Day Nine of the Ten Days of Kwanza or Whatever gift series took an unexpected turn today. So far, the series of gifts from the Cards Against Humanity have been things like custom CAH cards, stickers and other quirky stuff. I’ve posted a few I received last week.

For those interested, there’s a significant discussion [SPOILERS] going on over at: http://www.reddit.com/r/holidaybullshit/

You can see the full list of gifts to date and learn more about the promotion (perhaps stunt is a better word?) here: https://www.holidaybullshit.com/

Today’s parcel was different. Here is the transcript of the description mailed with the package:

Day Nine. Today, we donated $250,000 to the Sunlight Foundation. The Sunlight Foundation is a nonprofit that advocates for open government and uses technology to make government more accountable to all. They give citizens and journalists tools to see who’s spending money in politics and how much they’re spending. We think better access to this information results in more timely and accurate reporting of political influence. If we’re going to try to solve our problems together, we’ve got to make sure we hear from everyone, not just the people with the most money and power. Enclosed, you’ll find a full report on the people and companies who have given money to an elected official who represents your state. If you want to see reports for all the states, you’ll have to share online. You can learn more at CardsAgainstHumanity.com/sunlight

The URL links to a cryptic page saying they will make an announcement on December 18.

My packet reports on all financial contributions to Diane Feinstein, and is quite long. The photo below is printed front and back.

The packet goes on to point out that we spent $4 billion on the midterm elections this year.

An interesting stunt, for lack of a better word. This comes just a few weeks after CAH made an Adbusters style statement about consumerism and Black Friday by suspending sales of the party game and selling only boxes of bullshit—real bull shit. Sterilized feces, actually. This lead to a hilarious batch of customer support emails like this one:

You can read more on Max Temkin’s blog: http://blog.maxistentialism.com/

I’ll be interested to see the announcement in a couple days. I haven’t had time to do a lot of research on this but I’ll try to write an update soon.