They say history repeats itself, but usually it has the courtesy to let you catch your breath

between atrocities, a little palate cleanser, if you will, maybe a nice decade of boring.

But no, what we are experiencing right now is the part of the horror movie where the audience

is screaming, get out of the horror movie where the audience is screaming,

get out of the house, and the protagonist just keeps opening the doors, checking rooms.

We're all watching. We all see the killer and where it is, and yet somehow everyone is still going down and checking the basement by themselves. This week, a federal agent tried to storm a foreign consulate because

apparently the Vienna Convention is now just more of a vibe than a law. The president threatened

to bomb Iran again because his poll numbers are in the absolute toilet. A sitting congresswoman

got sprayed with a mystery liquid from a syringe, just hours after Trump made gun

noises about people from her country at a rally, and somewhere in the middle of all of that.

We deported a five-year-old American citizen to a country she'd never been to. But hey, I guess

at least things aren't boring right now. In this episode, I'm going to talk about all of it, the consulate, the database, the fact that Italy, Italy, you guys, is publicly debating whether American law enforcement is comparable to the SS.

We're going to talk about Christy Noam, if she's still employed, why Chuck Schumer suddenly grew a spine. And then why I

genuinely cannot tell anymore if we're living through history or some sort of dystopian iron-rand

screenplay. Pour yourself something, put the kids to bed, and let's do this. But before we dive,

swan dive, really, into the flaming dumpster fire,

let's get the boring shit out of the way. If you're new here, hi, welcome. My condolences. I'm Robin.

This is We Saw the Devil, the podcast where I, a unenthusiastic polycymajor and politics

obsessed rando, more or less get lit and then just rant about the current state of the world.

And while doing this, my faith in humanity is just slowly disintegrating.

I drop new episodes weekly, mostly generally at least two per week when the new cycle goes full psycho, which lately is

every day. But at least generally two episodes per week. Now, if you want to support the show,

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