Tag: rodrigo duterte

Going senile? Duterte’s popguns ablaze vs BBM in support of sidekick Bong Go!

November 19, 2021 benign0 42 Comments

Gloves are off! President Rodrigo Duterte is now launching a full attack on Partido Federalismo presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos who is running in tandem with Lakas-CMD vice presidential candidate Sara Duterte, the president’s daughter. As expected, Opposition partisans are watching this unfolding saga closely with many of them now latching on to every bit of…

Politics

The Dutertes need to ditch Bong Go to secure their legacy and assure their place in Philippine history

November 15, 2021 benign0 38 Comments

A united camp once regarded as inclusive of both supporters of Bongbong Marcos and those of the Duterte family is no more thanks to events that transpired over the weekend. Sara Duterte’s filing of candidacy for vice president under Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s Lakas-CMD party was regarded by many as her move to run in tandem with…

Politics

An unconventional proposal to save all versions of Filipino democracy

October 31, 2021October 31, 2021 FallenAngel 15 Comments

For anyone who has been observing the Philippine political scene long enough, it is not hard to come to the conclusion that regardless of who wins the presidential election, Filipinos will remain the same mediocre, divided, and self-interested collection of disjoint tribes that they’ve always been. The term of Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino was marked…

Civics, Development, Media, Politics

Bongbong Marcos set to vindicate his father in what is to become his family’s FINAL battle with the Yellowtards

October 26, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 19 Comments

Inquirer columnist Richard Heydarian gets it wrong again in his piece “Why the Marcos brand remains popular”. True to his drumroll style of writing where he first goes at length into some historical context for the point he would later make way way towards the end of his blurb, Heydarian starts by showing off his…

History, Politics

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

Duterte SLAM-DUNK throws Yellowtard “Opposition” in chaos, forces Robredo to run for president!

October 3, 2021October 5, 2021 benign0 8 Comments

It is clearly evident now that the Opposition led by the Yellowtards (the bloc within it rabidly loyal to the Aquino-Cojuangco clan) and their lackeys in Big Corporate Media have been taken for a ride by the camp of incumbent President Rodrigo Duterte. Months of seeming “chaos” within their loose community of family and party…

Politics

Duterte’s unfinished business and the clear plan for 2022 to 2028 that the Opposition LACKS

September 28, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 3 Comments

One of the items on Rodrigo Duterte’s platform of government in 2016 was federalism. This has remained unfulfilled largely due to the Senate being the stumbling block to constitutional amendments. The 1987 Constitution doesn’t state explicitly of both houses of Congress voting as one or both, with a 3/4 majority is required to deem an…

Government, Politics

UP academic Clarita Carlos: convene a team of scholars to SCIENTIFICALLY assess The Marcos Years

September 19, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 33 Comments

This is an excellent proposal by one of the few objective academicians of the University of the Philippines, retired political science professor Clarita Carlos. On a Facebook post, she articulates her idea of convening a team of scholars to mount a “scientific” evaluation of the 21 years that Ferdinand Marcos ruled the Philippines… Quite troubling…

History, Politics