“Not cheating!” -you in your first post.
You know when you avoid doing something, cause you know it’s stupid and pointless? Like it won’t matter if you do it so why do it? But then some annoying little turd keeps bringing it up. And now it’s more work to ignore them than it would be to do the thing.
And then you go to do the thing and it takes .5 seconds cause that’s how dumb the guy is. Then you end up enjoying taking the time and wishing you’d done it the first time?
While it’s impossible to know what this shit bag wants, I listened to an interview with some asshole from some conservative think tank and by the end my vibe was this:
America is big and strong. In the past America has played fair to the benefit of everyone. But now America wants to be the biggest and strongest, and everyone else needs to be subservient to the American Masters.
Basically America wants to be a bully by impose tariffs and not having the other countries return the favour. America wants every other country to bend over and take whatever tariffs America wants to impose without consequence
In this perfect world it would allow America to start building up their own companies, forcing consumers to buy American and drive demand for new manufacturing businesses.
Of course this all STILL falls apart with just a few basic questions like “if Canada does not impose counter tariffs (and even if they do) their economy will suffer greatly. Is it important for the USA to have economically healthy allies?” and “Why jack the prices so suddenly without allowing time and investing money in these new business that will be needed?”