{"id":2405713,"date":"2025-02-23T11:26:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T16:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ceo-sick-of-dealing-with-wokeness-posts-hilarious-sales-offer-for-all-his-canada-stores\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T11:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T16:28:43","slug":"ceo-sick-of-dealing-with-wokeness-posts-hilarious-sales-offer-for-all-his-canada-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ceo-sick-of-dealing-with-wokeness-posts-hilarious-sales-offer-for-all-his-canada-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO Sick of Dealing With Wokeness Posts Hilarious Sales Offer for All His Canada Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fceo-sick-of-dealing-with-wokeness-posts-hilarious-sales-offer-for-all-his-canada-stores%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2405713&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>GameStop is planning to sell its operations in Canada and France,\u2062 a decision attributed by\u200b CEO Ryan Cohen to the &#8220;woke&#8221;\u200b business environments in\u200c these \u2064countries.\u200c In a post on the social platform \u200dX, Cohen invited potential buyers to \u200breach out via email, accompanying his offer with a sarcastic remark about high taxes and various political ideologies. Some responses on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a> were humorous, with one\u200c suggesting purchasing it with taxpayer money, while another claimed that no one in Canada could afford the purchase.<\/p>\n<p>GameStop&#8217;s official news release confirmed the intent to sell as part of a broader evaluation of its international assets,\u200d highlighting the \u200congoing shift in the gaming market where online purchases have\u2063 diminished retail sales. The company has faced challenges in recent years, prompting them to consider a closure and optimization of stores based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/recession-fears-lead-big-tech-companies-to-pause-hiring-cut-jobs\/\" title=\"Recession Fears Lead Big Tech Companies To Pause Hiring, Cut Jobs\">current market conditions<\/a>. Cohen&#8217;s remarks reflect a preference for operating in environments more aligned with his business philosophy, contrasting sharply with the socio-political\u200b landscapes of Canada and France.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>GameStop plans to sell its operations in Canada and France, a move the chief executive claimed was driven by the woke business environments in both countries.<\/p>\n<p>GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen posted an invitation on Tuesday via social platform X for those interested in buying the video game retailer&rsquo;s business units in those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/notoriously-woke-target-announces-dei-rollback-just-days-trumps-inauguration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">progressive<\/a>-leaning nations.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo; M&amp;A@gamestop.com if you&rsquo;re interested in buying GameStop Canada or Micromania France,&rdquo; Cohen wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;High taxes, Liberalism, Socialism, Progressivism, Wokeness and DEI included at no additional cost if you buy today!&rdquo; he added sarcastically.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">  M&amp;A@gamestop.com if you&rsquo;re interested in buying GameStop Canada or Micromania France. High taxes, Liberalism, Socialism, Progressivism, Wokeness and DEI included at no additional cost if you buy today!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ryan Cohen (@ryancohen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryancohen\/status\/1891884823465103698?\">February 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sickening-video-shows-antifa-allegedly-stab-4-trump-supporters-in-washington-dc\/\" title=\"Sickening Video Shows Antifa Allegedly Stab 4 Trump Supporters in Washington DC\">social media accounts<\/a> had rather amusing responses to the salty sales pitch.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I can buy it with taxpayers money. Please be quick to dm me, before DOGE gets me,&rdquo; an account called Not Jerome Powell, an apparent parody of the Federal Reserve chair, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alifarhat79\/status\/1891887176448659896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in the replies.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No one in Canada can afford to buy it from you,&rdquo; another account <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Excellion\/status\/1891888507209093288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The firm also said in a Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gamestop.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/gamestop-announces-plan-pursue-sale-french-and-canadian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news release<\/a> that &ldquo;as part of its evaluation of its international assets, the Company intends to pursue a sale of its operations in France and Canada.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The release also included the &ldquo;M&amp;A@gamestop.com&rdquo; address for those who wanted to submit inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>GameStop, headquartered in Grapevine, Texas, has closed quite a few stores in recent years because of changing marketplace dynamics and consumer habits, especially since many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservatives-still-lagging-way-behind-in-culture-war-fight\/\" title=\"Conservatives Still Lagging (Way) Behind in Culture War Fight\">video game enthusiasts<\/a> now buy their games online.<\/p>\n<p>Executives said in a regulatory <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/25452456\/form-10-q-for-gamestop-corp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filing<\/a> submitted at the end of last year that the company has &ldquo;initiated a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">comprehensive store portfolio optimization review<\/a> which involves identifying stores for closure based on many factors, including an evaluation of current market conditions and individual store performance.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While this review is ongoing and a specific set of stores has not been identified for closure, we anticipate that it may result in the closure of a larger number of stores than we have closed in the past few years,&rdquo; the filing said.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that GameStop has been struggling, so they are making a reasonable pivot toward updating their business model.<\/p>\n<p>But Cohen and his team are surely especially eager to get rid of their operations in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mcdonalds-tosses-woke-programs-pressure-conservative-activist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">woke<\/a>&nbsp;Canada and France.<\/p>\n<p>Given the current state of the world, GameStop would surely prefer to operate in their home state of Texas relative to any jurisdictions with &ldquo;Liberalism, Socialism, Progressivism, Wokeness and DEI.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As long as places like Canada and France double down on those ideologies, businesses are going to choose doing business in places with much more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/starbucks-learns-lesson-reverses-policy-implemented-appease-woke-mob\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sanity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, no one will be jumping on Cohen&rsquo;s offer any time soon, and if they do, it will almost certainly be despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/woke-general-gets-owned-us-armys-official-x-account-publicly-humiliated-illegal-dei-memo-goes-viral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wokeness<\/a>, not because of it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; 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CEO Ryan Cohen announced on social media that he is seeking buyers for GameStop&#8217;s units in these nations, humorously highlighting issues like high taxes and liberal policies. He provided an email address for inquiries about purchasing GameStop Canada or Micromania France. Responses on social media included jokes about using taxpayer money and comments on affordability. The company has been closing stores due to changing market conditions, indicating a shift in their business strategy as they prefer operating in more favorable environments like Texas over those with progressive ideologies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2405714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Picture-30.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3957,50913,13627,50915,50914],"class_list":["post-2405713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-canada","tag-ceo-2","tag-hilarious","tag-sales-offer","tag-wokeness-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Picture-30.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405717,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405713\/revisions\/2405717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2405714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}