Tim Leonhardt

STR owner and former Product Manager. Photographer, golfer, avid reader. Conservative. Believer.

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

Unity is good, but truth is better. And sometimes, truth divides.

Why does this happen so much more on the right than on the left? Because the left is seeking to destroy - the church, the family, the West - and destruction requires little agreement. Use whatever tool you want, however you want. Just take it down.

But, on the right, we’re seeking to build something. And when you’re building something, you have to agree on a lot. What are you building? What materials should you use? Which tools? And, most importantly, what’s our foundation?

As Christians, we hold that the foundation of any flourishing civilization is that we were created in the image of a God whose power transcends the government’s. He alone is the giver of rights and the determinant of right and wrong.

We can’t compromise on that, because without that truth, nothing else in conservatism holds together.

Our job isn’t to compromise on our foundation for the sake of “unity.” It’s to do everything we can to pull people over to our side—to what’s good, right, and true.

[Tim Leonhardt @timleonhardt]

Been saying this for months and couldn't agree more. We're watching something new, and it's not Republican/Democrat.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

Still, people don't entirely realize what has happened. The party now in control of the US executive branch is a third party built out of the corpses of two prevailing parties.

It goes by the name Republican but that is nearly a historical accident. Nearly all the top people are refugees from the Democrat Party and were never welcomed and even hated by the legacy establishment of the Republicans.

So far, there is every indication of the intention: to dismantle government as we've known it for a century or more. I consider that a good thing in general.

[Andrea S. James @AndreaSJames]

Gently, softly, calmly, let’s talk about what’s happening in DC right now.

Friends, have you ever been through a ZBB process? If not, let me give you my take. So, in a corporation where expenses are out of control, you have to put the entire company through a zero based budgeting process. It is one of the most painful things that people in a company experience.

You basically have to justify every. single. expense. And you also cut a bunch, and then only add back after you’ve gone through a proper ZBB cycle.

The US government is going through a ZBB right now. And that is necessary because spending is out of control. The complexity is so vast that I expect it will take AI to decipher.

You cannot tell me that a government that accidentally wires hundreds of millions of dollars to the Taliban has its finances in order. That signals an underlying disaster. That signals bad stewardship of resources.

In fact, it is a disaster. Over the last 20 fiscal years, the US government has made ~$2.7 trillion in "improper payments," according to the US Government Accountability Office. Trillion! With a T!

That financial management disaster was not caused by @elonmusk. And there is no painless way to clean it up.

Elon is doing what any executive would do walking into a giant mess. You ZBB and then build back.

So, I don’t believe that America is going to be on the wrong side of global right and wrong, as some are saying. I don’t believe that America is going to be permanently isolationist. I do believe that unwatched finances will get out of control in any human system, and that the GAO has been trying to ring this bell for years, and that scaled complexity requires scaled financial management.

Because the US has the largest budget in the world, it will now go through the single most complex ZBB ever undertaken in the history of the world.

Some states do ZBB, but it's never been done at the federal level. President Jimmy Carter tried, but the bureaucratic systems were too complex, and President Ronald Reagan abandoned the attempt.

So, if there is one person in the world chosen to lead this Grand Canyon of projects, we would hope for the president to choose one of the best capital allocators on the planet. Better if that human is also one who can leverage AI and technical talent to manage the massive complexity.

Anyone who has lived through a ZBB at the corporate level will tell you that it’s hell and everyone hates it. This is why I feel really bad for federal workers -- I have a lot of empathy for civil servants and people doing a great job every day for the United States. No doubt, the uncertainty is trying and stressful for many. It's an unfortunate situation.

So, that's my take. I don't want to speak beyond what I know and can observe from the other side of the country. I've worked both in the private sector and the public sector -- the cultures are different. And an Elon-Musk-style culture is going to be the most hard core of them all. No doubt, it's jarring. It's gonna be a lot.

But what I also know is that every time I have ever doubted Elon, I ended up being the one who was wrong.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

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[Tim Leonhardt @timleonhardt]

A preferred walk-on just last year, @LukeTalich is now both on scholarship and on the depth chart for #notredame in the national championship game. Talk about affirmation that you made the right choice! As an ND alumni and fellow resident of Cody, WY: #GoIrish !

[Tim Leonhardt @timleonhardt]

@SportsCenter #luketalich - pride of #codywyoming!

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

What a hit 😳

A textbook tackle on the punt coverage from Notre Dame 😮‍💨

[Tim Leonhardt @timleonhardt]

Merry Christmas, indeed!

[Tim Leonhardt @timleonhardt]

@shawngorham Check out Kemmerer, WY. Site of Gates' micro nuke reactor. https://t.co/9PWwHlX1uy

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

Here’s a key point about our mission at DOGE: eliminating bureaucratic regulations isn’t a mere policy preference. It’s a legal *mandate* from the U.S. Supreme Court:
- West Virginia v. EPA (2022) held that agencies cannot decide major questions of economic or political significance without "clear congressional authorization." This applies to *thousands* of rules that never passed Congress.
- In Loper Bright v. Raimondo (2024), the Court ended Chevron deference, which means agencies can't foist their own interpretations of the law onto the American people. Over 18,000 federal cases cited the Chevron doctrine, often to uphold regulations, many of which are now null & void.
- In SEC v. Jarkesy (2024), SCOTUS restricted the use of "administrative law judges" by agencies. The same agency that wrote the rules shouldn't be able to prosecute citizens in “courts” that it controls.
- In Corner Post v. Board of Governors (2024), the Court held that new businesses can challenge old regulations, greatly expanding the statute of limitations & opening many more rules up for scrutiny. So we shouldn't just look at rules passed in the last 4 years, but over the past 4 decades (or more).

DOGE is ready help the U.S. government conform to the U.S. Constitution once again. @elonmusk and I are ready to serve. 🇺🇸

[Tim Leonhardt @timleonhardt]

Although my sister (@tlc_wyo) came up just shy in her race, the results in yesterday's Wyoming primary were largely encouraging. Having recently returned to Wyoming after 30 years in MT, it was striking to see the lack of true conservatism in what is thought of as a Red State.

[Daniel Horowitz @RMConservative]

Today, @RubinoJessie explains why the @WYFreedomCaucus had to do surgery on the GOP. They couldn't get even moderately conservative policy passed in a state Republicans win by 40+ points https://t.co/tHN9yepvdJ

[Tim Leonhardt @timleonhardt]

Last time I posted, it was still Twitter and I still lived in Bozeman. How things change...

[Tim Leonhardt @timleonhardt]

Just walked past a 20-something wearing a New Order - Substance 1987 T. If I still own the double CD - bought when it was originally released - does that make me authentic...or just old? #OldSchool

[Tim Leonhardt @timleonhardt]

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[Tim Leonhardt @timleonhardt]

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[Tim Leonhardt @timleonhardt]

Congrats to a great team, #elixiter ! https://t.co/d9qCmACOHn

[Tim Leonhardt @timleonhardt]

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[Tim Leonhardt @timleonhardt]

@Will_MI77 @szBigDan Seeing the same here - unable to login (see attached) and now the Refresh Failed emails are flowing in...

[Tim Leonhardt @timleonhardt]

@functionpoint Yep - back in business. Thanks for following up.

[Tim Leonhardt @timleonhardt]

@functionpoint - our team is getting the following error this morning: "Error establishing a database connection" Seems to be intermittent (log in then get booted out). Any ETA on restoration of service to normal?