The Anti-war Movement Should Turn Itself Into

Politics Hates A Vacuum. If It Isn't Filled With Hope, Someone Will Fill It With Fear.

There's A Property In Panama Where Trump Has Collected Somewhere Around $30 Million Just From Selling His Name To This Property - It's Somewhere Between $30 Million And $50 Million. It Would Be So Easy For A Developer To Slap On An Extra $6 Million To A Trump Licensing Deal And Have That Be A Backdoor Bribe. Who Are We To Say What That Is Worth? It's So Ephemeral. And This Is The Appeal Of Selling Something As Ephemeral As A Brand Name, Is That It Can Be Inflated Beyond All Reason.

Ads And Logos Are Our Shared Global Culture And Language, And People Are Insisting On The Right To Use That Language, To Reformulate It In The Way That Artists And Writers Always Do With Cultural Material,.

It's Certainly Something We Haven't Seen Before In Terms Of A Fully Commercial Global Brand - Really A Family Of Brands - Not Just Trump But Also Ivanka, Who Has A Sub-brand. We've Never Seen This Before. We've Had Presidents In Financial Conflicts Of Interest Before, But This Phenomenon Where A Sitting President Image Avatar Is Out There Selling Golf Courses And Condominiums, Even As He Is In Office And Having The Value Of His Personal Brand Inflated Dramatically By Fact Of His Being President, Is New Territory.

One Of The Main Ways In Which I Get Attacked Is By Being Called A Conspiracy Theorist By The Right And The Other Main Attack Is Actually From The Conspiracy Theorists Who Are Really Pissed At Me For Not Admitting That 9/11 Was An Inside Job.