Cards Against Humanity Sues Elon Musk’s SpaceX “With Great Vengeance and Furious Anger” For Trespassing

Cards Against Humanity—a self-described “party game for horrible people”—is suing Elon Musk’s SpaceX to the tune of $15 million dollars, claiming that the company trespassed on and “completely fucked” up their parcel of land on the US-Mexico border.

Back in 2017, after then-president Donald Trump had run and won, in part, on promising to “build a great great wall on our southern border” and “have Mexico pay for that wall,” Cards Against Humanity decided to throw a wrench into his proposed plan. They pooled funds, $15 dollars per person, according to the company’s lawsuit, from 150,000 subscribers to buy land on the border to prevent Trump from building on it. Fast forward, and the company is now alleging that SpaceX has been using their property to house building materials for a nearby project.

“Elon Musk’s SpaceX was building some space thing nearby, and he figured he could just dump his shit all over our gorgeous plot of land without asking,” the Cards Against Humanity team wrote. “After we caught him, SpaceX gave us a 12-hour ultimatum to accept a lowball offer for less than half our land’s value. We said, ‘Go fuck yourself, Elon Musk. We’ll see you in court.’”

At the time, the company sent out certificates to those who donated to the cause which confirmed the individual helped Cards Against Humanity purchase 0.000667% of this area of land. “This document further certifies that any attempt by the U.S. Government to build a wall on this land will be resisted to the full extent of the law,” it reads.

The land in question sits on a plot in Cameron County, Texas—a coastal area on the southern tip of the state. SpaceX, Musk’s private spaceflight company that has sent satellites and people to space, has been operating in Texas for over two decades. The company’s dealings in the state have increased since then—as has Musk’s political influence. In the past decade, Elon Musk and businesses connected to SpaceX have contributed more than $500,000 to the campaigns of two dozen elected officials from the region since 2014, according to a Reuters’ special report published on Friday.

Since 2017, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has contributed seven times as much to Republican campaigns and political committees than to Democratic ones, according to a HuffPost review of Federal Election Commission data.

Musk has also contributed increasingly large sums to The National Republican Congressional Committee and the pro-Donald Trump America PAC. He’s been bankrolling the latter. (At one point, Musk reportedly claimed he would be donating $45 million dollars a month to elect Trump. Later, he called the reporting on his promised contributions “not true.”)

In July, Musk officially endorsed Trump and has been a vocal supporter of the former president, interviewing him for hours on X and calling him “the path to prosperity.”

The “Lone Star State has become a preferred base of operations for Musk,” the Reuters’ report reads. SpaceX has reportedly created 2,100 direct jobs and economically transformed the southern towns.

“After a Delaware court rejected billions in compensation awarded to him by the board of Tesla, Musk this year moved the electric carmaker’s corporate registry to Texas. In July, he said the headquarters of X, his social media platform, and SpaceX would soon follow,” Reuters’ Marisa Taylor reported.

“Whatever the impact, the relationship between SpaceX and the area’s political class is mutually beneficial,” she continued. “The company’s bonds with local officials have allowed Starbase to grow fast and permitted local authorities to tout a type of economic progress that has long evaded the area, known broadly as the Rio Grande Valley.”

This growth, Cards Against Humanity alleges, has spilled over into their plot of land.

The company’s lawsuit features photographs of the area before and after Musk’s expansion—appearing to go from an untouched field to a construction materials holding site.

“Since purchasing the Property, CAH mowed it and maintained it in its natural state, marking the edge of the lot with a fence and a ‘No Trespassing’ sign,” the lawsuit reads. “But in the ensuing years, SpaceX acquired many of the vacant lots along the road on which the Property is situated, and, shortly thereafter, began constructing large modern-looking buildings, changing the entire dynamic of the area.”

This isn’t the first time Cards Against Humanity has engaged in activism—with their own spin on it. Ten years ago for Black Friday, they sold literal bull feces (or “shit”) for $6, then donated the money to Heifer International, an organization combating hunger. When Trump became president back in 2016, the company sold “bug-out” bags that included gas masks, a can of beans, and a locket with a photo of former president Barack Obama. In 2018, before the midterm elections, they made gummy worms around Halloween in a package that read, “OH GOD PLEASE VOTE.”

The company faced push-back in 2020 when it was accused of racism and sexism by workers, prompting one co-founder, Max Temkin, to step down, per reporting from Polygon.

Today, their website notes that the company has “donated a bunch of money to charity because we felt bad.” After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Cards Against Humanity donated 100% of the profits made in red states to an abortion fund—reportedly totaling half a million dollars.

Along with the company’s recent lawsuit, they launched a website: elonowesyou100dollars dot com. The site, which doesn’t mince words, explains their battle with SpaceX, includes photos, and details how those original subscribers who helped buy the land can mount pressure on Musk’s own social media platform, X.

“In 2017, I paid Cards Against Humanity to protect a pristine plot of border land from Trump’s racist wall. But then an even richer, more racist billionaire—Elon Musk—stole my land and dumped his shit all over it,” the sample post reads.

If Cards Against Humanity wins the $15 million payout from Musk, they’ve pledged to equally split the net proceeds among all 150,000 of the original subscribers, up to $100 each.

“With great vengeance and furious anger,” the company signed their online statement, adding, “P.S. We will also accept Twitter.com as compensation.”