The "Billionaire Bunker" Paradox

The ultra-wealthy are investing hundreds of millions into fortified compounds, yet these projects often face logical dead ends:

Worthless Wealth: A major concern for elites is maintaining control over security forces once currency loses its value. Without a functioning economy, there is little incentive for guards to remain loyal rather than simply taking over the resources themselves.

Extreme Features: Some luxury shelters include bizarre defensive measures like flammable moats that turn into rings of fire or water cannons designed to take down helicopters.

High-End Isolation: Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building a $270 million compound in Hawaii featuring a 5,000-square-foot underground shelter with its own food and energy supplies.

Psychological Strain: To prevent insanity, luxury bunkers use tricks like night-scene paintings visible under black lights to simulate the outside world and windows that aren't actually windows.

Common Design and Social Flaws

Beyond the luxury tier, doomsday prepping often overlooks practical and ethical realities:

Basic Survival Gaps: Many amateur designs fail due to inadequate air filtration, insufficient waste management, or lack of secondary exits.

Social Isolation: Critics argue that focusing on individual survival via bunkers ignores the fact that human survival historically depends on peaceful cooperation and stable climates rather than isolated concrete boxes.

Market Growth: Despite the absurdity, the "panic industry" is booming, with the fallout shelter market expected to exceed $175 million by 2030.

#15 Donnerboy says, If she moves into her Doomsday Bunker..."

I absolutely love that the uber-wealthy are wasting their money on Doomsday Bunkers

Doomsday arrives... Are they already there, or not.

If not, who's gonna fly them there?

And, what happens to the pilot and others that got them there?

Left out in the wild?

Nope.

Meanwhile, in the Doomsday Bunker, who is going to maintain the systems that keep the uber-wealthy alive?

Or that keeps the uber-wealthy fed?

Servants...?

That are paid for with just exactly what?

And what about those servants' families?

Left out above to die?

How's that gonna work out for the uber-wealthy?

Then there's that whole medical thingy.

Who's gonna take care of the uber-wealthy (and their family) when it comes to health care?

Will the well-compensated "doctor," pre-Doomsday, care about the uber-wealthy after the --- has hit the fan?

And the well-compensated "doctor," his/her family... where will they be?

And then there's the sticky issue of the "security" for the uber-wealthy in their Doomsday bunker.

What's to have then turn their guns in a more intimate setting.

Fun, fun, fun.

Coriolanus: Jews are horrible

Coriolanus: Unpure Democrats are horrible

Coriolanus: Hamas = "Palestine"

Coriolanus: "I play bridge (like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett) = "Jews are horrible"

Coriolanus: Eight Democrats = ""Elect Republicans"

Is this your goal Coriolanus ? ? ? ?

To defeat the only checkmate to Trump ? ? ? ?

That's your goal?

Eight Democrats Help GOP Pass Anti-Transgender Law

'Tis wrong on every level.

Which is exactly why Trump and company utilized this as a potent message in 2024...

#6 Corky says, "...he's usually quite perceptive."

No, Coriolanus is the opposite of "perceptive."

Coriolanus is well spoken.

Coriolanus is quite obviously very well educated.

Coriolanus cooks and plays bridge.

Coriolanus knows all the cool stuff.

But ...

Coriolanus is no different that others who were well spoken, well educated, knowledgeable about the culinary arts and table games, with the "in crowd."

For the exact same reason why I posted these two pictures, side-by-side:

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Hint: It isn't Coriolanus.

Coriolanus is on the left in those two pictures.

#4 Corky points out that "Talarico runs on a grassroots platform and does not accept corporate PAC money."

Which is exactly why I found the introduction of "TrackAIPAC" red squares by Coriolanus so abhorrent.

He smeared Talarico, a fantastic candidate, with that very square I posted in my #3.

And as I have subsequently provided ...

#4 Corky hits the nail on the head when he says, "I'm afraid that Purists rarely ever win."

"Since the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza and AIPAC were not responsible for Kamala Harris' loss on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024-- per the released version of the DNC autopsy report"

As I kept saying ...

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