Category: Politics

Supporters of Leni Robredo dumbfounded by 11 percent fall in trust ratings!

April 11, 2017 benign0 15 Comments

A report published by Pulse Asia on the 5th of April showed that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s “performance ratings” declined by five percentage points and his “trust ratings” by seven percentage points. As expected, the Yellow camp and Duterte’s critics were ecstatic. The eminent former “journalist” and Human Rights Watch research person Caloy Conde was…

Media, Politics

Is Philippine House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez saying extra-marital affairs are “normal”?

April 7, 2017April 7, 2017 Ilda 6 Comments

Current Speaker of the Philippine House of Representative Pantaleón Álvarez recently came under fire after his extramarital affair was exposed. To be precise, he copped some flak from some sectors of society, but not all. Apparently, it was an “open-secret” in Congress that Alvarez has a girlfriend, but for some “reason”, presumably because he is…

Civics, Lifestyle, Politics

The Crass Moralism of The Silent No More Facebook Page

April 7, 2017April 7, 2017 P. Farol 24 Comments

Silent No More is one of those Facebook pages that crosses my timeline now and then, largely because some of my friends belong to the yellow political spectrum or have business with some of its high priests. Among Silent No More’s recent posts, one that made me cringe a bit was one that shamed Elenita…

Government, Politics

Philippine Twitter Goes Bananas Over Cong. Tonyboy Floreindo’s #25Billion Scam

April 5, 2017April 5, 2017 P. Farol 3 Comments

Topping the oddities that happened over the past few days is the trending hashtag #25BillionScam which nearly overtook #ColdPlayManila a couple of times over the past few hours. I’m not sure how many tweets it takes for a topic to trend, but I’ll estimate that it’s in the magnitude of a couple of thousand per…

Politics

Dutertard vs Yellowtard: Cult of personality is a hard Filipino habit to break

April 3, 2017April 3, 2017 benign0 12 Comments

Filipino activists have it all wrong. The scope of their advocacies is defined by people, and not by principle, issues, and ideas. When one defines her interests or advocacies around a person, she necessarily locks herself into a non-negotiable loyalty to that person’s own advocacies. It is a lazy sort of advocacy — picking based…

Culture, Politics, Society

I Will Make Like A Hockey Player And Get The Puck Out Of Here

April 1, 2017April 1, 2019 Gogs 18 Comments

This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end I’ll never look into your eyes…again The Doors. I am so done with GRP . Today I am…

Government, Politics

Are the Inquirer and ABS-CBN fulfilling their duty to ‘inform’ Filipinos?

March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 benign0 8 Comments

Perhaps Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was out of line cussing at “news” media organisations Inquirer.net and ABS-CBN News. But then his assertions about the instances where he alleges he had been slandered by these media outlets need to be addressed. One such case surrounds reports published during his campaign that he had ₱211 million stashed…

Media, Politics, Society

Filipinos are not safe while current VP Leni Robredo is in power

March 30, 2017March 30, 2017 Ilda 53 Comments

Women who use The Woman Card – the act of claiming they are being victimised because of their gender – so liberally are disappointing and do not help advance the real issues rational women are fighting for. One woman who quite often use The Woman Card is current Vice President Leni Robredo. She claims that…

Politics, Society

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