

He thinks items in the US are getting tariffed based on like a production manifest that lists out what the origin of each component, I think. In the “discussion” he also mentioned stuff about ATV engines being sent from Mexico/US to Canada being blocked because they didn’t have their emissions stats included due to some error so I’m assuming he mentioned that as a parallel to the component-list tariff idea.
And I think they also think that this includes stuff exiting the US too? I’m not sure. My idiot father also gets mad as fuck when I actually get him to clarify what he’s talking about. The other day we were arguing and he said he told my mother to get new tires for her car and I kept asking how he “told her” this because I’m pretty sure she blocked his phone number because all he does is send curt, barely-literate demands to people via phone, which sucks ass to receive at all. Anyway, he wouldn’t say how, he just kept restating that he told her.
Edit: I’m suspecting this is their mental cope to explain, like, tariffs driving price increases and that the companies need to just move production to the US or purchase US parts to solve it because that adds more US production to the manifest list which would bring down prices or something? I really don’t know, it’s so fucking stupid what I’m hearing. He said a guy at Honda (I’m assuming a dealership here and not the HQ) who was importing stuff “didn’t understand it either”. Which I think just means he kept doing the same shit he does with me and the other guy just gave up and pretended not to know either to get him to shut up because he will not shut the fuck up sometimes.
Might honestly just be straight stupidity.