The Stockholm School of Economics did a study to find out if people who had more testosterone were more risk-taking in their financial decisions. The answer was no. Does that make sense to you? Scott Adams explains why.
00:21:59.120So Candace Owens can't go to Australia because they say she's said things they don't like.
00:22:08.940But here's a list of things that allegedly, according to Australia, these are things that Candace Owens has talked about that they don't like.
00:22:20.080They don't like about her comments on Muslims.
00:24:31.660So the Pentagon press corps decided to make the story about themselves, and they walked out, most of them.
00:24:42.700They walked out because they're protesting the new Pentagon policy on dealing with the press.
00:24:49.660Now, I've been trying to get interested in that story, but it's kind of hard because it's really just the media dealing with their own stuff.
00:24:58.440But as I understand it, the only thing that's newly banned is that the reporters are not supposed to be working people for information that those people should not be giving.
00:25:13.080Am I right that the only thing that changed is that the media is banned from asking people stuff that the military doesn't want to give out?
00:25:23.280So some people who are smarter than me, who are looking at this, say, nothing changed, you idiots.
00:25:43.940Anyway, they're treating it like it's the end of an era and that those reporters won't be able to report because they're leaving the Pentagon.
00:25:57.260It was the most professional relationship, and now it's over.
00:26:54.020If people keep getting fired from the mainstream regular media, where are they going to go to work?
00:27:03.340Well, I think the more entrepreneurial ones will probably get involved in podcasts.
00:27:10.120So some of them will start a podcast if they were on-air people, but others will be support for making podcasts a bigger deal.
00:27:20.440If you look at, say, Megyn Kelly's operation, or you look at, well, Alex Jones before he got sued to death, or you look at PVD, you know, they have studios.
00:27:41.360But I'll bet you you're going to see podcasts turn into more professional-looking TV shows, because all those people with those talents, everything from set production to everything else, will be looking for work.
00:27:57.580I think they'll just team up with big podcasters.
00:28:21.820He says, I refuse to join the pearl clutching about that topic when powerful people call for political violence.
00:28:28.440So what he did was contrast it to speech that actually matters, you know, if somebody's talking about violence, versus just people trolling, basically.
00:28:40.460I wouldn't have compared the two things, I don't think.
00:28:43.400I think that took a little bit away from it.
00:28:45.940It would have been stronger just to say, in any large group of people, 10% of them are going to say horrible things.
00:28:57.100In every group, every large group, 10% of them are going to be trolls.
00:29:03.940It wouldn't matter if they're Republican.
00:29:05.900It wouldn't matter if they're Democrats.
00:29:07.880Do you think if you had 1,000 Democrats in an organization, and it was specifically a young-oriented organization, so it skewed for younger people,
00:29:19.960do you think that out of 1,000 Democrats in an organization, you wouldn't find 10% of them who said things that were so bad you think they should close down the whole organization?
00:29:33.500You don't think there would be 10% who are wishing for the violent death of prominent Republicans?
00:36:00.680Because I can tell that the white people probably had to get there by merit.
00:36:05.240But can you tell that about everybody?
00:36:07.040So regardless of what the reality is, it creates an impression that one group is crippled and disabled and can't make it on their own.
00:36:17.860At some point, you can't get to anything that looks like equality unless you drop the special preferences.
00:36:26.580But it only makes sense when things get close enough that everybody can figure out a way to get where they need to go.
00:36:34.040So even if there's, you know, some discrimination against one group or another, as long as you have a path, you know, there's something you can do, you can move, you can, you know, somehow you can navigate around it.
00:36:49.180And so the Supreme Court's talking about these special set-aside districts and whether it's time to drop them.
00:36:56.180It looks like the smart people, like Jonathan Turley, are saying that the way the arguments are going so far is that it looks like maybe the majority will want to at least tweak the situation, if not get rid of it entirely.
00:37:13.440So we don't know how that's going to settle.
00:37:16.660But the big news is that if it does go that way, it almost guarantees that the Republicans will still have the House and they'll probably keep the Senate.
00:37:51.960And CNN has been quite, let's say, stark about that, saying that Republicans have this enormous advantage.
00:38:01.060Apparently there are more things that Republicans can redistrict, not even counting this, and this would be a bunch of seats.
00:38:10.040But the Republicans have room to redistrict to get more seats, and the Democrats do not, because they've already used up all of those possibilities.
00:38:19.640So I don't know what's going to happen, because usually the party and the power wins the midterm, but this time it looks like the rules changes, especially if the Supreme Court goes the way we think it might, the rules changes will determine who's in charge of the country, at least the Congress.
00:38:39.800So I made the mistake of saying something on social media, on X.
00:38:47.320I said I was, I'm paraphrasing, but I'm uncomfortable living in a system where we pick our government based on rule changes.
00:39:02.160We should learn, you know, who's got what policies and then vote.
00:39:06.560But when was the last time we had an election that was based on voters?
00:39:12.300It feels like it's all based on, well, we've got a pandemic, so we'll, you know, we'll do it this way.
00:39:18.940Or, well, we're not going to do a regular primary if you're a Democrat because Joe Biden, blah, blah, blah.
00:39:26.680So it's always, it's all this little rule change stuff that's determining who's in charge instead of anything that looks like a, you know, Democratic Republic situation.
00:39:40.220Anyway, so some people said, but Scott, are you arguing that they should not change those districts and things?
00:39:47.540No, no, of course, if the current law is racist, which is the claim, of course I want that to change so it's not racist anymore.
00:44:02.620Apparently, Trump has now authorized the CIA to do some dirty work in Venezuela as part of that, trying to stop the drug traffic and maybe trying to overthrow Maduro.
00:45:54.460So the fact that Trump even puts that number out there, when you don't have to be an expert at anything to know that that's not even close to reality.
00:46:27.440The boats are full of death that will bring shockingly high, bad results to the United States.
00:46:34.740So if he wants to sell that as 25,000 people saved per boat, okay.
00:46:41.660I don't have any problem with that at all.
00:46:44.200There are reports that the IRS is going to be modified a little bit to make it easier for the Trump administration to go after the left-leaning major funders of bad behavior.
00:47:01.540Bad behavior being, you know, Americans who are, what would they be doing?
00:47:08.980Doing illegal kinds of protests and stuff.
00:47:12.460So I guess this is a way to get to the Soros type of people who are putting money into the system in ways that we don't exactly know and don't like.
00:47:30.360I think it only involves maybe personnel changes to get somebody who's willing to do that work.
00:47:37.680I asked, I think yesterday, how would Alex Jones ever support himself now that he's been sued for $1.4 billion and lost?
00:47:49.720And somebody said that one of the workarounds is you could just keep going to work, except that you would put the business, put a new business, because the old one got attached.
00:48:03.340You create a new business in his wife's name only.
00:48:06.100So that he could just be an employee for $1 a year, so he wouldn't have any income to pay to anybody as part of the judgment.
00:48:15.660But that he would have all the same, you know, lifestyle, because he would live in his wife's house and work for his wife's company.
00:48:23.580And, you know, maybe they would pay for his expenses and stuff.
00:48:27.320Now, I don't know how well that works, but let me tell you what would be wrong with this plan.
00:48:35.160First of all, it would make it impossible for him to ever get a divorce.
00:48:40.560So it would take the power, which might have been, you know, maybe he had more in his marriage.
00:48:49.280But as soon as you put all the assets in the wife's name, and she knows that if he misbehaved, and if she asked for a divorce, anything that he wanted in the divorce, he'd have to give away.
00:49:06.580So he basically, he would just become his wife's bitch forever.
00:51:31.140We would literally attack the UN before we would pay those taxes.
00:51:37.280I don't know, literally, but anyway, there's a report that India is actually moving to reduce their consumption of Russian oil.
00:51:48.340Now, that's a gigantic deal because India and China are the main purchases of Russian oil.
00:51:55.660And if they can't sell their oil because there's a lot of sanctions, there aren't too many people who buy it.
00:52:00.740If they can't sell it to India, their economy will suffer and they may not be able to press their war forward as much as possible.
00:52:11.020But there is a really big problem that I've heard about a few times that I think is real.
00:52:16.900That might suggest that Moscow or Russia is closer to a really bad situation than is obvious.
00:52:28.860So there have been something like 58 attacks by Ukraine on Russian energy stuff just in the last month or so.
00:52:39.000Whereas the months before that, it was just like a few.
00:52:41.880So Ukraine has massively increased the number of attacks on the energy infrastructure.
00:52:49.920Now, if on top of that, because that wasn't enough to stop the war, if on top of that, India starts buying less Russian oil,
00:52:59.040and maybe, although I don't think this will happen, maybe part of the China tariff negotiations might be to see if they would agree to buy less Russian oil.
00:53:09.640Well, I don't think that's going to happen because I think they want that Russian oil.
00:53:34.780So the oil pipelines, of which there would be numerous ones in Russia, and they would be critical to moving the oil to where it needs to be,
00:53:43.280if they don't have anybody buying the oil, like in real time, at the end of the pipeline,
00:53:49.620and the pipeline goes quiet, meaning that the oil stays in there, but it's not moving fast enough to keep it from freezing,