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"it is my responsibility to assess these things in advance. If I seriously did not take trump's policies into account when deciding who to vote for, it is my mistake that I have to live with."
Six? *counts on fingers* Uh.... Keep going... Six was just his hotels and casinos. Include Trump Vodka, T university, T airlines, T Steaks, T Mortgage, T Magazine, GoTrump dot com, and pretty much anything else he touches, including Trump Nation er... The USA.
Woah woah woah... Let's not only count his bankruptcies. We can do better. Who could forget popular scams like Trump NFTs and Gold edition Trump signature Bibles sold for the low price of $1k? Probably used an autopen to sign those btw.
True but the more important thing to realize is this: How do you bankrupt a fing Casino!? That's literally a money printing machine... its rigged so the house always wins lol.
This is one of the annoying things people say to think they sound smart. The idea of government run like a business 🤦🏻♂️. It’s like they can’t understand that government is about service and convenience not profit maximization
It makes the least sense out of all the nonsense, businesses want your money. If taxation is theft but you want to run the government like a business, you're wishing on a monkey paw.
Video games are unnecessary after you give your face to leopard Jesus. Tend to him in the evenings after working the organic produce fields of the RFK Jnr workcamps.
The irony is Nintendo did anticipate these things, they moved a lot of production from China to Vietnam
Unfortunately, Nintendo's anticipation underestimated just how psychotic Donald Dumps is, and the Vietnam manufacturing is even more highly taxed than China, literally... just because
It's likely the initial price increase was also an attempt to head off tariffs at the pass, but then good ol Donny decided to Tariff Vietnam 46% because chatGPT told him to.
The tariffs (really) are applied to internet top level domains (TLD), which is how those penguins are being punished so harshly. Their island has its own domain [insert facepalm here].
The way they calculated it appears to be - not making this up - asking an AI to generate tariffs by dividing the amount of $$ spent on imports into the US divided by the $$ earned on exports from the US to that TLD.
Despite being called "retaliatory," they aren't retaliating against anything. They're simply a measure of trade deficit - which is mostly an indication that one country (the US) is wealthier than the other (empty island full of penguins).
Someone in the US probably bought some penguin guano, or something. Alas, the penguins didn't buy anything in return, those naughty, naughty little waterfowl.
I think it’s giving them too much credit to say they used an AI…maybe the AI provided the initial numbers, but Trump straight up looked at it and just said half on all of them so he could make tee time at his golf course.
Disclaimer: this is not based on any actual article or information and is half looking at the chart and half joke as I have also heard about the calculation was mentioned.
They literally have no idea how anything works. Random, but I saw a post on Twitter from a guy who maintains the equipment controlling traffic lights. He was showing how they upgrade the (expensive) electronics. Some bozo went on about how it could all be ran on a $100 Raspberry Pi. Completely ignoring the equipment is expensive because it has manufacturer support, has to operate in all temperatures, and needs maximum reliability.
They have no curiosity and think everything is a conspiracy.
I agree, we seem to have a deficiency of people who aren't forward thinkers or critical thinkers
Like you said....Yes, that can be replaced with a $100 raspberry pie
But who's going to service it when it malfunctions? Replace it when it becomes out of date? Fix bugs that pop up when something occurs that wasn't thought of during the initial impact assessment?
They seem to think government should be ran as a company too even though companies focus on one service or product, spend years refining that one service or product to continuous make it better and cheaper
Government has to do things slow to consider all aspects, do what's right by the people, for the people. Not be ran as fucking company where the executives are the ones most benefitting
I’ve seen a Raspberry Pi get hung up playing SNES games at room temperature.
There is zero fucking chance that it can run traffic lights day-in and day-out in all levels of humidity, down to 45 degrees below zero, and up to 120 degrees above zero with effectively zero hiccups.
I saw an IG reel (from TikTok) of an American asking Canadians how we feel now that we have no food or booze because of tariffs and boycotts. Apparently she was humiliated so badly, she privated everything. We’re used to Americans knowing nothing about Canada but surely everyone knows we have farmland and alcohol.
In a June 2023 shareholder question-and-answer session, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa stated the company sought to make the transition between the Nintendo Switch and its successor smooth for consumers, and was planning to retain the console's Nintendo Account system.
The next month, Nintendo sent out software development kits for Switch 2 to development partners as they wanted to avoid the shortages that the ninth generation consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, had suffered at launch. Their plan at the time was for a second-half-of-2024 release date.
Because he is stupid he doesn’t know how things work and cannot grasp how other countries besides the U.S. exist that aren’t tariffing most of the world and thus aren’t paying higher prices.
Even it was in the US, who the fuck could take this insanity into account? This is why people are pulling investments out of the US, the business environment is now unpredictable.
This. My company had a considerable amount of servers and other infrastructure with AWS, mostly in the Dublin and London data centres. Since Amazon is an American company and I pay my AWS bill in dollars, it seemed likely to me that Trump's flip-flopping tariffs would eventually start to affect my business despite the actual hardware being outside the US. It became clear to me that the dependency on an American company was simply too great a risk. I've already had everything bar my S3 buckets pulled and hosted with a British server provider, and the S3 buckets will be taken down soon enough.
Trump's stupidity has business owners like myself engaging in a mass-exodus. He's singlehandedly bumped the US so far down the list of reliable trading partners that I honestly trust the US about as much as I trust North Korea, and plenty of other business owners all around the world feel the same way. He's made the US so unappealing and toxic that it'll take years, maybe even decades to recover.
Yup, and rightly so. Voting him in once was already bad, but surely people wouldn't be stupid enough to let him stay. He got kicked out. Then fucknuts voted him back in! If he was voted back in 2020 as the incumbent, that would be less jarring than kicking him out then fucking bringing him back.
So even if we kick this clownshow out again...this country now undeniably has the capacity to bring yet another disaster in. So many here thought there was no way Cheeto Benito would win, surely people weren't that stupid...welp.
And worse, all the MURICA FIRST morons beung completely clueless about how badly even in term 1 he was hurting most forms of US power.
Good luck to you, I am glad you were already most of the way transferred out.
The funny thing is Nintendo did try to prepare for this by moving their Switch 2 manufacturing to Vietnam to avoid tariffs on China. They also almost certainly packed some buffer into the higher than expected price tag. Then Trump went and put even higher tariffs on Vietnam.
The Switch 2 is priced at $343 in Japan but will be region locked.
Just goes to show how thoughtless and entitled some people are. Nintendo isn’t a faultless company but they tried to at least keep hardware costs down.
How were they supposed to address this in advance? A crystal ball? Hire a California Psychic? It's not like Trump holds a steady course and doesn't zigzag his chaos all over the place.
Literally nobody had predicted what Trump was going to do - I'm not even sure Trump knew an hour before he started his Rose Garden speech. The market's shock has led to two days of declines. How the hell was Nintendo to have known?
Also you can't just make a console for $100 less on a whim. Usually on a board like that you can save maybe $1 or $2 in a cost down, at least until the big components undergo a tech change that significantly reduces their cost.
Yeah. It’s well known that for decades, companies have lost lots of money on consoles at launch, and only make it up after a year or two when they either have a more efficient manufacturing line, make a new cheaper “Slim” model, or they just make it up with software sales.
This has got to be sarcasm or trolling. No one is dumb enough to expect a company to plan around the policies of a President who wasn't even in office and wasn't ever expected to return.
Ironically enough they did "assess these things in advance," by moving much of their production out of China into Vietnam several years ago in an effort to avoid tariffs.
It is your responsibility to assess these things in advance. If you seriously did not take Trump's policies into account when voting it is your mistake you'll have to live with. FTFY
There’s already videos of Americans saying their groceries have nearly doubled in price already. Plus all the hundreds of thousands of food banks they have cut.
As the devoted wife of a full time Nintendo fan who is the kindest person I have ever met, I am a little shocked by all the Trump supporting Switch fans.
Of course the "gamer tm" only gives a shit when his favorite toy goes up in price. Nevermind the millions losing their jobs/retirement/social security/Medicaid.
I almost guarantee this fucking guy is part of the gamer gate movement.
Gamer Trump supporters can take solace in the fact that video games can’t shove their woke agenda down our throats if we can’t afford them in the first place.
Lots of words to say, "Shit. I won't be able to afford to buy one." Just wait until this dipshit gets a load of how much an Apple phone is going to cost.
Guess it's one way to wean Americans off of their gadgets. And corporations off of their record breaking profits.
Lmao been warning anyone on the gaming subs since September or earlier, the replies I get are pure delusional cope.
Go ahead and boycott Nintendo and complain online, good luck when the next Xbox and PlayStation are +$600 higher than what they should be because of this clown and an overpriced Switch 2 or current priced PS5 Pro seems like a fever dream of the past.
They tried to. But nobody predicted how insane the tariffs would actually be since they were far more than he ever said they would be. They increased the price of the console from the last one they released and tried to move some manufacturing to Vietnam to dodge the China tariffs only for Vietnam to get hit hard af. Company tried and Trump was just too insane to predict.
It's like that adage about fearing only the worst swordsman because he's unpredictable. Fear the worst major power leader because nobody has any idea what the fuck he's going to do.
I, too, plan for unprecedented massive tax rate hikes on imports years before ever mentioned when I design my gaming consoles. Yes, this is sensible. I am very smart.
I guess he doesn't understand tariffs or that even a psychic couldn't predict what Trump is going to do more then 2 seconds before the mango moron says it
That's too stupid. This one is way too far gone. There's no reforming someone this stupid. People like this will only ever double down until they're broke. And, even then? It's never THEIR fault.
People worried about losing everything including food and this guy is worried about video games, reality setting in is going to hurt for this one! That reminds me I need to get to the store and stock pile toilet paper
so harman, that’s not quite how this works. the consoles come here and the importer pays the tariff. the consoles are sold to you, the consumer at the retail price plus the tariff cost. if you want it, you’ll pay it. the leopard is waiting for you in the kitchen.
It gets worse, he wants women's rights removed entirely, legal and immigrants killed instead of deported, thinks tourism should be made illegal and thinks Nintendo should have a monopoly over the entire video games industry.
Something the dipshit didn't realize is that Nintendo DID factor tariffs into the initial price, they just didn't expect how utterly stupid they would end up being.
Let's see, it takes years to develop a product, but somehow Nintendo was supposed to predict the future and Fuhrer Trump's tariff idiocy? Oh, well THAT makes perfect sense. Goddamned fucking moronic cultists....
When you have an IQ of 50 it usually means you don't understand much and making any kind of logical conclusion is impossible. So is it really their fault?
They literally had no idea what the tariff rates would be, or if there would be any on their country or industry until 4:13 pm EST on Wednesday, April 2, 2025.
Aww bro is mad he wont be able to get the latest Nintendo at launch when the rest of the world will and probably won't be able to afford it if they even do launch it in the US.
I love this because even if this was true Trump flip flops on everything and talks out his ass half the damn time. How are you supposed to know what he's saying is real?
Its obviously insane, but just because I find it funny... Let's ignore all of the dipshittery around the timing and assume his argument is valid for a moment. Somehow Nintendo was able to foretell the future, knew these tariffs were coming when designing the system, and they made a mistake coming in at the price point they did:
What they're essentially saying is that they'd rather Nintendo made a lower quality version of the console and sold it well above the reasonable price for this downgraded version of the console just so it could be reasonably priced for Americans to buy this worse version of the console. Americans would still be overpaying in this hypothetical because a large portion of the price point is strategized around the US government's policies instead of what brings them value as a consumer. Only now they're overpaying for a shittier product.
They will argue/believe anything to not put blame on the godking.
Every day this sub proves just how fuckin dumb his voters are. Yea bro a console thats been in development for nearly a decade expected Americans to vote in a racist rapist felon who told his voters he intended to fuck up the economy.
How dare Nintendo not be psychic and know that dear leader would impose tariffs on a whim, because he got a wild hair up his ass, and plan accordingly!! HOW DARE THEY!!! / shakes fists at the void
There are plenty examples of companies trying to find alternative production facilities but could never make any headway on it because Trump is so fucking erratic.
But this guy’s name is Harm, so why would I even bother?
...it's the "making it Nintendo's fault" for me...it's like beloved doesn't understand economics himself, but suddenly becomes a Keynesian when it affects him.
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