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Donald Trump's election victory caused most people to think that the war between Russia and Ukraine would soon come to an end as the United States pulled back on its financial and military support for Ukraine, something the former president promised repeatedly. However, what was expected to be a quiet transition in America's proxy war heated up dramatically after President Joe Biden reversed himself in order to allow Ukraine to fire US-made and US-operated ATACMS missiles up to 200 miles inside the Russian Federation. As Russian president Vladimir Putin had threatened to do, Russia quickly responded by updating its nuclear doctrine to authorize Russian military leaders to launch a nuclear strike against any nuclear-armed country that attacks Russia whether it uses nuclear or conventional weapons.

A smear, the dictionary says, is a word or statement applied to a person in order to degrade, blacken, or make unjust or unfounded accusations. The lead in today’s New York Times, a story titled “How Tulsi Gabbard Became a Favorite of Russia’s State Media,” is a textbook example of a smear. Relying on guilt by association, reading into similarities between her opinions and those of U.S. adversaries, assuming the worst of her while taking her enemies’ statements at face value, and twisting reality into a pretzel to normalize insanity and marginalize the facts, the Times piece shows you how state-sponsored media propaganda works in the real world, in this case as part of a concerted effort to sabotage President-Elect Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence. Missing, by the paper’s own account no doubt in order to avoid another costly libel lawsuit, is any evidence that Gabbard is a “Russian asset” or has done anything wrong at all. Times editors obviously assume that few readers will read beyond the headline or, if they do, will read with the skeptical eye of a veteran journalist.On today’s The TMI Show, co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan dissect the smear campaign against Gabbard in order to showcase how “mainstream” corporate media outlets undermine reputations and lives.

The TMI Show Ep 22: “Mass Deportations: Facts and Fantasies”On The TMI Show, co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan investigate what's true and what's not about the second Trump Administration's plans for border policy and the millions of asylum applicant and illegal immigrants who migrated into the United States over the last few years. Trump has appointed former acting Director of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tom Homan to be his border czar. Homan has promised “shock and awe” on Day One—but the message is confusing. Contrary to what Trump said on the campaign trail, the US military will probably not be involved anytime soon in deportations. That job will fall to ICE, which will focus on people here illegally who are suspected of having committed serious crimes, as well as gang members—which is the same priority currently in effect under Joe Biden. They don't plan to break down doors at anyone's homes. Homan does, however, suggest that raids on workplaces, a tactic Biden discontinued, could return. There is also a mixed messaging on whether families might be separated because some members have legal status and others don't. Meanwhile, immigrant advocates and activists will be availing themselves of remedies in the legal system to slow down expulsions. What tools do they have? How effective are they? Our expert guest is immigration attorney Susan Pai. After attending the University of Southern California, University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Louisville and Nagoya University in Japan, Susan began her career as Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the State of Washington. Susan is a nationally recognized speaker and writer. She is a front page featured Huffington Post writer on immigration issues (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-pai/5-million-reasons-for-rec_b_5056302.html) and has submitted Congressional Testimony on humanitarian immigration issues. She has worked with the Senate Judiciary Committee on business immigration and has testified as an expert on immigration compliance. Susan has spoken at national anti-fraud conventions, immigration law conferences and law schools.Join us as we answer the question: what's the truth about mass deportations under another Trump Administration?

On The TMI Show, co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan investigate Pete Hegseth, the obscure Fox News weekend host nominated to become Trump’s Secretary of Defense. Why was he chosen? Is he qualified? Will the Senate confirm him?The Pentagon is a vast bureaucracy that controls an annual budget of nearly $1 trillion a year and employees nearly 3,000,000 people around the world stationed at over 1000 overseas military installations and hundreds in the United States. It is the second largest employer on planet earth, and if you include subsidiary contracting firms, it is by far the biggest. In addition, it controls the military academies as well as four separate intelligence agencies. Considering all that, is Hegseth, a veteran with no relevant experience, out of his depth?Ted and Manila pose that big question to Michael Maloof, a former senior security policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense with almost 30 years of federal service in the U.S. Defense Department and as a specialized trainer for border guards and Special Forces in select countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia.

On the TMI Show, co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan dive into one of the most vexing problems in the Western Hemisphere: a failed state in the Caribbean less than 600 miles away from the United States. Exploited and ravaged by French and American colonialism and decades of brutal dictators, Haiti has been destroyed by earthquakes and hurricanes and is now in the hands of brutal gangs.Recent headlines paint a gruesome picture. Haitian police attacked a Doctors Without Borders ambulance and murdered patients it was transporting. The capital of Port-au-Prince is completely controlled by violent gangs. Starvation is everywhere. The FAA has banned American flights to the country after a Spirit Airlines jet was struck by small arms fire.At least 5000 people have been killed in the last year. As the country’s security crisis continues, 5.4 million Haitians struggle daily to find enough to eat and gang activity has displaced over 700,000 people. On the human development front, Haiti has tens of thousands of confirmed cases of cholera. Over one-fifth of children are at risk of cognitive and physical limitations, and only 78 percent of 15-year-olds will survive to age 60.The effects of this misery, of course, come to America in the form of Haitian migrants and illegal immigrants. What needs to be done to restore calm, law and order and maybe even prosperity to this benighted nation? Who is up to the job? Or should Haiti be left alone for the Haitian people to work things out?Joining Ted and Manila is independent journalist and filmmaker Dan Cohen, the founder of Uncaptured Media. His latest documentary is “Haiti: Intervention Versus Revolution.”

As the Russo-Ukraine conflict prepares to enter its third year of grinding warfare that has claimed untold lives and wreaked havoc on people and infrastructure, the election of Donald Trump to the presidency has sparked speculation that a reduction of U.S. proxy support for the Zelensky government might force the Ukrainians to sit down for serious peace talks with Putin.Russia has gained a clear military advantage in the war. On the TMI Show, co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan dare to ask: Will Trump, as he has promised, end the Ukraine War? If so, how? What role will be played by likely incoming secretary of state Marco Rubio, and European allies? Will the broad contours of a peace deal result in a rump Ukraine and an agreement not to join NATO? Are we looking at a full-fledged armistice, a ceasefire or just continued fighting?Joining Ted and Manila is Mark Sleboda (http://facebook.com/Gramsci), an International Relations and Security analyst.

“I’m On Fire” by the Garden State’s favorite son Bruce Springsteen could be the soundtrack to a bizarre wildfire season—wild because it’s happening in New Jersey, Connecticut and New York, states that rarely if ever have suffered the extreme drought conditions and sustained unseasonable high temperatures afflicting the Eastern United States and much of the nation. Late last week, New York City was covered with smoke from a brush fire in, wait for it, Brooklyn.

On today’s TMI Show, co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan consider Donald Trump's campaign promises in the light of the reality he will have to face as he returns to the White House in January. He promised mass deportations and still claims he plans to carry them out, but will ugly optics and economic need for more workers pressure him to back down? Were his threats to impose big tariffs on Chinese imports empty, and negotiating tactic, or to be taken at face value? Trump remarked that he had "a concept of a plan" to repeal and replace Obamacare; if so, what would that look like? Should Ukraine expect to be told to negotiate with Russia?

On today’s TMI Show, co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan are joined by former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers to discuss the fallout of Trump’s reelection win, namely: Where do Democrats go now? What will a Democratic Resistance 2.0 look like? How effectively can Democrats block Trump’s initiatives? Are there areas in which Democrats and Republicans can work together in a bipartisan manner? Who are the rising stars within the party? Will Democrats continue to drift right to chase anti-MAGA Republicans, or will they follow the advice of Bernie Sanders and others who suggest that it’s time to either abandon the Democratic Party or take it over?

As the political world reels from Trump's come-from-behind victory in the presidential race, The TMI Show's Ted Rall and Manila Chan reach out to an old friend and colleague who has had a front-row seat at MAGA world and the Trump campaign to gain insights into the ups and downs of this wild campaign year.Joining us is Angie Wong, a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. After a successful career as a news editor, reporter and columnist in the U.S. and Asia for publications such as South China Morning Post, Reuters, NY Times and WSJ; she pivoted to politics, working on numerous political races at the local and federal level.Tomorrow: one of the nation's top editorial cartoonists will join us to look at things from the Democratic side.

Catch Ted and Manila livestreaming daily at 10am ET!Co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan analyze Donald Trump’s reelection victory and the Republican sweep of the Senate, with the House still up in the air. Conservative analyst Malik Abdul and progressive analyst Craig “Pasta” Jardula help break down how Trump pulled off his shocking win, what Democrats could have done differently and what to expect from a second Trump term: A federal ban on abortion rights? Mass deportations? Tariffs on Chinese imports? An end to the war in Ukraine? What about Gaza? Are we really witnessing the end of democracy—and how long can Trump stay in office before his age catches up with him?

Co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan preview the state of the key races for control of the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and bring you an Election Day interview with Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to be the Inventor of Email (http://www.inventorofemail.com/) and is running for President of the United States, Dr. Shiva holds four degrees from MIT, was a Fulbright Scholar, and started seven hi-tech companies, including EchoMail (http://www.echomail.com/), CytoSolve (https://cytosolve.com/) and Systems Health (http://systemshealth.com/). He is currently the Founder and CEO of CytoSolve, Inc. (https://cytosolve.com/)In the headlines: Ukrainian forces in Russia claim to be fighting North Korean troops. Boeing’s strike is over. The founder of Home Depot has died. And Much More!

On the TMI Show for November 4th, co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan err on the side of bringing you more information than you ever thought you needed. This time, with Election Day tomorrow, we offer you a Voters Guide about the five major presidential candidates: the good, the bad and the ugly about them, their policy stances and their parties. We deride, you decide! The TMI Show airs Monday through Friday at 10 am Eastern live, and streams in storage, on YouTube and Rumble.In today’s headlines: an art heist, the state kills a squirrel and an icon of the music world sheds his mortal coil.

Co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan delve into an almost-familiar acronym: MAHA, which stands for “Make America Healthy Again.” An improbable alliance between former President Donald Trump and Democratic scion Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has culminated with their shared MAHA agenda, which calls for reforming federal regulations on food and pharmaceuticals, switching up farm subsidies, and purging public health agencies.The still-developing MAHA plan taps into longstanding frustrations with the U.S. healthcare system and issues — such as ultra-processed food, the spread chronic disease and declining U.S. life expectancy — that Democrats rarely talk about—not to mention Trump, whose dietary preferences infamously trend toward fast food. Ted and Manila interview Dr. John Dombrowski, CEO of the Washington Pain Center and a practicing physician, about MAHA. What is it? Is it real and serious? What should we expect from a second Trump Administration, and why haven’t Democrats addressed the issue?In the headlines: The White House memory-holes Biden’s latest big gaffe. Halloween by the Numbers. And Much More!

The TMI Show is turning dark with DC By Foot tour guide Trevor Comeau, who guides scaredy-cat out-of-towners through the scariest haunts of Georgetown and other terrifying nabes in the city that keeps America’s darkest secrets: Washington. Co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan help remind you that it’s not just the looming showdown between the Orange Ghost of Nativism Past and Present, and former A.G., aka She Who Supplies Old Sparky at San Quentin with new corpses-to-be that ought to scare you.

What do you do as a voter when your party isn't that into you? On today's TMI Show, in which there's no such thing as Too Much Information, Ted Rall and Scott Stantis (guest hosting for Manila Chan) Progressive and other left-leaning Democrats are once again wrestling with a dilemma they've seen before: Kamala Harris has pivoted to the right of her party, eschewing progressive policies, campaigning with far-right Liz Cheney and supporting Israel against Gaza, and Ukraine against Russia.Should progressives support Harris despite her snubs, hoping she secretly plans to move left of she wins? Should they punish her by voting third party or even for Trump? Or should they abstain from voting?

As a history major at Columbia University, The TMI Show’s own Ted Rall’s thesis advisor was Professor Robert O. Paxton. Paxton wrote THE book on French fascism, “Vichy France.” He went on to write THE book on fascism writ large, “The Anatomy of Fascism.” Now age 92, Paxton recently gave an interview in which he cautiously agreed with the description of the MAGA movement led by former President Donald Trump as fascist in the traditional 20th century sense of the word. Kamala Harris has also weighed in, calling Trump himself a fascist.

Ted Rall and Manila Chan are joined by guest Peter Coffin, author of "Custom Reality and You", to discuss the shocking and bizarre case of how an A.I. chatbot talked a 14-year-old boy into suicide. Will we see more tragedies as the result of this new technology? Should Congress consider new laws to regulate this emerging technology?Plus, Ted and Manila talk politics and other hot topics you'll be discussing at the water cooler!

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Please support this independent work on the following sites:YouTube: www.youtube.com/@TMinfoShow X: https://x.com/TMInfoShow TikTok: www.tiktok.com/TheTMIshow TruthSocial: https://truthsocial.com/@TMIinfoShowYou can support us financially HERE:Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheTMIshow Substack: thetmishow.substack.comTed Rall & Manila Chan give you too much info daily M-F 10am ET. Hot topics, politics, and some laughs.Manila Chan is a recovering news anchor/reporter.Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist & author.Together they unpack stories that often don’t get enough coverage. Come learn TMI.Mark Sleboda is an international relations expert and analyst.