We beg to differ.
It is really no wonder why Vice President Inday Sara Zimmerman Duterte Carpio has not said a word about the incident involving a Chinese Coast Guard vessel shooting a water cannon at a Philippine Coast Guard Vessel. While it is tempting to say that VP Inday’s loyalty really belongs to the People’s Republic of China,…
You wonder what sorts of shriveled brains produce the logic that the Opposition — still dominated by leaders of the Yellowtard-Communist Axis — apply to the issue of the Philippine Government response to the latest South China Sea incident. Not even the editor of Yellowtard newsletter Inquirer can resist the call for a bit of…
At first it seems baffling that the Philippines continues to suffer the same problems it had suffered over more than half a century after it was granted independence by the United States in 1946. The same inability to innovate, build industrial capacity that matches its enormous population, and move from labour-added-value up the food chain…
At perhaps no other point in this country’s history as somewhat of a democracy, we have a Vice President hogging 13 percent of our country’s Php 5.768 trillion national budget for 2024. According to various reports the Department of Education proposed a Php 758.6 billion, the Office of the Vice President proposed a budget of…
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This may sound like a silly question considering that the majority of Filipinos still troop to Sunday masses and fete priests like celebrities at social gatherings. They come to them for advise, delegate to them their children’s education, hold on to every word they utter during their homilies, and whisper their darkest thoughts and most…
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Filipino neoliberals seem to be obsessed with the victim mindset. In his recent Inquirer column, Randy David describes Americans voting for former President Donald Trump as flirting with one-man rule because of the possibility that Trump might win again in 2024. “This,” David writes to punctuate his point, “is how dictatorships are born—often on the…
Followers of the politico-theological super cult created by former president Rodrigo Duterte and pastor Apollo Quiboloy are in despair over the waning political career of Vice President Inday Sara Zimmerman Duterte Carpio. Still addicted to the gravy train of power and money that flowed during the Duterte presidency, a huge number of them are worried…
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Although we see Vice President Inday Sara Zimmerman Duterte Carpio’s power and influence waning, I am writing this as a thought experiment of sorts just to emphasize the dangers of electing a pro-totalitarian candidate as President. It is important to note that the Philippines and North Korea are two distinct countries with different political systems,…
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