{"id":97556,"date":"2023-11-06T20:10:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T02:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=97556"},"modified":"2023-11-06T20:10:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T02:10:16","slug":"97556","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=97556","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wonder what took him so long to realize this<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/home-depot-founder-calls-biden-dunce-says-president-puppet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Home Depot Founder Calls Biden A &#8220;Dunce,&#8221; Says President Is A &#8220;Puppet&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, who has railed against &#8220;socialism,&#8221; corporate &#8220;wokeness,&#8221; and the Biden administration, recently spoke with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/11\/04\/business\/why-home-depots-bernie-marcus-says-hes-particularly-p-ssed-off\/\">FOX Business Charles Gasparino<\/a>\u00a0about why he is in a &#8220;particularly pissed-off mood&#8221; these days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve said this to all of my friends, anybody who would listen: if this election goes the way the last one went, this country will be a Third World country,&#8221; the 94-year-old billionaire told Gasparino.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus blames the social and economic mess consuming the country on President Biden, calling the president a &#8220;dunce&#8221; and saying he&#8217;s the &#8220;most divisive president we&#8217;ve ever seen.&#8221; Labeling half the country as a &#8216;MAGA Republican&#8217; was never a way to promote &#8216;unity,&#8217; he continued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-11-06_07-39-25.png?itok=ka3FCGoh\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-11-06_07-39-25.png?itok=ka3FCGoh\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2023-11-06_07-39-25.png?itok=ka3FCGoh\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"502\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"6dc91d6b-7162-422f-8591-16b0c209afa2\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The billionaire then talks about Biden&#8217;s deteriorating mental state, saying, &#8220;Somebody is feeding him like a puppet.&#8221; He warned against the massive spending increase and numerous policy errors that triggered high inflation and an explosion in debt.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus acknowledges some positives during the Trump administration, such as increased wages, higher employment among minorities, and low inflation. However, he expresses concerns about Trump&#8217;s personality, particularly his inability to &#8220;keep his mouth shut . . . I&#8217;m afraid if he&#8217;s elected, the first thing he does is go after his enemies, starting with the Republicans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marcus said, &#8220;I think [Trump] has the policies if he would just follow the script and do what he has to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gasparino asks the billionaire if he could build another Home Depot in today&#8217;s environment. The short answer is &#8216;no&#8217;: &#8220;Regulations and all this woke crap&#8221; have made starting a public company near impossible, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;I ran a business for 60 years&#8230; I would never get involved with a social issue outside of business. That was not my business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marcus said there was some hope for the future of the company as Americans were quickly turning on radical leftists. The example he gave was the Bud Light boycott:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8220;They were No. 1 . . . and they turned stupid overnight,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The American people remember; their sales are going to stay down.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He concludes by saying the American people are worth saving from what he believes is a progressive apocalypse&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In a separate interview earlier this year, Marcus told Americans to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/home-depot-co-founder-rails-against-socialism-and-woke-people-warns-capitalism-dire\">wake up<\/a>&#8221; to the reality that the economy is in &#8220;tough times&#8221; following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Months before that, in December 2022, he railed against &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/home-depot-founder-tells-americans-wake-after-silicon-valley-bank-collapse\">socialism<\/a>&#8221; for why nobody wants to work and warned capitalism is in dire straits.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus&#8217; warning is similar to co-founder and retired CEO of Whole Foods, John Mackey, who recently warned that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/whole-foods-john-mackey-i-feel-socialists-are-taking-over\">socialists are taking over<\/a>&#8221; and &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/whole-foods-ceo-warns-capitalism-cannot-be-replaced-disastrous-socialism\">capitalism cannot be replaced with disastrous socialism<\/a>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The positive takeaway is that the Bud Light boycott serves as a barometer of American sentiment, indicating widespread discontent with progressive policies across the corporate world to\u00a0local, state, and federal governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonder what took him so long to realize this Home Depot Founder Calls Biden A &#8220;Dunce,&#8221; Says President Is A &#8220;Puppet&#8221; Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, who has railed against &#8220;socialism,&#8221; corporate &#8220;wokeness,&#8221; and the Biden administration, recently spoke with\u00a0FOX Business Charles Gasparino\u00a0about why he is in a &#8220;particularly pissed-off mood&#8221; these days. &#8220;I&#8217;ve said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=97556\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97557,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97556\/revisions\/97557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}