Category: Politics

The emerging Marcos-Duterte, Lacson-Sotto, and Domagoso-Poe race for 2022

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 6 Comments

Here goes former Undersecretary and Inquirer columnist Manuel L. Quezon III (MLQ3) again with his Duterte doomsday scenarios. In his piece “Winter is coming” today, MLQ3 writes of his obsession with speculation around “how close, exactly, the President and the Marcoses are”. Deep inside he would like nothing better than for President Rodrigo Duterte to…

Politics

UP Diliman SLANDERS presidential spox Harry Roque, exhibits Filipino CRAB MENTALITY to the world

September 14, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 11 Comments

The University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman campus Executive Committee today issued a statement on their position on the nomination of Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque to a seat in the International Law Commission. The statement asserts that Roque’s appointment would “diminish the reputation of the body” because of his professional record “especially during the administration…

Education, Politics

Continued failure of Philippine Opposition to gain public approval rooted in the hypocrisy of its top “thought leaders”

September 14, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 6 Comments

President Rodrigo Duterte’s niece Nuelle Duterte has, for several years now, been used as an Opposition poster girl by the Philippines’ Big Corporate Media organisations because she reportedly tells people she meets in New York (where she works as a “psychiatrist”) that her famous uncle “kills people”. In a recent Facebook post, Nuelle explores the…

Culture, History, Politics

Red Alert! Yellowtards and communists up in arms over Toni Gonzaga’s Bongbong Marcos interview!

September 13, 2021 benign0 4 Comments

Today, the Yellowtards and communists are having a cow over the latest outrage fad being spun around Toni Gonzaga’s interview of former Senator Bongbong Marcos on her YouTube show ToniTalks. Why is wokedom all hopping mad about this? It is because they are offended by the notion that a popular celebrity whose YouTube channel Toni…

Media, Politics

Filipinos need to put politics aside, work TOGETHER, and ignore Opposition demolition campaigns

September 12, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 9 Comments

The administration has again come under fire from the Opposition for its pandemic response. Just when you think they had it down pat, they didn’t. Again. The country was the last in the region to experience a Delta-induced surge and so we’re also leading in the number of daily cases again. The past three days…

Government, Politics

Dick Gordon’s blue ribbon “investigation” into DOH procurement: in “aid of legislation” or in aid of ELECTION CAMPAIGN?

September 9, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 15 Comments

The traditional sins of omission of Senate investigations “in aid of legislation” are on exhibit again this being the an election year. Politics is tough in the Philippines. It’s tough everywhere but it’s tougher here because there is no such thing as a principled stand. It is mostly the business of show as an entertainer…

Crime, Government, Politics

5 years of Leni Robredo’s little PR stunts don’t add up to REAL achievements that befit a NATIONAL leader

September 8, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Leadership has a pro-forma definition but for one to be called a leader, in the true sense of the word, one has to prove himself or herself first. Former President Cory Aquino was a leader. Look at her record during her tenure. Could that be described as effective leadership? Fidel Ramos followed suit. His much-bruited…

Government, Politics

Manila Times columnist and DLSU professor Antonio Contreras’s intellectually-dishonest apology for being a former Duterte supporter

September 7, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

The Chief Political Analyst’s mea culpa is on exhibit on the Manila Times today in Antonio Contreras’s column “Painful cleansing of a political sin”. Contreras writes of the catharsis he experienced watching Mae Paner’s film Tao Po which dramatised the “plight” of the casualties of President Duterte’s “war on drugs”. The film “brutally engaged” him,…

Media, Politics, Society