Jeff Deist

@Monetary_Metals. Formerly @mises @ronpaul. Bylines: Wash Times Fox News The Hill Roll Call Chronicles ZeroHedge et al. Old Right. Well shod.

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

High-deductible barebones affordable policies for catastrophic illness or injury, with premiums priced on actuarial reality and lifestyle.

Cash for basic medical services, with price competition and correct market incentives for better service.

Free charity clinics and hospitals for truly poor and indigent people.

That’s it.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

Before Obamacare it was possible to buy health insurance that covered a catastrophic event (like cancer) and just pay out of pocket for a checkup. Obamacare means you have to pay more to subsidize all kinds of things that don’t impact you. And of course it has led to further consolidation in the industry.

It’s a little like how Dodd Frank supposedly reformed the financial industry but really just locked in the dominant positions of the largest banks - the only ones that could afford the compliance costs.

Any kind of big federal regulation that aims to ‘solve’ a problem usually just entrenches the largest players and makes life worse for normal people.

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

@RolandGunnTN What an ungrateful fucking asshole insulting his own parents in print to win points with the laptop class.

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

@e_cdalton Go to any nursing home and you'll see larger humans-- men-- outnumbered 10 to 1. And you'll virtually never see particularly tall or heavy people in their 90s.

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

@herandrews @ggreenwald Did you think they were kidding about Nazi and magat?

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

The blank slaters who insist nurture trumps nature attack any attempt to influence “nurture” as culture warring.

Culture IS nurture.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

We have multiple reasons for wanting to believe nurture is more important than nature and none for wanting to believe the opposite (unless we = the far right, which we ≠), so it's not surprising we overestimate its effect. But man are kids' personalities inborn.

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

Wow- impressive win from baby-faced 21 year old @AuburnMGolf product Jackson Koivun. Absolutely fearless with world number 1 Scottie on his heels.

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

@JayantBhandari5 Completely agree @JayantBhandari5 Trust and reciprocity, combined with a healthy degree of internal self governance, are what make political and economic freedom possible. We are goldfish who don’t know what water is.

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

@peter_c_earle Also a great lesson in DeVito’s speech, namely that laxity and entitlement with other people’s money occurs in private corporations and not only state bureaucracies.

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

@laura_waxee @Safeway @sfchronicle Levels of schadenfreude here.

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

The left is congenitally incapable of seeing itself as illiberal, and conservatives play along. Good intentions (if only) transform any horror into a noble & justified action against the imagined oppressors.

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

A lot of unwarranted snark here considering self-styled classical liberals deny the only effective nonviolent answer to illiberalism, namely EXIT.

They oppose secession, subsidiarity, and small state sovereignty even conceptually.

[Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen]

The “post liberal right” believes that the classical liberal principles of our founders and the Declaration have failed and need to be replaced with a new order that elevates the “common good” above individual liberty. That should be disqualifying for anyone hoping to lead this country.

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

@RonStoeferle Sorry Ronnie!

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

Interesting observation from the late great Ralph Raico, who spent time in and around Rand's NYC circles.

To paraphrase him, Rand was at her best when surrounded by intellectual equals a bit older than her, i.e. Hazlitt, Mises, Isabel Paterson.

But when "the Canadians" showed up--younger acolytes including the Brandens, the Blumenthals, & Leonard Peikoff-- the raw sycophancy and cultish behavior began in earnest.

https://t.co/lj09L8QsLM

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

@RonDodson Luxe beliefs- 2 parents for me, 2 dads for thee.

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

@Handre Fine, agreed, but everyone "wants a veto over what happens on property he does not own." e.g. I don't want to see bums at the metro station. The very unlikely solution of privatizing everything would produce results which many would consider illiberal.

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

Even this unfortunate "fashion" director now sees the tragedy of trainers and the civilization-affirming benefits of proper shoes.

https://t.co/Yf4UHY80FP

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

@JayantBhandari5 Oh boy if that little shit did that to my dog...

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

@Geiger_Capital lol

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

Am I the only one who didn't know @takimag expired in January? And now Jim Goad has expired. Sad events.

[Jeff Deist @jeffdeist]

A very very very strange liberalism yields populist pushback, and deservedly so.

[Collin Cleary @collin_cleary]

“Liberal democracy” essentially means a rigged system in which a minority of liberals are able to continually thwart the will of the majority. The liberals in question are found on both sides of the political spectrum. They include both self-professed “liberals” and “conservatives.” Liberals are individualists, anti-nativists, civic nationalists, and racial egalitarians. The reaction to liberal democracy is populism, which is fundamentally a people’s rebellion against the elites.