Tag: election 2022

Illusions and delusions will not win Leni Robredo and the #KakamPink mob the election

October 23, 2021October 23, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 4 Comments

Fearless. Mareng Winnie always has been. But always on the wrong side of the political fence. In her Inquirer piece today, she shouts out, “Fearless forecast: Leni will win”. Why would Leni Robredo win? Magic? That’s not an option since Andy Bautista is in exile in San Francisco. Volunteerism? This is nothing more than bandwagoning….

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Robredo enjoys I-Told-You-So moment as Bongbong Marcos notches a SOLID 49.3 percent preference rating in latest poll!

October 22, 2021November 4, 2021 benign0 4 Comments

The latest Publicus Asia survey report Pahayag Q3 2021 is out and the results are sure to make the Opposition cry a river. Cutting to the presidential race, former Senator Bongbong Marcos tops the preference numbers at 49.3 percent with “vice president” Leni Robredo a far far second at 21.3 percent overall. Consistent with this,…

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Shallow and incestuous party benches mirror acute dearth of talent and qualification in Philippine politics

October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Inquirer columnist Doy Romero in his piece today “The Generic 5” frames the state of play today as “matrix politics” where “political parties now appear like administrative stables under an administrative head, from which are drawn players to form ad hoc project teams headed by a project manager.” In reality, this situation is symptomatic of…

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Duterte achieved a lot during his term which is why CONTINUITY post-2022 is very important

October 21, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 18 Comments

It was then incoming Secretary of Finance Carlos Dominguez who set the administration’s 0-10 point socio-economic agenda which was basically the key performance indicators (KPIs) set by the administration for what it expected to achieve by the time its term ended. I tend to disagree to the scores Inquirer columnist Peter Wallace laid out in…

Development, Economy, Education

Leni Robredo’s #kakamPINK campaign aims to dumb down Filipino voters instead of uplifting the practice of democracy

October 20, 2021October 20, 2021 benign0 7 Comments

It is ironic that for all the Opposition harping about “democracy”, how it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, and how it supposedly delivers governments representative of a society’s greater good, it is their camp — specifically the leading Yellowtard bloc within it — that seems to be obsessed with dumbing down the discourse around…

Politics, Society

Memo to Robredo “pinklawans” and broader Yellowtard and commie camps: Marcos-vs-Aquino narrative has gotten OLD

October 20, 2021October 20, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 10 Comments

Do you actually believe Inquirer columnist and former Undersecretary Manuel L. Quezon III (MLQ3) when he posits that the collective political psyche of the Filipino revolves around what he refers to as the Marcos-Aquino blood feud? In his Inquirer piece today “Marcos Jr. biding his time”, MLQ3 goes even further to assert that “it was…

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Opposition infighting cancelling out Isko Moreno and Leni Robredo camps, paving the way for either a Marcos or Lacson win

October 20, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

Too much drama in the Opposition camp. The way Boo Chanco tells it in his PhilSTAR piece “Keep focused” smacks of historical revisionism. According to Chanco, the Reds “tricked” Cory into releasing them after she “ousted” Marcos. He should he call them out for what they really are — political opportunists prostituting their organizations. Their…

History, Politics

A return to post-1986 Yellowtard culture? Filipinos will have none of that and none of Leni Robredo

October 18, 2021October 18, 2021 benign0 17 Comments

Pitch her as anything but a “tyrant” and everything about being “pro-poor”, sugar, spice, and everything nice, whatever. Supporting “vice president” Leni Robredo means supporting a return to the Yellowtard society that the 1986 EDSA “revolution” ushered in. Robredo may bathe herself and her camp in pink today, much the same way they did in…

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