Why is Cards Against Humanity suing Elon Musk? Ownership explored as $15 million lawsuit takes internet by storm

Cards Against Humanity recently sued Tesla CEO Elon Musk for $15 million, accusing employees of his company SpaceX of trespassing and then damaging land near the US-Mexico border. Forbes reported that this was one of many times that the company has targeted Musk.

The lawsuit, which was filed on Thursday, included details about the grounds on which the company sued the Tesla CEO. According to the suit, SpaceX encroached on the land and destroyed the vegetation there. The company had mentioned that about $15 million would be required to fix the damages.

It further claimed that SpaceX had "treated the property as its own for at least six months" without Cards Against Humanity's approval. The suit also made direct accusations against Elon Musk claiming he stole the land "without remorse or even explanation, as has become his public reputation throughout the world."

The land in question was purchased by CAH back in 2017 in Brownsville. This was also a part of the Cards Against Humanity Saves America campaign. About 150,000 donors had helped the company in buying the land, which is quite near to Starbase.

In a press release mentioned in the article by Space.com, the company said:

"[Musk] snuck up on us from behind and completely destroyed that land with gravel, tractors, and space garbage. How did this happen? After we caught him, SpaceX gave us a 12-hour ultimatum to accept a lowball offer for less than half the land's value."

According to LinkedIn, the company is owned and operated by Max Temkin, Josh Dillon, Ben Hantoot, David Munk, Daniel Dranove, Eli Halpern, Eliot Weinstein, and David Pinsof.

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Cards Against Humanity has previously targetted Donald Trump, especially in 2016, months before the elections

In 2016, just months before the Presidential elections, when Donald Trump was fighting Hillary Clinton, CAH started the sale of expansion packs for its games popularly known as "Vote for Trump" and "Vote for Hillary."

Cards Against Humanity further revealed that all the proceeds would go to the Clinton campaign. At the time, the company also came up with several signs addressing former President Donald Trump. The signs were released after the Nuisance Committee was formed.

Signs like "If Trump is so rich, how come he didn't buy this billboard?" and "Donald Trump, he can't read this, but he is afraid of it" started going viral soon. As mentioned before, this wasn't the first time that Elon Musk was targeted by Cards Against Humanity.

Last year, in November, they released a prank social media platform known as Yowza, which was a parody of X, formerly known as Twitter. The site came to light when misinformation and hate speech became a common issue on X. Yowza mentioned that it was "guaranteed to be free of misinformation, hate speech and bad vibes of any kind."

Coming back to the lawsuit against Elon Musk, it stated:

"SpaceX has treated the property as its own for at least six months without regard for CAH’s property rights nor the safety of anyone entering what has become a worksite that is presumably governed by OSHA..."

USA Today tried reaching out to SpaceX, but as of Friday, they had not responded.