The boss is out today and one of my louder mouth co-workers is on a rant with a fellow (helpless) employee on how Clinton was the worst president ever, Bush has done a great job, all Muslims are evil and bloodthirsty, Mexicans are stealing our jobs and destroying our economy (ironically, he feels Mexicans are responsible for our economy being terrible while Bush is responsible for our economy being great; at the same time), if the civil war was being fought today he’d join up with the South, George Washington was the country’s most devout Christian (seriously he actually said that), and so on and so forth.
Another time I may have found all the factual inaccuracies he based his conclusions on to be humorous, but today it just kind of bugged me because it was distracting me from my work. That said one delicious bit of irony made me laugh out loud (I don’t think he heard as my voice doesn’t boom through the entire office as his does). It was the part where he started whining about others getting social security without working while he was having to work his butt off to pay for. He said this sometime during the third hour of his standing in the fellow employees office, getting paid and not working.
Sounds like a Ron Paul / Mitt Romney hybrid, with some Rudy added for flavor.
Whenever people spout off loudly about crap they know nothing about it tends to get all over me. I usually feel the need to correct their ignorance.
I’m learning more and more that sometimes it’s best not to correct it (depending on the situation). I almost said something when he (while discussing civil war) made the proclamation that the invention of the cotton gin made slavery all but vanish (!!!!!!). It’s one thing to get facts wrong, but to state the exact opposite& of the truth as a fact (and then to even base further conclusions on it). I almost had to go speak up, but decided to stay at my desk so as not to get stuck in the conversation.