There's been a lot of ill informed discussion and misinformation on proposed tariffs by the incoming Trump Administration. The first of them, for Mexico and Canada, have already been announced. President Elect Trump has stated that the tariffs can be avoided by those countries taking up serious enforcement of their border with the United States.

Canadian podcaster Shaun Newman has written a good summary of how this has gone for Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau. The link provided is to a text rollup of a series of X posts. You do not have to use or go on X to read it. I am also including the first post in the thread, below, if you care to follow the discussion on X.

The short version is that Trump announced 25% tariffs on all Mexican and Canadian goods coming to the United States. Within days, Trudeau appeared at Mar-A-Lago to find out what he has to do to avoid this. Within 3 hours, Trudeau committed to enforcing the Canadian border, providing more technology resources to border enforcement, and more law enforcement personnel on the border. This to the benefit of citizens of both the US and Canada. All of these things he has not done for 9 years in office.

Shaun Newman Podcast Thread on ThreadReader

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We have heard this before,...the evil Russians have infected the general public of Romania through media and TikTok,..so the voting process must be denied of Romanians since the populace has been mass hypnotized against their will by Russians who are broke and cannot even help their client state in syria,..

experts in Romania in the form of judges, fact checkers, etc, need to sweep in and remove the hypnotic impulse supplanted by a broke Putin

The Biden admin has agreed that Russia has hypnotized Romanians into voting for a right wing party

Putin has officially become the "skeletor" villain from the he-man cartoons of the 1980s

General admission, $50 per ticket.

If interested, text Steve at (404)909-3624.

….from the standpoint of the 1980 team faced a ton of doubt and few people gave it much credit until they beat Notre Dame to win the national championship.
To me, you continue to hear some of the same questions of doubt now that you did then.
But the mindsets are similar.
That was a gritty team, this is a gritty team. That team never gave up, this team has shown it won’t quit.
It’s going to be fun to see how it turns out.

NM

Which of these names for bowl games did I make up? (Choose up to three.)

The Cricket Celebration Bowl
The Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl
The StaffDNA Cure Bowl
The SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl
The Wasabi Fenway Bowl
The Pop-Tarts Bowl
The Lego-my-Eggo Partridge City Bowl
The Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl
The Go Bowling Military Bowl

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Here is what popped in my head and just thought I'd share as it kind of summarizes my emotions personally (especially during trophy ceremony, lol) ....

"The deck that was stacked AGAINST us... we somehow picked it back up and THREW it right back in THEIR face!! We’re going to hoist that BIG conference trophy again you guys. The one that we had NO BUSINESS winning after that schedule and roller coaster that crew in Birmingham sent us on this year. Oh my… it couldn’t have happened… the Dawgs are the champions of this new wild and whacky SEC!!”

I wanted to make this post because I feel like a chunk of our fanbase hasn't had the genuine displeasure of interacting with the Texas fanbase.

I have, unfortunately. I'm a corporate lawyer. My job requires me to periodically travel to Texas and work with a ton of Texas alums, both lawyers and non-lawyers.

Their arrogance is insufferable. Combine the academic superiority complex of Georgia Tech, the athletic superiority complex of Bama, and the entitlement of an 17 year old with a trust fund, and you have your average Texas fans. Plus that whole weird "Republic of Texas" thing that most Texans can't shut up about. I live and work in DC, so believe me when I say that I know a thing or two about arrogance. Texas fans stand alone.

I have had to grin and bear it while Texas fans talk at me about how the rest of the SEC "must improve their academics to match the Texas standard," how Texas has more money than the rest of us combined, and how the rest of us will "are going to learn how Texas handles its business."

The win in October was a lot of fun. But it's not enough. We can't let Texas come in and win the SEC in their inaugural season; I'd never hear the end of it.

**** those mother****ers and their ****ing cow. Dawgs by 60.

My passion for the Dawgs will never die but my passion for the way college sports are headed has taken a nose dive for me personally. The portal and kids switching teams every season has just destroyed this game i love. How many of you feel this way? It’s just very disappointing to me

I keep reading that the guy who killed the united healthcare CEO is only being charged with second-degree murder. Is that a misprint? How in the world is that not premeditated first-degree murder?

Who will be healthy that we have been missing for the Sugar bowl?

Off today to attend the funeral of my sweet friend and co-worker's husband. Jeff was one of the biggest Dawg fans you'd ever meet. He was like a 2nd father to my daughter. He will missed terribly by so many. RIP my friend!!

Thinking this Peach Pie wine in the fridge will be opened tonight, too.

Practice started yesterday. We got us another Butkus Award Winner....will Thorson win the Ray Guy Award today, as well?

Praying for all those on LDGMDNOPL
and all the GMDN gang too!

Happy Birthday/Anniversary if you're celebrating today 🎉🎉

Love you guys and gals, MEAN IT.....

Go Dawgs ❤️

April

I agree that a case could be made that Bama is better than some teams in the bracket, but these are the rules and you don’t get to run roughshod over the rules just because your team didn’t make it in. Don’t get me wrong, his bias is certainly no surprise, but his willingness to let his anger show is funny.

What would have happened if Army went 12-0 beating Notre Dame and still has to play Army Navy game this weekend.

Stupid post I’m sure but I’m genuinely curious as this game is one of the best of the year.

Army can’t auto qualify without championship game but 12-0 with win over Notre Dame surely would have seen them in top 12. When they played it was #6 v #19.

And if they would have made it, they could just lose to Navy and still be in I guess.

After being the most painfully average team since the ECF run a few years back, Hawks have won 7 of the last 8 with with 5 of those wins coming against really good teams.

They also advanced to the semifinals of the NBA cup, which doesn’t seem to actually matter but is still kind of fun.

The team’s playing great right now. They just had to get healthy. JJ continues to be great. Hunter may have finally broken out. Okongwu is becoming more of a presence and Trae is dishing the ball better than anyone since prime Stockton. Risacher has shown flashes.

I think they have a real shot to be a 3-5 seed this year

Some info from the tOSU AD: OSU will be in charge of things like stadium staffing. However, the actual in game environment will be mostly controlled by the CFP Music and all that will be the CFP. Tennessee will have an entrance video played. OSU wouldn't allow that during normal home games.

If you’ve been to an NCAA postseason event in Athens, it sounds a lot like that. 95% a home game, but instead of the in-game operations pumping up the home crowd, it’s the stuff you’d get at a neutral site. What would your reaction be if Georgia hosted a night playoff game and the 4th quarter break was anything but the full bore home team light show?

“Games hosted on campus” left a lot of assumptions, and I’m curious to see how fans of the host schools handle expectations vs. reality next weekend. I was glad to see Georgia get out ahead of the ticketing question over the summer and guarantee that season ticket holders would have first right of refusal for their seats. I expect most of us applied to reserve our seats in Sanford weeks ago - an easy process. The mess at Ohio State shows that even basic things like tickets aren’t a given to stay the same. I’m interested to see how the other first round hosts manage the event and learn what we might expect and can improve on if/when we host.

Interesting that Herchel is graduation. Full list below:

FOOTBALL
Tyrion Ingram (Housing Management & Policy), Cash Jones (Communication Studies), Noah Jones (Real Estate), Smael Mondon (Housing Management & Policy), Brandon Moody (Sociology), Tate Ratledge (Sport Management), Izayah Reeves (Housing Management & Policy), Samuel Shurtleff (Management), Arian Smith (Housing Management & Policy), Brett Thorson (Communication Studies), Herschel Walker (Housing Management & Policy), Jonathan Washburn (International Affairs)

If so, a little surprising.

Our game. SEC will do anything to manufacture an Auburn win in the series…..also Kentucky has a bye week before our game too.

Unless they get better footage or someone turns the suspect in, doubt they catch this guy.