Category: Politics

Why Leni Robredo will FAIL as leader of the Philippine Opposition

December 15, 2016 benign0 36 Comments

The Philippines’ Opposition do need a leader. Desperately. Indeed, I’ve recognised that a long time ago in my July 2014 piece The Philippine opposition remains too flaccid and disorganised to EXPLOIT the current situation. I wrote then how “as Opposition to former President Marcos, then during the administration of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the Yellow…

Culture, Politics

The populists and the guardians of ‘decency’

December 15, 2016 rsurtida 55 Comments

There’s a common trait shared by some of the critics of US president Donald Trump and Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte that drives even the most rational supporters of both presidents into near-fanatic levels in defending their chosen candidate. The supposed supporters of “modern liberal thinking”, the antithesis of the “backward and barbaric” maxims supposedly espoused…

Culture, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Of course not all EDSA rallyists are yellows, many of them are useful idiots too!

December 9, 2016December 10, 2016 Hector Gamboa 34 Comments

The other day president Rodrigo Duterte (Du30) said that “yellow” rallyists want him out because they cannot accept defeat. Du30, of course, was referring to the folks who claim to be protesting against the burial of former president Ferdinand E. Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Cemetery of Heroes) as allowed by president Du30…

Politics

Leni Robredo finally wore out her welcome in Duterte’s administration

December 5, 2016December 5, 2016 Ilda 24 Comments

Current Vice President Leni Robredo has tendered her resignation from her position as chairperson of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC). She cited many reasons for relieving herself from her duties but it seems it simply boils down to irreconcilable differences between her and President Rodrigo Duterte. This parting of ways was inevitable…

Government, Politics

Leni Robredo “quits” after being booted out of President Duterte’s Cabinet meetings

December 5, 2016 benign0 11 Comments

Laban Leni! That familiar battle cry of the Yellowtards will once again ripple across social media in response to their leader, “vice president” Leni Robredo getting booted out of the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte. What exactly will this “laban” (“fight”) be about? Who knows? Despite the call to fight being a favourite tagline of…

Government, Politics

Why I Lose Hope For The Youth Of Today

December 3, 2016December 3, 2016 Grimwald 28 Comments

Okay ladies and gentlemen, before I begin, let me get a few things out of the way. First off, if you really need to know, I am a Marcos supporter. Now, before you say anything, I’ll just say this: Yes, former President Marcos was not an angel. He wasn’t a perfect leader. He has done his share…

Culture, Education, Politics, Society

At the People Power Monument: Anti-Marcos protesters have become a laughingstock

December 1, 2016December 1, 2016 benign0 56 Comments

You gotta give credit to the anti-Marcos mob. They came back in their thousand-odd force, this time at the “People Power Monument” on EDSA at its intersection with Temple Drive outside Camp Aguinaldo today. Amongst those leading the charge (so they claim) are representatives of the “Big Three” elite Philippine schools, the University of the…

Politics, Society

The unresolved issues with the Marcoses are strong indictments of Filipino cultural dysfunction

November 30, 2016December 1, 2016 FallenAngel 8 Comments

It is tempting to think of the unresolved issues with the Marcos family – their alleged ill-gotten wealth, the lack of compensation for all those who supposedly suffered during the Martial Law era, and now the purportedly “undeserved” burial of the late strongman Ferdinand Sr. at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB) – as political…

Civics, Culture, Politics, Society