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The politically incorrect party game Cards Against Humanity has announced it is planning to “save America” in a new holiday promotion which promises backers six surprises across the month of December at the cost of $15._  by [Billy Perrigo](https://time.com/author/billy-perrigo/)  ## Billy Perrigo Correspondent Nov 15, 2017 1:41 PM UTC Party Game Cards Against Humanity has launched a holiday promotion to “save America” and it has already sold out.  by [Billy Perrigo](https://time.com/author/billy-perrigo/)  ## Billy Perrigo Correspondent Nov 15, 2017 1:41 PM UTC The politically incorrect party game [Cards Against Humanity](http://time.com/4128229/cards-against-humanity-black-friday/) has announced it is planning to “save America” in a new holiday promotion which promises backers six surprises across the month of December at the cost of $15. In an email sent to mailing list subscribers on Tuesday, the company urged: “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](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2016-donald-trump/), you might want to sit this one out.” By early Wednesday morning, the promotion had sold out. The first surprise to be revealed was entitled “Cards Against Humanity stops the wall.” The company announced it had bought a piece of vacant land along the [U.S.-Mexico border](http://time.com/4990609/border-wall-prototype-us-mexico-trump-immigration/) and employed a law firm that specializes in fighting compulsory land acquisition. The aim, it said, was “to make it as time-consuming and expensive as possible for the wall to get built.” Of Trump, the company said: “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.” The card game refused to comment on what the other five surprises would be. “The nature of a surprise is that it surprises you when it occurs,” the company said. This is not the first promotion from Cards Against Humanity to involve itself in social issues. Previously, the company has released a set of cards “[for her](http://time.com/4853479/cards-against-humanity-pink/),” identical in every way to the original set except for coming in a pink box, but costing $5 more to poke fun at the absurdity of the gender pay cap. In 2014, the company ran a Black Friday promotion charging $6 for “literal feces, from an actual bull,” and 30,000 people signed up. ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] [00:07] In the early part of the 21st Donald Trump had just [00:11] be elected president of the United States. The [00:15] american Empire was in decline. After decades of [00:19] global supremacy the people had become lazy and [00:25] stupid. And if you kick every Latino out of this country [00:29] then who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald [00:31] Trump. The country seemed to be hanging by a [00:34] thread. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] But then, a small card [00:38] game company from Chicago, Illinois known as Cards [00:42] Against Humanity launched a bold campaign to save [00:46] America. These scrappy comedy writers [00:50] would come to be hailed as saviours by the American [00:54] people. They stopped Trump's border wall, solved [00:58] the problem of fake news, and ended the creeping [01:01] scourge of homework. The struggle was real! Things [01:05] just kept getting worse! [ SOUND ] [01:10] And, then, it happened. Cards Against Humanity. [01:14] [ MUSIC ] He announced this crazy holiday marketing [01:17] campaign. And it only cost $ 15. [01:23] On the first day of the campaign, Cards Against [01:25] Humanity purchased acres of land on the U. S, Mexico [01:29] border, and didn't build a wall on it. Thew [01:34] retained a law firm to fight the United States [01:36] government and prevent them from ever building the [01:40] wall. Everyone who signed up for the promotion was [01:44] given a small portion of the land. That way, together, [01:47] they owned it. The government would have to take [01:50] them to court and fight in order to put up the wall. [01:54] Now this was just day one. Of the campaign. There [01:57] were still five more days, five more days of incredible [02:01] surprises, all for just $ 15. So, [02:05] how did the promotion work? It was simple. People [02:09] used the Internet. A popular technology at the time. [02:13] And typed in www. [02:20] Cardsagainsthumanitysavesamerica. com to sign up. [02:23] What would follow was an incredible barrage of gifts [02:26] and surprises that captured the heart of a nation. 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