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 corporate 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 gained, partially, on promising to “build a great great wall on our southern border” and “have Mexico pay for that wall,” Cards Against Humanity determined to throw a wrench into his proposed plan. They pooled funds, $15 {dollars} per particular person, in keeping with the corporate’s lawsuit, from 150,000 subscribers to purchase land on the border to stop Trump from constructing on it. Fast ahead, and the corporate is now alleging that SpaceX has been utilizing their property to accommodate constructing supplies for a close-by mission.
“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 workforce 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 corporate despatched out certificates to those that donated to the trigger which confirmed the person helped Cards Against Humanity buy 0.000667% of this space 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 query sits on a plot in Cameron County, Texas—a coastal space on the southern tip of the state. SpaceX, Musk’s non-public spaceflight firm that has despatched satellites and folks to area, has been working in Texas for over twenty years. The firm’s dealings within the state have elevated since then—as has Musk’s political affect. In the previous decade, Elon Musk and companies linked to SpaceX have contributed greater than $500,000 to the campaigns of two dozen elected officers from the area since 2014, in keeping with a Reuters’ particular report revealed on Friday.
Since 2017, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has contributed seven occasions as a lot to Republican campaigns and political committees than to Democratic ones, in keeping with a HuffPost evaluate of Federal Election Commission information.
Musk has additionally contributed more and more massive sums to The National Republican Congressional Committee and the pro-Donald Trump America PAC. He’s been bankrolling the latter. (At one level, Musk reportedly claimed he could be donating $45 million {dollars} a month to elect Trump. Later, he referred to as the reporting on his promised contributions “not true.”)
In July, Musk formally endorsed Trump and has been a vocal supporter of the previous 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 remodeled the southern cities.
“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.”