Tag: election 2019

Filipino voters NOT GOOD ENOUGH for Otso Diretso candidates according to Randy David

May 6, 2019 benign0 30 Comments

In his Inquirer column today, Prof. Randy David attempts to explain why the Opposition continues to do poorly in the campaign lead-up to this year’s elections. By poorly, he refers to the consistently-low ranking most of the members of the Opposition led by the “Otso Diretso” coalition suffer in various surveys published by polling firms…

Culture, 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

Filipinos have had enough of “leftist” groups denying they are linked to the CPP and the terrorist New People’s Army

April 29, 2019 benign0 20 Comments

It is quite ironic that the biggest “crime” today’s Opposition accuse the incumbent government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte of is to invite the Chinese government to exert undue influence on the Philippines. The fact is that a key element of the Opposition — Filipino communists and their puppet organisations in the Philippines’ university campuses…

Politics, Society

Mar Roxas exposes his weak character yet again in a recent move to abandon party mates

April 19, 2019April 19, 2019 Ilda 8 Comments

It’s taken him ten years, but losing Presidential candidate and now senatorial aspirant Mar Roxas has finally realized he needs to ditch the Liberal Party colors if he wants a chance at winning a national election. He gives the term slow a new meaning. Talk about lack of foresight! Most rational people already saw what…

Politics

What’s the difference between a person who wants to change sex and a person who wants to change skin colour?

April 15, 2019 benign0 4 Comments

Practically all the issues that contribute to the intractable weakness of the Philippine nation are not one-administration outcomes. They all date back in one form or another to inherent qualities of Philippine society that evolved over several centuries. Indeed, it so happens that the circus of the moment — the brouhaha surrounding an ad by…

Culture, Politics, Society

Clarification: The Otso Diretso Hand Sign is NOT EQUAL to the Zaxxun Flick Sign

April 6, 2019April 6, 2019 zaxx 5 Comments

Pinoy Ako Blog was offering some public service recently by trying to help one-time GRP contributor Sass Sassot out on a certain point of curiosity: Anong hand sign yan? The very short article simply answered back: Kung nagresearch ka lang ng slight malalaman mo ang sagot sa katanungan mo. Nevertheless, tulungan na lang kita ha….

Politics

Few weeks to go ’til election day and the Opposition have already lost. Here’s why…

April 5, 2019 benign0 12 Comments

Despite all efforts — mostly dirty and dishonest — on the part of the Philippines’ Opposition partisans to gain traction with the broader Filipino voting public, the bid for control of Congress in this year’s election has evidently been won by candidates either (1) backed by the administration of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte or (2)…

Politics

To Jim Paredes: Good luck and have a nice life

April 2, 2019April 2, 2019 benign0 8 Comments

Presumably the “scandal” is over now that Jim Paredes has owned up to and apologised for the grief a private video had caused after it somehow found its way onto the Net and went “viral”. Certainly the bigger lesson here — that nothing transmitted over the Net stays private forever — is not lost. It’s…

Lifestyle, Politics