# SmashTheState **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 30, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731 "2009-07-30T01:00:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/21 "2009-07-30T02:39:10Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > Really? Name some Republicans in Congress or the Senate who would agree to raise taxes to address the deficit. A fiscal conservative would not necessarily raise taxes to address the deficit. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/22 "2009-07-30T02:39:45Z")
Could also be a tiny wittle Hulky. Aw. Wookit teh wittle angwy hulk. Angwy Hulk smashy. Who’s an angwy hulk? You are. Yes you are. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/23 "2009-07-30T02:43:49Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > A fiscal conservative would not necessarily raise taxes to address the deficit. Really? Any idea of the magnitude of cuts to the budget it would take to balance it with current revenues without raising taxes? I’d guess it’s in the 30% range or so. So if you can’t name any Republicans willing to raise taxes to balance the budget, how about some names that are willing to cut expenditures to the level that will balance the budget? ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/24 "2009-07-30T02:44:17Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > There are a lot more fiscally conservative, socially liberal Republicans than there are fiscally conservative, socially liberal Democrats. What’s your support for that proposition? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/25 "2009-07-30T02:50:26Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > [Neckbeard](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Henry_David_Thoreau.jpg). > > [Wagner’s](http://operachic.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/neckbeard02.jpg) is my favorite. I shouldn’t have asked. They look ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/26 "2009-07-30T02:52:46Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > Really? Any idea of the magnitude of cuts to the budget it would take to balance it with current revenues without raising taxes? I’d guess it’s in the 30% range or so. So if you can’t name any Republicans willing to raise taxes to balance the budget, how about some names that are willing to cut expenditures to the level that will balance the budget? Olympia Snowe is considered one of the ten most socially liberal Republicans in Congress and has introduced three different bills which would mandate balancing the federal budget. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/27 "2009-07-30T03:44:39Z")
Fuck **SmashTheState**. I’m the stupidest idiot on the board and anyone who says otherwise is a filthy racist tool of their corporate oppressors. BTW, remember **Chumpsky**? I’d like to put him in a room with **Lib** and **Smashy** and mine the concentrated crazy to solve the energy crisis. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/28 "2009-07-30T03:58:54Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Olympia Snowe is considered one of the ten most socially liberal Republicans in Congress and has introduced three different bills which would mandate balancing the federal budget. Got me, I love Olympia Snowe. I thought she should have been Obama’s pick for VP. Perfect balance: male/female, black/white, Dem/Rep. I wish Olympia Snowe was the face of the Republican party rather than yahoos like Palin. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/29 "2009-07-30T04:10:49Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > I bet you have a neckbeard too. And you’re fat. I bet he’s also gay! ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/30 "2009-07-30T04:39:23Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > I bet you have a neckbeard too. And you’re fat. Is it OK to have a chinbeard and be fat? 'Cause, [well…](http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b212/fachverwirrt/DSC00601.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/31 "2009-07-30T05:02:15Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > I shouldn’t have asked. They look ridiculous. This is every male member of the Straight Dope. 😉 [http://hollywoodphony.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/neckbeard.jpg](http://hollywoodphony.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/neckbeard.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/32 "2009-07-30T05:17:52Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > I like **Smashy**. I also like typing **Smashy**. What a wonderful nickname. > > It’s like potatoes that are mostly mashed, but still have a few lumps in them. I like that description. Smashy is ‘mostly’ smashed, yet still has enough texture to keep him interesting. And as ivn1188 says in the OP, completely wrong on most things, but it’s only ‘most’ things, not all things. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/33 "2009-07-30T05:20:54Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > …I can imagine the world as you see it, where everyone is accepting of differences and good at heart, and we all cooperate while singing Kumbayah, growing organic food and living in harmony with nature. I can also imagine the world about a year after that, where someone who isn’t quite so in tune gathers up a gang of people and murders and enslaves you and all of your fruitbag hippie friends, and burns down your tent city (which might remove the stench of patchouli)… Here in Northern Nevada, we call this _Burning Man Festival._ Peace, Love and Co-operation, provided you have the $130 admission. And bring your own damn water! ---
**Author:** ![Other\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Other\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Other_Dreams)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/34 "2009-07-30T05:32:41Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > **This is every male member** of the Straight Dope. 😉 > > [http://hollywoodphony.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/neckbeard.jpg](http://hollywoodphony.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/neckbeard.jpg) The bolding is mine, which was obvious, but nevertheless I felt I should point it out. Reply: No, no, and no. I don’t look anything like that. Granted, it was a humourous generalisation on your part…but just no. 😛 > [@fachverwirrt](#): > > Is it OK to have a chinbeard and be fat? > > 'Cause, [well…](http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b212/fachverwirrt/DSC00601.jpg) You’re kind of cute. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/35 "2009-07-30T05:48:37Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > But the majority of people on here are smug hangers-upon whose sole duty is to indicate their agreement with the forum consensus, thus propping up their vulnerable inner self. Why did you title your thread **SmashTheState**? You sound like you’re Pitting just about everyone else in the forum. Shouldn’t they be in the title instead? Sounds like **SmashTheState** , **Rand Rover** and a few unnamed people are the only ones exempt from the disdain. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/36 "2009-07-30T05:58:15Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > Is it OK to have a chinbeard and be fat? > > 'Cause, [well…](http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b212/fachverwirrt/DSC00601.jpg) You look like an internet stereotype. Do you watch a lot of anime and yearn to be Japanese? ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/37 "2009-07-30T06:11:51Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > People who seriously contend that people in the middle ages never got a VD. I’d love a time machine to send you ponytailed SCA fatbodies back in time with your cobbled-together armor and dispell your romantic notions of the age of heroes once and for all. Um…who said (or even implied) that?! ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/38 "2009-07-30T06:18:17Z")
> [@Michael\_Ellis](#): > > You look like an internet stereotype. Do you watch a lot of anime and yearn to be Japanese? I just love me Lucky Charms. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/39 "2009-07-30T06:24:16Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > Is it OK to have a chinbeard and be fat? > > 'Cause, [well…](http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b212/fachverwirrt/DSC00601.jpg) Huh. For some reason, I was under the impression that you were a lesbian. I need to update my files. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731/40 "2009-07-30T07:06:30Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Huh. For some reason, I was under the impression that you were a lesbian. > > I need to update my files. You keep files on lesbians? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smashthestate/504731.md?page=3)