I love it when I can goad these idiots into such behavior.
Just retired from the EPA where it is 80% lib. ONe of my co-workers was a big lib and loved to talk politics with me.
But he was so easy to infuriate that the Boss would have to shut him up. He would start screaming at me and I would just throw in a few comments designed to infuriate him. It was great fun.
When one becomes infuriated with you he can easily be made to look like an idiot even to those who share his point of view.
I have done the same thing at work. They make a few stupid comments...then start foaming at the mouth and the next thing I hear is “AWCK !!! BUSH LIED, PEOPLE DIED!!!!...BLAH! GRRRS!”
I sit there quietly and let them rant, then when it gets quiet a big smile comes across my face and I say very slwly, “ I just love Bush! I just love Bush!” and walk out of the room.
Then I laugh all the way down the hall!!!
Hehe...you are my new hero! I do the same thing in my Fortune 500 bank co. where I question every single ethnic/gender centric baloney group promotion that shows up in my email. I maintain my vigilance in creating the first ever “if you think you are special because of how you were (or think you were) born then you suck” corporate group.
When one becomes infuriated with you he can easily be made to look like an idiot even to those who share his point of view.”
I used to do something similar to some of the libtards I worked with before I retired from ATT. It was like poking a rabid animal with sharp stick. There was a shallow veneer of peace and sweetness about them but it took very little to send them into a frothing rage, even though I would occasionally use patently false statements to tweak them.
For example:
One fellow was a generally ok fellow but a hard core Democrat and believed all Republicans were evil nazis and fascists etc. I asked how that could be be when Hitler was a Democrat. I maintained Nazi was short for NSDAP and the english meaning was National Socialist Democratic Workers Party thereby making Hitler a Democrat.
The correct designation, of course, was National Socialist German Workers Party. The absurdity of the argument went right over his head and and sent him into a ranting spittle flecked rage. This kept him worked up for most of an hour and was amazing to watch. He never caught on till I told him he was getting his chain pulled and explained the situation. He was ready to have a stroke because I dared to insult the sacred party.