
Salon: Malcolm Fantasizes About Simone Dying (This Article is Insane)
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In this episode, Simone and Malcolm Collins discuss a recent Salon article that heavily criticizes their views on pronatalism, egalitarian marriage, and conservative ideologies. They delve into multiple misrepresentations and factual inaccuracies presented by Amanda Marcotte. The couple questions the efficacy of programs like Head Start, advocates for more parental control over education funds, and reacts to allegations of misogyny and eugenics. Additionally, they touch upon Trump administration policies, conservative stances on daycare regulations, and how their personal experiences with childcare shape their viewpoints.
Simone Collins: [00:00:00] Despite the couple's empty claims to have an egalitarian marriage, they admit Simone Collins does most of the childcare and housework , with the usual false claims that women are intrinsically better at these tasks. B***h, how many men do you know? Who can really, really can do laundry and dishes and cleaning house well.
The type of men who she pegs
Malcolm Collins: do.
It's all consensual, okay? Let's be clear. It's not that I don't keep my wife in chains, or bark orders at her, or tell her what to do, or make her make my food, or do most of the cleaning in the house, or handle our livestock, but I'm a feminist, which means I also force you to earn most of our money.
Would you like to know more?
Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. It's exciting to be here with you today. We have news articles about us all the time. Just yesterday, we had a big feature in the Washington Post. But and news features, honestly, often mischaracterize us, and I've come to expect that from the mainstream media.
But [00:01:00] we had one from Salon on us recently that was the most It almost felt like the person writing it was screaming the entire time they were writing instead of, like, actually writing it.
Simone Collins: Yeah, the Right. The author, Amanda Marcotte, just seemed kind of unhinged through the whole thing. Like, just Her picture
Malcolm Collins: on Twitter is, by the way, her cat.
But I wanted to get an understanding of, like, before we get into this, because this is just going to be amazing. Like, it is amazing, this feast. When I got my Google Alert on this, It said, Malcolm Collins, who fantasizes about his wife dying in pregnancy. And then to, to hit that point home, they use the quote where I said you know, my wife does put her life at risk with every pregnancy, and that's something that I appreciate.
And Of course, the point I'm making there is I appreciate how hard pregnancy is for women and that there are real risks. Oh,
Simone Collins: [00:02:00] sorry. No, no, no. Malcolm, you're a white man. There's no way you can win this. But actually, I found the article so objectionable, I want to go through it line by line. Because one, I think anyone will find it entertaining.
Two, I think it exemplifies a lot of ways that the left misstates pro natalism. And also just what the Trump administration and conservatives in general are doing anyway. Well, so I don't
Malcolm Collins: know. Okay, so you got to get this from the Trump administration. We need to set the record
Simone Collins: straight. We need to set The lovely
Malcolm Collins: young press person who Trump has right now
Speaker: I was, uh, made aware. of the funding from USAID to media outlets, including Politico, who I know has a seat in this room. Uh, and I can confirm that the more than 8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayer's dime will no longer be happening.
Uh, the DOJ team is working on canceling those payments now. Again, this is a whole of government effort to ensure that we are going line by line. When it comes to the federal government's [00:03:00] books, and this president and his team are making decisions across the board on do these receipts serve the interests of the American people?
Is this a good use of the American taxpayers money? If it is not, that funding will no longer be sent abroad and American taxpayers will see significant savings because of that effort.
Malcolm Collins: so don't be expecting that money anymore. That is amazing. We have since found that they had been funding anti Gamergate stuff. We found that they were funding anti Lives of TikTok stuff. We found yeah, we'll have a separate episode. I really want to collect all the receipts on this because this is like this huge scandal, but the, the, they put.
Sent 4 million to the New York Times. What are they doing that for? This is, this is where the USA, this is where your tax dollars were going to create all of this nonsense. As we've also shown, Reddit largely astroturfed by the Fed as well. Wokeism doesn't exist. That's why the one thing the Fed forgot to do is to put a layout up for some money to buy these video games.
That the [00:04:00] companies were making for this audience. One of my favorite things that Asma Gold did recently, another guy was talking about this, the guy we have a big overlap with, the little troll guy. Anyway this really was like all of this pushback, all of this insanity that came for our video games.
Never should have, never should have touched the video games. That's when they crossed the line. That was when they crossed the line. We were all just in our rooms, not political, game for the video games. But I want to get to this piece because this piece is insane.
Simone Collins: Yeah, so it is titled, Elon Musk's War on Head Start Childhood Education Exposes How Quote unquote Pronatalists Are Really Anti Woman.
So, let's go into it. Thank you, Amanda Marcotte, for that beautiful, beautiful oh, oh, amazing. And actually, the subtitle of this article quotes you Malcolm, quote, you do not want to give money to women, unquote, declared one leader of the movement to make more babies. Beautiful, beautiful.
I'm going to start with the section that [00:05:00] focuses on us, because it will better demonstrate to our audience how intentionally lying the author of this article is writing for a mainstream newspaper, which I think will be shocking to you, because if you aren't close to a subject of a piece, you can sometimes think, well, maybe the truth is in between.
Maybe they're just being bombastic. And I think this shows just how just straight lies pretty much everything you read in something like Salon is.
On Tuesday, the Washington Post published the approximately billionth profile of Simone and Malcolm Collins, whose entire existence is built around getting soft focus media coverage meant to represent, misrepresent the toxicity of their natalist ideology.
Okay, first off, that's insulting, because we actively try To, to
bring in
negative, like, negative coverage. We, we ask people, like, when journalists come, we're like, Hey, make this controversial, or no one's gonna read it. So, soft focus, excuse me? [00:06:00] Ouch. She continues, The two are thin, wear nerdy glasses, and repeatedly swear up and down that they're neither racist nor sexist, which is often credulous audiences to code them as, quote, liberal, unquote, or at least not MAGA.
We are the most MAGA! Why does she have to point out that we're thin? Like, one, is thin just a sign that we're evil? Like in Star Trek Troopers?
Malcolm Collins: Being fit, being thin, going to a gym, people talk about all of these as like negative signs. It's like, there's like posts about how to know if your kid is getting influenced by red pill ideology.
And it's like, is he working out? Is he masturbating less? I don't know.
Simone Collins: Cause she talks about how we wear nerdy glasses and are thin and, and therefore people think that we're liberal. I think she thinks that MAGA people are fat. Which also doesn't make sense. I don't know, but anyway, very strange. And, She says, But of course, the ruse is a millimeter thick.
And not just because they love [00:07:00] Donald Trump. Despite the couple's empty claims to have an egalitarian marriage, they admit Simone Collins does most of the childcare and housework , with the usual false claims that women are intrinsically better at these tasks. B***h, how many men do you know? Who can really, really can do laundry and dishes and cleaning house well.
The type of men who she pegs
Malcolm Collins: do.
Simone Collins: The
Malcolm Collins: type of men who she pegs do. I mean, Malcolm, I love you, but you're just so bad. You're so bad at it. And then she becomes just like, Wait, you're supposed to use Soap in that and I'm like, it looks fine without it. Look, it smells literally,
Simone Collins: literally Malcolm's response.
When I like hold something up and I'm like, this is unacceptable. He's like, it's not going to make you sick. That is his excuse. That is his standard of cleaning. His standard of cleanliness is. Will it make you sick? If not, it's fine. [00:08:00] So I'm glad you understand,
Malcolm Collins: Simone. So disgusting. I can't,
Simone Collins: I can't. By the way, also we do, and like, this is also a complete misstatement.
You, like a big common thing that we constantly show, and this is very well documented, is that the only reason I chose to have kids was because you were willing to always do 100 percent up to 100 percent of the child care. I never
Malcolm Collins: did anything. That's not true. You still, you always take the
Simone Collins: kids to the doctor.
You always pick them up. You always drive them around. You're the one who takes them to all these things. You go to all the parent meeting things. I don't do that. And we, we, you know, I, I handle a lot of in house stuff because that's what's easiest for me to handle. And it's. It bothers me that she says this but we do obviously find that we, we, as a couple, and this is not universal, tend to gravitate toward more feminine and masculine roles.
Malcolm Collins: It's not true that women are better at cleaning and doing laundry. And I'm like, well, I don't [00:09:00] know what. What women you've dated, but I have found that they are much better at those tasks.
Simone Collins: Yeah, I,
Malcolm Collins: I, I don't Do you think this, this woman just like lives in a pigsty? Like she lives like Asmogold or something?
I mean April just crawling over her bed.
Simone Collins: Well, she seems just like artsy. She seems
Malcolm Collins: married, by the way. She, she looks like she's married old. She's she compared to the way she dresses. It's really uncomfortable. Like Simone thought she was trans at first. Because she looks really if we're going to talk about looks here.
No,
Simone Collins: welcome. I know she wasn't like
Malcolm Collins: 55 year old pretending to be a 23 year old.
Simone Collins: Malcolm, I'm the one who looks like the Crypt Keeper. Like, let's be honest.
I, you know. Oh, no, she doesn't have a husband. She has a boyfriend. Wait, in 2024, her boyfriend is Mark Foletti, who, quote, owns a record store called Latchkey in Philadelphia. And that she has three cats. She is the mother of three cats.
Malcolm Collins: Mother of three cats. She birthed these [00:10:00] cats.
Simone Collins: I imagine She believes that, Female skill with cooking and cleaning is entirely societally based. She's probably a blank slate ist. I'm gonna think. And it's You know, we were much more blank slate ists until we had kids. Admit it. You know this to be true.
Malcolm Collins: Yeah, even knowing the research. I didn't understand how much your personality is cooked
Simone Collins: Yeah,
Malcolm Collins: we're like whoa personality and gender are completely cooked in at birth.
It is it is shocking if you have kids
Simone Collins: Yeah, it is it is. Yeah, I think that's why it's really hard to come across a parent of Three plus kids and, and have them espouse play latest. 'cause they're like, ah, nope. And you, you get a different role of the DI bet she's got a blank latest when it comes to
Malcolm Collins: cats.
She's like, cat, that's a really funny thing. Cat's personality is at birth. It's just humans. Yeah.
Simone Collins: People talking about like dog braids being like, yeah, humans blink slightest. And they like spend tons of time talking about different dog braids and how they're like, okay, continue, continue with breeds. Right.
They also brag about how much money they put into [00:11:00] genetic testing and IVF treatments to get the best babies, which is not only overtly eugenicist, but cuts against their claim that they want everyone to have more babies. Most people neither have the money or time to spend on such nonsense.
Malcolm Collins: She wants us using this experimental technology on poor children.
First, that's, that's the key. No one should ever use this.
Simone Collins: Because this is only something that evil mad scientists use because she doesn't understand the technology and one she doesn't understand what eugenics is because any couple personally looking at a variety of different traits and deciding on which embryos to have first based on those is clearly not practicing eugenics, which by definition, look at the Wikipedia article requires a belief that there are good and bad genes and also a belief that you should maximize and minimize Those genes respectively on a society wide level, which we're very vehemently against, but she would never take that time to understand that that would, that would require too much time away from the cast.
Malcolm Collins: We support Trump, we must be [00:12:00] Nazis. That's the way, if you disagree with these people politically, you're immediately a Nazi.
Simone Collins: Apparently. No, but continue,
Malcolm Collins: continue.
Simone Collins: She writes the post profile overlooked it but hope not hate Doug even deeper and found the couple has suggested women not be allowed to own property lambasted programs to reduce racial discrimination and hiring and falsely suggested IQ scores are dropping as the US population becomes more racially diverse.
Okay, so we've got
Malcolm Collins: every one of these points. It's fictional. So, well, not, not everyone. One of them is just true, but like, obviously, like, first of all she goes on to be like, look at the Flynn effect. IQ is rising. And I'm like, the reverse Flynn effect has been a phenomenon since the 80s. Well, no, she's,
Simone Collins: she, but she's of the same mindset of the population bomb.
Like, clearly she, like, Took in all the information shortly after she was born and then like went offline.
Malcolm Collins: No, clearly. 'cause she was born in the twenties. No, she was born in
Simone Collins: 1977.
Malcolm Collins: Oh, she what? Wait, really? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. [00:13:00] Well, okay. So anyway, she so first we have never. ever said that IQ is dropping because of racial differences in the country.
We said it's because dumb people are having more kids than smart people. We're very idiocracy about this. Like, it's not less offensive, but just get the offensive thing right. It's not an ethno thing. Then what was the, the other oh, yes, that I said that women shouldn't be allowed to have money.
No, the property. And that was
Simone Collins: based on looking at the results of, I think, Swedish lottery winners and the
Malcolm Collins: entire episode that that's based on. The point of it was that this data should not be taken to mean that women shouldn't be allowed to own property. But that specifically, if you are doing cash handouts, the actual quote line that she took.
Came from a right before that I said, if you are doing government cash handouts intended to increase fertility rates, don't give the money to women. Where she then took that to mean women shouldn't be allowed to own money. The intentionally like this is salon. This is the mainstream [00:14:00] organization intentionally lying to and attempting to manipulate the reader.
And then what was the other point in here? She had three, I remember,
Simone Collins: Own property. Oh, we lambasted programs to reduce racial discrimination. Yes, DEI!
Malcolm Collins: We hate DEI! Everybody hates DEI! What's wrong with you? You're asking me to be anti DEI and being pro racist. DEI is racism. It's a systemic system for discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, and sexual preference.
That's racism!
Simone Collins: Amanda and the cats vehemently disagree with you. Okay, okay. Okay. So what else does she say? Yeah, right. She, she believes the Flynn effect. Quote, you do not want to give money to women. Unquote, Malcolm Collins declared on one podcast. And he specifically,
Malcolm Collins: if you want to increase fertility rates and you're a government, you do not want to give money to women.
What's the full line there. But anyway, continue. [00:15:00]
Simone Collins: She continues. But what's viscerally creepy in the post report is how fixated the couple is on imagining Simone's death and childbirth. Quote, quote, I'm happy to die in labor, she declared dramatically, an especially weird statement because she delivered all four of her children via c section.
Yeah, lady, you know that many layers of you cut open, it's kind of dangerous.
Malcolm Collins: Does she not think that birth is like, I actually am genuinely wondering like, what's her point? Does she not think that birth is risky or does she not think, well, maybe she thinks C
Simone Collins: sections either she acknowledges that C sections are risky and is like, why is she being so blase about the fact that she's doing this risky thing?
Or she thinks that C sections are not risky in which case. She's not aware of what happens in like major surgeries. And there's always some kind of complications. Something you could start hemorrhaging, you know, it's, it's not a huge risk, but it's a risk. And the point that one, I didn't say dramatically, I said, a matter of fact, and two, it was in the context of [00:16:00] us explaining, trying to sort of frame that we, we have values in life and are willing to die for something.
I don't think Amanda Marcotte is willing to die for anything because I don't think that she really has any inherent values aside from Rob, if she has values that are like. Above just her immediate comfort and interests and needs. It would probably be something vaguely tied to negative utilitarianism.
Malcolm Collins: No, no, no, no, no. No, this is somebody who believes that our government is literally being taken over by Nazis right now. So you can see exactly what she would do if her government was being taken over by Nazis.
Nothing. Which means that she has no value system. She, she just makes
Simone Collins: money from shilling articles about how the government is being taken over money. Well, how
Malcolm Collins: is she going to make any money now that USAID is shut down? We now know that they were funding all this s**t. Like, how is she going to make any money?
How's she going to be? But no, I want to I mean, clearly the salon doesn't have fact checkers anymore, which is nice. You know, just. Get rid of all [00:17:00] that. Times are tough, Malcolm.
Simone Collins: Anyway, she, she talks about you. Malcolm Collins also fantasizes about his currently pregnant wife's death, seemingly gloating that, quote, she's putting her life on the line, unquote.
They deliberately inject unnecessary physical suffering into her pregnancies, including the use of IVF, an incredibly taxing and painful process, for the strict purpose of genetic engineering. Lady, I can't have kids. Naturally. I can't have, I am infertile.
Malcolm Collins: Like, unnecessarily? This, this, you could read our Wikipedia article and know this.
Like, this is not, this does not require much research to know. Did she guess? Like, did she think, Huh, I should probably check if she's infertile. Cause this is going to be really bad if I said that her husband is forcing her to do this. And it turns out that no, her husband is actually undergoing pretty big sacrifices because she's doing this.
And that, how can you, how can you be so delusional to not see when a husband is [00:18:00] like, I appreciate the sacrifice of my wife is making from that statement and instead think that I am like getting like excited about the idea of my wife dying?
I want to be very, very clear here. I do not get excited about the idea of my wife dying only turned on. Um, I'm joking.
We gotta have them, we gotta have them clip that.
Wow, you are just giving people so many beautiful little Breadcrumbs here.
Simone, Simone, Simone. Do not. No, but also future biofuel.
Simone Collins: I'm just also IVF. IVF is not an incredibly taxing and painful process. I repeat, it is not the only time I've cried during IVF and this is true.
So financially IVF is extremely painful is because of the [00:19:00] money. I've, I've cried in the doctor's offices because of the money. Simone,
Malcolm Collins: I've seen those needles you do. The only reason it's not painful for you is because your mind is built like a tank. You're like a, a sidekick that like goes in for me and then beats up an entire room and you're like, that was easy.
These needles, the needle part is like this big to go all the way into the muscle, their intramuscular
Simone Collins: injections. Yeah, you do it
Malcolm Collins: every day. You're for like a month.
Simone Collins: No,
Malcolm Collins: I think longer
Simone Collins: than a month went on forever. The last time I'm obviously doing it now, but I figured out the trick. And by the way, if you're doing these intramuscular injections, especially if your house is a little bit cold and ours is sit for an hour with the vial in your pocket.
Or in your bra, if you're wearing one to warm it up and you will not have the long term pain. So I used to think that you had to inject yourself and then massage in the oil. And I would still be sore like the entire next day at the [00:20:00] injection site. No, the, the oil just needs to be warm. You need to inject warm oil and just body temperature warms like it makes it so much less uncomfortable.
But to your point about
Malcolm Collins: this hurt for days afterwards, you're doing this for months. You you, you
Simone Collins: go through, yes, but it's yes I do. So she, she writes about this and she says, I'm hold on,
Malcolm Collins: clearly I'm gloating about it. And yes, he says he even brags about her ability
Simone Collins: to withstand pain and gore. It's just an amped up version of the same romanticization of female sacrifice.
It's endemic in conservative circles where what makes women good is how much self subjugation she can endure. No, like what's actually going on between us is we are nerds. Okay. And we did full genomic sequences on nebula genomics and I have to pull up the screenshots. But Malcolm's polygenic score for, for pain tolerance.
Is exceedingly low.
Malcolm Collins: It's like 1 percent and you're just like I flick you and you're like, I've been maimed! No, hold on, [00:21:00] no, so, no, so on, so on, so on, so on, so on. What she's referencing here is in the original piece they got some stuff wrong, I didn't mind, I like the piece. This is the Wall Street Post piece.
It, it mentioned that you were a vegetarian, which you're not, you basically are, but you're not like, Functionally, I don't eat meat. I don't eat meat occasionally. But that you handle the dead animals around the house. Like if you have to kill a chicken or something, like I don't do that. And you were cooking steak for the family and putting like red bloody steak on the table and chopping it up despite being a quote unquote vegetarian.
You were doing it for the guest and your husband. Oh yeah. So yeah, it was probably
Simone Collins: kind of, and so
Malcolm Collins: she's here like, Oh, these conservative men who glorify a woman who can chop up and cook a good steak. I do glorify that. I do. That's hot. Simone. No,
Simone Collins: there were, there were two things. One is we'd received as a very generous birthday gift, a giant, like, giant cut of Wagyu beef.
And I was, at the time we had a journalist visiting, slicing the beef into individual servings that we very carefully wrapped and froze because we couldn't eat it all at [00:22:00] once. We were doing like half a cow this day. Yeah, so there was like, there was a lot of meat on the table. And, and Malcolm was, he's not big on like meat and muscle.
A little aside. When this was happening Torsten, our son was like, what is this? Cause it's this giant, like slab of meat. And I'm like, well, this is, this is the muscle of a cow. So, you know, someone killed a cow, put a hammer in its head and it killed it. And then they cut it into pieces and, and we were gifted this piece and we're going to eat it.
And he's like, mommy, are you going to, are you going to. Eat my meat. like, no, don't eat. You're too
Malcolm Collins: small. You're too small. It's not that you wouldn't eat as a meat. He's just, you gotta, you gotta like the wicked witch you are. He set him up a
Simone Collins: bit first. He was so practical about it. He is like. Oh, like, so I was explaining, like, you know, all of us have muscle, like, this is on all of us, and we eat the muscle of some other animals, and like, it's something you need to be aware of and, because I want our kids to know, you should never eat anything that you wouldn't be willing to [00:23:00] kill, and I just thought that was so cute.
But anyway, so the journalist noted that like Malcolm kind of had no interest in working with raw meat and most people don't have a lot of interest in working with raw meat and then secondarily we're nerds and your polygenic score for pain tolerance is very low and also my polygenic score for I think it's in the 98th percentile like I'm able to tolerate Immense amounts of pain.
And that is a thing that we really appreciate because obviously it's easier to push through hard things.
Malcolm Collins: She'll like take things from the oven without mitts and stuff like that. Pull things out of boiling water. You're causing damage to your hands. Right? Like when I,
Simone Collins: when I, when I hurt myself, like everyone else, it's like.
Band Aids and all and
Malcolm Collins: like, I just take a paper towel and some like tape, some packing tape and I'm like, stop supplementing can keep going
deep gashes too. She'll like come into her room was like paper towel, like tape to her hand, just a flesh wound.
Yeah.
Simone Collins: So yeah, it's again, just [00:24:00] misstated. We're just playful and we appreciate the traits that we have.
She continues. The cons is. Frequently speak at pronatalist events, which also do a poor job of concealing the true bigoted agenda under all this happy baby talk. As Gabby DelVal reported in Politico last spring, this year's needle, this year's NeedleCon, that was actually the last. One that happened in 2023 a mostly male audience, many of whom, quote, are childless themselves, unquote, they speak a big game about creating, quote, a culture in which childbearing is paramount, unquote.
But of course, not for the men who want this change, that women will do most of the work is implicit. Indeed, it is not an unfortunate side effect, but the apparent goal. Now, what's so ironic is one, I mean, Gabby, she's also like Miss. Misstating Gabby DelVal's article to a great extent.
Also, Gabby DelVal's article was intentionally controversial because that drives traffic and we talked with her about it. Like we, we got Thai food together. Gabby DelVal's cool. It's like, this is not antagonistic and she thinks it is, [00:25:00] which is also very ironic. Most of the speakers, I think. Maybe not most.
I feel like at least half of the first natal con were female. Yeah, we had Peachie Keenan. We had Brit Benjamin. We had Diana Fleischman. We, yeah, we had me. There were, there were more women too. It was, it was a great, like,
Malcolm Collins: it was very balanced. But she wasn't there. She's not reporting. She's reporting on the fantasy she has of what the movement is.
Yeah. And just again, we have to take great pleasure in knowing that we're going to replace her. Here's the first
Simone Collins: plug for natal con. You can get 10 percent off if you register with the name Collins or the code Collins. And we'd love to see you. The next natal con is this March in Austin. But, oh my god, everyone's complaining about how it's expensive.
One, venues. Have you, like, organized a conference recently? It's just expensive, but now I wish that, like, instead, the price was double, but that everyone was issued a film grade Handmaid's Tale outfit? Yes!
Malcolm Collins: And we all could go! I wish that [00:26:00] too, now. So amazing, like all the reporters being like, it was like living in Edel doll or whatever that that country is from Handmaid's Tale.
Simone Collins: Yeah, I can't, I can't honestly, like, I don't know any conservatives who've read Handmaid's Tale. Because we're not into
Malcolm Collins: it. You should see our video, by the way, on is Handmaid's Tale actually just a sex thing? Because it is. Because it is. These people are just like those women who ride on horses, like suspiciously long, the women who go to every.
Event dressed up in this. Oh, Mr. Rich man. I hope you don't breed me
Simone Collins: Oh
Malcolm Collins: my god, general
Simone Collins: Yeah, it's it's it's great. It's wonderful. That would just have been high status
Malcolm Collins: woman watch was jealousy. I mean
Simone Collins: Yeah, when it comes to brass tasks, Natalists like Musk seem only interested in raising birth rates in the most inhumane way possible?
By force? Wait, I'm sorry. Let's continue.
Malcolm Collins: You're like it! No, okay, so there's this anime called, Shield hero. And in it I always feel [00:27:00] like you're like my Reptalia where there's this scene where she has like a slave contract with the hero and she is, they're like, oh, we have to free you from this, everyone else.
And she's very incensed that they want to free her from this contract. She's like, no, I really. Light, like, this is what I want. What are you talking about? And she's like, they're like, well, you know, I would never do this. Like, yeah, you never would. You never would take the time to care for someone in this way.
You never would take the time to and they're like yeah, I would. And she goes, okay, basically, then where's your slave? Because there's a lot of women in, in, in difficult scenarios that you could help through this sort of contract and you've chosen not to, which shows that you're not that type of person.
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Malcolm Collins: So where, where is your wife, Mr. Oh, I would be so good to a woman guy. But of course we know the reality. He's one of 10 guys [00:28:00] financially supporting one woman who they're all sleeping with. I'm saying the guy watching this who's like the far progressive and mad at me. Because they're not going to exist in the future.
We're outbreeding you. We're replacing you. Don't worry about it. We, we will replace you. That's the pronatalist slogan. I got to have that under the conference leg, but we will replace you. I want people to get very scared. and angry. That's the goal here. Continue.
Simone Collins: Right, right. Most inhumane way possible.
Musk loves to bleat lies about how birth control is dangerous. Oh, wait! So, I'm sorry. Not being on birth control is inhumane. That, that, sorry, that, that's, okay. Which is an unsubtle pretext to take it away, perhaps, by Likely Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy, chosen because he puts MAGA ideology before science.
Musk's billionaire buddy Peter Thiel has dumped huge amounts of money into spreading scary disinformation about birth control as well. Vans certainly has no ideas for making motherhood a more appealing choice for women, but instead prefers shaming tactics like name [00:29:00] calling and lectures on quote unquote duty.
And of course, they've all allied GOP that's passing abortion bans as fast as they can. I'm sorry, like Every, every medical intervention, every pill you take has a negative side effect. For example, I take about the same amount of estrogen orally per day that a trans man, what, sorry, no, sorry, that a trans woman takes, a man to woman trans person, right?
What also has happened as a result of that is my testosterone levels have plummeted. There is a cost to this. There's a cost to all sorts of hormonal replacement, including stuff that, that progressives would really support. Birth control does have negative side effects. Some people see their sex drive plummet.
Some people see their moods Go all wonky. Sometimes birth control is really great. It can help with acne, but like, how can she say that it's inhumane for people to question the side effects?
Malcolm Collins: No, no, what she thinks is inhumane is for people to not have sex whenever they feel like it. See our prep episode.[00:30:00]
She, she thinks not having free access to birth control whenever is inhumane because somebody without free access to birth control couldn't have indiscriminate sex, which she believes is a human right. I guarantee you that's what's going through her head.
Simone Collins: Anyway. She writes, the other giveaway is that these natalists don't care one whit about the well being of children after they've served the purpose of sinking a woman's ambitions.
That's why Musk is going so hard after Head Start. But again, when has Musk ever targeted or criticized
Malcolm Collins: Head Start? I sunk your ambitions. You, you, CEO, best selling author, media sensation. Dreams broken. Broken. Broken on my masculinity.
Dashed upon the rocks, the phallic rocks of your masculinity. Oh my god.
Simone Collins: Or why mu it's goon squad are attacking the Department of Education. Or why they're allied with an anti [00:31:00] vaccination activist like Kennedy. Or USAID, whose programs are critical for allowing women in poorer countries to give birth. To safely to healthy babies. Those programs are not critical. No one listens to us.
We should find out
Malcolm Collins: how much USAID gave to S. L. O. D. Now that we know that they gave millions to Politico and the New York Times and AP News. Think of the children.
Simone Collins: Think
Malcolm Collins: of the Catholics. They might have given you might have another reason for protesting. Thou dost protest too much. Oh, level.
Simone Collins: She, she concludes with the utter disregard for what happens to a baby after she's born.
She, of course, is also illustrated. Oh my God.
Malcolm Collins: This is like when people call God a woman. I will smack them with like a fish.
Simone Collins: Yeah. Just need to have your slapping fish handy.
Malcolm Collins: We were talking about hysteria earlier today. And apparently in ancient Greece, they thought that the woman's uterus, this is what hysteria was, would become dislodged.
And, and, and block their other organs, like their brain and stuff. So like put
Simone Collins: [00:32:00] pressure on other organs and like cause problems. And, and
Malcolm Collins: so the way that you would coax it back is at the bottom entrance to a woman, you would put something that smelled good and around her mouth and nose, you put something that smelled bad.
Kind of scared away. So, that is what this woman needs to relieve herself of her state of hysteria over Trump winning. And if you look at her articles, by the way, it's just Elon, Elon, Elon Trump, Elon, Elon, Elon Trump. And it looks
Simone Collins: like someone who's having a psychotic break. It honestly looks kind of like a schizophrenic having a psychotic break, but I know that that's like a journalist to be.
It's just that they look really similar in some cases, which is,
Malcolm Collins: no, I think, I think, I think she's like genuinely. And it's so funny that for so long, the left thought they could turn Ilan and Trump against each other. We saw this. They thought, I don't think anyone is still harboring this idea anymore. Now they're like Ilan's Hitler, Ilan's the unelected president, Ilan, you know, you see this in all the protests now but the idea that they could turn him and Trump against each other.
Would just like, like a car got hit. They did, they [00:33:00] had no idea what they were getting into with this. And it caused them to, I think, waste a lot of time. While Trump and Elon were eating the zone. And now they are terrified.
Simone Collins: Yeah, anyway utter disregard for what happens to a baby after she is born is also illustrated in the post's profile.
The Collins, the couple rails against car seat laws and day care regulations, basic common sense measures that keep children alive and safe. I'm sorry, lady. In most, in many states, I think probably most in the United States, kids are in car seats until like age 12. It's completely unreasonable at this point.
And I think a lot of people don't realize this because, you know, she is of a generation, as are we, where at like fairly reasonable kid ages, we were using adult seat belts. And just there's been this regulatory creep across all parts of the government that have made things more expensive and cumbersome, including daycare, including car seats.
She's not aware of this. And again, like, this is what happens. We just get angry people talking about issues [00:34:00] that they don't want to go really deep into. We're not. Above that. Okay. She wants
Malcolm Collins: to live in her Hitler fantasy where the government is run by you know, the, the, the Gilead. I dig it. You know what?
Simone Collins: The, the, the record store boyfriend three cat life is a lot more romantic when that's the case. You know, she's like, get that kind of a post apocalyptic feel. I think there's really, there's something in the American id that loves an apocalypse. She gets to be a resistance that doesn't have to do anything except
Malcolm Collins: hiss Dionyx on Blue Sky.
It's very cozy.
Simone Collins: It's very cozy. And she's making money from it. Like, I get the incentive.
Malcolm Collins: She does nothing but spam her articles on her Twitter account.
Simone Collins: That's because she's probably on Blue Sky. And she just goes to Twitter because she has like, I think 80 something thousand followers on it. And that's where she can hopefully get some more views.
Anyway, let's see. Right. Okay. Basic common sense measures that keep kids alive and safe. Needleists claim they want more babies for the long term good of humanity, but that's hard to square with the scorn of any measure that would keep children alive, much less help them [00:35:00] be productive members of society when they're grown.
Again, there is peer reviewed research on car seats as Cause contraception that demonstrates in a compelling way that fewer people are alive today because of car seat regulation. In total, so there are fewer people, basically more people are not being born than there are people who are being saved from hypothetical.
Differences in car seats.
Malcolm Collins: And in this very article, she's railing against technology that saves children's lives. yeah,
Simone Collins: yeah, like, yeah,
Malcolm Collins: yeah,
Simone Collins: yeah, yeah. More productive members of society when they're grown. That's exactly what polygenic selection is meant to optimize for those who have the opportunity to use it.
And we think that, again, like one of the reasons why we use and invested so much of our personal money. In polygenic selection and helping early companies in the space and buying from them is that we think that in the end, it's going to be in the best interest of any government that provides any level, including the United States [00:36:00] of government subsidized health care is going to find it much more cost effective to give free polygenic risk or selection to anyone who wants it because it will create taxpaying citizens that are going more productive and less of a drain on their healthcare systems that they have to fund.
It is a cost effective measure and it also reduces human suffering. So she, who I would assume is a negative utilitarian who cares about the reduction of human suffering, should be all about BGTP and should be encouraging governments to start making it universally available. Because it's really not that expensive.
Malcolm Collins: You're a
Simone Collins: broke religion. That's the thing. Let's see, where was I? When you pay attention to what they do and do not What sorry, when you pay attention to what they do and do not, what they say,
when you pay attention to what they do and do not, what they say, it's clear that pronatalists are anything but. That's weird.
Malcolm Collins: Just changes how it works.
Simone Collins: When you pay attention [00:37:00] to what they do and do not say, it's clear that pernatalists are anything but. It's just an elaborate intellectual rationale for plain old misogyny. Oh, drop that mic. Drop that mic, Marcotte.
Malcolm Collins: I am f*****g misogynist to my wife. Everybody who watches this show knows this.
That's why I have a sword, like Andrew Tate. So that I can force her to listen to me. Yeah,
Simone Collins: but what if, no, my, my, my bow and arrow beats your sword. You target to a greater
Malcolm Collins: distance. You know, yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I'm able to, I'm able to get you first. I think everybody who watches the show knows that I do boss around my wife and I do speak over my wife and I'm obviously an abusive husband who keeps her in chains half the time.
But. I'm gonna say that's a sex thing, but
that's
our particular
sex thing.
It's all consensual, okay? Um, uh, That's, that's, I, okay, so let's be clear. It's not that I don't keep my [00:38:00] wife in chains, or bark orders at her, or tell her what to do, or make her make my food, or do most of the cleaning in the house, or handle our livestock, or Livestock.
You know, it's not that I don't. Force you to do all those things, but I'm a feminist, which means I also force you to earn most of our money. So I think that those two things really balance each other out.
Simone Collins: We're, we're enlightened like that.
Now to start at the beginning of the article with all the ways she tries to twist what the Trump government is doing.
All right, she starts.
Elon Musk's ongoing infiltration style coup of the federal government continues to cause chaos across the country. As Musk seizes executive powers and rejects all congressional authority, it is increasingly clear that Donald Trump is shaping up to be more than the reality TV host in his return to office than actual president.
Last week, Trump pulled back. The across the board [00:39:00] freeze on all federal grants and loans, but despite the despite the alleged unfreezing Reports are streaming in from various states that money for head start has disappeared Forcing some centers to close or lay off staff first. I just want to stop and pause Multiple daycares that we sent our kids to when we still did daycare would just close And stop working at the drop of a hat, like, I can't emphasize the extent to which daycares mostly driven by the terrible daycare regulation in the U.
S. They don't
Malcolm Collins: do this for the people who are on government funding at the daycares. That's a slightly different thing. So
Simone Collins: when it comes to kids being sick, they will always send home the private pay kids and they will keep the government kids because those Yeah, they don't get the government pay if the kid doesn't show up.
However, when we're talking about these general shutdowns, what we also saw at our daycare, we're just like, sorry, we're not operating today because we can't get enough staff. Sorry, we're not operating today because so these [00:40:00] are, these organizations in the U. S. are running on such. Thin margins and are so screwed over partially due to the existence of child care subsidies through programs like head start that this happens all the time anyway.
And now they're acting like it's a result. I mean, I'm sure a lot of it is a result of the sort of, like, starting and stopping of federal grant programs. But this is normal. All right, but you
Malcolm Collins: also were pointing out that the Head Start program really only goes to basically on it. I'm going to get to
Simone Collins: that.
I'm going to get to that in a little bit, but I'm going to continue to go through the article.
Malcolm Collins: I do not read it in a silly voice. That's annoying.
Simone Collins: Well, how else will they know I'm reading hers and not mine? Simone, they will figure it out. She continues. This is likely the doing of Musk, who has been infiltrating with the Treasury Department systems that disperse funds and bragging on X that he has dictator like powers to unilaterally destroy programs he doesn't like.
The targeting of headst By the way, also, Musk has nothing to do with Head Start. He This, this, [00:41:00] this connection she's drawing between Elon Musk and Head Start is completely in her head. And I think this is another thing that I'm seeing a lot across the left. And I'm sure this happened on the right too, but actually not that much from what I remember.
The left is drawing all sorts of connections that aren't there. They've lost their mind.
Malcolm Collins: I don't remember them freaking out when Fauci had basically had the power to lock every American in their house. Like, Oh, these unelected people. How dare they?
Simone Collins: Yeah, anyway she writes the targeting of Head Start, a program that provides early childhood education and support for over 800, 000 children isn't a surprise to those who combed through the Project 2025 handbook.
This blueprint for a second Trump term explicitly calls for the elimination of Head Start, hiding behind false claims that this program is somehow bad for children. But the dr