Category: Politics

Isko Moreno the political PERFORMER: all image and optics but very little substance

September 23, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 8 Comments

Isko Moreno Domagoso announced his application for President to the public yesterday. In general terms, his claim to the Presidency is based on the three years he was the Mayor of the Capital City of Manila. He touted his achievements, particularly housing, as launch was held in Baseco, where he recently inaugurated the housing project…

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The Isko Moreno Show

September 22, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 4 Comments

“Sa mga batang Maynila, sasakabilang ilog lang naman ako. Magkikita pa rin tayo.” With that, Isko Moreno Domagoso declared he will be running in the May 2022 election for President. Excellent production values for a launch. Excellent camera positioning and shot selection complete with a camera drone flying overhead. In his speech, Isko took potshots…

Isko Moreno 2022 presidential bid announcement wakes Robredo from her “United Opposition” wet dream

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 3 Comments

Today Isko Moreno Domagoso will make the formal announcement of his candidacy for President with Willy Ong as his running mate. It might as well have been made last night as it was all over social media by late afternoon. Many wondered at the choice of his running mate. For pundits like myself, it meant…

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Manny Pacquiao running for President is an outcome of a lazy Opposition and their dishonest propaganda

September 20, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 12 Comments

It is the Opposition that has been causing the distraction from Day One of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte and not, as Boo Chanco asserts in his PhilSTAR column “Distracted leadership”, the president. According to Chanco, “Duterte has always been distracted since the start of his term. There has been little decent policymaking on…

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UP academic Clarita Carlos: convene a team of scholars to SCIENTIFICALLY assess The Marcos Years

September 19, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 33 Comments

This is an excellent proposal by one of the few objective academicians of the University of the Philippines, retired political science professor Clarita Carlos. On a Facebook post, she articulates her idea of convening a team of scholars to mount a “scientific” evaluation of the 21 years that Ferdinand Marcos ruled the Philippines… Quite troubling…

History, Politics

What SCARES the Yellowtards and communists most about Toni Gonzaga’s Bongbong Marcos interview

September 17, 2021September 17, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 7 Comments

Those who don’t read history, are condemned to repeat it. This is the curse bedeviling the Philippines. Historical revisionism. It wasn’t until Teodoro Agoncillo wrote the History of the Filipino People did we become aware of the betrayals of the leaders of the Philippine Revolution. Emilio Aguinaldo ordering the murder of Andres Bonifacio and Antonio…

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Prospects grow dimmer for Leni Robredo as coalition-building amongst alternative opposition bypass her camp

September 16, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

While the public was engrossed with the ongoing feud between President Rodrigo Duterte and Sen. Dick Gordon, the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee Chair, who is investigating the questionable purchases of personal protective equipment (PPEs) and face masks by the Department of Budget Management (DBM) Procurement Service for the Department of Health (DOH), the Nationalist People’s…

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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…

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