IN WTF News: Home Depot Founder Compares Obama To Hitler

Brought to you by Politico, Here's Ken Langone, the billionaire founder of Home Depot, discussing recent "populist political appeals": "I hope it's not working. Because if you go back to 1933, with different words, this is what Hitler was saying in Germany. You don’t survive as a society if you encourage and thrive on envy or jealousy.”

By design, that quote is all you need to read. It appears in the first 300 words, from the mouth of a man who tosses out public insults like pistachio shells into a cuspidor. Ken Langone is the guy you call when you need to win the morning.

Langone’s comments—sure to draw ire from those who find such comparisons to Nazi Germany insensitive—echo previous remarks from venture capitalist Tom Perkins, who likened the actions of some in the Occupy Wall Street movement to the Kristallnacht attacks on Jews in 1938. Perkins gave several interviews after the ensuing uproar, but he never really backed away from the comparison. And Langone showed no hesitancy in invoking the Nazis when describing current populist rhetoric.

Comparing the largely empty rhetoric from Democrats in 2014 to Hitler's deliberate and methodical consolidation of power should "draw ire" from anyone who has taken 4th grade history. Read more here.

ForeverMEah says... When Obama heard he probably was like: