Does the ceo want some cheese with his whine?
Boo hoo.
The invisible hand bitch slaps again…
Oh look, he’s having the day he voted for. Good.
this fucking douchenozzle whining about his bike business while people are getting murdered by wannabe nazi traitor goons
get fucked asshole. i hope your life continues to get worse due to trump, and i would say i hope you learned something, but i know that will never be the case.
it really takes a special kind of fucking stupid to think a fucking e-bike business would do great under the most anti-e-anything technochristofascist dictator in history
He didn’t get into ebikes because he cared about the environment, he got into it because its a new way to make a quick buck in an emerging market. This guy wanted to grift, like trump. Its why he’s confused right now.
reporting total liabilities of $6.1 million, including secured claims of $960,000, and assets of $953,000
Idk what this dude was doing but numbers like that feels like this business was going down the tubes regardless. The hell were they doing?
Voting for Trump
He would almost certainly vote for Trump again given the opportunity. So, no sympathy.
Left Reeling is an interesting name
We know he’s not one of the Wright brothers.
South African-born Sean Lupton-Smith
another Musk-nite afrikaaner.
Unfortunately not the type of company we want to see fail. Also unfortunate he had no critical thinking ability when deciding how to vote
If the CEO was dumb enough to think being pro-Trump would help a green business, the business was doomed anyway.
E bikes are amazing.
Good. The more red businesses that die the less money that can be funneled to grifters and psychopaths.
“I’m pivoting now to focus on e-bike safety — with all my knowledge of building here in USA — I’m going to now use that to make e-bikes safer, especially for kids, and get laws and legal requirements to be enforced,” he said. “Without proper tariff protection and legit safety standard enforcement, no one will ever be able to make an e-bike in the USA in my opinion.”
Suuuuuure. It’s totally about safety, and not just you throwing a tantrum of “if I can’t have it, nobody can.”
Yeah this is basically:
I failed at running a business, so now I am a contractable advisor / lobbyist.
You’d actually have to be a moron to use such a contractor, but its actually pretty common, because nepotism is more important than competence or innovation in America.
Firstly, rule #3, this isn’t a “high-quality source”. It’s a blog that’s apparently been caught pretending to be The Daily Wire on Reddit by posting under an account named “dailywiire” (example). The first link in the article, in the text “reporting total liabilities”, you’d expect to link to a primary source about the bankruptcy, but it just links to a completely unrelated other article on the same website.
Dug a bit more, and oh look, it’s completely ripped off of an article from last October from a completely different source.
Secondly, this isn’t even LAMF, as the primary thing negatively affecting him here is tariffs, and there’s no evidence he was ever in favor of them. In fact, the article implies the literal opposite:
In a 2020 BRAIN article, Lupton-Smith explained that EBC could not compete on price with Asian-made e-bikes, so he aimed to create customizable bikes with as much U.S.-made content as possible to reduce tariff exposure.
For LAMF, the party you voted for must actually do the thing you explicitly supported them promising to do, with the crux being that you incorrectly expected/assumed the thing to be done to others and not you. If, for example, you voted for Trump because of his promises to bring down prices of groceries, and then he wins and grocery prices instead go up, and you’re complaining about those prices going up, that’s not LAMF, at all.
I think most Trump voters believed that tariffs were damaging only to foreign businesses and not domestic ones. They’ve been told in MAGA media that tariffs would bring jobs and make America rich enough to lower taxes, despite economists saying that this wouldn’t work. They voted for it anyway, thinking they wouldn’t get hit by tariffs, only to absolutely get hit by them. That sounds pretty LAMF to me.
Being deceived by the party into thinking a certain thing (tariffs) would have a different effect than it would actually have, in fact disqualifies the situation from LAMF.
Think about the ‘template’. There is zero ambiguity/deception about “eating faces”, the person voting for the “leopards eating faces party” expects face eating, and that is exactly what happens. What they don’t expect is for the eating to happen to them, too. And a major element of LAMF is that the assumption that the face-eating will happen to others and not them is something that the voter fabricates from whole cloth, all on their own. The “leopards eating faces party” doesn’t ever say or do a thing to imply they’re only targeting certain faces.
Now deport him too. According to Trump and his fascist federal police force, he’s not an American either. And if he’s not an American, then Musk should be next.
