# Smapti is Pitted **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 21, 2014, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907 "2014-05-21T08:14:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 184
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907/184 "2014-07-12T11:53:04Z")
The two-faced mongrel is at it again: > [@Claim: the NSA records and stores 80% of U.S. phone calls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/claim-the-nsa-records-and-stores-80-of-u-s-phone-calls/692912/9): > > If the government was not acting in the best interest of the people, it would rapidly cease to be the government. In this country, we achieve this revolution by doing what you so glibly describe as “pressing a button once every few years”. The rules of Great Debates forbid me from explicitly pointing out that he’s a lying bastard who only pays lip service to the idea of voters removing a bad government while constantly arguing that the information necessary to do so should be kept from them, so I shall do so here. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smapti-is-pitted/688907)._