President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall is one of the most polarizing subjects on his agenda, people are either for it or completely against it, there’s no middle ground and a compromise between both parties seems highly improbable, so much that people on both sides are organizing to either press Congress so they build it or to boycott the project, party game Cards Against Humanity is doing the later.
The popular politically incorrect game has just announced a holiday promotion, “Cards Against Humanity Saves America” and is designed to obstruct the building of the wall. The company has apparently purchased a lot of vacant lands where the wall is supposed to stand, and they have promised to hinder the government’s construction operations for as long as their lawyers can put up a fight.
The government is being run by a toilet. We have no choice… we are going to save America and attempt to keep our brand relevant in 2017
Join in and for $15 we’ll send you six America-saving surprises this December: https://t.co/o1BFmokO9W
— Cards Against Humanity (@CAH) November 14, 2017
“It’s 2017, and the government is being run by a toilet. We have no choice: Cards Against Humanity is going to save America.” Wrote the company on their website. “There’s no time for questions—now is the time to act. You give us $15, and we’ll send six America-saving surprises right to your doorstep. It will be fun, it will be weird, and if you voted for Trump, you might want to sit this one out.”
“Donald Trump is a preposterous golem who is afraid of Mexicans. He is so afraid that he wants to build a twenty-billion-dollar wall that everyone knows will accomplish nothing. So we’ve purchased a plot of vacant land on the border and retained a law firm specializing in eminent domain to make it as time-consuming and expensive as possible for the wall to get built.” Read the Chicago based card company’s statement.
The promotion sold out in just 12 hours, the company’s idea has been hailed as “performance art meets civic activism,” by many users and it’s also been celebrated for the amount of detail that went into its creation, if true, it could really become a rock in the shoe of Trump’s administration.
The game does have its naysayers though, New York Times writer Dan Brooks has been highly critical of the game’s crude nature. “Like America’s most successful brands, Cards Against Humanity positions itself against the masses, when in fact it is mass taste distilled. It is the product of a culture in which transgressing social norms has become an agreed-on social norm”
https://twitter.com/p_evans/status/930507444916244480
“Cards Against Humanity isn’t really transgressive at all. It is a game of naughty giggling for people who think the phrase “black people” is inherently funny,” continued the writer’s diatribe. “The awful thing is that it works. The reliability of Cards Against Humanity as an activity most people will enjoy only makes it more depressing to those of us immune to its charms. It is, in the end, a party game for horrible people. But who else is there to party with?”
When the card company was asked if they were turning politically correct now that Trump is president, they answered that they were “just being regular correct.”
Cards Against Humanity somehow got Peter Coyote — the narrator of Ken Burns' films — to do the voiceover on this. Incredible. https://t.co/Xoq35I7MXh
— Kevin Pang (@pang) November 14, 2017
Article inspired by the AV Club // Cards Against Humanity buys land along the U.S.-Mexico border in order to block Trump’s wall