My Friend Scott Adams's Cancelation and "The Fake Because"

Foreign intelligence ops and influencers

Scott Adams and Donald Trump

We’ve talked about the “fake because” before. What’s a “fake because”? A “fake because” is when someone is canceled or fired for something totally unrelated to what they really did. You can often find the “fake because” because the response always seems wildly disproportionate to the offense.

How much has Scott Adams been used by foreign actors? It’s not as easy a question to answer as you might think.

Once upon a time Scott Adams and I were friends but my commitment to America got in the way of that friendship. It often does get in the way of my friendships. It is what it is. I had to do it as a man’s life was on the line.

A friend of mine who is himself an influencer explained it thusly:

It would be useful to explain to the audience that these people systematically target all new influencers. That if you get successful talking to an audience, you will be beset by obsessive weird spies who may attempt to destroy you if they can’t blackmail you.

I want you to keep that in mind.

For a time, Jake Novak ran him. So did Israeli-American David Keyes. So did Joel Pollak. And so did Dave Rubin, whose company Locals is backed by Israeli intelligence. Novak got in trouble for trying to set up Congressman Matt Gaetz and was later denounced by the Yair Lapid government.

David Keyes, a close associate of Netanyahu, ran an intelligence operation for Likud managing online social media influencers. “While working for former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky in Israel, Keyes founded CyberDissidents.org, a site meant to ‘highlight the voices of democratic online activists in the Middle East.’” We’ve talked about Sharansky elsewhere, of course, but he’s a front for the Russians in Israel.

Keyes is “a pioneer in online activism” but was recently removed from power thanks to his own “fake because” involving women. (Bret Stephens’s New York Times column on this subject should be seen as the old Mossad vs. Likud fight now playing out across Israel and the world.)

Joel Pollak works for Breitbart.com where the aforementioned Rebekah Mercer is an investor. He had quite a political transformation. I once knew him — I even volunteered on his 2010 campaign for congress — and I scarcely recognize him. Rubin’s company got pumped filled with cash thanks to David Sacks’ investment. My understanding is that Adams was an investor in Locals, which has since merged with Rumble. Once upon a time one of their Israeli investors asked me if I wanted to be pitched the company.

In other words being an influencer is dangerous. You never know who is influencing you. Or why.

This is particularly sad to me because what Scott doesn’t seem to realize is that there are deep intelligence ties between the Sinaloa cartel and the Israelis who ran him. You can even read about those ties in Haaetz, the paper of record in Israel. That’s especially dark given that his stepson died of a drug overdose in 2018.

Are Adams’s comments suicide by cop?

The conspiracy theorist, the hypnotist, and cartoonist are nearly always taken over by foreign intelligence.

I’m sorry I couldn’t save you from them, Scott. God knows I tried.

If you’re lonely, old friend, my number is still here for you — and the friendship.