Category: Politics

Is using “Madumb” to address Philippine “vice president” Leni Robredo justified?

February 1, 2021 benign0 4 Comments

Normally, a top female official of the Philippine Government is addressed as “Madam” out of respect. Lately, however, we’ve been seeing current “vice president” Leni Robredo being addressed as “Madumb” — a play on the words “madam” and “dumb”. This is likely an outcome of some confusion on the part of many Filipinos as to…

Politics

Is there no Opposition leader other than Leni Robredo?

January 31, 2021 benign0 6 Comments

Tick tock tick tock. The 2022 elections are just around the corner and all the venerable “thought leaders” of the Opposition could do is gush about the latest PR stunt of “vice president” Leni Robredo and defend her pale spaghetti sensibilities. You’d think a country of more than 100 million could come up with even…

Politics

Lynching Trump

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Hector Gamboa 1 Comment

In the aftermath of the attack on the United States Capitol building last January 6 by some of US President Donald Trump’s supporters, many people condemned Trump for having been the cause of the attack. The Democrats wasted no second in condemning Trump. The media, like clockwork, immediately sang like a Democrat choir in lambasting…

Driving Donald Trump’s supporters underground is a dangerous thing

January 11, 2021 benign0 3 Comments

In the last few days since the infamy of the Washington DC “insurrection” purportedly fuelled by US President Donald Trump’s messages sent over Twitter and other social media platforms, I’ve been seeing social media posts and various articles on news sites and blogs describing its aftermath. The interesting ones I’ve noted are those to do…

Politics, Society

Twitter is now officially more powerful than the US Government

January 9, 2021 benign0 3 Comments

Hats off to Big Corporate Social Media. They first started out as little websites where people could “share” stuff and engage in “social networking”. Then they started to call themselves “platforms” and rightly so as such was to become their reach, ubiquity, and deep embedding into the fabric of society that people could be forgiven…

Government, Politics, Tech Talk

Twitter shut down @realDonaldTrump, so it should also shut down the CPP-NPA’s @prwc_info account

January 9, 2021January 9, 2021 benign0 3 Comments

Only fair, right? The basis of Twitter recently shutting down the account of United States president Donald Trump is “due to the risk of further incitement of violence” that it presumably exposes the American public to. Twitter references its policy on the nature of such behaviour and the actions it holds prerogative to take on…

Crime, Media, Politics, Tech Talk

Trump Presidency According to Charles Dickens

January 9, 2021January 9, 2021 Hector Gamboa 1 Comment

Charles Dickens wrote: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring…

Culture, Politics, Society

Leni Robredo’s BITTER response to her dismal Pulse Asia presidential survey ranking

January 2, 2021 benign0 7 Comments

Philippine “vice president” Leni Robredo sucks even at sourgraping. It’s either that or she really needs to fire her PR team. Following a recently-released Pulse Asia survey on potential presidential candidates that could make a bid for the 2022 national elections in which Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte emerged as the top choice, Robredo’s…

Politics