Tag: debate

Opposition presidential candidates declining SMNI debate proves they are hypocrites

February 14, 2022April 29, 2022 benign0 15 Comments

Tit for tat, right? Administration candidate Bongbong Marcos declines debates organised by media organisations GMA, KBP, and CNN so now it’s the Opposition nuisances’ turn to decline the SMNI debate that Marcos will be attending. Here is where the difference lies. Team Marcos was first to grasp the tactical genius in declining media circuses organised…

Politics

Justice Carpio and the Opposition needed this debate more than Duterte did

May 8, 2021 benign0 3 Comments

Just as quickly as a media circus exploded over the debate between Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and former Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio, this latest fodder for lazy journalism sputtered. What’s left is a Philippine Opposition still bereft of a winning strategy — and a winnable candidate — as the 2022 national elections loom closer…

Politics

SO WHAT if presidential spox Harry Roque represents Duterte in the South China Sea debate with The Liar Justice Carpio?

May 7, 2021May 7, 2021 benign0 5 Comments

Things are moving fast! Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has delegated to his spokesperson lawyer Harry Roque the task of debating Retired Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio on the South China Sea debacle. As expected (they are so predictable) the Yellowtards (the bloc within the Philippine Opposition rabidly-loyal to the Aquino-Cojuangco clan) are giving one another…

Politics

What to expect from the South China Sea debate between President Duterte and former SC Justice Carpio

May 7, 2021May 7, 2021 benign0 3 Comments

Just as soon as I hit the “Publish” button on my previous piece “The LIAR Justice Carpio should accept President Duterte’s challenge to a debate”, news that Retired Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio had accepted Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s challenge to a debate was out and sending Yellowtardom into a frenzy of shrill battle screeching….

Politics

Otso Diretso candidates get their asses kicked by Administration candidates in the most recent “debate”!

April 30, 2019 benign0 38 Comments

One thing remains clearly evident today: elections remain an emotional exercise. As such, it is unlikely that the outcome of this year’s election will be an intellectual one. Whilst “debates” have become a more normal feature of campaigns in Philippine elections in the last several years, it still remains to be seen whether these exercises…

Culture, Politics

Dealing With a Bleeding, Stabbed-With-Truth Ego

October 5, 2018 Moduli 13 Comments

It’s amusing and annoying at the same time reading comments on blogs such as this, that point out the idiocy and the reasons why Filipinos, collectively, have a hard time getting out of the mud that he loves wallowing into. Words like racist, butthurt, asshole are thrown by either side. Some have never-ending thread of retaliation…

Culture, Society

Ninoy Aquino is a “hero” – because Filipinos were told he was

May 31, 2018August 1, 2018 FallenAngel 14 Comments

Up until about a decade ago, asserting anything to the contrary was not only unheard of, not only frowned upon, but is simply not done in good company. It would get one ostracized, treated like a pariah, or worst, made out to be an ignorant idiot. In recent years, however, this assertion has become debatable….

Politics, Society

What happened to good old-fashioned conversation amongst the Philippines’ politically-passionate?

May 28, 2018May 28, 2018 benign0 3 Comments

Columnist Oscar Franklin Tan’s piece How Sen. Tito Sotto became my textmate published today on the Inquirer was a refreshing read. In it, Tan narrates how he went from being an avowed Sotto basher to someone who could respect a man who would go on to be his Senate President. Tan’s new-found respect is not…

Civics, Society