Tag: election 2016

Massive crowd at Duterte Grand Rally marks the end of an era and the coming of change

May 8, 2016February 7, 2022 benign0 59 Comments

The photos streaming into our newsfeeds tell it all. Coverage of Rodrigo Duterte’s miting de avance at the Luneta Park in Manila consisted of a lot of wide-angle, even aerial, photos of massive crowds. In contrast, photo coverage of Mar Roxas’s rally at the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City consisted of underwhelming shots of…

Politics, Society

3 Big Things That Will Happen Should A Duterte-Marcos Tandem Win The 2016 Election

May 7, 2016 Grimwald 21 Comments

Tension and excitement continues to rise as election day edges ever closer. Already, the LP is playing every hand it can to bring down the opposition but it’s quite clear that anything they do now simply amounts to shoveling sand against an oncoming tidal wave. Heck, President Aquino even claims that he’ll start another People…

Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Society

Mar Roxas’s calls for unity against Duterte a sign of desperation

May 7, 2016May 7, 2016 Ilda 52 Comments

In a move everyone is calling desperate and pathetic, Presidential candidate Mar Roxas appealed to the second most popular candidate, Senator Grace Poe to unite against the most popular candidate Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. In a press conference, Roxas called on Poe to make the ultimate sacrifice to thwart a “looming dictatorship”. “I call…

Politics

Mar Roxas offer to Grace Poe to ‘unite’ against Duterte backfires badly!

May 7, 2016 benign0 31 Comments

Such a bald act of desperation! Mar Roxas’s idea of reaching out to rival Grace Poe in these presidential elections is to issue a veiled request for her to back down from the race for the sake of “unity”. Roxas, of course, has consistently trailed Poe in various credible surveys. So it does not make…

Politics

Will a Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte be plunged into the Dark Ages?

May 6, 2016 benign0 58 Comments

His detractors insist that, yes, the rise of Rodrigo Duterte to the Philippine presidency will mark the beginning of the country’s descent to the Dark Ages. What would be the nature of this dark age? That’s also obvious to these detractors. It will be a period marked by a return of the nation into the…

Culture, Politics, Society

The criminal in senators’ clothing that is Antonio Trillanes

May 5, 2016 benign0 28 Comments

If there is anything or anyone that epitomises everything that is wrong with the Philippines, it is none other than “senator” Antonio Trillanes. I enclose “senator” in quotes whenever I refer to Trillanes because he is one only because a piece of paper says so. In spirit he is anything but. Indeed, even the idea…

Crime, Government

Clueless Noynoy Aquino doesn’t understand why Filipinos hate Daang Matuwid

May 5, 2016May 5, 2016 Ilda 242 Comments

Even as his days in Malacanang are about to end in a matter of weeks, Philippine President Benigno Simeon Aquino remains utterly clueless as to why the voters are now rejecting his Daang Matuwid mantra, which his bet and former cabinet member Mar Roxas has promised to continue if elected as the next President. In a…

Politics, Society

Changes to Expect Under a Duterte Government

May 4, 2016 zaxx 71 Comments

Change is finally coming folks. People are feeling once again the euphoria of a new beginning – something like the crisp cool freshness in the air when it’s the final week of classes before the Christmas and New Year holidays begin, or the feeling of moving into a new school, job, house or city. It’s…

Charter Change, Crime, Development, Government, Politics