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DMZ America Podcast Ep 193: Democrats Say Resistance Is Futile

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Ted Rall

Live at 12:30 PM Eastern/11:30 am Central time, and Streaming 24-7 Thereafter:

House Leader Jeffries sounds like a Vichy Democrat who has given up. “What leverage do we have?” he asked reporters at his weekly news conference on Friday. “They control the House, the Senate and the presidency. It’s their government.”

Yet Republicans had a very different attitude when they found themselves in the same position Democrats are in now. They threatened to shut down the federal government and sometimes did so. They extracted concessions in order to raise the debt ceiling. They blocked judicial and other nominations.

What parliamentary and other tools could Democrats deploy to block or slow down Trump and his initiatives? Do they want to use them? If not, why not?

That’s what editorial cartoonists Ted Rall (from the Left) and Scott Stantis (from the Right) are talking about on today’s DMZ America Podcast.

 

DMZ America Podcast Ep 192: Trump Trashes Checks and Balances

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Ted Rall

LIVE at 10 am Eastern Time/7 am Pacific time, and Streaming 24-7 Thereafter:

Is this the end of the American experiment? Donald Trump, Elon Musk and his administration are flouting the Constitution and making a mockery of the checks and balances that have kept U.S. democracy going over nearly a quarter millennium. Congress has signaled that it does not plan to rein in the president so it’s mostly up to the Supreme Court. With governing norms demolished, will we still be able to say this is a nation of laws?

Editorial cartoonists and best friends Ted Rall (from the Left) and Scott Stantis (from the Right) draw on history to forecast what appears to be a rapidly growing constitutional crisis.


DMZ America Podcast Ep 191: Political Potpourri

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Ted Rall

LIVE at 12 noon Eastern today, Streaming 24-7 thereafter:

It’s Trump’s second week as president and he’s a busy boy. He’s expanding Guantánamo Concentration Camp to accommodate as many as 36,000 migrants in perpetuity, working on ways to get a third term, firing the inspectors general and running roughshod over the hapless Democrats who still seem to think they shouldn’t change a thing.

Editorial cartoonists Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) could talk about all that and more. And maybe they will. But this is a Political Potpourri episode in which they’re going to roll open mic style: whatever comes to mind is what will come up.

 


TMI Show Ep 68: Trump To Send Migrants to Notorious Torture Camp

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Ted Rall

Airing LIVE at 10 am Eastern time this morning, then Streaming 24-7 thereafter:

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 against illegal immigrants.

TMI Show Ep 65: Trump’s FAFO Foreign Policy

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Ted Rall

Live at 10 am Eastern time/8 am Mountain and Streaming all the time after that:

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 as he said he wants to denuclearize and negotiate with Putin over Ukraine. And who knows what he’s on about when it comes to China, which reversed its previous refusal to accept its own undocumented migrants after the scrap with Colombia?

On “The TMI Show,” co-hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan try to make sense of Trump’s foreign policy. Is it an incoherent mess? Or is there a method to his madness?

DMZ America Podcast Ep 190: So It Begins…Trump 2.0

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Ted Rall

Live at 1 pm Eastern/12 noon Central time and Streaming anytime after that:

Editorial cartoonists Ted Rall (on the Left) and Scott Stantis (on the Right) break down Donald Trump’s first week as president. From pardons to executive orders to cabinet appointments to the inauguration to domestic and foreign policy legislation, what does what we’ve seen so far augur for the next four years of the Trumpian restoration?

On the DMZ America podcast, political cartoonists Ted Rall (from the Left) and Scott Stantis (from the Right) let you know how they see things without indulging in the usual fussing and fighting.


TMI Show Ep 64: Trump’s First 100 Days

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Ted Rall

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 second term.

TMI Show Ep 62: “Trump’s Foreign Policy Begins to Take Shape”

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Ted Rall

Live at 10 am Eastern time/9 am Central time and Streaming 24-7 thereafter:

After being unanimously confirmed, Secretary of State Marco Rubio immediately met with his “Quad” counterparts from Australia, India and Japan, signaling a focus on China. Rubio also supervised a 90-day suspension of all foreign aid payments.

In the Middle East, Trump said that he was not optimistic about the prospects for the new ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, and eliminated Biden’s sanctions against some West Bank settlers accused of violence against Palestinians. Meanwhile, Israel appears to be taking advantage of the ceasefire to escalate military attacks and settler violence in the West Bank. Will Trump, an ally of Israel, be able to rein in Netanyahu?

Trump plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the next few weeks and said that they will discuss bringing an end to the war in Ukraine. Most experts believe that Russia will wind up with about a fifth of Ukrainian territory and a guarantee that a rump Ukraine will not join NATO.

Nick Cruse of the Revolutionary Blackout Network joins “TMI Show” hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan to discuss the state of the world and the American role under Trump.

TMI Show Ep 62: “Trump’s Busy First Day”

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Ted Rall

Listen and Watch LIVE at 10 am Eastern time/7 am Pacific time today and Streaming 24-7 thereafter:

After a strange inauguration speech that really wasn’t, President Donald Trump charged out of the gate on his first day with a blizzard of executive orders and actions designed to remake the government as quickly as possible in his image. Within hours, he pardoned or commuted the sentences of the January 6th defendants and inmates, declared an emergency at the Mexican border that allows him to send the military, shut down the main immigration app, declared drug cartels to be terrorist organizations, fired over 1000 Biden appointees, threw a lifeline to TikTok, re-declared Cuba a partner of terrorists, withdrew from the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization, and attempted to end birthright citizenship.

Oh, and the DOGE bromance ended 6.75 hours into Trump’s second term.

On today’s “TMI Show” hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan tell you what’s likely to stick and what’s not, what’s happening and why it matters, and predict what’s coming next down the pike.

TMI Show Ep 61: “Trump 47: Lame Duck or Wrecking Ball?”

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Ted Rall

This morning at 10 AM Eastern time and streaming 24-7 thereafter anytime:

Donald Trump becomes the first president since 1893 to return to office after having lost an election and sitting out for years. What can we expect from his second term?

“The TMI Show”’s Ted Rall and Manila Chan analyze the prospects for the new administration’s economic policies and their chances for success amid a clear division within their own party about whether to go with trickle-down economics or populist economics. What about those mass deportations? Not to mention the price of eggs.

On the foreign-policy front, Trump promised to fix the Ukraine war immediately after taking office. Will it be done by tomorrow? Will the first phase of the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas hold, and will there be a second and third one? Will there be a trade war with China?

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