In this week’s episode, we discuss the assassination attempt on Trump’s life, and the security and media landscape in which this happened. Are we all in a modern Plato’s Cave that has become a hall of mirrors, such that we can be sitting right next to someone, seeing a totally different reality? How can we evaluate different interpretations—is “lone gun nut” an inherently better or less biased hypothesis than conspiracy? Or are our use of aphorisms—like Hanlon’s Razor, “First, do no harm,” and “correlation doesn’t imply causation”—overused, and applied in places where they should not be? Finally: a poem.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Lone Assassins, by Michael Shermer (July 15, 2024): https://michaelshermer.substack.com/p/lone-assassins
Joy Reid on MSNBC (July 15, 2024): https://x.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1813003341640704499
Patriotism and Poetry, by Heather (July 16, 2024): https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/patriotism-and-poetry
The Iceberg Theory, by Gerald Locklin (2002): https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2002%252F08%252F15.html
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Hi Dark Horse Community. I am heading to DC next weekend for the Rage Against the War Machine Event (9/28 12-5pm) and the Rescue the Republic event (9-29 12-7pm)
I am meeting up with the former RFK Jr. 2024 volunteers/now Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) forming group. I am wondering if Dark Horse attendees are planning to meet up or would like to meet up with the MAHA folks. There are 16 of us communicating in Signal and another 10 in another channel. We are meeting on Saturday from 5-8pm for dinner and Sunday morning at 10am for brunch - locations on and near the Mall. To be finalized once we have the count of who is planning to come. We are also meeting up during the events themselves.
Would love to create some connections between the MAHA and Dark Horse Communities. Let me know if you are interested.
Rescue the Republic sounds nice, but what’s the strategy? I will tell you all right now, there are way too many ways forward that from the outset are dead in the water. The starting point for success begins further back than most people think and the strategic vision needed at that moment will need to be much further beyond what most people are thinking. As amazing and smart as this group is, most aren’t even remotely in the ballpark yet when it comes to what we’re facing or what is needed for success. The optimism needs to keep up with the depth needed to get it done.
Hi all. I figured a rally like this could use a protest song sing-along or two. Here's what I've come up with so far.
This Land is Your Land (2024 edition)
This land is your land, This land is my land
From California to the New York Island
From the Redwood forest to the gulfstream waters
This land was made for you and me
If you're not living within a bubble
You know this country is in grave trouble
We won't be violent, but won't stay silent
This land was made for you and me
Big corporations perform great labor
To try and pit you against your neighbor
Their biggest hope is that you don't notice
That makes things worse for you and me
If you vote one way, or vote the other
That doesn't mean that you're not my brother
You notice freely what I might not see
This land was made for you and me
This land is your land, This land is my land
From California to the New York Island
From the Redwood forest to the gulfstream waters
This land was made for you and me
If we can see through each other's eyeballs...
