You will note it was not a quote box tied to the poster making those statements. There is no direct attribution.
IMO, and I welcome your feedback, is that there is a gigantic rule-violating difference between e.g.
versus
I think you meant
This is a hard strict rule on SDMB.
The former example is totally absolutely altering an attributed quote, albeit in a very obvious way, and is clearly absolutely prohibited. I have no disagreement whatsoever with that. And that is not what I do in general nor did what I did in the cited case upthread.
The latter is more nuanced and is a construction I use regularly. Quote them verbatim with attribution, then use an unattributed quote box to provide the altered version in a parallel formatting.
I can certainly switch to using some other formatting convention to avoid this potential misunderstanding. But ISTM that’s a cure worse than the disease.
Thank you for your (and all the mods’) largely successful efforts to keep this place civilized and I look forward to your feedback.
I see your point. Something was bugging me about it and that was it. Let’s call it Moderator Brain Fart and I will withdraw the mod note. Sorry about that!
Biden is a competent President. Under difficult circumstances he has accomplished some things. The polls do not give him adequate credit: 55% of Americans disapprove of his performance. To be truly excellent, I would have preferred it if he had left the Democratic nomination to someone else. But at least he is sane, reasonable and has policies broader than personal rancor.
Sorry, looking back Nixon had some good points; supported creation of EPA, made peace with China (something no Dem would tried or succeeded) and actually proposed a form of Obama Care which was shot down by Ted Kennedy.
That was the point at the time (1972). Nixon could go to China and talk with its leaders. Anybody farther right than him would indeed have been vilified just for the attempt.
Making “peace with China” as fedman1 said is not a meaningful phrase. Nixon made the first steps in normalizing relations with China in the diplomatic sense. Full recognition of China didn’t occur until 1979. It became the one and only China.
Until that time, the U.S. recognized Taiwan as the nation of China. In 1979 they were tossed under the bus. Realistically, that had to happen at some point and three presidents were involved, making it hard to lay the blame, but later history shows that Taiwan needed to have been recognized as a full and free country because, just as realistically, that’s what it is. Not doing so is leading to war.
So Nixon did something apparently good that proved to have rotten edges as time went by. Yeah, that’s Nixon for you.
If people feel they are worse off now then they will blame the president. You can cite a bunch of statistics but people will look at their grocery bill and blame Biden.
Yup. The President gets too much of the credit for good economic conditions, and too much of the blame for bad conditions.
And, even though the economy, as a whole, is doing pretty well, food is still substantially more expensive than it was a few years ago, as are rent rates and interest rates.
Most people are going to form their opinion of the economy on their own personal situation, and for people with low-to-middle incomes, any wage increases they may have gotten over the past couple of years are probably being outstripped by a higher cost of living.
From a recent WaPo article on food prices (gift link below):
Looking at recent food prices in Canada, it is easy to be skeptical about the posted inflation rates. To be sure, stuff goes on sale and if you are price sensitive, willing to wait and shop around, you can pay for most things about what you think they’re worth.
But every day I see a price that makes my eyebrows dance. And Canada is more stable than many places, though there is little (only some small ethnic stores) between dollar stores and the slightly cheaper grocery chains owned by the few big grocers here. They are doing pretty well, so I think the causative factors provided in your link are incomplete.
Hubs, who went batshit crazy during the pandemic, is constantly complaining about inflation and how we are going to outlive our money. When I point out that we pulled about 4 grand a year out of our savings during the trump years but now are spending more on toys while only pulling less than a grand out of our savings for the last couple of years, he looks shocked. And then forgets it the next time he listens to Fucker.
And about Taco Bell, if you buy a week’s worth of meals all at once.
@Loach , you might actually look at your bill, but there are a heck of a lot of clueless folks out there rexitting the $300 turkey and the $30 hamburger and so on.
But don’t they then see a turkey at their local store priced way less? And get a burger for $5.75? And then why don’t they go “hey! That meme was bullshit!”?
I mean it’s not hard math to see that $5.75 is cheaper than $30.00
