp, profanity-forward, and built on the belief that unflinching honesty is the only appropriate response to what is happening to American democracy. New episodes weekly. Not for the faint of heart. Absolutely for the furious.Follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you listen. Leave a review. Tell someone who needs it.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-crime-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.

Note: This episode was recorded the evening of Monday, March 2, 2026. The situation is changing quickly, so some details may have developed further since recording. A new episode is dropping this evening 3/4 with an update. How did the United States and Iran go from nuclear diplomacy to open war? In this episode of We Saw the Devil, Robin walks through the timeline that led to the 2026 US–Iran conflict. From the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) to Operation Epic Fury, she breaks down the decisions, escalations, and failed diplomacy that pushed two countries toward direct conflict. Because wars rarely start with the first bomb. They usually start years earlier.In This Episode:The roots of US–Iran tension, from the 1953 coup to the 1979 Iranian RevolutionWhat the JCPOA nuclear deal actually didWhy the US leaving the deal in 2018 changed the trajectoryIran’s proxy network across the Middle EastThe 2025 protests inside Iran and the violent crackdown that followedThe diplomatic breakdown leading into 2026Operation Epic Fury and the strike campaign against IranIran’s retaliation across the region, including Israel, Lebanon, and Gulf statesThe growing risk of a wider Middle East war and energy crisisKeywords: US Iran war 2026, Iran nuclear deal collapse, JCPOA explained, Operation Epic Fury, US strikes Iran 2026, Iran Israel conflict, Iran retaliation Israel, Hezbollah Israel war, Middle East war 2026, US Iran conflict timeline, why the US bombed Iran, Iran nuclear program crisis, Strait of Hormuz crisis, global oil prices war, Iran protests 2025 crackdown, Iran proxy network Hezbollah Hamas Houthis, Lebanon Israel escalation, Gulf state missile attacks Iran, US foreign policy Iran conflict, geopolitics Middle East war analysisBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-crime-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.

So, the President thinks he’s in a Liam Neeson movie, the DOJ thinks "transparency" means hiding 98% of the Epstein files, and Ghislaine Maxwell got a puppy. Happy Wednesday. The masks are officially off, and what’s underneath is even uglier than we thought.In this episode, I’m breaking down the absolute fever dream that is February 2026:The Hunter Arc: Why the White House is rebranding the presidency as a revenge thriller and what "voter ID whether Congress likes it or not" actually means for the midterms.The Zuck Trial: Mark Zuckerberg is finally in front of a jury (not a fan-boy Senate committee) defending why Meta thinks 10-year-olds are "valuable assets" rather than human beings.Epstein’s 2%: Attorney General Pam Bondi claims "all" the files are out. Spoilers: They aren't. We talk 40 terabytes of missing data, Ted Lieu’s C-SPAN bombshell, and why the DOJ is busy redacting names while releasing victims' photos.Eight Fractures: A brutal investigation into ICE enforcement in Minneapolis and the "Catch of the Day" operation that’s turning even the President’s own voters against him.Subpoenaed Opinions: How DHS is using administrative subpoenas to unmask anonymous Reddit and Discord users for the crime of... having an opinion.The Quiet Parts: From Jared Kushner’s nuclear "diplomacy" in Iran to the weaponization of health grants against blue states.SUPPORT THE SHOWAd-Free Episodes: Join the Patreon to skip the mattress ads and keep this show independent. Keywords: True Crime, Political Analysis, Jeffrey Epstein, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Lawsuit, ICE, DHS Subpoena, Trump 2026, Pam Bondi, Ted Lieu, Civil Liberties, Privacy, Social Media Addiction, Human Rights.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-crime-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.

They raised their hands. Every. Single. One of them.The survivors sat three feet behind the Attorney General of the United States...a phalanx of white and blacked-out redaction shirts. When asked if the Department of Justice failed them, the hands went up. When asked if they’d been ignored by the very people sworn to protect them, the hands stayed up.But when asked if they actually trusted the DOJ? Dead silence.While they stood, Pam Bondi stared at her notes like eye contact was a biohazard. No apology for the "accidental" release of victim nudes. No explanation for why billionaire predators got the luxury of a black marker while their prey got doxed.She had the audacity to say she wouldn't "get in the gutter" with the committee.But here’s the reality: The gutter is where those survivors' private lives were dumped.Let's break down the absolute circus of the February 11th Judiciary hearing.Welcome to the gutter. We’re all in it now.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-crime-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.

While the country argued about a Super Bowl halftime show, the U.S. government quietly revealed how power actually works. In this episode of Red, White & Bruised, Robin breaks down the week America exposed itself in real time. From the culture war meltdown over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance to the resurfacing of the Epstein files, the dismissal of Steve Bannon’s criminal case, and a Justice Department increasingly aligned with political loyalty over accountability. This episode examines how distraction functions as cover fire. Loud outrage dominates headlines while structural changes reshape the legal, political, and information systems underneath. In this episode:The coordinated backlash to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show and why culture war outrage is the pointTrump’s response to athletes speaking honestly at the Winter Olympics and the growing political cost of enforced “gratitude”Ghislaine Maxwell invoking the Fifth Amendment while quietly signaling willingness to testify in exchange for a presidential pardonNew revelations about Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s post-conviction ties to Jeffrey EpsteinThe Department of Justice moving to dismiss Steve Bannon’s criminal contempt convictionA Fifth Circuit ruling allowing indefinite detention by ICE without bond hearingsLooming DHS funding deadlines and Democratic paralysisElon Musk’s renewed political spending and the growing money imbalance ahead of the midtermsThe White House’s unprecedented “Media Offenders” page and its implications for press freedomHow culture war noise, legal infrastructure, financial power, and information control work together by designThis is not chaos. It’s architecture. While public attention stays locked on spectacle, the machinery of power rewrites the rules in plain sight. This episode connects the dots between distraction and consequence...and asks what happens when the loudest outrage stops working.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/we-saw-the-devil-crime-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.