Alan Zweibel
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Jim Crowe -->Nazi-->Maga
And you seem to have forgotten all about the Nazis' immense contributions to the scientific world in the form of racial science. Among other things their determination that Slavic peoples were subhuman which made it perfectly okay to plan for their genocide.
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Jim Crowe -->Nazi-->Maga
Not surprising that you can offer no specific rebuttal to the specific points I raised.
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Jim Crowe -->Nazi-->Maga
Interesting that you should mention Gottingen which before the Nazi's ascent had the world's foremost mathematics dept A Math Lesson From Hitler’s Germany "On April 7, two months after Hitler became chancellor, Germany passed a law making it illegal for Jews — or rather those considered Jewish by the Nazis — and Communists to hold civil service jobs, with a few exceptions including for people who had served Germany in World War I. That immediately forced several Göttingen mathematicians from their jobs. The crisis snowballed, and over the course of the year, a total of 18 left or were driven out. By the time of Hilbert’s legendary dinner with Rust, Germany had lost its status as the world’s foremost country for mathematical research." https://undark.org/2017/02/01/math-lesson-hitlers-germany/
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Republican whipping in Virginia
What is sending?
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Jim Crowe -->Nazi-->Maga
The scientific exodus from Nazi Germany Beginning in 1933, hundreds of physicists and other academics fled the country, transforming their lives and the global scientific landscape. The names in the physics section read like a who’s who of early 20th-century physics: Hans Bethe, Felix Bloch, Max Born, Albert Einstein, James Franck, Otto Frisch, Fritz London, Lise Meitner, Erwin Schrödinger, Otto Stern, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Victor Weisskopf, Eugene Wigner. Three of the displaced scientists—Einstein, Franck, and Schrödinger—were already physics Nobel laureates; five more would eventually receive the prize. A 2016 study found that the 15% of physicists who were dismissed from German universities accounted for 64% of all German physics citations. https://physicstoday.aip.org/news/the-scientific-exodus-from-nazi-germany And if ever there was a case to be made for how bigotry makes people stupid there's this: "What really caused German dominance in science at the time, was the superb academic environment, which also suckled at its teats jews and other foreign elements, who benefitted greatly from this. " How exactly were Jews foreign elements? Were they not born in Germany? Raised in Germany? Wasn't German their native language? Weren't they in fact an integral part of the German scientific establishment until the ascent of the Nazis?
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Republican whipping in Virginia
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Democrat Mikie Sherrill wins New Jersey's governor's race
Real Clear Politics polling average had Sherrill winning by 3 points. She won by 13. You just can't trust those lying leftist pollsters. https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/governor/general/2025/new-jersey/sherrill-vs-ciattarelli
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Pennsylvanians Vote to Retain All 3 Dem Justices
Pa. election results: All 3 Democratic Supreme Court justices win retention races Pennsylvanians have voted to retain three Democratic state Supreme Court justices, granting them additional terms on the bench after an unusually contentious, multimillion-dollar election. Republicans and their allies had hoped to defeat the justices and put their seats on the 2027 ballot, opening a path to flip the court. The Democratic majority has handed down critical rulings over the past decade, upholding mail voting and throwing out a congressional map that it found unfairly benefited the GOP. https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/11/pa-election-results-supreme-court-retention-donohue-dougherty-wecht/
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Republican whipping in Virginia
Another right winger offering the future as evidence.
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New poll: 56% of Americans think Trump is a dangerous dictator
Hardcore Trump supporters often cite this phrase to excuse Trump: Trump voters take Trump seriously, not literally. Their mistake.
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Republican whipping in Virginia
And I wouldn't be at all surprised if you offer the alleged results as evidence.
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Republican whipping in Virginia
Another contribution from the Dept. of Alternate Reality
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Republican whipping in Virginia
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Republican whipping in Virginia
True. But even in Trump's victory of 2024, the Republicans actually lost a few seats in the House. And in 2018 the Republicans lost a massive amounts of seats in the House.
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Republican whipping in Virginia
The same kind of nonsense was directed against Bill Clinton when he raised taxes. How did the economy do back then?
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Republican whipping in Virginia
I know that there's U.S. Congressional elections coming up in one year. Apparently, that's something you don't know. Which is a massive piece of ignorance.
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Democrat Mikie Sherrill wins New Jersey's governor's race
He emphasized getting rid of dangerous criminals among the undocumented. Latinos sour on Trump over tariffs, the economy, immigration raids President Trump made historic gains for the GOP among Latino voters last year, but polls and other indicators suggest their support for him is falling amid growing anger over his handling of the economy and immigration. Why it matters: Latinos' rising discontent could mean trouble for the GOP heading into the 2026 midterms, and undermine Republican redistricting efforts — namely in Texas — partly aimed at exploiting the party's recent gains among such voters https://www.axios.com/2025/09/26/latinos-trump-discontent-economy-immigration Trump’s approval on immigration, economy declines among Hispanic voters: Poll President Trump’s favorability among Hispanic voters has dropped by 19 percentage points over the past 10 months as the White House charts an aggressive approach to immigration enforcement and economic reform, according to a poll. Twenty-seven percent of Hispanic voters said they approve of the way Trump is handling his job while 73 percent disapproved, according to The Associated Press-NORC Center poll results released Friday. .. Approximately a quarter of Hispanic adults surveyed said they support deporting all immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, while roughly half of the respondents said they oppose the policy and others said they don’t have an opinion. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5572356-trump-approval-hispanic-voters-poll/
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Republican whipping in Virginia
Most Americans would know that there's a Congressional election coming up in a year. (Maybe I should write possibly coming up in a year?)
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Blue Wave Rebuilds VA House: Democrats Soar to at Least 64 seats
Yes, you're right. And so is Wiki. There goes my career as a journalist.
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Republican whipping in Virginia
A demotion? How many politicians have gone from the House of Representatives straight to the Presidency? What's moreon the local level, Democrats trounced the Republicans. How does that translate into a likely loss for her in 2026?
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Republican whipping in Virginia
But as another thread shows, the Republicans got brutalized on a more local level. Including, apparently, some seats that were considered safe for them.
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Democrat Mikie Sherrill wins New Jersey's governor's race
What's really significant in this election is how the Hispanic vote went. Hispanics in NJ are concentrated in the NE part of the state.Hudson and Passaic are the most heavily Hispanic. In 2024 Passaic actually went for Trump by 50% to 47% In the current election it went for Sherrill 57% to 42%. Hudson County, in 2024 went 62% to 34% in favor of Harris. In 2025 it went 74% to 24% in favor of Sherrill. This is in keeping with polls showing that Hispanic Americans are not happy with the way Trump is going about deporting undocumented aliens. They were under the impression that he would be going after dangerous criminals. It looks like they are well disabused of that belief now.
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Republican whipping in Virginia
I should have written "one Democratic member"...etc
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Republican whipping in Virginia
Well, Jones was important because he's insurance in case one member of the Virginia Senate decides not to vote for gerrymandering Va house districts.
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Republican whipping in Virginia
Good to know that you had no problem accepting the results of the 2020 presidential election