bakan the corp
i must have notes somewhere on bk?
rob chat:
The Corporate Playbook for World Domination (from “THE NEW CORPORATION: THE UNFORTUNATELY NECESSARY SEQUEL”)
Present yourself as a friend and ally.
Turn people against your adversaries.
Don’t pay your fair share.
Use information to control people. (Includes AI algorithms.)
Take whatever you can. Use a 3-part strategy: create a crisis of confidence, deny the government resources to address the problem, push privatization as the answer.
Manipulate people’s worldview. Emphasize consumption and a self-focused culture.
Exploit unequal advantage.
Control those who might control you. Use deregulation and agency capture.
Break laws that get in your way.
Endgame: win at all costs.
orig version 2003?
full movie no ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpQYsk-8dWg
https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/the-top-100-corporate-crime-movies/
... 2006, Corporate Crime Reporter compiled the first ever list of corporate crime movies and published the Top 50 Corporate Crime Movies, 17 of which were documentaries.
THE NEW CORPORATION: THE UNFORTUNATELY NECESSARY SEQUEL
ART OF IMPACT
Canada 2020, 106 min Directors JENNIFER ABBOTT and JOEL BAKAN
In 2003, the award-winning The Corporation probed the legal decision to define corporations as persons and grant them the same rights as people. Eighteen years later, The New Corporation provides a hard-hitting follow-up, examining new developments in the far-reaching power that corporations have in every aspect of our lives. As the realities of economic collapse, climate crisis, and crumbling democracy loom large, we explore just how the amoral and ruinous actions of the corporate world are directly responsible for threatening freedoms across the globe. Directors Jennifer Abbott—whose film The Magnitude of All Things is also playing DocLands this year—and Joel Bakan pull no punches when tackling the political and social stranglehold companies have attained as they attempt to rebrand themselves as socially responsible. Boasting a wide panel of experts and activists including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Angela Davis, Anand Giridharadas, and congresswoman Katie Porter, The New Corporation is a timely exposé that is a much-needed call to action.
JENNIFER ABBOTT is a Sundance Film Festival and Genie Award-winning filmmaker who has been making films about urgent social, political, and environmental issues for 25 years. She is best known as the co-director and editor of The Corporation, frequently described as the most successful documentary in Canadian history. JOEL BAKAN is professor of law at the University of British Columbia and an internationally renowned legal scholar and commentator. His critically acclaimed 2003 book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power electrified readers around the world and became a bestseller in several countries. Bakan wrote a feature documentary adaptation of The Corporation, directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU4hBwhbx6I
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz68V29GRcU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJLVxKTmNOQ
blurb
The world has changed since The Corporation was released in 2003. Despite Wall Street's implosion in 2008, floods, hurricanes and wildfires fueled by climate change, ever-increasing inequality, environmental destruction, growing political instability, and now the COVID-19 pandemic, the power of corporations has grown to an all-time high. Waves of anti-corporate resistance over the years - anti-globalization protests, Occupy Wall Street - have not stopped its rise. But corporations tell us they've changed, become more caring and conscientious, and that profit at all costs is no longer their guiding principle. They've jumped on the bandwagon of Corporate Social Responsibility and they're taking the lead on global issues as governments cede them power and retreat into national silos. Fueled by corporate interests, populist leaders are in power in increasing numbers around the globe and Donald Trump is still pursuing a second term in the White House.
What will it take to make the changes we need in time to stop the all-too-real forces of climate change, economic upheaval, the pandemic, ever more violent and impersonal weaponry, and the financialization, marketization, and corporatization of everything? THE NEW CORPORATION: the unfortunately necessary sequel written by Joel Bakan and directed by Bakan and Jennifer Abbott, dives into the world of resistance and change, with stories of protest, democratic revival and action from around the world.
Boasting a wide panel of experts and activists including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Angela Davis, Anand Giridharadas, and congresswoman Katie Porter, The New Corporation is a timely exposé that is a much-needed call to action.
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https://www.amazon.com/Corporation-Pathological-Pursuit-Profit-Power/dp/0743247469
trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7waRuHeR40&feature=emb_imp_woyt
https://www.forbes.com/sites/afdhelaziz/2020/10/01/why-the-new-corporation-is-the-must-see-documentary-of-the-year/
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Why ‘The New Corporation’ Is The Must-See Documentary Of The Year
Afdhel Aziz Contributor
CMO Network
Co-Founder, Conspiracy of Love, and Good is the New Cool.
A movie poster with a man in a suit with a halo and a devils tail
The New Corporation THE NEW CORPORATION
One of the most powerful and groundbreaking documentaries of its time was The Corporation which systematically deconstructed how the modern day corporation has been turned into a vehicle for absolution of responsibility - leading it to create massive environmental damage and social inequality.
Now the film-makers have released a follow-up The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel which takes a scathing look at the whole ‘doing well by doing good’ movement, exploring how companies like JP Morgan and BP insidiously position themselves as ‘good corporate citizens’ without acknowledging the damage they cause.
I caught up with film-makers Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan (whose book The New Corporation has also just launched) to find out more about their journey.
Afdhel Aziz: Joel, Jennifer, an honor to talk to both of you. Your first documentary ’The Corporation’ made a huge impact on a lot of us when it came out in 2003. What made you want to return to the topic?
Joel Bakan: I was watching the first film at a 10th anniversary screening, back in 2013, and it just hit me like a ton of bricks that over the previous decade every issue we had addressed in the first film and book – climate change, racial and economic injustice, the corruption of democracy, degrading of workers’ and human rights, and so on – had gotten worse. And now corporations were larger and more powerful than they’d ever been, and governments and society more subordinate to them.
We had changed from a society that contains corporations to one that is contained by them. In the meantime, they, corporations, were saying they’d changed; that they were good now, purpose-driven solution-providers rather than problem-causers. It all felt kind of surreal and definitely dangerous. Unfortunately a sequel was necessary, I thought, and I began work.
Jennifer Abbott: Unlike Joel, I did not want to make a sequel. For one, I was knee deep in another film; The Magnitude of All Things about climate grief, now finished and also being released. Second, I had edited as well as co-directed The Corporation, cutting it from 400 hours of footage. It took so much from me and out of me, the idea of trying to wrestle another monster of a film like it to the ground… well, I wasn’t sure who would win, me or the monster.
And then Donald Trump was elected. The veil came down. There was no longer even the pretense that governments weren’t captured by corporations. And although Trump is a symptom and not the cause of many of the problems we face today, suddenly for me the world was a very different place and there were compelling reasons to make the sequel.
Aziz: You had to deal with the unexpected turn of events in the form of COVID and the racial injustice protests - did that only add fuel to your thesis?
Bakan: We had already finished the film, locked the picture, when the pandemic hit North America. We knew we had to re-open the film, not only because COVID was such a mammoth event, but also because the way it rolled out, and the ways governments and corporations responded to it hit upon just about every one of our themes – privatization, economic and racial injustice, corporate greed.
Abbott: To play with your analogy, yes it added fuel to the thesis - almost to the extent that it caused an explosion! For COVID, it laid bare the injustices of the system but perhaps more importantly, showed us our humanity. With the BLM uprising, the weight, the beauty, the truth of this movement, its challenge to systemic racism and exposure of the racist roots of 21st century extractive capitalism in slavery and colonization, provided an authentically hopeful end for our film.
Aziz: Do you feel in the age of Trump that corporations feel like they have even more carte blanche to behave in ways that are detrimental to society? What are some of the most previous examples?
Abbott: Yes. Without question. Most egregious; depends on what you care about most. I was quite interested in a report that came out recently from the ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) showing how some of the biggest global banks, JPMorgan Chase among them (who we feature in our film), flowed trillions of tainted dollars through their banks exposing how broken the regulatory enforcement system is. Admittedly it was a flawed enforcement regime before Trump, but it was broken further by Trump.
Bakan: It’s really interesting to see how corporations – especially those that purport to embrace purpose and sustainability, ones that say they care – have pushed Trump to be even more Trump-ish. Major US corporations at the helm of the ‘new’ corporation movement continue to lobby for tax cuts and deregulation that disable governments from promoting the very social and environmental values they purport to care about. We allude to this in the film, and I provide chapter and verse in the book. So, yes Trump has given more carte blanche – but big business has pushed him to give even more than he might have.
Aziz: What is the primary solution you would propose - is the only answer stronger government oversight and legislation to prevent damage?
Abbott: First and foremost, I wouldn’t suggest we have all the answers. That said, without question the trouncing of government and the placing on pedestals of markets and corporations needs to be redressed. Currently democratic government is the one institution we have that at its best can act for the people, by the people and of the people. So yes, reinvigorating democracy in the time of multiple existential crises is one of our best shots. Mass movements – like the BLM uprising, the Greta Thunberg inspired Fridays for Future or the Sunrise Movement – are another, and as we show in the film social movements and governments can work in synergy.
Bakan: Reversing the corporate-pushed-for evisceration of government oversight that we’ve seen over the last forty years is certainly part of the solution. A well-functioning democratic society requires a thriving public sector as much as it does a thriving private sector. Part of the problem of the last forty years has been the elevation of the ideology that it’s illegitimate for democratic governments – as representatives of the people – to protect public values and interests if that means interfering with corporations and markets. At a minimum the resulting diminishment of democracy needs to be reversed. But more is needed too, ideally genuine and full commitments to values of justice and sustainability across all social and economic domains, private and public, and citizen activation to get us there.
Aziz: What is your message to the women and men inside these corporations who are trying to change things from the inside?
Abbott: Most of us are doing the best we can and I truly believe most fundamentally people are good and they want their lives to matter. So, I feel every action in the direction of compassion, justice and decent goodness makes a difference, even within the confines of a challenging institutional system. But, if you feel there are egregious harms being committed by the corporation you’re working for, perhaps it’s time to speak out. Yes, become a whistleblower. In extreme circumstances that may be necessary.
Bakan: I agree that most people want to do good in their lives and jobs. I would urge those working in corporations to look at the totality of what their companies are doing – take a critical look beyond the shiny CSR programs and rhetoric and ask: How does your company really treat its workers? Does it truly uphold environmental values? What is it lobbying governments for? Is it avoiding taxes? And if you don’t like the answers you find to these questions, do something about it.
Afdhel Aziz
Chief Purpose Office, Conspiracy of Love, a global purpose consultancy advising Fortune500 companies and iconic brands. Co-Founder, Good is the New Cool, a global… Read More
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(2003_film)
Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by University of British Columbia law professor Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary examines the modern-day corporation. Bakan wrote the book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, during the filming of the documentary.
A sequel film, The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel, was released in 2020.[2]
documentary shows the development of the contemporary business corporation, from a legal entity that originated as a government-chartered institution meant to affect specific public functions to the rise of the modern commercial institution entitled to most of the legal rights of a person. The documentary concentrates mostly upon corporations in North America, especially in the United States. One theme is its assessment of corporations as persons, as a result of an 1886 case in the Supreme Court of the United States in which a statement by Chief Justice Morrison Waite[nb 1] led to corporations as "persons" having the same rights as human beings, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Topics addressed include the Business Plot, where in 1933, General Smedley Butler exposed an alleged corporate plot against then U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt; the tragedy of the commons; Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning people to beware of the rising military-industrial complex; economic externalities; suppression of an investigative news story about Bovine Growth Hormone on Fox affiliate television station WTVT in Tampa, Florida at the behest of Monsanto; the invention of the soft drink Fanta by The Coca-Cola Company due to the trade embargo on Nazi Germany; the alleged role of IBM in the Nazi holocaust (see IBM and the Holocaust); the Cochabamba protests of 2000 brought on by the privatization of a municipal water supply in Bolivia; and in general themes of corporate social responsibility, the notion of limited liability, the corporation as a psychopath, and the debate about corporate personhood.
Through vignettes and interviews, The Corporation examines and criticizes corporate business practices. The film's assessment is affected via the diagnostic criteria in the *DSM-IV*; Robert D. Hare, a University of British Columbia psychology professor and a consultant to the FBI, compares the profile of the contemporary profitable business corporation to that of a clinically diagnosed psychopath (however, Hare has objected to the manner in which his views are portrayed in the film; see "Critical reception" below). The Corporation attempts to compare the way corporations are systematically compelled to behave with what it claims are the DSM-IV's symptoms of psychopathy, e.g., the callous disregard for the feelings of other people, the incapacity to maintain human relationships, the reckless disregard for the safety of others, the deceitfulness (continual lying to deceive for profit), the incapacity to experience guilt, and the failure to conform to social norms and respect the law.
Interviews
The film features interviews with prominent corporate critics such as Noam Chomsky, Charles Kernaghan, Naomi Klein, Michael Moore, Vandana Shiva, and Howard Zinn, as well as opinions from chief executive officers such as Ray Anderson (from Interface, Inc.), viewpoints from business gurus Peter Drucker and Milton Friedman and think tanks advocating free markets such as the Fraser Institute. Interviews also feature Dr. Samuel Epstein, who was involved in a lawsuit against Monsanto for promoting the use of Posilac, (trade name for recombinant Bovine somatotropin) to induce more milk production in dairy cattle and Chris Barrett who, as a spokesperson for First USA, was the first corporately sponsored college student in America.[3]
https://www.tvo.org/video/archive/joel-bakan-on-the-corporation
joel Bakan, author of The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power discusses the book and the documentary with journalist Marc Glassman
Aired:
Aug 22, 2004
60 min
http://www.joelbakan.com/the-corporation1.html
Bakan's book is a brilliantly argued account of the corporation's pathological pursuit of profit and power. An eminent law professor and legal theorist, Bakan contends that the corporation is created by law to function much like a psychopathic personality whose destructive behavior, if left unchecked, leads to scandal and ruin. In the most revolutionary assessment of the corporation as a legal and economic institution since Peter Drucker's early works, Bakan backs his premise with the following claims:
• The corporation's legally defined mandate is to pursue relentlessly and without exception its own economic self-interest, regardless of the harmful consequences it might cause to others—a concept endorsed by no less a luminary than the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman.
• The corporation's unbridled self-interest victimizes individuals, society, and, when it goes awry, even shareholders and can cause corporations to self-destruct, as recent Wall Street scandals reveal.
• While corporate social responsibility in some instances does much good, it is often merely a token gesture, serving to mask the corporation's true character.
• Governments have abdicated much of their control over the corporation, despite its flawed character, by freeing it from legal constraints through deregulation and by granting it ever greater authority over society through privatization.
Despite the structural failings found in the corporation, Bakan believes change is possible and outlines a far-reaching program of concrete, pragmatic, and realistic reforms through legal regulation and democratic control.
Backed by extensive research, The Corporation draws on in-depth interviews with such wide-ranging figures as CEO Hank McKinnell of Pfizer, Nobel Prize-winner Milton Friedman, business guru Peter Drucker, and critic Noam Chomsky of MIT.
2013
What's left? Reclaiming the public sphere, clip 1 of 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRdPVSbcqmQ
author, filmmaker and law professor Joel Bakan speaks at the CCPA-BC's annual fundraiser on issues of privatization and corporatization of public services, and the need to restore public democratic governance. Joel book's include "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power" (a companion to the documentary film) and "Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children."
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One hundred and fifty years ago, the corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, the corporation is today’s dominant institution. But history humbles dominant institutions. All have been crushed, belittled or absorbed into some new order. In this complex, exhaustive and highly entertaining documentary, Mark Achbar, co-director of the influential and inventive Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, teams up with co-director Jennifer Abbott and writer Joel Bakan to examine the far-reaching repercussions of the corporation’s increasing preeminence.
Based on Bakan’s book The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, the film is a timely, critical inquiry that invites CEOs, whistle-blowers, brokers, gurus, spies, players, pawns and pundits on a graphic and engaging quest to reveal the corporation’s inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures. The Corporation charts the spectacular rise of an institution aimed at achieving specific economic goals as it also recounts victories against this apparently invincible force.
Case studies, anecdotes and true confessions reveal behind-the-scenes tensions and influences in several corporate and anti-corporate dramas. Among the 40 interview subjectsare CEOs and top-level executives from a range of industries: oil, pharmaceutical, computer, tire, manufacturing, public relations, branding, advertising and undercover marketing. In addition, a Nobel-prize winning economist, the first management guru, a corporate spy, and a range of academics, critics, historians and thinkers are also interviewed.
long socialist crit: doc frames it as legal problem
https://socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss/article/view/23759/17643
cast 2 pp pdf
https://thecorporation.com/sites/default/files/resource-field_media/whoswhointhecorporation4.pdf
Jane Akre
Whistle-blowing Fox reporter tried to
caution public about synthetic
hormone rBGH used in cows. Fired
for her efforts, she sued Fox, won,
then lost on appeal on a technicality.
Ray Anderson
CEO Interface, world’s largest
commercial carpet manufacturer.
Had an environmental epiphany
and reorganized his 1.4 billion
dollar company.
Joe Badaracco
Prof. Of Business Ethics, Harvard
Business School. In all his years
teaching business, was never
asked so pointedly what a
corporation is.
Maude Barlow
Chairperson, Council of
Canadians. Privatization critic.
We must re-define our relationship to nature, corporations and
controlling institutions.
Mark (sp?) Barry
Competitive Intelligence
Professional—ie. a corporate spy.
Without guilt, uses deception to
extract information from
corporate executives.
Elaine Bernard
Director, Labor Program, Harvard
Business School. Morals over
markets. We need to determine
certain things shouldn’t be
bought and sold.
Edwin Black Author, IBM and
the Holocaust. Contends IBM’s
exclusive technology accelerated
the Holocaust with the
knowledge of its CEO and other
employees.
Carlton Brown
Commodities Broker. Says gold
traders had one thing on their
minds as the twin towers
burned.
Noam Chomksy
Institute Professor MIT. When you
look at a corporation, just like
when you look at a slave owner,
you want to distinguish between
the institution and the individual.
Chris Barrett & Luke McCabe
First “corporately-sponsored”
university students. Convinced a
bank, First USA, to pay both
their $40,000 tuitions.
Peter Drucker
The first management guru.
Spoke with IBM CEO Thomas J.
Watson several times about
IBM’s business relationship with
the Third Reich.
Dr. Samuel Epstein
Prof. emeritus, Occupational &
Environmental Medicine, U of
Illinois. One in every two men
get cancer, and one in every
three women get cancer.
Andrea Finger
Spokesperson for Disney-built
town of Celebration, population
5,000. Disney brand speaks of
reassurance, it speaks of
tradition, it speaks of quality.
Milton Friedman
Nobel Prize-winning economist.
Asking a corporation to be
socially responsible makes no
more sense than asking a
building to be.
Sam Gibara
Chairman, former CEO Goodyear
Tire, world’s largest tire
corporation. Says corporations
today have more power than
governments.
Richard Grossman
Founder, POCLAD, Program on
Corporations, Law and
Democracy . POCLAD initiates
dialogue on the authority of
corporations to govern.
Dr. Robert Hare
U. of British Columbia Psyc h o l o g y
Professor and FBI’s top
consulting psychologist on
psychopaths. The corporation is
the prototypical psychopath.
Gabriel Herbas
Economist. Professor of
Economics in the State
U n i ve r s i ty, Bolivia. O u r
governments, sadly, are just
puppets for these companies.
Lucy Hughes
V P, Initiative Media, world’s
largest media-buying corpora t i o n .
Created Nag Factor study to help
c o r p o rations get kids to nag their
parents to buy.
Ira Jackson
Director, Center for Business and
Government, Kennedy School at
Harvard. Author, Capitalism with
a Conscience.
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Robert Keyes
President and CEO, Canadian
Council for International Business.
Lobbies for business interests on
trade issues. Doesn’t like to use
the word “corpora t i o n ”.
Mark Kingwell
Philosopher, Cultural Critic, Author. The primary question is:
how do we make corporations
democratically accountable?
Naomi Klein Author, “NO LOGO”, “Fences and
Windows”. Branding aficionado.
Branding isn’t advertising; it’s
the new production.
Tom Kline
VP Pfizer Inc. world’s largest
pharmaceutical corporation, on a
tour of Pfizer’s philanthropic
initiatives near its Brooklyn
factory
.
Chris Komisarjevsky
CEO Burson Marsteller Worldwide, a leading global PR
agency. Helps big corporations
“have a voice” and share “how
they feel about things.”
Dr. Susan Linn
Prof. Of Psychiatry, Baker
Children’s Centre, Harvard.
Critic of the Nag Factor study
and of exploiting children’s
developmental vulnerabilities.
Robert Monks
CEO LENS; Founder, Institutional
Shareholder Services; pioneering
shareholder activist. Has headed
a dozen publicly traded
corporations.
Sir Mark Moody-StuartFormer Chairman, Royal Dutch
Shell. Presided over Shell during
Brent Spar fiasco and the
hanging of Ken Saro Wiwa and
eight other activists.
Michael Moore
Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, best-selling
author. The problem is the profit
motive: for corporations, there’s
no such thing as “enough”.
Oscar Olivera
The Coalition in Defense of Wa t e r
and Life. Bolivian anti-wa t e r
p r i vatization activist. Trusts in the
p e o p l e ’s capacity for “reflection,
rage and rebellion.”
Jeremy Rifkin
President, Foundation on
Economic Trends. Author of 16
books on the impacts of
technology. Culture is primary.
Anita Roddick Founder, The Body Shop. Pioneer
of the “socially responsible”
corporation. [appears only in TV version]
Dr. Vandana Shiva
Physicist, ecologist, feminist and
seed activist. In every period of
history... eventually, when you
call a bluff, the tables turn.
Clay Timon
CEO Landor and Associates
Global branding specialists –
Visa, Fedex, BP, etc. When
Disney wants to market adult
fare, they brand it Touchstone.
Michael Walker
President, Fraser Institute. Sweatshops like Nike’s factories
help the world’s poor get ‘plump
and healthy’
.
Robert Weissman
Editor, Multinational Monitor.
Corporate crime specialist.
Exposed the top 100 criminal
corporations of the last decade.
Steve Wilson
Whistle-blowing, fired Fox
reporter who tried to caution
public about synthetic hormone
rBGH used in cows.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Vice President IBM, Technology
and Strategy in IBM Servers.
Dismisses Edwin Black’s
allegations against IBM as
having been “discredited.”
Mary Zepernick
Coordinator, POCLAD, Program
on Corporations, Law and
Democracy. POCLAD initiates
dialogue on the authority of
corporations to govern
.
Howard Zinn
Historian, author, A People’s
History of the United States.
Fascism rose in Europe with the
help of enormous corporations.
Charles Kernaghan
D i r e c t o r, National Labor Committee.
By exposing Walmart and the Kathy Lee Gifford bra nd ’s labor
practices, made the sweatshop
abuses common knowledge.
Jonathon Ressler
CEO Big Fat Inc. Undercover
marketing specialist. Compares
people influenced by his campaigns as “roaches” taking the
“brand bait” and spreading it.