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Goodness, I love ‘Cards Against Humanity’

Cards Against Humanity has a new edition of its long-running deck of sometimes bawdy, generally silly, and always funny fill-in-the-blank cards they’re calling Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke. The website opens thusly:

Trump is Going to Fuck Christmas

Like a teen girl at a beauty pageant, Christmas is in grave danger because of Donald Trump.

Via Nate Anderson at Ars Technica, who explains:

Cards Against Humanity, the often-vulgar card game, has launched a limited edition of its namesake product without any instructions and with a detailed explanation of each joke, “why it’s funny, and any relevant social, political, or historical context.”

Why? Because, produced in this form, “Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke” is not a game at all, which would be subject to tariffs as the cards are produced overseas. Instead, the product is “information material” and thus not sanctionable under the law Trump has been using—and CAH says it has obtained a ruling to this effect from Customs and Border Patrol.

All of the profits, promises CAH, “go to the American Library Association to fight censorship.”

I noted the potential impact of tariffs on tabletop games when they were first announced in April (which feels like a lifetime ago). I love that CAH is trailblazing here, and supporting a good cause while they’re at it.

Preorders for Explains the Joke are $25 and close October 15. Oh, and it’s available only in the United States, because:

This is an American promotion for freedom-loving, tariff-hating Americans.

Ordered.

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