As an Elon Musk biographer, I would peg his IQ as between 100 and 110. There’s zero evidence in his biography of anything higher.

And I want to repeat that now, lest you think it a typo.

There’s zero evidence, from his life history, of Musk having anything higher than a 110 IQ. Stepped away from Twitter for a number of hours—on the basis of this not being a platform worth spending time on—and came back to find this tweet went viral because Nate Silver thinks Carlyle's 1800s theory of history, the Great Man Theory, is still relevant to historians in 2025

I mean I'm just an American lawyer, so what do I know compared to a nepo baby whose money initially came from Zambian emerald mines, but under the United States Constitution and the thousands of Supreme Court decisions interpreting it for 250 years, free speech is *not* absolute

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1891366408761569603

And I guess I would add to that, @ElonMusk, that if you don't know what I just said already, while you do not *have* to shut the f*** up under the First Amendment, you absolutely *should* shut the f*** up until you know what the f*** you're talking about, you *petulant man-child*

If you wonder why civil commitment statutes exist, the extremely dangerous derangement Musk is exhibiting publicly is why

He's now accused multiple federal agencies of being criminal operations, accused many federal officials of being criminals, and seems to believe he is POTUS America is watching the mental collapse of the richest man on Earth in real time—and it's only a question of how many markets collapse, how many millions of people lose their jobs, and how many people die due to his actions before someone who cares about him tries to get him help

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Read this and you’ll understand the man.

“Two Essays From Longtime Musk Friends Have Just Revealed Musk’s Supervillain Origin Story” (🔗):

Warning: dark stuff inside. sethabramson.substack.com/p/two-viral-es… (Elon is throttling this feed. If you want anyone to see this new report, please RETWEET the post above.)

Here it is: the new PROOF report on Musk. Massive, fully sourced, horrifying. The silver lining is that what Musk is up to and what he wants is becoming clearer.

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Spoiler alert: it has nothing to do with caring about children—he doesn’t and never has. sethabramson.substack.com/p/elon-musk-ma… 1/ What I want to underscore about my work as an Elon Musk biographer is that it’s never my intention to suggest Mr. Musk is playing 4D chess.

To be a Musk biographer not writing hagiographies is to be singularly unimpressed with his apparent average intelligence. But that said:

This motherf***** couldn't tell you what DEI is if his f****** life depended on it

Stop paying attention to people who have no f****** expertise in the s*** they are talking about

Just because someone says something that makes you feel good does not mean it has f****** value

https://twitter.com/jasondebolt/status/1877234430298743073

America is in the shitter because we have people who have never read the Constitution talking about the Constitution, people who do not know what the Second Amendment says talking about the Second Amendment, and people pretending to know what Marxism and socialism are who do not.

Bezos is paying the Trumps $40 million to make a documentary on Melania that no one asked for or wants and is certain to obscure any interesting fact—like her initial immigration status, whether her marriage is a sham, Trump’s affairs—a viewer might want.

Seems like... Bribery? To put this in perspective—I’ll use myself as an example only because I know my situation best—I wrote the largest number of bestsellers about Trump of any author (tied with Woodward). Do you think Bezos—who follows me on Twitter—would pay $40 million for the rights? Or even $40?

I have no quarrel with Tosca, but she's not objective in this.

Many people are worried about Musk, and my opinion—just as a person, rather than a historian, attorney, journalist, retired professor, editor, author, and biographer of her brother—is that he needs his family's help. I'm not a doctor, psychologist or psychiatrist; my PhD is nonmedical. But I was also a public defender for years and years, so I have worked for and with and around individuals suffering from mental illness more than most readers will know. Musk is acting in a very troubling way.

I legitimately believe Elon Musk may be going mad. I'm a Musk biographer who has been tracking his online behavior for the last two years—and given that he's admitted to all of mental illness, heavy drug use, and crippling stress, it is now reasonable to fear he is deeply unwell. His private struggles would not be of general concern except they have dramatic public consequences.

His holdings across many civilization-essential industries and the fact that he's the incoming POTUS mean that his madness and increasing incitement of violence endanger us all.

(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: ELON MUSK ADMITS SECRET MASS CENSORSHIP OF HIS CRITICS ON TWITTER

Everything he said about what he planned to do with Twitter was a lie. No MAGA can possibly stand by him after this.

He betrayed the one principle he said he had. newrepublic.com/post/189770/el… 1/ What some of you do not realize is that there are a small number of MAGAs who believe, if erroneously, that they are actually pursuing principles.

They do not know what free speech actually entails in a representative democracy but they do believe in what they think it means.

What people don't understand is that the most profound similarity between Trump, Musk and Hitler is that all three sought to control the masses via disinformation—and did so for their own cruel purposes and self-enrichment. Disinformation is the root of all the evil that follows. Any comms, literacy, or journalism expert can in just a few minutes summarize how Trump and Musk systematically spread disinformation.

But that's not the scary part.

The scary part is that these men know what they're doing and they refuse to stop doing it.

That's where the evil lies.

Just in time for his presidency, President Musk has changed his avatar to a white-supremacist hate symbol, his screen name to a 4chan slogan neo-Nazis favor (“kek”) and his bio icon to crossed swords.

Are these also gamer symbols? Yes. Does he know they’re far more? Yep—you bet. As Elon well knows—and as hate-group researchers well know, and as everyone (including Elon) on 4chan knows—the so-called “Kekistani” flag is based on the Nazi battle flag.

So yes, hours after telling everyone on Twitter to be nicer, Elon has gone full Nazi. Openly and proudly.

I'll say this however many times people need to hear it: Elon Musk doesn't support H-1B visas because it gets him the best employees, or because he has no other options, or because he can't find qualified U.S. workers.

He needs workers who are visa-insecure so he can abuse them. America is watching Elon—a lifelong con man—con MAGAs into believing there's insufficient homegrown engineering talent to staff his companies. That is a damnable lie and profoundly anti-American. Elon is merely covering up his corruption with slurs against America and its people.

Trump won by 255K votes in the 3 states that decided the election. A swing of 128K votes in those states and Harris is POTUS.

Estimates have him winning under 50% of the popular vote.

MAGA lost Senate races in WI, MI, NV, and AZ. It may lose the House.

Hard to see a landslide. The margin of victory Trump will end up with, 1.5%, is the smallest margin any incumbent party in the developed world has lost by post-pandemic, and in case you did not know, this is the first year since World War II in which every incumbent party has lost in the developed world.

(🧵) The 2024 U.S. presidential election was *not* stolen: a THREAD.

RETWEET for anyone in your life going down this road. 1/ Some notes to start:

1⃣ I’m as devastated by this loss as anyone—for more reasons than I can say or readers will know. Please understand, I feel the same pain as you.
2⃣ If contrary hard evidence emerges, I will say so.
3⃣ I worked on post-vote stolen-election claims in 2004.

(📢) PROOF EXCLUSIVE: Proof of Consequences, Vol. 1: Where America Goes Now

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This one is nearly book-length, but it’s a barnburner. It’s FREE with a one-week trial of PROOF, a Top 25 U.S. Politics substack.

Please RETWEET this so everyone can see it. sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-of-con… 1/ A lot of people are asking me whether the lengthy report above—like I said, it is probably nearly book-length (and surely novella-length)—will address the allegations now floating around social media that the 2024 presidential election was stolen.

Just a quick note here in advance of Trump and Musk crashing the economy in 2025: Trump voters are going to blame Democrats for that too.

Read up on fascism and cults and stop assuming we have a rational electorate that’s actually looking at economic indicators. It simply isn’t. If anyone is looking ahead to 2025 and thinking that when Donald Trump breaks things, kills people, ends alliances and treaties, and endangers all of us he’ll be blamed for it, think again. You can’t *imagine* the degree of pain he’ll need to cause people before they turn on him.

(🧵) ELECTION THREAD: I’ve been waiting all night to say anything substantive about what’s happened, as I felt—I still do—that I might say something I’d regret.

I hope you’ll consider following along as I try to process this with you all, and try to do it responsibly. Please RT. 1/ The New York Times gives Trump more a 90% chance of winning the election. Barring a miracle—and none is on the horizon at present—he will win.

And if by some miracle Harris won, it would be such a shock that it would almost certainly cause widespread Trumpist violence anyway.

(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump and MAGA's Kremlin Allies Planning Terrorist Attacks Inside the United States; Trump and MAGA's Support for Putin and Russia Remains Unaffected By Prospect of September 11th-Style Attacks Committed By Their America-Hating Political Partners MORE/ Retweet this widely so that all Americans can understand that the Kremlin and Trump have exactly the same political agenda—to stoke not just figurative but actual chaos and mayhem across the United States. MAGA is an anti-American political movement. wsj.com/world/russia-p…

This is... maybe the most horrifying political ad I have ever seen.

Partly because of the content, partly because it's a reasonable portrayal of the world we are in and will be heading deeper into if we men don't vote in massive numbers for Kamala Harris. I hesitated to post this, because it is so deeply upsetting.

But then I asked myself a simple question: is it accurate? Are women dying because of the decisions of Republican congressmen? And the answer is yes.

The answer is yes.

And *men* need to help put a stop to this evil.

(🧵) I don’t pretend to be an expert on women voters. I can only say what I see them saying on my social media feeds (1.2M+ followers): they don’t like that he’s a serial adulterer, serial sexual predator, and adjudicated rapist who wants to control their bodies and healthcare. (🧵) They don’t like that he serially sexually harassed women on TV. They don’t like that he repeatedly cheated on Melania—Steve Bannon says with at least 100 women, including while Melania was pregnant—and hasn’t been faithful to any woman he’s been with. theweek.com/donald-trump/6…