Tag: Sara Duterte

Sui Generis: Impeachment as more a political judgement exercise

February 7, 2025 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

Impeachment in the Philippines is unlike any ordinary court proceeding. It is a sui generis legal process defined by the 1987 Constitution, designed to hold high-ranking officials such as the President, Vice President, and Supreme Court Justices accountable for serious offenses—including betrayal of public trust, corruption, and violations of the Constitution. Although there are elements…

Politics

Sara Duterte IMPEACHED! Her father saw it coming back in 2019…

February 6, 2025 Ramon Ortoll 4 Comments

Then President Rodrigo Duterte’s warning way back in 2019 has now become reality with the impeachment of his daughter, current Vice President Inday Sara Duterte. Duterte on Monday warned Sara that the presidency will destroy her amid rumors she is positioning herself as his potential successor in 2022. He slammed “paid hacks” and “hyenas” in…

History, Politics

Why make being an oligarchy sound like such a bad thing?

January 1, 2025 benign0 6 Comments

Think what you may of the administration of President Bongbong Marcos. Whether you are a Dutertard or a Yellowtard, one thing’s certain: the Marcos presidency had single-handedly neutralised two polar camps of rabid cults of personality. The Yellowtards — worshippers of the clan of accidental “national hero” Ninoy Aquino — are now reduced to a…

Politics, Society

MELTDOWN! Sara Duterte’s lack of mental discipline is eroding her father’s vast political capital

November 27, 2024November 27, 2024 benign0 5 Comments

If nobody’s noticed yet, there is a common denominator argument used across the board in the Philippines’ national “debate”, and that is that politicians on the other camp are “power-hungry crooks” out to “steal from Filipino taxpayers”. Whether one is a Yellowtard, a Marcostard, a Dutertard, or a commie terrorist, the argument is that or…

Politics

Vice President Sara Duterte shouldn’t have said those things

November 25, 2024November 26, 2024 benign0 7 Comments

This is, after all, an age when even “harmless” jokes can get you in trouble with HR at the office. What Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte did in what came across as a grave threat against Philippine President Bongbong Marcos is inexcusable. Duterte, after all, is second in line to the top job. Indeed, the…

Culture, Politics, Society

Vice President Sara Duterte echoes Yellow-Commie call to dig up Marcos remains!

October 19, 2024October 19, 2024 Ramon Ortoll 8 Comments

Vice President Inday Sara Duterte made her own bed and she should lie in it. Her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte (PRRD) wasn’t short on advice to her in the lead up to the 2022 elections where Inday teamed up with then presidential candidate (now President) Bongbong Marcos. PRRD needed to be protected from his…

Politics

Philippine politicians and oligarchs are all crass — whether they be a Marcos, an Aquino, or a Duterte or any one of their minions

September 19, 2024 benign0 15 Comments

The only bunch of people who are really confused about where their place is in the Philippines’ political landscape are — you guessed it — the Yellowtards. These people are the country’s political parasites. They deliberately do not commit to a stable ideological framework because they need to maintain a high degree of fluidity in…

Culture, Politics, Society

Philippine society elite ridicule Vice President Sara Duterte’s Visayan accent

September 1, 2024 Ramon Ortoll 2 Comments

Remember how the ouster of former President Joseph ‘Erap’ Estrada was engineered by the Yellowidiots led by former presidents Fidel ‘Tabako’ Ramos and Cory Aquino in 2001? Then when former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) and Cory got into a tiff over Hacienda Luisita, the Yellowidiots turned against GMA and began a demolition job on…

Media, Society