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President Duterte’s 2021 SONA: not a “long goodbye” but more of a “to be continued”

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President Duterte’s 2021 SONA: not a “long goodbye” but more of a “to be continued”

Substance abuse. A columnist whose piece doesn’t have any, is guilty of abusing the reading public. Isn’t it naiveté to use Rappler‘s viewers as bases for assertions about the “declining” popularity of the President. Most pundits have come out with their post-SONA review. Opinions are divided along partisan lines of course. Inevitably the Opposition, like…

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Lacson-Sotto genuine Opposition the final nail in the coffin of the Yellowtards

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Lacson-Sotto genuine Opposition the final nail in the coffin of the Yellowtards

Inquirer columnist Manuel L Quezon III (MLQ3) makes much of the old political party conventions to select national candidates. In his piece today “Candidates looking for a reason” he writes about “what the absence of political party conventions tells about the state of our politics not just today, but for the past 40 years.” We’re…

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Politics

The Opposition’s futile milking of Noynoy Aquino’s death will destroy rather than build coalitions

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The Opposition’s futile milking of Noynoy Aquino’s death will destroy rather than build coalitions

I keep wondering about which planet Inquirer columnist Manuel L Quezon III (MLQ3) is on. It’s definitely not earth given the analysis he lays out in his piece “‘Obosen’”. First, what administration coalition is he talking about during the Aquino administration? According to MLQ3, “it was the breakup of the former president’s coalition that allowed…

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5-way presidential race emerging: Opposition under huge pressure to come up with disruptive but SMART platforms

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5-way presidential race emerging: Opposition under huge pressure to come up with disruptive but SMART platforms

In his piece “The Marcos maneuver”, Inquirer columnist Manuel L Quezon III (MLQ3) indulges himself with a bit of wishful thinking, hoping that the formidable administration coalition would break up and the Opposition taking back power in 2022. What Ferdinand Martin Romualdez could not say about Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. is that the former senator…

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The Philippine Opposition need a leader who is courageous enough to NOT HATE Duterte

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The Philippine Opposition need a leader who is courageous enough to NOT HATE Duterte

A “united opposition” is nice in theory but almost an impossibility in practice. What today’s Philippine Opposition are up against is the camp of an incumbent, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who remains enormously popular. This is in contrast to former President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III whose personal “Aquino” brand and his party’s “yellow” narrative…

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Dengvaxia debacle was not Duterte’s fault, requires more sober discussion

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Dengvaxia debacle was not Duterte’s fault, requires more sober discussion

The whole problem with the Dengvaxia issue (and other issues of national consequence for that matter) is that the focus of commentators is on personalities and pointing fingers at them. It also does not help that the pre-eminent Opposition “thought leaders” like Jim Paredes are leading the thinking down such a moronic path… Who really…

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Government, Politics

Philippine blogging and social media in the time of President Rodrigo Duterte

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Philippine blogging and social media in the time of President Rodrigo Duterte

Now that the smoke belched by Election 2016 has cleared people seem to be reflecting on what just happened. It seems some of them have taken to taking stock of the social media landscape to try to make sense of and possibly shed light into what exactly got into Filipino voters’ heads. The underlying thinking…

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Media, Politics, Society

Why political debate in the Philippines is dead

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Why political debate in the Philippines is dead

Back in 2008 when I was conscripted by Nick Cugtas, then “Editor-not-Chief” of the now-defunct pioneering blog site, Filipino Voices (FV) to contribute to his “wisdom of crowds” project, the Philippine blogosphere was far more dynamic and diverse. Twitter was not yet the in thing back then and, as such, the dumbing-down effect of having…

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