Episode 3 of Uninformed Opinions: the response is to Amelia Carter — specifically to the introduction of her Mirror Podcast episode titled "The Left Fell For A Long Con." It starts with a clip. Senator Josh Hawley pressing Dr. Nisha Verma, a double board-certified OB-GYN called before the Senate to testify about medication abortion safety, on whether men can get pregnant — eleven times, over five minutes. Amelia uses that clip to open an argument about truth, identity, and ideological subversion. The episode plays more of it than she did.

What Amelia is doing with the clip gets named before the argument starts: this is not analysis, it is solidarity installation. The clip is chosen because it is the most viscerally frustrating clip available, not because it is the strongest evidence for her thesis. From there the episode works through her p ...