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The TMI Show

Ted Rall and Manila Chan

MSM outcasts Ted Rall and Manila Chan reunite on the daily livestream called The TMI Show (Ted Manila Information Show). Mon-Fri 10am ET. Catch the live shows on YouTube and Rumble...because you can never have too much info!Ted Rall is a syndicated cartoonist, author, peeved leftist, and a cat dad + 1 human. Manila Chan is a recovering news anchor, magazine journalist, and politically homeless, suburban mom. Together, they are the T and M of the show that has dozens of followers worldwide who are

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TMI Show Ep 82: Trump Wants To Slash Defense

The TMI Show ·

2025/02/20

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered Pentagon officials to draw up plans to cut 8% from the military over each of the next five years, the most radical attempt to rein in such spending ever.There would be 17 exceptions to the proposed cuts, including military operations at the southern border. Cuts to defense will face opposition in Congress, where lawmakers focus on budget cuts that could affect their districts.On "The TMI Show" Ted Rall and guest cohost Robby West discuss this shocking

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TMI Show Ep 81: Ukraine: The Jig Is Up

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2025/02/19

The United States and Russia have moved toward a total reset in Riyadh, agreeing to work together on ending the Russo-Ukrainian war, financial investment, eliminating sanctions and re-establishing normal relations. The meeting was striking after three years of American efforts to isolate Moscow. After more than four hours of talks, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that both sides had agreed to work on a peace settlement for Ukraine as well as to explore “the incredible opportunities that exist to

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TMI Show Ep 80: Covid: Five Years Later

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2025/02/18

Five years ago this week, the United States entered an unprecedented national lockdown. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted the government, businesses and educational institutions to shut down. The streets of major cities turned into ghost towns. Confused, traumatized and terrified of a fatal respiratory virus whose means of transmission was not clearly understood until later, Americans hid in their homes while over a million of their fellow citizens died, many of them alone in terrible agony.The novel

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TMI Show Ep 79: FIGHT FOR THE PHILIPPINES: CHINA vs USA

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2025/02/14

The politics of the former American colony of the Philippines is devolving into a Hatfields versus McCoys style blood feud. Sara Duterte, daughter of the last president Rodrigo, was the vice president until she just got impeached. Now she's being charged with sedition too.At the heart of the clash is a power struggle between two families, the pretty much pro-China Dutertes, against the pro-American Marcoses, whose Bongbong is the current president.Lucio Blanco Pitlo III, president of the Philippines

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TMI Show Ep 78: Putin and Trump’s Perfect Phone Call

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2025/02/13

The deep freeze in U.S.-Russian relations is about to thaw out bigly.Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump talked for about an hour and a half yesterday, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. The call was “lengthy and highly productive,” Trump said on Truth Social. “We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, the power of the Dollar, and various other subjects.” They agreed that they “want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the War with Russia/Ukraine,”

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TMI Show Ep 77: Dems Threaten a Shutdown

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2025/02/12

“I’m not a cheap date,” Democratic Congressman Jim McGovern of Massachusetts said yesterday. “[Republicans] want to run and tell everybody that they have this huge mandate — that they can do whatever the hell they want to do. Well, if that’s the case then they should put their mandate-pants on and do whatever the hell they want to do. But if you want us to be helpful, then you have to engage us. And we’re not going to just be there to bail you out.”Democratic votes will be needed to get a federal

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TMI Show Ep 76: Make Our Kids Free Again?

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2025/02/11

Should we like our children like we like our livestock: free-range?Older Americans, who grew up before electronic trackers/devices and helicopter parenting, remember childhoods with much more independence than many kids get today. In the 1970s and 1980s, when “The TMI Show”’s Manila Chan and Ted Rall came of age, it wasn’t uncommon for the under-18 set to take mass transit by themselves and disappear for hours between meals with little accountability. It was riskier. But it also made for bigger

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The TMI Show Ep75: USAID FUNDING INTERNATIONAL MEDIA

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2025/02/10

Elon Musk’s DOGE team is leading the charge to shut down US-AID, a $50 billion-a-year government agency with vast foreign policy influence and less-clear domestic implications like its subsidies to American agribusiness. US-AID sends aid to Ukraine, tries to broker peace in Somalia, tracks diseases in Cambodia, leads vaccination efforts in Nigeria, fights H.I.V. in Uganda and provides maternal health assistance in Zambia, among a wide range of other programs. Democrats warn that shutting down US-AID

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TMI Show Ep 74: War Against Greenland

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2025/02/07

Professor Kristian Nielsen of Aarhus University in Denmark joins “The TMI Show” to discuss the possibility of a US invasion of Greenland. Setting up a confrontation with NATO, Donald Trump says the Danish territory—where the US has a Space Force base already—is essential to American national security. It also has rare earth minerals and an opening to new Northwest Passage that has been created by climate change and the melting of the Polar Ice Cap.What are the possibilities of an American war

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TMI Show Ep 73: What’s Next for DOGE?

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2025/02/06

Chief Trump consultant Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have hit the ground running, shocking Washington’s Inside-the-Beltway bureaucratic infrastructure by following the Silicon Valley approach of “move fast and break things.”Musk is moving to shut down US-AID. He offered bullying buyout offers to 2.3 million federal employees. He and his team of very-young assistants has been granted access to confidential government data, including those of the Treasury

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TMI Show Ep 72: Bibi Goes to Washington, Trump Wants...

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2025/02/05

Trump said that Canada and Mexico couldn’t do anything to stop his 25% tariffs on goods. “We’re not looking for a concession,” he said. Three days later, Trump paused the tariffs on both countries for 30 days, citing concessions they had made.Trump’s tariffs threatened to increase inflation and spooked the stock market. Did Trump’s pullback have more to do with that looming economic pain than with the concessions? What happens in a month?On today’s “The TMI Show,” Manila Chan and Ted Rall discuss

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TMI Show Ep 71: Democrats: Is There a Road Back?

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2025/02/04

Dispirited and depressed, the Democratic Party doesn’t have a target audience, a message to send it, or a strategy to opposing Trumpism. Highlighting their dismal situation, new ideas were notably missing at a recent election for new DNC chair, where party insiders insisted that Biden and Harris ran great campaigns that failed to get their great message across to the voters and that nothing should fundamentally change. Meanwhile, Trump’s MAGA Republicans are manic and energized, running roughshod

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TMI Show Ep 70: Tariff Terror!

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2025/02/03

Trump made good on his threat to slap tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada over the weekend. All imports from China now face a 10% duty. It’s 25% on imports from Mexico and Canada. Canadian oil, natural gas and electricity, will be taxed 10%. Trump’s order includes a mechanism to escalate the rates charged by the U.S. against retaliation by the other countries, raising the specter of an even more severe economic disruption. Trump demanded that the three nations to stop the manufacture and export of

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TMI Show Ep 69: Video Games Are Good For You

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2025/01/31

Video games have long been considered a waste of time and even a pernicious influence by many educators and political leaders in the establishment. In 2019, Gaming Disorder was even listed in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases. Gaming Disorder is “characterized by impaired control over gaming, increasing priority given to gaming over other activities to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other interests and daily activities.”Not everyone was buying it. During

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TMI Show Ep 68: Trump To Send Migrants to Notorious...

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2025/01/30

Guantánamo Bay concentration camp, the American human-rights disaster made infamous by the Bush Administration when it sent Muslim detainees to be tortured there out of reach from the law, is about to radically expand. Donald Trump has ordered the camp to prepare for the arrival of 30,000 migrants, many of whom have never been charged with a crime.On “The TMI Show,” co-hosts Manila Chan and Ted Rall discuss the morality, practicality and political implications of Trump's latest move in his war

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TMI Show Ep 67: You’re (Self-) Fired! Trump Threatens...

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2025/01/29

Bearing the same subject line as a downsizing memo sent to Twitter employees by Elon Musk, an ominous mass email was fired out by the Trump Administration to millions of federal employees offering them a buyout if they voluntarily agree to resign within a week. There is a fist inside the velvet glove: most federal agencies will probably be slashed and a substantial number of employees will be furloughed or reclassified to “at-will status,” making them easier to fire. Most remote workers will have to

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TMI Show Ep 66: What Is Communism?

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2025/01/28

With the Democratic Party in disarray and the Left unable to organize itself into a coherent political movement, it’s a good time for Americans who oppose capitalism to get back to the basics of anti-capitalist politics: communism.Communism is an economic and political system under which everyone lives equally and has equal access to goods, services and power. Socialism is a system that precedes communism, in which the value added by labor is transferred over time from the ruling-class elites who

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TMI Show Ep 65: Trump’s FAFO Foreign Policy

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2025/01/27

Trump’s foreign policy is only a week old and all over the place. Over the weekend America’s new president waged and won a short-lived trade war with Colombia, a staunch US ally in Latin America, over deportation flights. We saw mixed messages in Gaza, where Trump urged Arab neighbors to take in displaced Gazans which would appear to set the stage for Israeli ethnic cleansing while simultaneously ordering Israel to extend its ceasefire with Hamas by at least 30 extra days. He threatened Russia even

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TMI Show Ep 64: Trump’s First 100 Days

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2025/01/24

Ever since FDR, we’ve watched a new president’s First 100 Days. Never will Donald Trump have as much political capital as he does now, so he’s jamming through as many executive orders as he can. Will he also be able to get his entire slate of top nominees through the Senate? What should we expect legislatively? From foreign policy?On “The TMI Show,” co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan, are joined by Richmond, Virginia-based talk show host John Reid for an inside look at the immediate impact of Trump’s

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TMI Show Ep 63: America: The Party's Over

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2025/01/23

America rock 'n' rolled all night long and partied every day. Then Boomers started dying, Gen X started having babies, Millennials fell in love with their phones and the pandemic kept us locked up. Only 4.1 percent (https://www.bls.gov/tus/tables/a2-2023.pdf) of Americans attended or hosted a social event on an average weekend or holiday in 2023, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics--a 35% decline since 2004. Party City announced

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