Digong, The President

[anonemus]

"Digong's victory speech last night was a marvel to behold, even on video. It was on semiotic overdrive. While recapitulating the usual themes of his campaign--the need to clean up the massive corruption in agencies such as Customs, Immigration, and BIR; the pledge to end the sale of illegal drugs by encouraging neighborhood vigilantes to arm and kill dealers, offering bounties for small and big time pushers alike; the need to bring back the death penalty, etc.--the speech inevitably found its way towards the usual targets from "imperial Manila."

At around 29:00 of the video, the fun begins. He launches his usual tirades against the bishops, liberally peppered with the usual cuss words uttered so crisp and clear they shattered into a thousand pieces as they hit the air, showering everyone with verbal shrapnel. Then at around 31:00, he turns ominously to the subject of the media, and talks about the assassinated (and according to him, corrupt low-life animal) Jun Pala and the great delight he took in hearing about his death (here, I need some help since my Cebuano is really rudimentary. FB Bisaya speakers, a more precise translation would really be appreciated!).

Shortly after this grisly tale, he recounts the personal hurt he felt about being asked by a reporter for his medical certificate. This request, which he probably took as casting doubt on his integrity, apparently cut such a deep wound. He considered it a grave personal insult to be questioned, as all candidates are, about their health and to be asked to produce medical proof. As he did with Mar during the campaign, he came back with a nasty retort, responding to the reporter with what he took to be a proportionally obscene remark: he asked him about his wife's vagina and whether it was smelly, whether she had vaginitis.

The vengeful--and ***ist--ribaldry produced the desired result: everyone in the crowd laughed, the women covering their mouths in mock modesty. He piled it on with a homophobic bit, recounting how he had earlier challenged Mar, when the latter asked him for his medical certificate, to a display of manliness by comparing their penis sizes, so certain was he that Mar's "otin" would be too tiny--proof that he was "bayot" or gay. Just check out the size of his ass, he says. The speech only ended when his young (grand)daughter came up to him, as she usually does, to remind him it was time to wind it down.

This speech leaves no doubt: Digong is a consummate story-teller whose personal experience, not abstract book learning or moral codes, constitute the substance of his tales and the source of his erstwhile wisdom. This is what he shares with the crowd: not any sort of policy proposal or political vision, but the residues of an injured pride and a frayed ego. He nurses resentments the way a gardner fertilizes his crops, making sure they mature to impressive growth. Roiling in a surplus of narcissistic injuries, he is not a man to forgive nor forget, but one who can't wait to take revenge for every perceived slight. To question him is to disrespect him, and you will pay what he alone will determine to be the appropriate price.

In Digong, the Philippines has a president from below--not the lower reaches of the social hierarchy, but from lower anatomical regions--where everything private is public, where the personal is immediately political, and where ***uality and violence mix as easily as cream and coffee. If he tilts in an authoritarian direction, he does so without the taking cover behind a veneer of respectability (indeed, the usual burgis criticism that he is bastos just backfires). Rather, he revels in his shamelessness, at least towards those he already loathes for disrespecting him even as he is careful not to offend his big time supporters, like the Marcoses.

At the end of the speech, he's forged a warm intimacy with his audience, drawing them into a vernacular circle of familiar jokes and shared hatreds. From daang matuwid to the seventh circle of hell."

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IMHO, Digong is setting up the conditions for a breakdown in peace and order.... thus giving him the reason to declare a crisis... and then ask for emergency powers.

[Altis6453]

How about the newly created DICT?


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Well, DICT was created by Executive Order...so it's powers are limited in the sense that it cannot impose any sanctions or punishment on telcos which are not provided by law. If Du30 is serious about this, he should make all internet and data services a regulated service (in terms of service level by telcos and rates prescribed) so that the public will benefit from speedier broadband services.

[kai s.]

Well, DICT was created by Executive Order...so it's powers are limited in the sense that it cannot impose any sanctions or punishment on telcos which are not provided by law. If Du30 is serious about this, he should make all internet and data services a regulated service (in terms of service level by telcos and rates prescribed) so that the public will benefit from speedier broadband services.

Actually, DICT was created by R.A. 10844, signed by PNoy a couple weeks ago. It's mandated to be the "primary planning, coordinating, implementing, regulating and administrative entity" of the government over the ICT sector. I just hope that the department is given teeth in the implementing rules and regulations, and that the incoming president appoints someone worthy to lead it.

[anonemus]

Bottom line is Digong's cronies made SMC sell its 700MHz band to Globe and PLDT, thus cementing the duopoly in the industry.


Even if a good DICT Secretary is appointed, his hands are already tied.

I suspect Duterte was duped by his cronies on this one

Check out *gracemirandilla's Tweet: Mary Grace M. Santos on Twitter: "Is competition dead? In my latest blog, I dissect the buyout of SMC's telco assets by PLDT and Globe https://t.co/quyW29KWgy #PHInternet"

[H1Tman]

Same old patronage politics.

[anonemus]

😁😁😁

[spearhead_970]

😁😁😁

[ClaNker]

Una utusan ang Civilian na pwede silang pumatay. Civil Unrest ang siste nito.

Pangalawa...

Assassination plot vs Duterte? Bring it on

Incoming Philippine National Police head Chief Supt. Ronald dela Rosa has dared drug lords allegedly planning to assassinate president-elect Rodrigo Duterte to “bring it on.”

“Last Monday I received information that over the weekend, drug lords detained in the New Bilibid Prison had a meeting to discuss their fund-raising effort to counter the P5-million offer of the mayor and will make him (Duterte) and me as their target,” said Dela Rosa, referring to a proposed bounty for killers of drug lords.

He said the drug lords currently at the NBP in Muntinlupa would pay P10 million to neutralize him and Duterte.

Pangatlo. Declare na ng Martial Law.

Style ni PGong bulok.

[dreamur]

Haha...galing ba ang intel nya sa facebook? Big time drug lords do not need to pool funds to hire an assassin.

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[shadow]

Bring it on my ass! Huwag siya magsama ng security details then sabihin niya yan

Parang mga tulfo brothers lang ang tatapang dami naman security.


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[anonemus]

Grabe nga yung security cordon. Warlord lang ang peg.

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I wonder where is macsd?



Sagot ng mga Dutertards

[anonemus]

Una utusan ang Civilian na pwede silang pumatay. Civil Unrest ang siste nito.

Pangalawa...

Assassination plot vs Duterte? Bring it on



Pangatlo. Declare na ng Martial Law.

Style ni PGong bulok.

Makes sense pero baka hindi Martial Law but Emergency Powers, like what GMA declared for Maguindanao after the Ampatuan Massacre.

There are two department secretaries who floated the idea of declaring crises and asking for emergency powers.

DOTC will declare a traffic crisis in Metro Manila to fast track procurement process and introduce new traffic measures.

DA will declare a state of agricultural calamity and allocate Php 30B to pump prime the sector.

Masyadong crisis-emergency power oriented itong si Digong. To ensure he will deliver in 6 months?

[claRkEnt]

^ attending summer classes reviewing proper use of HE'S/HIS, THEY'RE/THEIR, IT'S/ITS, etc....

[b_9904]

yes yes yes!

[ClaNker]

yes yes yes!

Link?

Hangang keyboard lang ang mga yan.

[claRkEnt]

Link?

Hangang keyboard lang ang mga yan.

http://themaharlikan.info/news/after...ath-threats-3/

[ClaNker]

http://themaharlikan.info/news/after...ath-threats-3/

Thanks.

Kumpleto pa ang details ng kupal sa FB nya.

[anonemus]

^ attending summer classes reviewing proper use of HE'S/HIS, THEY'RE/THEIR, IT'S/ITS, etc....

Huh? My statements?

[claRkEnt]

Huh? My statements?

not for the one above my post... supposed to be a reply to your previous post. you were looking for someone. hahaha

[anonemus]

not for the one above my post... supposed to be a reply to your previous post. you were looking for someone. hahaha

I get it, para kay pareng macsd 😁

Although sometimes I wonder if kagalingan is macsd? 😕