It’s a bit sad to see Philippine Opposition “activists” and partisans looking longingly overseas as their counterparts in other countries mount impressive mass protests on their city streets. You could almost imagine Filipino “activists” wailing about how they “invented” street “revolutions” back in the 1980s and now have to suffer the indignity of being reduced to a mere bleachers crowd.
There’s something to be said about how the Yellowtards (the bloc of partisans rabidly-loyal to the Aquino-Cojuangco feudal clan) all but squandered the abundant political capital they once enjoyed. Over a period stretching from 1983 when former Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr was assassinated and crowned political saint through to the early- to mid-2000s, yellowtardism and its mob of “street parliamentarians” lorded over Philipine politics. Those heady days must have created the false sense of a bottomless well of silver or, shall we say, yellow bullets to “vanquish” any leader arbitrarilty slapped with the label “tyrant” or “fascist” by the one “thought leader” or another.
Unfortunately for the Yellowtards, this well of political capital ran dry long before they even realised it. It is no different to how the Philippines’ lush forests were denuded by the shortsightedness of a people who built an entire strategy on spending principal instead of living off interest. No different too to the baffling way Filipinos woke up one day surprised by a population that had suddenly ballooned to more than a hundred million. They just did not feel the rug being slowly pulled out from under their feet until it was too late.
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Most astounding of all, the Yellowtards and their communist comrades still don’t get it. Inciting the same old “people power” circuses continues to be a cornerstone of their political strategy. So addicted are they to this dishonest approach that they now even use a dead baby — Baby River — as the main protagonist of their latest Victim Porn production. How low can they get? Evidently this is the lowest so far having tried a dead former senator, his dead wife, and a dead Interior Secretary to prop up one quaint “movement” after another or one two-bit politician or the other.
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Small wonder that this motley group of commies, wokes, and prayerful “liberals” now forlornly look beyond Philippine borders with envy as protestors fill the streets from Bangkok to Hong Kong and from Seoul to the other side of the planet in Philly among other places. “Sana all”, they lament in their cultivated private Catholic school accents in between booger-crystallising sighs.
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Casino is a commie; a professional rally organizer, who is hired by the rightists and the leftists, to promote their political agendas. It is unfortunate that these people are more involved in promoting chaos , that nation building.
The Aquino Cojuangco political axis and the commie fronts , are responsible for all of these idiotic rallies, we have now. The late Cory Aquino, legalized the NPA/CPP in her first year of office. She even allowed them to participate in the “legislative works” , in our government. Yet, these commies are people, who wanted to overthrow the duly elected government; and make the Philippines, a communist country.
So, these commies were and are able to get funds from our government, thru the “Pork Barrel Funds”…they created many commie fronts; to use as “political agitators”, and to promote their political agendas…
Now, we are seeing the results of our being deluded, by the “EDSA fake revolution”…People are now addicted to EDSAs…
We need strong hands, to control these “out of control” commie fronts…jail all of them, if we can; and bring peace again to our country …if Martial Law is needed, so be it !