Metro Philippiness

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 – his promise to rid the country of foreign troops and...

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 Luzon to prevent the spread of COVID-19. I...

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 hedged their bet.  Those...

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.   This is sad because it...

“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.  Surely, Digong’s foreign secretary, Teodoro “Tweeterboy” Locsin, Jr. knew this.  Why...

Ex-President Fidel Ramos, during whose term the onerous water concession contracts with Ayala’s Manila Water and Pangilinan’s Maynilad were forged, said “Our word must be our bond”.  “Our word” or “his word”?  He was the president.  He had the final say on whether the contracts should go through or...

Teodoro ‘‘Tweeterboy” Locsin, Jr., the oligarch and elitist foreign secretary of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte aka Digong, has been severely criticized by several sectors of society, particularly the media, for tweeting expletives at a couple of reporters.  After Jhennet Enano of Inquirer reported that Digong skipped the last event of the recent...

(After ranting and raving mad about the UNHRC resolution, Locsin now says the vote is a “small and harmless” matter.)  It is now patently obvious that Foreign Secretary Teodoro “Tweeterboy” Locsin, Jr. is a person with a very brave, sometimes filthy, mouth.  I will refrain from giving past instances to illustrate...