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The 2025 midterm election didn’t just fill Senate seats — it redrew the political battlefield for the 2028 presidential race. Now, all signs point to a three-way battle for power: Sara Duterte, the populist heiress with a solid southern base and strategic dynastic alliances. Risa Hontiveros, leading a reinvigorated opposition bloc with fellow Senators Bam…
It’s good that my article “Yellowtards trying to cover up the FACT that Leni Robredo is now fat” generated a lot of healthy debate about the proverbial elephants (pardon the pun) in the room. The whole trouble with having a no-go-zone around which we need to tiptoe is that they don’t go away unless they…
Read More “Yellowtards call it “fat shaming”. I call it being ashamed of the FACTS.” »
Alleged “con artists” seem to keep coming out of the woodwork nowadays — perhaps flushed out using the very money trails that motivated their dishonest trade. Recently, a certain Dennis Borbon had been nabbed reportedly on charges of being involved in “an online smear campaign against candidates of the Duterte administration.” Dennis Borbon, who identified…
Philippine Liberal Party blogger Jover Laurio of Pinoy Ako Blog summarized what is wrong with a lot of voters and Philippine society in general in one of her recent posts on social media site Twitter: In her effort to paint Liberal Party Senators Bam Aquino and ally Risa Hontiveros in a good light and as…
Read More “Jover Laurio promotes “palamunin” (mendicant) culture in the Philippines” »
The best we can really say for the Otso Diretso senatorial line-up of the Opposition Coalition led by the Liberal Party for the 2019 Philippine midterm elections is “thanks for at least trying”. The crumbling Yellow Empire of the East is in its end-of-days stages having contracted an apparently incurable terminal disease by the end…
Read More “Is Otso Diretso a showcase of Liberal Party-led Opposition Coalition bankruptcy?” »
Malamang wala na talagang naniniwala na may naging silbi si Bam Aquino sa senado at naplitan na si Jover Laurio aka @PinoyAkoBlog na magbayad ng advertisement sa Facebook para lang may magbasa ng post niya tungkol sa idol siyang re-electionist senator. Sa post ni @PangitAkoBlog este @PinoyAkoBlog, gigil na gigil niyang ginigiit na gawa gawa…
In the Philippines, there is seemingly no genuine Opposition – only a loosely associated group of people who are offended by, or are excluded from, the entities who now dominate as a result of winning the last election cycle. I say “loosely” because, being politicians, they are likely to turn on each other too to…
Read More “Does the Philippines really need a “Genuine Opposition”?” »
According to Senator Bam Aquino he will be joining a “coalition slate, which will be made up of people willing to speak out and stand up against Malacanang’s policies that may be damaging to the people”. In a post on his website, Aquino called for a need for a “genuine opposition”… “In 2019, hindi lang…