Strange times we live in. Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, currently in the process of “challenging a democratic election”, also challenged X CEO Elon Musk to a physical fight.
And Musk accepted.
The challenge comes about after a series of public exchanges between the two, with Musk criticizing Maduro’s leadership and accusing him of outright election fraud.
“Do you want a fight? Let’s go for it, Elon Musk,” Maduro said earlier this week. “As we say here: If you want it, I want it.”
He added: “I’m not afraid of you, Elon Musk. Let’s fight, wherever you want.”
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Elon Musk Accepts The Maduro Challenge
Whether just playful banter on social media or a serious response, Elon Musk expressed interest in the brawl to end it all with Nicolás Maduro.
Musk replied succinctly on X saying, “I accept.”
The tech mogul then added some stipulations for the winner and loser.
“If I win, he resigns as dictator of Venezuela,” Musk wrote. “If he wins, I give him a free ride to Mars.”
A one-way ticket, perhaps?
In a post suggesting that Maduro was directing his security forces to protect him from Musk, the X CEO taunted him further.
“I’m coming for you Maduro!” he said. “I will carry you to Gitmo on a donkey.”
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Nicolás Maduro Is A Brutal Dictator
You absolutely have to go read the New York Times article setting up the showdown between Elon Musk and Nicolás Maduro. It is a remarkable display of how far American media has fallen.
If you were living under a rock and emerged and this was the first news article you read in a long while, you’d think Musk was the bad guy in this situation. The article devotes 98% of its time to giving a negative slant to Musk’s current red-pilled worldview and propping up Maduro as someone standing against that view.
They even give cover to the Venezuelan president by putting the word “dictator” in quotes.
Here is a quick rundown of the type of man the New York Times is siding with.
Maduro has a history of extreme homophobia and outright murder at the hands of his regime.
In 2018, Canada imposed sanctions on Venezuela and a referral to the International Criminal Court in light of Maduro’s crimes against humanity.
The move was in response to the Organization of American States findings that Maduro was “responsible for dozens of murders, thousands of extra-judicial executions, more than 12,000 cases of arbitrary detentions, more than 290 cases of torture, attacks against the judiciary and a ‘state-sanctioned humanitarian crisis’ affecting hundreds of thousands of people.”
So yeah, Elon, feel free to go rounds with this guy.
