"for 'conscous' workers in Russia and, to a lesser
extent, in China reading was an activity that was central to
self-fashioning, constitutive of what it meant to be a cultured and
autonomous individual"
Martyn Lyons, A History of Reading and Writing In the Western World (PalgraveMacmillan, 2010)
9. The Reading Fever, 1750-1830 Everyone in Paris is reading . . . People read while riding in
carriages or taking walks . . . Women, children, journeymen
and apprentices read in shops. On Sundays people read while
seated at the front of their houses; lackeys read on their
back seats, coachmen up on their boxes, and soldiers keeping guard.
10. The Age of the Mass Reading Public Between the 1830s and the First World War . . . a mass reading public came into existence.
11. New Readers and Reading Cultures
The half century between the 1880s and the 1930s was the golden age of
the book in the West. . . . Between the 1830s and the First World War .
. . a mass reading public came into existence.
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biocultural niche, cognitive performativity, and politics
Figure 1. the UAW (Unity Caucus*): three headings attached to an image
1. Bildungsproletarians and Plebeian Upstarts, 1933-1943: Detroit and the lower great lakes.
2. The (formation of an action network) Geography of Agency
3. Intersubjectivity, Shared Intentionality and the Extended Mind: The UAW Interviews as Dialogical Field**
the UAW, 1933-1943: a working notebook
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the Plebeian upstart⇿Bildungs-proletarain action-nexus: the kernel of modernity as praxis
vs.
alliance of throne and altar (Patrimonial)
(McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightement: the French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity):
The fundamental importance of religion in maintaining political order,
a preoccupation with the perils of intellectual and social license, the
valorization of the family and history, the critique of abstract
rights, the dangers of dividing sovereignty, and the need for a
strategic alliance between throne and altar
1. UAW Lower Great Lakes
Kelsey-Hayes
Michigan Steel Tube
Midland Steel
Dodge Main
Briggs
2. Red Army
three ratios
a. the Joe Adams' ratio: 10.6%
b. the Charlie Yaeger ratio: 7.2%
c. bildunsproletarians: 0.1 %, or ≈ one in a thousand:
the Dodge Main ratios
n=13-0.06%; (meeting of the chrysler exectuive boards and shop committees, Local 3 n=13
n=24-0.1%/
n=34-0.16%)/21,894 members (
e. locals 410, 238, and 350
(Silver and Anderson triangulation)
three dialogical performances
a. Minutes, Murray Body Committee Local 2 at Executive Board Meeting, April 26, 1939,Toledo Ohio (Addes Collection, Box 14.11)
b. Meeting of Chrysler Executive Boards and Shop Committees November 7, 1939--Schiller Hall (Zaremba Box 4)
c. an interview with Joe Bidinger. Detroit east side september 1975) |
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*from Charles Yaeger (Buick: Flint) Oral History transcript (Skeels), pp. 11-12
Finally the CIO group, the Addes
and Reuther forces in the union at that time, called a special
convention with the blessing of the parent CIO in Cleveland, and there
we organized what became the UAW-CIO.
We attended the Cleveland Convention [March 27, 1939], and it was there
that the union was born after all this factional problem. Then, of
course, we had to go back and reorganize the plants because as much as
the International was torn asunder the locals were, too. We took over
the local union with(in) our unit of the old amalgamated [Local 156],
which became [local] 594. We took it over with about 7,000 people
working in the plant and 503 or 504 members. This was all the
membership we had. We did not have the union. [7.2]%
**from Joseph Conrad's "Henry James: an Appreciation" (1905)
Fiction
is history, human history, or it is nothing. But it is also more than
that; it stands on firmer ground, being based on the reality of forms
and the observation of social phenomena, whereas history is based on
documents, and the reading of print and handwriting--on second-hand
impression. Thus fiction is nearer truth. . . . A historian may
be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the
keeper, the expounder, of human experience.
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the present situation (American fascism)
A. The
legitimation of violence against a demonized
internal enemy brings us
close to the heart of fascism
QUESTION: What is Fascism?
ANSWER: A set of texts and their problematic.
To understand the present
situation (American fascism): the meeting in
the tank of July 20, 2017 and and the mob assault on the United
States Capitol on January 6, 2021
must be
contextualized. Figure 0 does this. The Tillerson
quote--"he's a fucking moron"--was the Secretary of State's pithy
summary of Trump's cognitive performance at that meeting.
The most striking aspects of the Tank meeting, as reported in A Very Stable Genius (chapter 9, "Shocking the Conscience") are the primitive
cognitive performativity of Trump in that meeting, his brutish behavior
toward the Joint Chiefs, and the inability of the Joint Chiefs--and the
inability of the authors--to undestand what was happening in the
Tank.
A close reading of chapter 9, "Shocking the Conscience," can be found here.
"He's a fucking moron," the secretary of state said of the
president. The plan by Mattis, Tillerson, and Cohen to train the
president . . . had clearly backfired.
PDF
and line by line analysis
SOOL to contextualize it
Line-by-line (Tank1, Tank)
the meeting in the tank through the eyes of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy: was Trump's performance below basic?
Wolfe's latest book provides an even closer look at Trump's cogitive performtivity
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B. Some believed that for all practical
purposes [Trump] was no more than semi-literate
Meeting in the Tank
a. Minutes, Murray Body Committee Local 2 at Executive Board Meeting, April 26, 1939,Toledo Ohio (Addes Collection, Box 14.11)
b. Meeting of Chrysler Executive Boards and Shop Committees November 7, 1939--Schiller Hall (Zaremba Box 4)
the
major
problematics of this enterpise is the decline and perhaps catastrophic
implosion of both individual cognitive development and cognitive
performativity in real-life arenas (meetings, rallies, press
conferences, "news" shows, interviews with rally attendees, Twitter,
etc.): biocultural niche distended/disintegrated; and the necessity,
given the shsock of Trump, of revisitng the questin of violence in
history whith this recent history facotreed. That is why the new
perijodiztion--and there is no doubt that the fasicst problematic and
its texts is the sine qua non of any attempt to ounderstand trump
the big three of fascism, 1922 to 2021
as can be seen in Weitz and Smith, the rhetorical and osoyvhological
content of fascims was nothing new. What was new the irruption of
the forces of violnece and resetnment in a new more vicious form
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emergence
nihilism
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*the Addes
and Reuther forces in the union
from Charles Yaeger (Buick: Flint) Oral History transcript (Skeels), pp. 11-12
Finally the CIO group, the Addes
and Reuther forces in the union at that time, called a special
convention with the blessing of the parent CIO in Cleveland, and there
we organized what became the UAW-CIO.
We attended the Cleveland Convention [March 27, 1939], and it was there
that the union was born after all this factional problem. Then, of
course, we had to go back and reorganize the plants because as much as
the International was torn asunder the locals were, too. We took over
the local union with(in) our unit of the old amalgamated [Local 156],
which became [local] 594. We took it over with about 7,000 people
working in the plant and 503 or 504 members. This was all the
membership we had. We did not have the union. [7.2]%
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1. The Fascist Assault on the Congress, January 6, 2021
2. the hidden force behind McConnell's capitulation: n=13
2. The Keynesian Elite in the New Deal State; - KE Matrix; (the big one)
- Elites: Strategic and Otherwise, 1932 to 2021
3. The UAW, 1933-1943: a) bild and plebs; b) Midland Steel; c) Michigan Steel Tube
. . . .
N. Semiotic Regimes: the two-party system as discursive field Semiotic%20regimes2021
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three ratios
a. the Joe Adams' ratio: 10.6%
b. the Charlie Yaeger ratio: 7.2%
c. bildunsproletarians: 0.1 %, or ≈ one in a thousand:
the Dodge Main ratios
n=13-0.06%; (meeting of the chrysler exectuive boards and shop committees, Local 3 n=13
n=24-0.1%/
n=34-0.16%)/21,894 members (
e. locals 410, 238, and 350
(Silver and Anderson triangulation)
three dialogical performances
a. Minutes, Murray Body Committee Local 2 at Executive Board Meeting, April 26, 1939,Toledo Ohio (Addes Collection, Box 14.11)
b. Meeting of Chrysler Executive Boards and Shop Committees November 7, 1939--Schiller Hall (Zaremba Box 4)
c. an interview with Joe Bidinger. Detroit east side september 1975)
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Figure 2. intersubjectivity, shared intentionality,
and the Extended Mind:
The Keynesian Elite in the New Deal state
Source: "Membership List, May 1927," in the Morris L. Cooke Papers, box 66,
FDR Library; and United States Government Manual 1937
for more info on Fig.2 click on Keynesian Elite: Career Matrix;
also: the Papers of John M. Carmody
Joanna Bockman. Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism (Stanford University Press, 2011): three reviews
MEMO Ben Cohen to Leon Henderson, June 12, 1939
MEMO Corwin Edwards to Leon Henderson April 12, 1939
FF to FDR 11-21-34 re. Leffingwell |
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Violence and Cognitive Performativity
The
fuzzy set* category GRIFTER emerged out of conversations between PF and
RB. The first pass through the data produced a working dataset: the Mob at the Capitol.
Our
work on this dataset occured in the context of mainstream media
efforts to make sense out of this information. Numerous articles
were published, including this from the NYT 1-26-21: "From Navy
SEAL to Part of the Angry Mob Outside the
Capitol"
how many of its members
seemed to come not from the fringes of American society but from white
picket-fence Main Street backgrounds — firefighters and real estate
agents, a marketing executive and a Town Council member.
but the capstone of those efforts so far is:
The University of Chicago, Division of the Social Sciences, the Chicago Project on Security and Threats
The
authors summarize their findings in their Atlantic article:
"40 percent
are business owners or hold white-collar jobs. Unlike the
stereotypical extremist, many of the alleged participants in the
Capitol riot have a lot to lose. They work as CEOs, shop owners,
doctors, lawyers, IT specialists, and accountants. Strikingly, court
documents indicate that only 9 percent are unemployed. "
In their report, the authors provide examples of these "CEOs, shop owners,
doctors, lawyers, IT specialists, and accountants":
▪ Business Owner: 13%
– Owner, Ameri-I-Can Ammo
– CEO,marketingfirmCogensia
– Owner, Wholesale Universe, Inc.
– Owner, Matador Sport Fishing
▪ White-Collar: 28%
– GoogleFieldOperationsSpecialist
– Regional Portfolio Manager at BB&T Bank
– Doctors,Attorney,Architects
As we add states and other datasets in the right-hand column, it will
become increasingly evident that this analysis out of the University of
Chicago (and "mainstream" media coverage in general) fails to comprehend the major features of the dataset Arrests Arising out of the Assault on Congress.**
(
As we add states and other datasets in the right-hand column, it will
become increasingly evident that this analysis out of the University of
Chicago (and "mainstream" media coverage in general) fails to
comprehend the major features of the dataset Arrests Arising out of the
Assault on Congress.) *Charles C. Ragin, Redesigning Social Inquiry: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond (U. of Chicago Press, 2008) **by
"corporate" I refer to a domain institutions, practices, and sensibilities rooted
in the
Thermidorean transformation of the Progressive New Deal into the
cold-war Keynesianism of the Liberal Welfare state; and to the networks
of corporations that organized and sustained "think tanks" such as
Brookings, the Twentieth Century Fund, the Committee for Economic
Development, the Brookings Foundation, the Clinton Foundation, and
others. See:
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what you see in more from Tenn.: N=4 is a new fuzzy set (or a new hermeneutical category). Below the Radar (BTR), which is derived from NO
INFO RE. WORK! BTW means a standard google search pattern yielded
nothing regarding occupation. So
far I have a spreadsheet containing 226 arrestees.
Consider an arrestee who might otherwise have been classified as BTR .
. . except that in the course of a Google search for info on Jordan T. Revlett of Kentucky, I came up with this from a local news source:
Two years before allegedly
storming the Capitol, Revlett took home fourth place in a country radio
station’s “She Thinks Her Farmer’s Sexy” contest seeking the hottest
local farmhands, WBKR reported.
Revlett, clad in a cowboy hat and a sleeveless flannel shirt in front
of John Deere farming equipment, racked up nearly 8,000 votes in the
contest sponsored by Ohio Valley Insurance – good enough to win tickets
to see country singer Justin Moore in Louisville, the station reported.
Absent this story, we would not know that he has an occupational title:
farmhand. We would have then classified him as BTR--Beneath the
Radar.
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what you see in Minnetsota :
N=3 is the necessity of constructing the category marginal working
class.* (in more from Tenn. I used the term subproletariat) as a
counter-point to the categories BTR and GRIFTER.) If there is any kind of occupational information at all then an arrestee cannot be categorized as BTR. I then went back to more from Tennessee and applied the new fuzzy set category.
*Michael Walzer, "Puritanism as a Revolutionary Ideology," History and Theory, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1963), pp. 59-90
For all his concern with
revolution, Marx was himself the product of the same world which
produced the great social novels, those elaborate, many-volumed studies
of manners, status, and class relationships in which the fundamental
stability of the society as a whole and of character (what would today
be called 'identity') within the society was always assumed. And
Marx never questions the second of these assumptions: bourgeois and
proletarian appear in his work as formed characters, free at least from
psychological instability even while their struggle with one another
tears apart the social order.
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Some Arrestees from the Jan. 6th, 2021 Assault on the Capitol
(States) Tennesee, New Jersey, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio; and (Organizations) Proud Boys and Oathkeepers
Tennessee: N=10
name
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fuzzy set categories
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Matthew Bledsoe
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•He is the owner of Primetime Movers
•BBB: the company's accreditation was suspended due to failure to
respond to one or more customer complaints filed with the BBB.
•He was accused of kicking in the front door of his home in Cordova,
chasing his wife Kathryn Bledsoe, picking her up by her throat and
slamming her onto the floor.
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grifter
violence
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Jack Jesse Griffith
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“I’m
not a domestic terrorist,” Griffith said. “For all the people
slandering, libeling, mislabeling my name, I’m a citizen I had nothing
to do with any violence, vandalism, and I love all my fellow citizens.”
Griffith
went on to promote his social media handles and Trump video game.
“Have an exuberant evening,” he said, as he hopped in a car to leave.
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grifter
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Eric Munchel
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Munchel
currently lives in Nashville most likely working at Kid Rock’s Big
Honky Tonk bar downtown. He was accused of assaulting a man and woman
in 2013. He lists his profession as a bartender but Kid Rock’s
doesn’t hire male bar staff. This means he is likely working in the
kitchen or security. With his connections to others in private
security, that could very well be his role there. No record of military
service has been found. . . . He spent his summer hanging out with
local Proud Boys* and Qanon conspiracy theorists
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grifter
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Blake Austin Reed
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From
2004 to 2009, he attended the University of Memphis in Memphis,
Tennessee where he earned his bachelor’s degree in organizational
leadership.
From 2012 to October 2013, he was the superintendent of Bluff City Operations‘ human resources management.
From February 2014 to November 2015, he was a superintendent at Regent Homes in Nolensville, Tennessee.
From November 2015 to September 2017, he was a project manager at Blalock Homes in Franklin, Tennessee.
From April 2018 to October 2019, he was a senior project manager at Vintage South Development in Nashville.
He owns Black Lion Brokers, which he established in November 2017 and is based in Nashville.
There is a Black Lion Realty in Nasvhille, NOT Black Lion Brokers
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grifter
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Ronald L. Sandlin
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Ronald
L. Sandlin, 33, a self-styled internet blogger and protest organizer
from Tennessee, sobbed loudly and at one point blurted out, “Judge,
have mercy on me,” during his videoconference detention hearing on
multiple charges arising from the Jan. 6 breach at the Capitol.
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On December 31, 2020, he took to Facebook to announce that he was
“organizing a caravan of patriots” who were going to Washington D.C.,
USA to “stand behind” Trump. He shared a link of the GoFundMe page
asking for donations for him, Josiah Colt and Nathaniel J. DeGrave and
said the three of them had already booked and paid for their trip to
Washington, D.C. On January 3, 2020, he revealed on Facebook that their
GoFundMe page was deleted.
On January 2, 2021, he wrote on Facebook that in 2020, he had a
“huge financial blow,” “got dumped” by his fiancé, crashed his
motorcycle and lost his grandfather.
During a detention hearing in federal court in February 2021, the judge
told him he owes $500,000 in back taxes. In the same month, the
I-Team found that no community where he is known to have resided can
find a record of him voting in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
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grifter
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Eric Chase Torrens
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Torrens appeared in an Instagram video with Matthew Bledsoe and Jack Jesse Griffith (GRIFTER network)
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grifter
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Padilla, Joseph Lino
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a company spokesperson for Wacker Chemie plant told us that Padilla worked at their Bradley County plant until 2016.
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subproletariat?
former worker?
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Michael Lee Roche
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He works as a server at Farmers Family Restaurant in Murfreesboro
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working poor?
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Ronnie B. Presley
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looked at 10+ local stories: NO INFO RE. WORK!
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BTR
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Bryan Wayne Ivey
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looked at 10+ local stories: NO INFO RE. WORK!
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BTR
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Minnesota: n=3
NAME
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AGE
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NOMOTHETIC AND HERMENEUTICAL MATERIALS
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FUZZY SET CATEGORIES
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Victoria White
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39
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Larvita McFarquhar, a friend of White. McFarquhar owns Havens Garden cafe, in Lynd, Minn., where White has worked.
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marginal working class?
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Jonah Westbury
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26
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Lindstrom (University of Mary North Dakota)
a former wrestler for the University of Mary Marauders in Bismarck, N.D.
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BTR
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Jordan K. Stotts
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31
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works in nurseries and greenhouses during the summer and travels in his van during the winter.
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marginal working class
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the troublesome state of New Jersey
New
Jersey's data (n=9) presents further "problems" with
categorization. At first thought the occupational classification
cosmetologist should not pose a problem to the conventional (mindlessly
positivistic) scheme of categorization. From the standpoint of
agency, however (and thus, from a hermeneutical standpoint),
Abual-Ragheb's occupation seems less relevant than her statements and
her participation in the New Jersey chapter of the American Patriots 3%
and in her right-wing chat rooms.
I will skip Baranyi and consider Scott Fairlamb, gym owner and martial
artist. Gyms and bars and salons occur regularly in the entire
dataset. But what one also finds is that--at least in the case of
gyms and bars--what we are really dealing with is social
networks. But Fairlamb is also a mixed martial artist. Does
this mean that he should be subsumed under the fuzzy category
Violence? Possibly, even likely. But we are still in the
early stages of our analysis.
Leonard Guthrie, street preacher--what's up with that? In our
working dataset, the Mob at the Capitol, we developed the
category/concept of phantom. Or perhaps the category marginal
ought to be deployed. Certainly the overarching concept that can
subsume the majority of cases is marginality, not "CEOs, shop owners,
doctors, lawyers, IT specialists, and accountants."
Hale-Cusanelli is more straightforward: a white supremacist and a Nazi
sympathizer who stabbed a man, was a regular poster on anti-Semitic
social media groups, and has served in the U.S. Army since 2009.
Should he be subsumed under the category Stormtrooper? (There is
no doubt that this term should be applied to the Proud Boys. If
you doubt this, read David King, The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer
Hall Putsch and the Rise of Nazi Germany (Norton, 2017), and click on
this link containing extensive excerpts from: Eric D. Weitz, Weimar
German: Promise and Tragedy (Princeton, 2007/2018), chapter 9,
"Revolution and Counterrevolution from the Right" (pp. 331-360).
This chapter, when used as a context for interpreting "Trump," confirms
the hermeneutical utility of the ratio: Hitler is to Trump as Tragedy
is to Farce.
Stefanie Hazelton is also more straighforward, or so it seems. A
prominent right-wing activist from South Jersey, an organizer against
New Jersey's shutdown orders, active in the anti-vaxxer movement, and
the founder of New Jersey for Medical Freedom, the state chapter of an
anti-vaccine network. This case is easily subsumable under the
category Politico.
Note that, while she is not a gym owner, she was one of the loudest
supporters of Atilis Gym. Given the point already made re.
Fairlamb, what we are really dealing with is social networks.
Indeed, Stefanie Hazelton should be thought of as part of the cadre* of
right-wing politicos and the social networks she is in contact with as
her base. There are many of these political cadre in the by now
predominantly fascist** GOP. Thus, the question of the structure
of social action comes to the fore. Applying the "model" of
social action I developed out of my UAW studies, it becomes possible
not only to penetrate into the inner strucutre of actions of Jan 6, but
to establish a comparative framework: then and now: from the New Deal
to Donald Trump. This is done in the row below.
To round out this survey of New Jersey we have Patrick Stedman, a
self-described “dating [and] relationship strategist.”
Grifter? For sure! And two correctional police officers.
I haven't forgotten Thomas Baranyi, who went into basic training for
the U.S. Marine Corps but was discharged. Without any occupation
listed in the local media (or anywhere accessible) Baranyi is beneath
the radar, and also a failure at his attempt to enter the performative
domain of “legitimate” violence. In this he can be taken as a
poster boy for the condition of marginality that is such a
prominent feature of our dataset. Another candidate for poster
boy representing the marginal principle axis*** of this dataset is
Enrique Tarrio, Proud Boy chairman at the time of his arrest. And
so, dear reader, onward to the cadre of American fascism today, the
Proud Boys and the Oathkeepers.
*cadre
(Merriam-Webster): Merriam-Webster, the OED, and Wikipedia all define
cadre in terms of either educated bureaucratic functionaries or
communist lower-level functionaries. We old-timers used the word
to describe plebeian upstarts, mostly high-school graduates (this is in
1937), who were a regular and reliable part of the action-networks led
by bildungsproletarians, a large number of whom had some college
(again, this is in 1937). see the UAW, 1933-1943: a working notebook
***When I make use of mathematical terms I do so as an aid to forming
new concepts in the human sciences (geisteswissenschaften: see
Beiser, ch. 8, "Dilthey and the Foundations of the Human Sciences,"in
The German Historicist Tradition) not the social sciences.
This--the human sciences--is my turf. When it comes to the
mathematics I reference, I really don't know what I'm talking
about. However, there are degrees of ignorance. When I
speak of the sado-sexual eigenvector of GOP performativity, I actually
have a minimal but real enough understanding of group theory gained
from reading the first few pages of Birkhoff and MacLane's chapter on
Group Theory in their A Survey of Modern Algebra. But when I use
the term principle axis (from matrix theory), I am obliged to note that
I never studies that chapter. Nevertheless, I am confident that I
am on the right track. Remember, everything on the right hand
side of this page is a matrix--or at least looks like one.
Principle axis refers to something fundamental about the structure of a
matrix. Where will this lead? Is there a mathematician
around? Please advise.
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the concepts that emerged: grifter ,
violence, sadism1--PDLV ( Performative Domain of " Legitimate" Violence); and related social networks (bars, tatoo parlors, gyms
(hermeneutical typologies) and occupational classification.
Attempts are continually being made to match the journalistic materials
with
1. North American Industry Classification System
2. Standard Occupational Classification System
Certain absences are noteworthy: few were
employed at the time of arrest in modern institutional settings: none
in manufacturing, none in the building trades, none in the modern
corporate sector
nevertheless, there is a small subset of arrestees who are employed in the modern corporate sector
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New Jersey: N=9 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol
NAME
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NOMOTHETIC AND HERMENEUTICAL MATERIALS
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FUZZY SET CATEGORIES
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Abual-Ragheb, Rasha N.
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cosmetologist
In November 2020, a Facebook account with display name Rasha Abu
participated in Facebook and Telegram group chats involving the New
Jersey chapter of the American Patriot 3%. In the Facebook chat, user
Rasha Abu advised the revolution will start not by standing by but by
standing up. In addition, she advised civil war is coming and they need
to show support, and rise up and fight for our Constitution.
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cosmetologist
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Baranyi, Thomas
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graduated Trenton State College
In a Facebook post, Baranyi’s father said his son graduated from the
College of New Jersey, joined the Peace Corps, and also went into basic
training for the U.S. Marine Corps but was discharged.
From 2018 to 2020, he served in the Peace Corps in Albania.
On December 22, 2020, his father took to Facebook to say they have not seen each other in person since 2017.
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went into basic
training for the U.S. Marine Corps but was discharged.
BTR
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Fairlamb, Scott
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a
New Jersey gym owner, Fairlamb held a protest at his Pompton Lakes gym
in May in response to Gov. Murphy’s coronavirus restrictions.
Fairlamb, a mixed martial artist who
turned pro in 2000, owned and operated Fairlamb Fit in Pompton Lakes.
The gym's website has been taken down and the phone number is
disconnected. Social media accounts for both Fairlamb and his
co-workers have been removed.
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gym owner
martial artist
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Guthrie, Leonard
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(married with a daughter; identified himself as a street preacher.
His father told a Philadelphia Inquirer reporter that his son went to
the rally as the chaplain for a group that met in Washington to "pray
and support President Trump and the whole movement.”
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a street preacher
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Hale-Cusanelli, Timothy Lewis
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He is
an white supremacist and a Nazi sympathizer, according to an informant
who contacted Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) special
agent Daniel J. Meyers on January 12, 2021. The informant
is enrolled as a confidential human source (CHS) with the NCIS.
He has served in the U.S. Army since 2009 but has never deployed.
In 2011, when he was 19 years old, he was arrested after stabbing a man
he and his mother were living with in Pepperidge Court, Jackson, New
Jersey. With a wound to the abdomen, the victim underwent surgery in
the Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune Township, New
Jersey.
As a contractor at Naval Weapons Station Earle, he maintains a secret
security clearance and has access to a variety of munitions. He is
enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves. He is a human resources specialist
with the 174th Infantry Brigade at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in
Trenton, New Jersey.
He was a regular poster on anti-Semitic social media groups Jackson Strong and Rise Up Ocean County.
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VIOLENCE
Military
PDLV
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Hazelton, Stephanie
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aliases Ayla Wolf and Ayla Wolfe
a prominent right-wing activist from South Jersey, one of the loudest
supporters of Atilis Gym, that Bellmawr business that refused to follow
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s shutdown orders.
Hazelton has helped organize protests against New Jersey’s shutdown orders and is active in the anti-vaxxer movement.
Hazelton’s LinkedIn says she is the founder of New Jersey for Medical Freedom, the state chapter of an anti-vaccine network.
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a self-described “dating [and] relationship strategist”
In addition to offering relationship advice and touting his $500 master
class—which he claims is the “fastest and most effective way to change
your outcomes with women”—Stedman frequently writes about political
topics and his affinity for Trump.
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Suarez, Marissa A.
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worked
as a correctional police officer in Monmouth County since 2019 but
resigned after her arrest. At the time, Suarez was a probationary
corrections officer at the Monmouth County Corrections Facility
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correctional police officer
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the performative domain of “legitimate” violence
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leadership: elite, cadre, and base (1)
So
far we have looked at Tennessee, Minnesota, and New Jersey. This
already gives us a a sense of the kind of problems the researcher has
when dealing with a population in the process of marginalization.
The instability in their lives is manifest in the difficulty of
category formation. If we now turn our attention to the cult of
sado-sexual "masculine" violence that is the fundamental principle of
Trump's performativities, we must consider the vanguard of the assault
on the capitol, the Oathkeepers and the Proud Boys. (These Oathkeepers
and Proud Boys are also included in the tables of states.) They
are our stormtroopers--no other term will do. These are the cadre
of fascism, operating in the context of and with the enthusiastic
support of the GOP "base."
Regarding the Oathkeepers, we have some tentative results so far: they
are not only ex-military; they are also a general manager at a car
dealership, a self-employed carpenter, a window washer, a tatoo parlor
. . . , the owner of a marginal day-car facility, and a former police
officer. The outlier in this table--and that by a long-shot--is
Stewart Rhodes, Yale Law School, clerk for Arizona Supreme Court
Justice, and a staffer for Ron Paul.
Thus, the single word that could encompass this set of individuals is
marginal, and that in several senses. First, as grifters,
BTR, and low-wage service workers in very small establishments; second,
as almost entirely outside the world of modern institutions; and third,
arising out of the collapse of the economic basis for socialization
into adulthood within the psycho-cultural framework provided by white
supremacy, there results a prolongation of adolescent sadism.
This is the basis for Trump's rhetorical success.
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Thus, at this point it is necessary to discuss the
political-organizational processes that led to April 6. WAPO/NYT
and other news organizations have reached a tentative consensus that it
was the Proud Boys and the Oathkeepers who were the cadre that led the
assault. Democrats and the liberal media obsess over the role of
Trump in this assault; some of them note the obvious complicity of the
fascist vanguard in Congress: Marjorie Green et al. (At any time
the reader can go to the fascism pages on this site. remember: on this
site fascism denotes primarily not the mere concept, often given as a
definition, but a set of texts focused on the problematic of fascism.)
Vanguard--or cadre? Was the "riot" organized by Trump?
Wrong question. There is no doubt that the immanent logic of
Trump's strategic orientation led directly from Charlottesville to the
Capitol. But immanent logic does not necesarilly imply
"conscious" organization with the goal in mind of overthrowing the
election results (a coup). Donald Trump, as I will argue
elsewhere, never entered the domain of cognitive performativity within
which it would be possible to conceive of anything that modern people
discuss. It took him more than two weeks to learn how to prononce
hydroxychloroquine! And for a moment during the much-publicized
solar eclipse he became the stupidest person in the world when he
starred directly at the sun. Rex Tillerson called him"a fucking
moron," and we've all heard him attempt to speak English. Trump
was a pawn; others did his writing and thinking--such as it was--for
him. Recall the infamous meeeting with Chuck Schumer and Nancy
Pelosi. The Speaker, who kept her cool throughout, nevertheless
seemed struck by Trump's inability to hold a discussion of any
kind. Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig (A Very Stable Genius)
describe Trump's July 20, 2017 meeting with the Joint Chiefs in "the
Tank" (pp. 129-139).
But to call trump stupid (or “a moron”) is to miss the point.
Cognitive performativity is a biocultural historical phenomenon, hardly
explicable within a discursive field shaped by the Cartesian synthetic
a priori. Indeed, The election of Donald Trump is a lagging
indicator of the disintegration of cognitive performativities in the
United States. Preceding his election was the decline of
mathematical competence indexed by Figure 3a and b. which
indicate that a catastrophic decline in cognitive performativity
preceded and made possible the fascist-patrimonial victory of November
2016. (see Prelude to Trump: the end of literacy in the United
States). The coronavirus debacle that is Trump is a product of
and an accelerant of that decline.
Cognitive development is not a normative, inevitable process
(Wolf). It is an effect of history and politics, as well as
evolution, and can suffer reversal or collapse. It is
this collapse that is manifest in the stunningly incompetent
performance of the Trump administration's response to the existential
threat posed by Covid 19. (see various cog dev pages, including
semiotic regimes).
Media coverage of Trump is at best strikingly inadequate, in that its
commentary on Trump's cognitive performativity proceeds under the
Cartesian assumption that it's all about Trump--what does he want, what
is he thinking, why did he do that to the children, doesn't he realize
that he is hurting them. Trump's cognitve performtivity is not
about trump: it is about america. It is an adequate
reflection/expression of the "base": trump is the lowest common
denominator of everyman
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the performative domain of “legitimate” violence.
What is the performative
domain of "legitimate" violence? Certainly the police and the
military. But also correctional officers and private security
guards. And also--if you remember the killing of Michael Brown in
Ferguson--the entire web of local government (see photo). And if
you remember the May 8, 1970 assault on anti-war protesters by
construction workers aided by the police in New York City, all of this
organized from within the Nixon White House, you see an even broader
proto-fascist constituency. Max Blumenthal (Republican Gomorrah,
pp. 59-60) tells the story:
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Florida: N=19 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol
NAME
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FUZZY SET CATEGORIES
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Adams, Howard Berton
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Edgewater
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Anderson, John Steven
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Courthouse
records on the Clerk of Court website show ANDERSON involved in
contentious divorce litigation alleging domestic violence, as
well as dismissed charges of assault, and fines paid for driving
without wearing a seatbelt, driving with an expired license tag.
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Biggs, Joseph Randall
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Proud Boys, Ormond Beach, Florida. is supporting his ex-wife and child
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Camargo, Samuel
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Like
many of the MAGA fanatics who have been arrested in the two weeks since
the insurrection, Samuel Camargo implicated himself by bragging about
his participation on social media, authorities said.
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Counsil, Matthew
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A Tampa Bay resident
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Curzio, Michael
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spent time in prison for attempted murder.VIOLENCE |
VIOLENCE |
Garcia, Gabriel Augustin
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ran as a Republican in District 116 in Miami-Dade
a former U.S. Army captain, ran for Florida House District 116 as a Trump backer.
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STORMTROOPER
GOP
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GOSSJANKOWSKI,
Vitali
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a student at Gallaudet University
Katherine Jankowski, his mother, was formerly an administrator at Gallaudet.
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Honeycutt, Adam Avery, 39
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works as a bail bondsman in Northeast Florida
Honeycutt has three prior arrests on charges of drug possession,
domestic battery and breach of peace, but he was only found guilty of
that last charge.
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police
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Johnson, Adam
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Johnson Is a Stay at Home Father Who Makes Furniture
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marginal
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Maldonado, Steven Omar
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Maldonado
alias Emilio Maldonado is a Puerto Rico native and lives in Palm Bay,
Brevard County, Florida, according to Conan Daily. Previously, he was
arrested for a couple of misdemeanors in 1998 and is a real estate
sales associate. The site also listed him as a diver and he worked at
the Treasure Coast Dive Charters as a boat captain where he offered
diving and spearfishing trips on the Treasure Coast in Florida.
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MARIOTTO, Anthony R. (aka, Tony Mariotto)
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fort pierce
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PERT, Rachael Lynn
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Pert, who is the assistant manager of a Circle K convenience store in Middleberg, requested time off work to go D.C. with Winn.
“We’re on our way to DC because us as American patriots, we’re tired of
this shit,” Winn allegedly said in their live-stream. “It’s time to
make a stand. I never really knew how deep and corrupt all this crap
was and how far back it’s gone. But American needs to wake up. We’re on
the verge of fucking losing it.”
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RIVERA, Jesus (aka, JD Rivera, Jesus Delmora Rivera)
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U.S. Marines (Former)
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STEPAKOFF, Michael
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Stepakoff leads Temple New Jerusalem, a Messianic synagogue in Palm Harbor. He is also a former attorney.
Palm Harbor, Florida, rabbi
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Sweet, Douglas
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She
said Douglas was a self-employed man who does "handyman stuff" but
spends most of his time with his extremist groups. attended the
violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville
see photo!
“The Daughter Of A Trump Rioter Arrested At The Capitol Says She Is "Ashamed And Disgusted””
Douglas Sweet from Hudgins and Cobbs Creek resident Cindy Fitchett
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a Clay High School graduate who attended the University of North Florida
WEEKS then sets up his camera to show his face and launches into a
speech declaring both the actions he has taken and his intentions.
“We’ve reached the steps. We’ve had to climb scaffolding. We’ve had to
climb ladders. We’ve had to break things to get through, but we’ve
gotten through. We’ve gotten through, and we are going to take back the
Capitol! We’re taking back our country! This is our 1776! This is where
it’s gonna happen! This is where Tyranny will fall! This is where
America will rise! Look at this, America! Look at this!”
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firefighter paramedic
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WINN, Dana Joe
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A Lemon Bay High School graduate
see Pert.
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Jan 6 riot/insurrection
campaign contribution
Keynesian elite in New Deal
UAW
DLC and Clinton Foundation
the Cleveland Connection
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As we add states and other datasets in the right-hand column, it will
become increasingly evident that this analysis out of the University of
Chicago (and "mainstream" media coverage in general) fails to comprehend the major features of the dataset Arrests Arising out of the Assault on Congress.
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Oathkeepers N=14 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol
NAME
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NOMOTHETIC AND HERMENEUTICAL MATERIALS PBs
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Kelly Meggs
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general manager at a car dealership
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Connie Meggs
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Kenneth Harrelson
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Retired Army Sgt. Kenneth Harrelson
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Donovan Crowl
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Marine veteran, militia
a self-employed carpenter
Prosecutors said he does not have a stable address
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Jessica Watkins
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bartender who runs a self-identified militia, joined by three others in her unit, drove to Washington D.C. last week
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Joshua James
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window washer
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Robert Minuta
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tatoo parlor
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Stewart Rhodes
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Stewart
Rhodes grew up in the Southwest and joined the Army after finishing
high school. He became a paratrooper, receiving an honorable discharge
due to an injury in a night parachuting accident. Then Rhodes attended
college at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, graduating in 1998. Rhodes
has said that he taught street crime survival and rape prevention at
the college women’s center and also worked as a certified Nevada
concealed-carry firearms instructor.
After college, his first politically oriented job was supervising
interns in Washington, D.C., for libertarian Ron Paul, then a
Republican congressman from Texas. Rhodes subsequently attended Yale
Law School, graduating in 2004, and clerked for Arizona Supreme Court
Justice Michael D. Ryan. A trial lawyer and libertarian, he later
volunteered on Paul’s 2008 presidential campaign.
more: SPLC
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Tanios, George Pierre 39
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a West Virginia sandwich shop owner
GROUP OF 8 PHOTO
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Tarrio, Enrique
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Cuban
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grifter
character
Roger Stone
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Grayden Young
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an
Army and Navy reserve veteran; a brother, husband and a small business
owner; brother of Steele; Manager at Young Children's Academy
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Laura Steele
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a former High Point police officer; sister of Young
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Sandra Parker
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Bennie Parker*
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Proud Boys: N=13 Arrestees fron Jan. 6th Assault on the Capitol
NAME
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NOMOTHETIC AND HERMENEUTICAL MATERIALS | FUZZY SET CATEGORIES |
Enrique Tarrio
| "Arested Proud Boys chairman has history of business failure, apparently lives with mom" (WAPO JANUARY 8, 2021)
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Joseph Biggs
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Ormond Beach, Florida. is supporting his ex-wife and child
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Ethan Nordean
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•Auburn,
Washington.has been a Proud Boys chapter president and member of the
group’s national “Elders Council.” willing to stake the home
where his wife and child were living (?)
•Proud Boy activist who was fired by his father, Mike Nordean, over his
membership of the group. Mike Nordean owns Wall’s Chowder House and
Wally’s Drive-In in Des Moines, Washington.
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Zachary Rehl
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Zach Rehl biography: 13 things about Proud Boys member from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Charles Donohoe
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presidents of his local Proud Boys chapter
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Ashlock, Ryan
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Gardner, Kansas. Kansas City metro chapter of the Proud Boys
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Chrestman, William
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DECARLO, Nicholas
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In
some photos, DeCarlo was seen with Nicholas Ochs, one of the founders
of Hawaii’s chapter of the Proud Boys, neofascist group.
In addition to his work for Murder the Media, DeCarlo said he also worked trading bitcoin online currency.
DeCarlo said he was not a member of the Proud Boys. But he said the Proud Boys had raised money for his defense
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GARCIA, Gabriel Augustin
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a
former U.S. Army captain, a 2020 candidate for the Florida State House
and a reported member of the Proud Boys / ran for Florida
House District 116 as a Trump backer
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GOODWYN, Daniel
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A
San Francisco freelance web developer who calls himself a Proud Boy and
has an extensive history of COVID denialism has been charged for his
alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Goodwyn has a large digital footprint. According to his personal
website, he attended City College of San Francisco and works as a
freelance web and app developer. He lists Jews for Jesus as one of his
clients and, strangely, posts links to everything from his Gab, Parler,
Venmo and Pandora accounts to his dating app profiles.
On his Twitter account Goodwyn claimed in September he was "arrested
and cited" for not wearing a mask on Muni. Afterward, he posted video
of himself on YouTube, maskless, reading a statement in front of the
Hall of Justice. In it, he repeats a number of lies about the
coronavirus pandemic, including denying it outright and falsely
claiming COVID vaccines will contain "a microchip.”
He used the citation to fundraise for himself on a Christian
crowd-funding site used by other far-right extremists like Stop the
Steal founder Ali Alexander. Goodwyn raised $1,689 of his $5,000 goal.
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Greeson, Kevin
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On Jan. 4, Kelly allegedly wrote, “I’ll be with ex NYPD and some proud boys. This will be the most historic event of my life.”
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KELLY, Christopher M.
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works for a fixed wireless company in Cedar Rapids
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Pezzola, Dominic
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“The
Proud Boy Who Smashed a US Capitol Window Is a Former
Marine”
The Aquinas Institute in a suburb of Rochester, New
York.
One person who has known Pezzola for over 20 years described him as a
hardworking father of two daughters whose politics grew increasingly
extreme over the last two years. VICE News attempted to
contact Pezzola via phone numbers connected to his business
“Out of everyone in our class, I would have picked him out as a
domestic terrorist,” one classmate, who asked to remain anonymous for
her safety, told VICE News. “He was always a bit machismo,” remarked
another, who had the same request for anonymity.
Pezzola, of Rochester, N.Y., also has been named in state tax warrants
totaling more than $40,000 over the past five years, according to
public records. His attorney declined to comment.
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president
Donal Trump during his first post-presidential rally, held at the
Lorain county fairgrounds in Wellington, Ohio on 26 June 26
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"‘He’s not a quitter’: faithful out in force as Trump gets back to the campaign trail," the Guardian June 27, 2021 n=6. an informal survey of the attendees at Trump's first post-presidential rally
NAME
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NOMOTHETIC AND HERMENEUTICAL MATERIALS | FUZZY SET CATEGORIES |
Deborah Wagner, 55 | a retired court clerk
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Gary Bartlett, 65
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a retired manual worker at General Motors
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Randy Weld, 53
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a self-employed carpenter
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David Snell, 55
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a logistics specialist
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Gary Sherrill, 65
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a concrete mixer driver
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Rose Kidd, 63
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a retired nurse
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MSNBC on violent extremist groups in lieu of deploying the concept fascism. concepts/compare; not-concept--can't compare, contextualize. cannot think. can only accuse, defame, label
from CNN newscast, 4:00 to 6:00 PM, 9-15-07: pro- and anti-war demonstrators' signs (applying the concept of semiotic regime):
pro-war demo signs:
"Traitors Go to Hell!"
"Deport Anti-war Protesters!"
"Treason!"
anti-war demo signs:
"End the War Now!"
"U.S. Out of
Iraq!"
"Support the Troops! End the War!"
two from Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (FSG, 2011)
It was true that Alfred believed the only thing wrong with the death
penalty was that it wasn’t used often enough; true as well that the men
whose gassing or electrocution he’d called for, over dinner in Chip’s
childhood, were usually black men from the slums on St. Jude’s north
side. (“Oh, Al,” Enid would say, because dinner was “the family meal,”
and she couldn’t understand why they had to spend it talking about gas
chambers and slaughter in the streets.) p. 128
The two Lamberts were crossing the courtyard when Gary’s anger found a fault line through which to vent itself. p. 210
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The headline--"he's a fucking moron"--is from A Very Stable Genius, chapter 9, "Shocking the Conscience," p. 138B.
A close reading of chapter 9, "Shocking the Conscience," can be found here.
The most striking aspects of the Tank meeting are the primitive
cognitive performativity of Trump in that meeting, his brutish behavior
toward the Joint Chiefs, and the inability of the Joint Chiefs--and the
inability of the authors--to undestand what was happening in the
Tank. Only when we place that meeting, and the assault on the
Capitol, in historical context, does the awful truth of our situation
begin to emerge.
In this meeting the Joint Chiefs were stunned by Trump's primitive
cognitive processes, his volatile temperament, his
brutishness.
The Joint Chiefs “tried not to reveal the revulsion on their faces” (Genius, 137A).
The tank meeting had so thoroughly shocked the conscience of
military leaders that they tried to keep it a secret. At the
Aspen Security Forum two days later, longtime NBC News correspondent
Andrea Mitchell asked Dunford how Trump had interacted during the Tank
meeting. The Joint Chiefs chairman misleadingly described the
meeting, skipping over the fireworks. (Genius, 139A)
"He asked a lot of hard questions, and the one thing he does is
question some fundamental assumptions that we make as military
leaders—and he will come and question those,” Dunford told Mitchell on
July 22. “It’s a pretty energetic and an interactive dialogue." (Genius, 139B)
from Salon (excerpts from Bob Woodward's Fear):
2. Mattis
quietly went to Washington National Cathedral to pray about his concern
for the nation's fate under Trump's command and, according to Woodward,
told Coats, "There may come a time when we have to take collective
action" since Trump is "dangerous. He's unfit."
In a separate conversation recounted by Woodward, Mattis told Coats,
"The president has no moral compass," to which the director of national
intelligence replied: "True. To him, a lie is not a lie. It's just what
he thinks. He doesn't know the difference between the truth and a lie."
4. According to "Rage," expert immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci —
who has been part of Trump's coronavirus task force — expressed
frustration over Trump's response to the coronavirus crisis, describing
Trump's leadership as "rudderless" and complaining to others that his
"attention span is like a minus number." Fauci, Woodward says in the
book, told an associate, "His sole purpose is to get reelected."
from the Hill (excerpts from Bob Woodward's Fear):
Woodward also described Coats as particularly disturbed during his time
in the Trump administration, which ended in August 2019. Coats, a
former Indiana senator, was brought into the administration by Vice
President Pence, the Hoosier State’s former governor.
Marsha Coats, Dan Coats’s wife, recounted a conversation she had with Pence in which he urged her to “stay the course.”
“I just looked at him, like, how are you stomaching this?” she said,
according to Woodward. “I just looked at him like, this is horrible. I
mean, we made eye contact. I think he understood. And he just whispered
in my ear, ‘Stay the course.’ ”
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