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Tag Archives: Elections 2022
Do we want Robin Padilla in the Senate?
Actor Robin Padilla assails political dynasties, yet he endorsed the candidacies of the Duterte children.
Did Bongbong Marcos admit addiction treatment?
When one aspires to be president of the country, it is correct to assume that one must submit one’s self to public scrutiny. A presidential candidate is fair game and running for chief executive must be treated as a job interview before the sovereign people.
Who will save us this time?
When the first Ferdinand Marcos was ousted from power almost a month short of forty years today, the Philippines could have been plunged into civil war.
Comelec quick response foils site-hacking report from becoming a problem
So many things were not quite right in the Manila Bulletin news report about the alleged hacking of the Commission on Election (Comelec) website.
Is Bongbong Marcos peaking too early?
Latest election surveys showed that if elections were held today, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. would be the 17th president of the Republic of the Philippines.
From ‘Babango’ to ‘Babangon’: Tales of gold
I am told, over and over, that one of the reasons why Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr is so high up in the polls is because millions of Filipinos have been made to believe in the “Marcos gold”.
Death and taxes and Marcos
As the second year of COVID-19 comes to a close, we Filipinos are learning to accept the reality that there is more than just death and taxes that are inevitable in life. In the Philippines, at least.
Will Tiktok decide the 2022 elections?
You’ll be astounded by the staggering numbers when you Google the number of TikTok accounts the Marcoses and their supporters have. Even more confounding is the exponential capacity of those accounts to share posts.
BLIP ML
When I pick up a political conversation with the Omicron Generation and talk turns to Marcos and Martial Law, I either end up answering questions about how it was during the ML years or end up as if I were talking to a blank wall.