Tag: cult of personality

The Duterte camp needs a new leader. Finding one is what they need to focus on!

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The Duterte camp needs a new leader. Finding one is what they need to focus on!

All their eggs in one basket. That’s the situation the camp of former President Rodrigo Duterte find themselves in today. They may be numerous (if we rely on the size of their mass protest rallies), perhaps. But the million-dollar question is, how do they turn those numbers into power? First thing to reflect upon is…

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Politics

SO WHAT if the Duterte family is running for the Senate?

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SO WHAT if the Duterte family is running for the Senate?

The Philippines’ brain-dead chattering classes are at it again. The “debate” this time is around a recent statement made by Vice President Sara Duterte that her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte and her two brothers, Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte and House Representative 1st District of Davao City Paolo Duterte, are planning to run for…

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The trouble with the Dutertes are the Dutertards

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The trouble with the Dutertes are the Dutertards

The writing is on the wall. Brand Duterte is a sinking ship and it is taking down with it the cadre of cling-ons that hitched a ride on it during the previous term of former President Rodrigo Duterte. The Dutertes, if we recall, were disadvantaged from the very beginning. The former president was a “dark…

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Commies and Yellowtards swallow their ideologies along with their pride

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Commies and Yellowtards swallow their ideologies along with their pride

“Thought leaders” of the Yellowtard-Communist Axis find themselves in a conundrum seeing (or, perhaps, them merely asserting) that the administration of Bongbong Marcos is “undoing” what former President Rodrigo Duterte did during the previous administration. Both the Yellowtards and the commies now find the need to tone down their formerly shrill Marital Law Crybaby rhetoric…

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Politics, Society

Marcostards or Dutertards could become the next Yellowtards. So don’t be a tard.

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Marcostards or Dutertards could become the next Yellowtards. So don’t be a tard.

What really matters to most ordinary people? Simple. Food, security, and certainty. In a Third World “democracy” such as the Philippines, most successful politicians are able to distil their messaging down to what ticks those three boxes. Taking this perspective, it is easy to see how former President Rodrigo Duterte sustained his popularity, trust, and…

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Politics, Society

Why is Philippine politics so full of drama?

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Why is Philippine politics so full of drama?

If the Philippines got a penny whenever wonder over its dysfunctional politics is raised, it’d be a First World country by now. Indeed, emotionalism reins supreme in the National “Debate” there. Facts and critical thinking routinely take a back seat to shrill hysterics exchanged amongst its foremost “thought leaders”. Social media had exacerbated this predisposition…

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Media, Politics, Society

Label yourself a DDS, BBM, or Yellowtard supporter and you lose all credibility as a writer

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Label yourself a DDS, BBM, or Yellowtard supporter and you lose all credibility as a writer

So now we’re seeing another catfight raging between one camp of “bloggers” and another. Big fucking deal. It was all inevitable. These bozos were once best friends for life. Now they are sworn enemies. See, this is why we at GRP don’t make friends with fellow bloggers. The minute you do, the sooner your freedom…

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Culture, Media, Society

Revisiting my regard for Noynoy Aquino

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Revisiting my regard for Noynoy Aquino

To be upfront about it, it was impossible not to feel even a slight tinge of discomfort on news of former president Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino’s passing. I started blogging two years into his term, and I gave him hell whenever there was an undesirable event, effect, or outcome related to his government’s goings-on. The…

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