Playing cards Towards Humanity Has A Bone To Choose With Elon Musk

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has persistently undercut his personal firm’s former fame as a planet-saving drive for good, however that has not prevented Tesla from sustaining a decent grip on the EV market right here within the US. Nonetheless, for what it’s value, the model fame hits carry on coming. Two latest contributions are notably noteworthy, coming from the favored game-maker Playing cards Towards Humanity and the Basic Accountability Workplace of Congress, too.

Playing cards Towards Humanity Desires To Erect A Statue For Elon Musk

Playing cards Towards Humanity launched in 2014 and shortly gained a fame for deploying excessive profile pranks within the service of its bitingly humorous card video games. In 2017, the corporate purchased a plot of land in Texas on the Mexican border, purportedly with a view to halt the development of US President Donald Trump’s infamous border wall. The funds have been raised by followers of the sport, 150,000 of whom pitched in $15.00 every in only one month to fund the land buy. A number of the cash additionally went to retain a authorized agency specializing eminent area circumstances.

“If Trump tries to construct a wall on our land, we’ll be an enormous ache within the ass,” the corporate declared.

A lot water has handed below the bridge since 2017, one spotlight being Elon Musk’s chainsaw-evoking tenure as head of Trump’s DOGE budget-cutting workplace final 12 months. Within the meantime, Playing cards Towards Humanity accused Musk’s SpaceX enterprise of trespassing on its land in Texas, bringing in gravel, tractors, and particles from the area operation.

“Final 12 months, we took Musk’s ass to court docket. After battling his staff of pricey, jizz-gargling attorneys, we finally received him to confess on the report that his firm did, in reality, f–okay up our land. Which is illegitimate. Then he packed up his area rubbish and left,” Playing cards Towards Humanity explains in a just lately posted assertion (word: expletive masked).

Subsequent Steps For Playing cards Towards Humanity

The settlement was not the top of the story. “That brings us to right now. Our land is now surrounded by a ‘city’ known as ‘Starbase’—a company hellscape affected by damaged rockets and ugly mansions for Musk’s s–t-eating executives,” the corporate explains (word: one other expletive masked).

“However hope is just not misplaced. We nonetheless have our rights as proud Texas landowners: we will construct one thing on our land,” Playing cards Towards Humanity continues. “One thing that may annoy Elon Musk. One thing that may make him surprise, for a short second, “Wait, am I a tragic little b–h with no buddies?” (word: and one other one…).

The thought is to construct a monument (or anti-monument, because the case could also be) to Elon Musk on the land, funded by $10.00 contributions from followers of the sport.  “On each side of our land, Musk is constructing mansions for his harem of prostitutes executives, who we’re assured will take pleasure in seeing our monument each time they give the impression of being out the window,” Playing cards Towards Humanity explains.

With their $10.00 contribution, the givers can be a part of the monument design committee. “You’ll get to make ideas, vote between choices, be a part of a group, and brag to your mates that you just helped Playing cards Towards Humanity f–okay with Elon Musk, the corporate emphasizes (another word…).

By no means one to overlook a publicity second, Playing cards Towards Humanity additionally explains that followers can contribute by buying its new enlargement packs, with 10% of the proceeds from the Playing cards Towards Humanity web site going to fund the brand new memorial (purchases made elsewhere [correction: don’t] include a contribution).

Elon Musk Has Some ‘Splaining To Do…

By now, Musk’s “cost-cutting” tenure at DOGE has been completely uncovered as a catastrophic failure, one instance being a minority employees report from the US Everlasting Subcommittee on Investigations, posted in August 2025 below the title, “The $21.7 Billion Blunder: Analyzing the Waste Generated by DOGE.”

On this context, minority refers back to the Democratic members of the Senate, who’re at the moment outnumbered by the Republican counterparts. A majority report has but to floor, however Democratic Senator Blumenthal had a lot to say in regards to the report.

“The Trump Administration has used DOGE to recklessly slash authorities applications, ransacking essential providers and assets and proudly displaying supposed ‘financial savings’ on its Wall of Receipts,” Sen. Blumenthal acknowledged in a press launch dated August 6, 2025, with “Wall of Receipts” referring to a DOGE internet web page supposedly informing the general public of its achievements.

…And Even Extra ‘Splaining To Do

In the identical press launch, Blumenthal famous that the Authorities Accountability Workplace additionally discovered that DOGE did not confirm 96% of its claimed grant financial savings, amongst different severe shortcomings.

Apparently DOGE, and Musk, took the findings to coronary heart — JK! In a brand new report issued on August 6, GAO notes that the Wall of Receipts purports to indicate a complete financial savings of $110 billion on contracts, grants, and leases as of this previous July. Nevertheless, DOGE once more failed to offer supporting data.

“Particularly, DOGE didn’t use its acknowledged methodology to calculate nearly all of financial savings related to the contracts reported as terminated. For grants, DOGE didn’t present enough data to confirm the tactic used to calculate 96 p.c of DOGE-reported financial savings. Equally, the Wall of Receipts doesn’t embody a proof of how the financial savings from terminated leases have been calculated,” GAO defined.

Who Is Shopping for All These Tesla EVs?

Absent any significant try by DOGE to appropriate the report, GAO advises that its web site, like every other federal web site, ought to no less than embody a disclosure relating to the noticed points with its knowledge. GAO additionally notes that officers at DOGE didn’t reply to its disclosure request.

That’s not shocking. The place Elon Musk is anxious, there’s a lengthy hole between ought to and can. Though his formally tenure at DOGE reportedly ended final 12 months, the tradition of willful recklessness stays.

This newest spherical of reputational points might revive the Tesla boycott motion, which gathered steam final 12 months in Europe on account of Musk’s political meddling alongside blowback right here within the US.

That continues to be to be seen. Whatever the latest downturn after the elimination of a key federal tax credit score,” Tesla stays on the high of the EV market heap within the US. “Tesla grabs 60% of EV registrations in June as rivals pull again, whole registrations fall,” reads an August 14 headline in Automotive Information, forward of a paywall.

Certainly. These rivals did pull again, however some have smelled blood within the water, together with Ford in addition to the startups Slate and Rivian, amongst others laying plans for an EV comeback in 2027 and past — with out the reputational baggage. Maintain on to your hats…

Photograph: Elon Musk’s SpaceX enterprise surrounds land owned by the cardboard sport maker Playing cards Towards Humanity, setting the stage for one more excessive profile prank (screenshot courtesy of Playing cards Towards Humanity).