DIGONG’S EMPTY THREAT
"If they (the US) can't deliver at least 20 million doses (of anti-COVID-19 vaccine) at a minimum, they better get out. No vaccine, no stay here," declared President Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte.
He was referring to the Visiting Forces Agreement...
HISTORICAL IGNOMINY AWAITS DEL ROSARIO
REMINDERS - I am placing this segment at the beginning of this piece, hoping that the authorities concerned will stop ignoring (“dine-deadma”) the issues listed below:
1) IS THE US BACK IN SUBIC? – There was a report that the mainstream media...
DIGONG’S CREDIBILITY IN HIS ANTI-CORRUPTION DRIVE BADLY ERODED
President Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte told his Man Friday, Bong Go, now a senator of the Republic, “to act as if you are with the opposition” when it comes to corruption issues.
As one who voted for Digong as President...
THE SUPREME COURT AND THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL
President Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte’s alleged trip to Singapore the weekend before last has again given rise to speculations about his health.
Consequently, the matter of presidential succession again became the subject of much discussion in many quarters notwithstanding what...
HOW NOT TO TREAT A PATIENT
Dr. Tarcisio and Mrs. Reynes, in-laws of my eldest son, wrote me about the harrowing experience the family went through with the confinement of Tarcisio’s brother, Danilo, at the University of Perpetual Help Medical Center in Las Pinas, Metro Manila.
THERE’S NO ALTRUISM IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said Digong has done “great” in the last four years.
Hardly anyone will quarrel with that.
However, there is one thing where Digong has not done “great” after four long years –...
SURGE OF WHITE NATIONALISM
Kudos and thanks to ALL the companies, groups,
organizations and kind-hearted individuals for readily responding to President
Rodrigo Roa Duterte aka Digong’s appeal to help in alleviating the hardships
being suffered by the poor due to the lockdown of the entire...
VFA abrogation
Those who voted for Senate resolution 337
asking the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of President Rodrigo
Roa Duterte aka Digong’s unilateral termination of the VFA at least showed some
conviction on their part. If they lose, no one can claim that they...
MENDICANT MENTALITY
I
feel sick to the pit of my stomach whenever I hear or read about the argument
advanced by the critics of the termination of the VFA, including some senators
and congressmen who should know better, that we stand to lose US aid and
grants.
LOCSIN SHOULD BE FIRED
“The day (January 29) I said it, was the day I decided
it should be terminated.”
Thus did President Rodrigo Roa Duterte aka Digong
declare when he said he wanted the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the
United States scrapped.