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PeaceWave

(2,696 posts)
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 12:38 AM 10 hrs ago

The billionaire class are prepping for the peasant hordes coming at them with their pitchforks and torches...

Faced with mounting calls to tax not just their income but also their actual wealth, California's billionaires - all 200 plus of them - are making preparations for that and whatever other anarchy you intend to throw at them. For most, the first response is to simply flee the state. High tale it to primarily Republican tax havens like Florida or Texas. For some billionaires though, that's not a sufficient answer. They've got business dealings that routinely bring them to California and they need to maintain digs in the state. For a billionaire, that means not just some ordinary run of the mill mansion that might suffice for some wannabe only worth several hundred million. Nope. For billionaires living with the existential fear of heathens coming after their money, only one crash pad can suffice - a concrete and steel encrusted bunker buried deep in the ground and capable of surviving anything short of a direct nuclear strike.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/see-the-list-of-california-s-200-plus-billionaires-who-could-be-hit-by-the-proposed-wealth-tax/ar-AA1TXR0O

That's where Atlas Survival Shelters - the world’s largest bunker manufacturer - comes in. They're busier than ever, filling orders, making sure that if push comes to shove, there won't just be a glass window standing between you and your pitchforks and torches and the billionaires and their money.



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The billionaire class are prepping for the peasant hordes coming at them with their pitchforks and torches... (Original Post) PeaceWave 10 hrs ago OP
I think they will be building Figarosmom 7 hrs ago #1
Well, the Epstein Islands won't be their first choice in destinations BigmanPigman 7 hrs ago #3
If they want to seal themselves away in luxury coffins, that's fine. Grokenstein 7 hrs ago #2
Two words: garden hose. nt EarthFirst 6 hrs ago #4

Figarosmom

(9,783 posts)
1. I think they will be building
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 03:13 AM
7 hrs ago

Their own little tax free paradise somewhere. Maybe Venezuela.

BigmanPigman

(54,593 posts)
3. Well, the Epstein Islands won't be their first choice in destinations
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 03:30 AM
7 hrs ago

in 2026. However, since the MAGA pals are the most corrupted class in the USA I wouldn't be surprised if they flee to a different Epstein adjacent sanctuary. Their agenda is to steal everything they can get their hands on....no matter where they reside.

Perhaps they will need an impostor, a "piss-boy", like in History Of The World, Part 1....

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Grokenstein

(6,247 posts)
2. If they want to seal themselves away in luxury coffins, that's fine.
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 03:27 AM
7 hrs ago

Otherwise there will be no safe space. Their own bodyguards and families will turn on them eventually.

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