{"id":1722413,"date":"2022-11-03T03:03:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T07:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722413"},"modified":"2022-11-03T03:03:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T07:03:56","slug":"what-the-next-conservative-administration-can-learn-about-personnel-from-musks-twitter-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-the-next-conservative-administration-can-learn-about-personnel-from-musks-twitter-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Next Conservative Administration Can Learn About Personnel From Musk\u2019s Twitter Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fwhat-the-next-conservative-administration-can-learn-about-personnel-from-musks-twitter-takeover%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=1722413&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>This past week we were treated to all sorts of drama as Elon Musk effectuated his $44 billion takeover of Twitter. His two major goals, other than some amusing marketing (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/elon-musk-just-showed-twitter-091132030.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">walking into Twitter headquarters with a sink<\/a> so that he could make the dad joke: \u201clet that sink in\u201d) and trying to calm the revenue generators (pledging s<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/27\/elon-musk-issues-bold-pledge-to-advertisers-about-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ome sort of continued content moderation<\/a>), were to secure Twitter assets and cleaning house. This approach is critical and should be studied by any future conservative executive branch transition.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of conflicting reports and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/28\/pranksters-posing-as-laid-off-twitter-employees-trick-media-outlets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a few pranksters<\/a>, it is clear that Elon Musk did lay off some staff last week. Musk had made huge promises, including s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kabc.com\/2022\/10\/21\/musk-plans-to-layoff-75-of-twitter-employees\/#:~:text=Musk%20Plans%20To%20Layoff%2075%25%20Of%20Twitter%20Employees,55-hundred%20employees%2C%20reducing%20the%20workforce%20to%20roughly%20two-thousand.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">uggesting that he would be happy to fire 75 percent of staff<\/a>. Now, however, the target appears to be a much smaller, but <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/elon-musk-spent-weekend-creating-124305647.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">still substantial 25<\/a> percent. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Immediately upon taking over the company, he did lay off the top three Twitter officials, including the head lawyer, Vijaya Gadde, whose compensation was reported at about $17 million per year. Rather than relying upon Twitter\u2019s tech team, he did lay off at least some of their engineers and brought in his own team from Tesla to <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/10\/28\/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-tesla-software-engineers-developers-code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">begin learning about the guts of the platform<\/a>. Finally, he has already been tweeting some indications that he is reviewing internal documents that cast doubt on Twitter\u2019s public posture in legal cases he brought against the company.<\/p>\n<p>All of this provides actionable advice to any future conservative government because Musk\u2019s plans are clear, strategic, and applicable to a takeover of any bureaucracy. He recognizes that he must play in a media environment, that he must bring on his own staff and replace hostile staff, and that he must secure chokepoints and valuable property and processes. He is moving methodically to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>Under any presidential transition, plans are made by industry, campaigns, and outside groups, but these are often policy-heavy. Musk\u2019s Twitter takeover does not seem concerned with policy at all \u2014 but rather with control. Future transitions could learn from this. What happens if someone locks the door on presidential transitions, or begin working with the media to damage planning and execution? \u00a0What happens if they again slow-walk security clearances, or lie to principals, or even spy on the new administration?<\/p>\n<p>Musk demonstrates both that there is a need to be willing to fire key employees, and a need to be reasonable. As the Chinese have said, \u201ckill the chicken to scare the monkey.\u201d A few key, flashy layoffs are necessary under any new management regime, but they need not be ruthless. <\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Musk appears to be courting Yoel Roth, head of Safety and Integrity, who by all accounts should be fired, but who <a href=\"https:\/\/ijr.com\/elon-musk-strikes-gold-twitter-board-deliberately-hid-evidence-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apparently has some relevance to Musk\u2019s legal battles with the company<\/a>. Playing nice with Deep State employees can be wise, but it must be transactional: giving Roth a golden parachute in exchange for dirt on the company could be a good play. Similarly, asserting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s plans are clear, strategic, and applicable to a takeover of any bureaucracy \u2014 particularly when it comes to replacing hostile staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1497,"featured_media":1722416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722413","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\/1497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}