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In battle for Istanbul, city election could decide a country's future – POLITICO
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Polish leader urges Europe to invest in defense spending | Fox News
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FBI coming for dramanaughts

"oi u gotta loicense fer tat meme"

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I'm David Burnell, Portland City Council Candidate. AMA : Portland

					
					
					
	

				
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A motion proposed by the right-wing Alternative for Germany to give asylum seekers payment cards instead of cash in the state of Saxony passed by a single vote after a left-wing lawmaker went for "a joint" and missed the vote.

The move was debated by the Dresden city council on Friday, with anti-mass migration councilors calling on the city to switch to topped-up cards to prevent asylum seekers from spending taxpayer-funded cash benefits in the black market on drugs and prostitution.

After many hours of debate, and ahead of the vote at 6 p.m., left-wing councilor Max Aschenbach announced on his X account that he was "going for a joint" and subsequently missed the crucial vote.

Around 15 minutes later, he returned to the chamber and posted: "Just came back up and everyone is bullying me because the stupid AfD payment card application was passed with the votes of the CDU and FDP."

The motion succeeded by a single vote with 53 in favor to 52 against.

An inquest is now underway among the co-governing FDP party and the opposition CDU as to why local lawmakers voted in solidarity with the AfD motion, with the long-standing practice being that Germany's mainstream parties do not support AfD motions.

CDU leader Freidrich Merz said the decision to support the motion was "correct in substance but unacceptable in procedure."

"That was a mistake. And we will talk to those affected about everything else," he added.

The topic of migrant payment cards has made national headlines in recent weeks as Germany attempts to clamp down on the misuse of taxpayer-funded benefits and lessen the pull factors for the latest influx of new arrivals into the country.

Last month, the Free Democrats (FDP) even warned that they could pull out of the three-way left-liberal government if the Green party blocked a new rule mandating benefit cards instead of cash payments to migrants.

Local municipalities across the country have already introduced laws stipulating that benefits must be paid via payment cards instead of cash, but this contravenes existing federal law, namely the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act, which states that migrants should receive payments "primarily as a cash benefit."

Plans to amend the law to move towards a cashless system are underway to ensure that funds stay off the black market and remain in the country, preventing migrants from sending cash back home and taking it out of the German economy.

!chuds :marseyjoint: dude weed lmao

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Democratic strategist James Carville argued "too many preachy females" in the Democratic Party could be to blame for President Biden's bleeding support from key voters.

In an interview published Saturday with New York Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd, Carville voiced concerns about the culture of the Democratic Party and how it could be impacting Biden's support among voters, especially those that are male.

"A suspicion of mine is that there are too many preachy females ... 'Don't drink beer, don't watch football, don't eat hamburgers, this is not good for you,'" he said. "The message is too feminine: 'Everything you're doing is destroying the planet. You've got to eat your peas.'"

Carville, who was a strategist for former President Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign, argued this culture and rhetoric is not addressing the concerns of male voters.

"If you listen to Democratic elites --- NPR is my go-to place for that --- the whole talk is about how women, and women of color, are going to decide this election. I'm like: 'Well, 48 percent of the people that vote are males. Do you mind if they have some consideration?" Carville said.

When it comes to Biden's low approval ratings, Carville quipped, "When I look at these polling numbers, it's like walking in on your grandma naked. You can't get the image out of your mind."

Carville in recent weeks has also expressed concerns about Biden's falling support among voters of color and called it a "problem" for the incumbent last week.

According to a Gallup poll released last month, Democrats' lead as Black Americans' party of preference has fallen 20 points in the past three years, while their lead among Latinx adults is at its lowest point since 2011. A CBS News poll from last month showed Biden's support among Black voters was down from 87 percent in 2020 to 76 percent this year.

Despite his worries about the president's campaign, Carville noted he "actually likes Biden."

"He's a tenacious guy that's had a real life. He's a state school guy. He doesn't have an iota of elitism. He doesn't even know what 'woke' is. He's been demonstrably the best president that Black America's ever had, Clinton and Obama included," he said. "You look at incomes, employment, poverty rates, access to health care. It's not where whites are, but it's closer than it's ever been."

The Biden campaign is ramping up efforts to reach voters of color, and last week, it launched ads of Biden directly speaking to Black voters in battleground states. The campaign argued another term for former President Trump would be a "disaster" for the demographic.

The campaign later announced a program to engage Latinx voters, whom Biden called "the reason why, in large part," he beat Trump in 2020 while fundraising in Arizona last week.

The Hill reached out to the Biden campaign for further comment.

Carville turning into a !chuds :marseypearlclutch:

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Democrat Senate frontrunner embraces his party's heritage
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/pol/ - Why are you right winged instead of communist - Politically Incorrect - 4chan

!jannies rightoid drama! Do I get a cookie?

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Oakland's new police chief is Floyd Mitchell : oakland

					
					
					
	

				
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Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to oust Speaker Johnson | Fox News

It might be a few weeks, but it appears republicans are going to dramamaxx the next election.

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Jarvis define bloodbath

https://www.google.com/search?q=bloodbath

https://web.archive.org/web/20240117130219/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloodbath

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