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Hello, hello, and welcome to A BitFrudy. I'm Matt Bernstein, and things are getting really, really weird.

Last week, an article was published in the New York Times titled,

White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children.

It detailed ways which the Trump administration is currently thinking about

incentivizing people who don't have children to have them,

and people who do have children to have more of them.

These included a one-time,

quote-unquote, baby bonus of $5,000 to new mothers, which, you know, obviously doesn't even like cover the fees. It costs to have a child. It included government-funded programs to

teach women about their menstrual cycles, not to empower them to learn more about their bodies and deepen their own bodily autonomy, but so they'd know when they're able to get pregnant and encourage them to seize on those opportunities.

They included reserving 30% of Fulbright scholarships for married parents, which to me sounds a lot like diversity, equity,

and inclusion. They included an executive order, which would award mothers of six or more children

with the National Medal of Motherhood, a proposal which chillingly resembles the cross

of honor of the German mother, a tiered decorative metal Hitler introduced for

German mothers in Nazi Germany, bronze for four or five children, silver for six or seven, and gold

for eight or more. Jewish German mothers were ineligible for this award. That particular proposal was

submitted to the White House by Simone and Malcolm Collins,

two names which when I read them in that New York Times article sounded really familiar to me.

And then I remembered that this is famously the Brooklyn hipster-looking young couple that's

been doing a media tour for the last two years about how they've been, quote, breeding to save mankind.

All of this coupled with J.D. Vance's frequent disparaging of childless women, while abortion is no longer a legal right in large swaths of this country,

and the simultaneously ever more dominant influence of tradwife megastar

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