— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 21, 2025
Category Archives: Law
Pigs Get Fed, Hogs Get Slaughtered
Thoughts on the history of the civil service, and recalcitrant bureaucrats:
🧵Pigs get fed. Hogs get slaughtered.
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) February 21, 2025
The deal for moving from a spoils system to a civil service system for government workers contained exchanges. The government workers were paid less than in the public sector. In exchange, they received job protections and a pension.
Kash’s Mess
🚨🧵 Kash Patel will become the next FBI Director this week, and he will quickly discover that he didn’t inherit a law enforcement agency but rather a crime scene.
— Phil Kennedy (@PhillipAKennedy) February 17, 2025
Here are the TOP 10 things soon-to-be Director Patel could consider to start reforming the FBI immediately.
Looks like a good guide to me.
[Friday-morning update]
The arrival of Kash Patel.
[Bumped]
Clearing The Regulatory Underbrush
This is a hell of an EO.
“Environmental Justice”
Long past time to pull the plug on it.
The Normies Have Questions
🧵A warning to all my legal peeps, most notably myself, that we are ignoring the Normies' responses to the lawfare at our own peril. The Normies are sick of all of this with reason. So grab your coffee, which we all know has a solid 80% chance of being Irish, and let's get it.
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) February 12, 2025
J.D. on A.I.
Quite a bit better than the median politician speech. https://t.co/MXDOSFDV2H
— Robin Hanson (@robinhanson) February 11, 2025
[Update a few minutes later]
On the other hand…
We were so close to having this as president… https://t.co/jIUP5aeP32
— Jeff Withrow (@stl_catholic) February 11, 2025
To Sue, Or not To Sue?
The Trump team has the bureaucracy in a box.
[Update a while later]
Don't imagine Trump as a 4D chess player.
— Devon Eriksen (@Devon_Eriksen_) February 7, 2025
That's the wrong metaphor.
Imagine him instead as a fencer. He has a sword, which is a very simple tool, with a very simple purpose: pointy end goes in the other guy.
Then remember this Bruce Lee quote:
"I fear not the man who has… https://t.co/h5V4lnztp6
Thoughts
…and a warning, from Blake Powers.
They’re not going to go down without a fight, and it could get ugly.
Donald Trump
The libertarian president?
He sure seems like the closest thing to it we could imagine.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Donald Trump: "If elected, I promise to dope Elon Musk up with amphetamines and trenbolone and send him rampaging through the federal budget office with a blessed chainsaw forged from the souls of martyred accountants."
— Devon Eriksen (@Devon_Eriksen_) February 6, 2025
Voters: "Yay! We want specifically this thing! At once!"… https://t.co/WJcfkVNa0O
[Update a couple more minutes later]
Trump has finally taught Republicans how to fight.
[Late-morning update]
I wish he’d tells us what he really thinks.
This is an extremely articulate, forceful, and honest explanation of how the Democratic Party failed the American people. A must watch to the very end where he explains USAID. https://t.co/s79HYmxcZ6
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) February 6, 2025