50-Foot Musk Monuments Rise at Starbase as 12,000 Back a Rival Anti-Memorial

Q: What secret terms were hidden in the 2025 settlement that emboldened a card company to build a spite monument?

There is no public evidence that any “secret terms” in the 2025 settlement gave Cards Against Humanity a special legal right to build the monument. The available reporting says the settlement was confidential and its terms were not disclosed. What appears to have emboldened the company was more basic: it says SpaceX removed its equipment and debris, dropped its use of the parcel, and left Cards Against Humanity in control of land it still owns near Starbase. The company has also said SpaceX effectively admitted on the record that its activities damaged the property, though the exact wording and any financial payment remain undisclosed. Court records cited in later coverage indicate the lawsuit was dropped after the 2025 settlement, but do not reveal any nonpublic clauses authorizing construction or restricting either side’s future speech. In other words, the monument plan seems to rest on ordinary property rights and a publicity strategy, not on known hidden settlement language. The strongest factual answer is that the “secret terms” are unknown. Public reporting supports only that the dispute ended confidentially, SpaceX allegedly cleared the land, and Cards Against Humanity retained the practical ability to use its parcel for a new anti-Musk installation.

Q: What bizarre design will a committee of internet trolls choose to permanently mock a billionaire next to his space empire?

No design has been chosen yet. Cards Against Humanity has only announced a public “design committee” that will decide what the Texas anti-monument next to SpaceX’s Starbase will look like. What is clear is the intended message. The company is branding the effort as the “Official Elon Musk is a Sad Little Bitch with No Friends Monument Design Committee,” and says the installation is meant to annoy Musk on land it owns near the Texas-Mexico border. Supporters can join the committee for $10, and part of the proceeds from new expansion packs will help fund the project. Based on the company’s history and wording, the final concept is likely to be deliberately crude, satirical and highly visible rather than a conventional sculpture. Cards Against Humanity has framed the site as a symbol of its dispute with SpaceX, which it accused of trespassing and dumping gravel, tractors and debris on the property before the case was settled and the material removed. So the best answer for now is that the bizarre design remains unknown by design: it will be crowdsourced from supporters encouraged to troll Musk. The company’s campaign suggests the winning idea will be less about artistic merit than maximum provocation, turning a small patch of border land into a permanent joke aimed at the billionaire beside his space empire.

2 articles · Updated · Business Insider · Aug 14

At Starbase near Brownsville, a French art group is erecting a 50-foot Prometheus statue tied to Elon Musk and SpaceX, while Cards Against Humanity is organizing a separate anti-Musk monument on nearby land.
Cards Against Humanity said more than 12,000 people had signed up by Thursday evening and about $150,000 had been raised through $10 contributions for a memorial meant to mock Musk.
The card-game company linked the campaign to a land dispute, saying SpaceX damaged property it bought in 2017 to resist Trump’s border wall; the companies settled a 2024 lawsuit confidentially in 2025.
Starbase, incorporated as a city in 2025 with more than 500 residents, has already become a monument site: a crypto-backed Musk statue went up two years ago and was vandalized in April 2025 during wider anti-Musk protests.