Dear GRP Insiders,
Hope you had excellent weekends following the craziness of “Black Friday” (that occasion being an American invention, by the way).
Regards,
benign0
In review and in prospect
An uneventful week if it weren't for the new coronavirus variant ripping through. Just rumours that presidential candidate Bong Go might be pulling out of the race, some PR events — many of them gaffes and failures to launch — on the Opposition front, and more infighting between the Yellowtards and the communists. The latter follows presidential candidate Leni Robredo attending an Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) security briefing where she dithered on a previous position she took on the future of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) under her administration if she was to win the presidency. This further angered communist “activists” and partisans who see this as a betrayal of the Yellowtards’ supposed hard-line position on the “evil” of the government’s anti-terror campaign. The in-fighting persists.
The only thing hanging at this point is with regard to rumours that presidential candidate Bong Go will be withdrawing from the race leaving Bongbong Marcos the remaining single administration camp presidential candidate. These were sparked by vague statements he issued last week. Nothing in the way of further clarification or actual actions following this have since been observed. It is also not clear how the public relations fallout caused by the statements issued by President Rodrigo Duterte against Marcos had contributed to these developments. Duterte had hinted that Marcos is a cocaine addict and had also called him a “weak” leader. This divided what was once a relatively solid pro-administration camp.
Last week's blog posts
Politics
Why Bongbong Marcos should stop campaigning RIGHT NOW
November 26, 2021 by benign0
"Marcos continues to top the polls, specifically in two Publicus surveys and one conducted by SWS. Marcos topped them all despite Robredo and her 'KakamPink' following mounting one of the shrillest campaigns in Philippine history."
November 25, 2021 by benign0
"A presidential candidate acting like an idiot in a video because she seeks an audience with the poor may just as well be saying that the poor are idiots."
Leni Robredo’s PR team are out of control
November 25, 2021 by benign0
"Monumental cringe, right? What were Leni Robredo’s handlers thinking? What was Robredo thinking agreeing to do this?"
Gigantic murals of Leni Robredo are DISHONEST stunts that insult the intelligence of Filipino voters
November 23, 2021 by benign0
"These are tools for the sorts of myth-making the Yellowtard bloc of the Opposition are particularly known for and, as seen today, hopelessly rely on to prop up political profile that is devoid of both substance and authenticity."
Philosophy
November 24, 2021 by ChinoF
"What happens when socialism actually gets applied so fervently is that redistribution becomes middle-class to poor, not rich to poor; but the rich steal the credit for it. The rich actually stay rich despite redistribution policies..."