Game company sells politically charged Christmas gift
Each year, the creators of the raunchy adult card game, Cards Against Humanity (CAH), sell out their “surprise” Christmas gifts to fans. According to CNN, this year, the campaign sold out only hours after the Chicago-based company launched its “America-saving” products.
According to The Washington Post, the company purchased vacant land along the US-Mexico border; their plan being to split this land into plots and give customers individual sections, as illustrated on a map. The company claims that they have “retained a law firm specializing in eminent domain.” The hopes of this holiday campaign are to make this a time-consuming legal battle between President Trump and the many people who have made the purchase. On the first day, customers will receive a map of the land and a certificate of CAH’s promise to fight the wall. Participants will receive the rest of the surprises in the mail throughout the month of December.
The eye-catching slogan, “Cards Against Humanity saves America,” was plastered all over social media and the company’s website on Nov. 15. On their website, they wrote: “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.”This holiday launch comes as a bit of a surprise, as their previous holiday campaigns have mostly been elaborate pranks. In 2015, the company sold a box with nothing inside, and made over $50,000; last year they made $100,000 to ‘dig a hole to nowhere,’ according to CNN. However, this is not the first time CAH has gone political. In 2016, co-founder Max Temkin contributed to the making of billboards in Dearborn, Michigan. According to Global News, one of them read, “Donald Trump can’t read this, but he is scared of it anyway,” in Arabic.
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