We beg to differ.
If you were born yesterday or part of the Duterte cult, you’d think that Inday Sara Duterte Carpio is such a supergenius like Elon Musk that she can lead three distinct roles in government exceptionally well. But being a mediocre and petulant political brat, she’s doing poorly as a Vice President, Education Secretary and Co…
A Cebuano friend messaged me and said that he felt betrayed by Vice President Inday Sara Duterte Zimmerman Carpio’s deafening silence on the smear campaign against Tourism Secretary Christina Frasco — daughter of Cebu Governor Gwen Garcia. “Yang si Inday Duterte nga dali ra nga nagpabutho sa iyang kaparehong Bisaya nga si Christina Frasco, anak…
The case of master swindler Edward Diokno Eje a. k. a. hari ng baclaran (who foisted the “Malacañang appointment scam” on about a dozen or so people) didn’t quite explode in traditional news media and social media scenes. This was, perhaps, because of the massive “news management” effort orchestrated to contain the situation and keep…
In a recent article on One News, it was reported that the Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) budget for 2022 had increased by 32% following the assumption of office by Sara Duterte. The budget hike has raised concerns regarding President Duterte’s potential abuse of power and privileges, leading to questions about her totalitarian tendencies….
Read More “Analyzing Duterte’s Magically Increased Budget and Totalitarian Tendencies” »
After thirty years of living in the Philippines as a man with Middle Eastern ethnic origins who chose to be naturalized as a Filipino decades ago, I still have yet to grasp why most Filipinos and their political analysts still cleave to the inappropriate categorizations of political behavior. Most still tend to say that that…
Read More “Totally Inday Sara: Life Under Full Blown Totalitarian Rule By 2028 and Beyond” »
Not even a year into her term as Vice President, Sara Zimmerman Duterte Carpio was caught trying to jump the line of succession leading to the Presidency and this has unmasked her power mad, reptilian character. The failed plot entailed seizing the House Speakership through former President now Congresswoman Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, having President Ferdinand…
Read More “Democracy Will Die With Inday Sara Zimmerman Duterte Carpio” »
Not really sucked the oxygen out, as Opposition columnist Manuel L Quezon III writes in his Inquirer piece “Ruling coalition fiesta”. Eerily quiet is the same as noisy if you think about it. Quezon writes, “With an opposition with no teeth, speculation on ruling coalition intramurals has sucked all the political oxygen out of the…
In his Manila Standard column today, Lito Banayo beseeches the President, “Please listen to your sister”. Banayo refers to the issue of the Afghan refugees that the United States are suggesting should be temporarily accommodated in the Philippines while they are being cleared for resettlement in the US. Banayo credits said sister, Senator Imee Marcos,…