Category: Politics

COMELEC breaks own rules, proves the Philippines is a Banana Republic!

June 17, 2016November 19, 2021 Ilda 209 Comments

The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) proved once again that patronage politics rules in the Philippines. By granting the request of the Liberal Party (LP) to extend the deadline for the submission of the Statement of Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE), the agency broke its own “final and non-extendible deadline” rule. The agency showed ordinary Filipinos that…

Crime, Culture, Politics

Top 3 Conspiracy Theories About President Aquino

June 15, 2016 Grimwald 17 Comments

Davao Mayor Rodrigo “Roddy” Duterte has yet to take the position of president in Malacanang but one can already see how hard the LP is working to put all the blame on him regarding the country’s ills even though President Aquino is still supposed to be the actual president of the Philippines. Oh well, what…

Government, Politics

What do the Yellowtards stand for and who do they look to for leadership?

June 15, 2016June 15, 2016 benign0 26 Comments

There is a question that’s baffled me over the last several weeks now: What do the Yellowtards stand for and who do they look to for leadership? On first glance, the answer to this question seems obvious. Of course they stand for all the good things delivered by the 1986 people power “revolution”; freedom, democracy,…

Politics, Society

On Independence Day

June 15, 2016June 15, 2016 Frank 8 Comments

As I start writing this article’s first draft it is already the day after Independence Day in the Philippines. It is also only hours after a horrific event in which a bigot armed with an easily-purchased semi-automatic rifle entered an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and embarked on a murderous rampage that left 50 people…

Why Change from Within the System has Failed

June 13, 2016June 14, 2016 ChinoF 16 Comments

One of the retorts against us GRP bloggers is, “why don’t you run for office?” This is of course based on the assumption that you can only reform Philippine society through the government, and you have to be a part of the system to make it work. It has the sense of, “if you can’t…

Culture, Politics

Mar Roxas and the Liberal Party may have deliberately sabotaged Leni Robredo’s vice presidency bid!

June 12, 2016June 13, 2016 benign0 60 Comments

Everybody is holding their breaths waiting for what the next move of the beleaguered administration party, the Liberal Party (LP) of the Philippines will be. For some mysterious reason, LP presidential bet Mar Roxas failed to submit his campaign statement of contribution and expenditures (SOCE). Not only that, the LP itself failed to do the…

Politics

Why Leni Robredo Is A “Loser” To Pinoys

June 10, 2016 Grimwald 41 Comments

The votes have already been counted and it seems that Leni Robredo “should” be our rightful vice president. She won by a margin of a few million votes against Senator Bongbong Marcos, perhaps the LP’s most hated vice presidential candidate. But while just about every ceremony has been done to honor Leni Robredo and allow…

Government, Politics

Leni Robredo disqualified from the VP post due to LP non-compliance to COMELEC policy!

June 10, 2016 benign0 138 Comments

It cost “vice president-elect” Leni Robredo at least three times the amount of money to attract each Filipino to vote for her as it did Bongbong Marcos in this year’s elections. According to their respective Statement of Contributions and Expenditures (SOCEs), Robredo’s campaign for the vice presidency of the Philippines cost her 418 million pesos…

Government, Politics