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appalachiablue

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4. Good for Selma Blair, glad to see this, k/r
Mon Nov 27, 2023, 05:02 AM
Nov 2023

Otoh there are tossers like UK Welfare Minister Lord Freud of the conservative party, a former investment banker and descendant of Sigmund.

- Baron Freud was caught suggesting disabled people could be paid less in 2014.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/15/prime-minister-david-cameron-lord-freud-apologise-disabled-people-minimum-wage

- David Anthony Freud, Baron Freud, PC (b. 24 June 1950) is a British politician, life peer, and former investment banker who served as Minister for Welfare Reform from 2010 to 2016. Before he joined the Conservative Party, he was vice-chairman of investment banking at UBS and a government adviser on welfare reform...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Freud,_Baron_Freud

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