Cards Against Humanity, the Chicago-based adult card game company, is inviting the public to help design a monument mocking Elon Musk on land it owns near SpaceX's Starbase facility in South Texas. The company is forming a design committee and asking supporters to contribute $10 each to fund the project, which it describes as "a movement of like-minded people working together to force a moment of introspection" for the SpaceX CEO.

The monument initiative represents the latest chapter in a contentious dispute between Cards Against Humanity and SpaceX. In 2024, the card game company filed a $15 million lawsuit against SpaceX for illegally dumping construction materials, gravel, tractors, and equipment on its property near the Starbase manufacturing and test facility. SpaceX settled the lawsuit in 2025 and removed the materials before the area was annexed as part of the newly incorporated city of Starbase in May 2025.

Why Does Cards Against Humanity Own Land Near SpaceX's Starbase?

The company's Texas property ownership traces back to a political campaign from 2017. During President Trump's first term, Cards Against Humanity launched "Cards Against Humanity Saves America," a campaign designed to obstruct construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The campaign attracted 150,000 contributors who each paid $15, allowing the company to purchase the land and hire an eminent domain law firm "to make it as time-consuming and expensive as possible for Trump to build his wall".

By the time Cards Against Humanity acquired the property, SpaceX had already purchased much of the surrounding land and officially broken ground at what would become Starbase in 2014. Major construction at the facility began in earnest in 2018, with the first Starship prototype vehicle tests starting in 2019. When Cards Against Humanity filed its lawsuit in 2024, SpaceX had already launched four full-stack Starship test flights and begun construction of a second launch pad.

What Is Starbase and Why Is SpaceX Expanding There?

Starbase is the center of development and operations for SpaceX's Starship rocket, a fully reusable launch vehicle designed to become the world's largest and most powerful rocket once operational. The facility's location at the southern tip of Texas provides a safe and remote area for testing giant rockets. However, SpaceX's increased activity has triggered a large influx of employees seeking housing in the previously sparsely populated Boca Chica area.

SpaceX began constructing clusters of homes for its employees around its facilities and, seeking control over local governance for zoning and permitting, workers and residents voted to incorporate Starbase as its own city in May 2025. The annexation of Cards Against Humanity's plot of land as part of Starbase's official incorporation has apparently frustrated the company, prompting its latest campaign.

How to Support Cards Against Humanity's Monument Project

• Design Committee Membership: Join the public design committee for the monument by contributing $10 at "ElonHasNoFriends.com," allowing supporters to participate in shaping the project's final appearance and messaging.
• Game Expansion Purchases: Buy new Cards Against Humanity game expansion decks, with 10% of profits directed toward funding the monument construction and installation.
• Public Engagement: Participate in the broader campaign by sharing the initiative on social media, amplifying the company's message about corporate expansion and its concerns regarding Musk's public persona and influence.

In a Threads post on August 13, Cards Against Humanity asked, "Who wants to f---- with Elon Musk?" and described the current Starbase area as "a corporate hellscape littered with broken rockets and ugly mansions for Musk's executives." The company framed the monument as an opportunity to make Musk "wonder, for a brief moment, 'Wait, am I a sad little b---- with no friends?'".

Cards Against Humanity is not alone in criticizing Musk and SpaceX's activities. Musk's public persona has grown exponentially with SpaceX's successes over the past decade and his 2022 purchase of Twitter, which he renamed X. As early as 2022, a group of anonymous SpaceX employees posted an open letter to executives on an internal company forum saying, "Elon's behavior in the public sphere is a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment".

Musk has also drawn criticism for his comments and actions during the 2024 election, during which he donated nearly $300 million to Trump and other Republican candidates. However, others praise Musk for introducing reusable rockets with the Falcon 9 and his aspiration to make humanity a multi-planetary species. He was named Time Magazine's person of the year in 2021, and SpaceX has become an indispensable asset to NASA and U.S. spaceflight.

SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule is currently the only American-launched spacecraft capable of transporting astronauts to the International Space Station. NASA has also contracted SpaceX to design a lunar lander version of Starship to deliver astronauts to the moon's surface on Artemis IV in 2028.

SpaceX's activities at Starbase have received environmental scrutiny as well. When the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) conducted its environmental assessment of Starbase to approve Starship launches in 2021, more than 18,000 comments were submitted by members of the public, delaying the report's publication for nearly half a year. SpaceX was ultimately cleared for Starship launches pending nearly 80 actions to ensure reduced environmental impact, which the company soon addressed.

To date, SpaceX has launched 13 Starship test flights with varying degrees of success. Some have resulted in the successful return and catch of the rocket's Super Heavy booster using the "Mechazilla" chopstick arms on the Starbase launch tower, while others featured Starship debris raining down within view of populated areas like the Bahamas. At least a couple of launches ended with a combination of both outcomes.

Musk sees Starship as humanity's ticket to extending our species' footprint to the moon, Mars, and beyond. If Starship lives up to Musk and SpaceX's promises, it stands to create a monumental, industry-changing impact on spaceflight history. And if it has to lift off within sight of a monument calling SpaceX's CEO "a sad little b---- with no friends," that would certainly make for an interesting chapter in space exploration history.