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Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions.

From the article.

Not sure if the same thing but in Japan the Pre-purchase reservation lottery has already opened.

For the US only, lol

Senators (in the US) are elected representatives of their state. Sen. Booker, through his 25 hour speech, brought his constituents’ message to the forefront, criticized the Senate, Democrats’ and his own failures to act. He got millions of people to look at Senate business as if he was a professional streamer which is usually boring stuff. The speech is Booker’s answer to “what can I do at this moment to make a difference?”, which hopefully will get others to ask the same of themselves.

It’s impossible to measure the true impact of the speech afterward, but it’s intended to inspire people to take action, resist the Trump monarchy, and cause “good trouble” where they can. Who knows whether this has had any influence on the Wisconsin Supreme Court which was a humiliation to Musk, or if it had any influence on the 4 Republican Senators joining Democrats to pass a resolution nullifying the false emergency against Canada?

Yes, but we have to move past the “it can’t be that bad for my business” and the “don’t blame me, I didn’t vote for Trump” excuses. Blue state residents have to actually stand up for their state and fellow residents against this administration. I’ve been impressed by some of the protests in LA in support of Mexico, but Sacramento, Olympia, Albany, Salem have a lot of legwork to do to protect itself from the Trump admin. Canadian actions are meant to spur individual Americans to action as well.

I get that there are many Americans and American companies that do great things. Hell, I still have a Costco membership because they treat their workers and customers really well for a large chain, and have demonstrably rejected the “anti-woke” movement.

But understand that if this keeps going on I’m not renewing it this year. This is because every dollar that goes to Washington DC through US federal taxes is metaphorical ammunition for Trump, to illegally threaten to withhold funding for refusing to go along with his demands.

The results are expected, but it’s the fact that the US President is stupid enough to hurt his own country having the entire country’s resources at his own disposal to know better, is a bit shocking. It’s like stepping on a rake while pointing and looking at it.

“That’s the kind of disruption we would never expect,” said Hung. “I never heard of this happening until now. It’s definitely quite a bit of headwinds."

This is exactly the reason we have to affect blue states like CA/WA/NY/MA just like red states with our dollar. So many people and companies still have their head in the sand and don’t realize the Trump rhetoric is a real threat to Canada and more than just trolling. They don’t really become aware of it until it actually affects them and that’s not limited to Republicans.

Markets will still consider it a win if Trump does not else good in the next 4 years except for extend the “tax cuts and jobs” billionaire and corporate handouts. He seems to be failing at that and DOGE has only made it harder in for Congress (in a budgetary sense) for them to do it.

He can demand the world from Denmark and France, yet he can’t demand anything about the guy his admin wrongly deported to El Salvador?

I dunno I heard some American with a spray tan say that they didn’t need Europe or Canada…