In an ironic twist of fate, former United States president Donald Trump is now basking in the limelight following his survival of an assassination attempt over the weekend. The Colonial Master’s politics now mirrors the necropolitics of its Mini-Me in southeast Asia — except that the beneficiary of the violence lived to fight on. CNN reports…
With a white bandage over the ear clipped just two days earlier by an attempted assassin’s bullet, Donald Trump stole the show when he made his first public appearance since the shooting on the opening night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Trump joined the man he’d chosen hours earlier as his vice presidential running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, in a box in the 10 p.m. Eastern time hour for Monday night’s final speeches.
The crowd chanted “fight” — the word a bloody-faced Trump had shouted several times, while pumping his fist in the air, as the Secret Service rushed him off the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday.
It was just a small eternity ago that a similar “fight” (Laban!, in Tagalog) rhetoric created the cringy political mythology that would plunge the Philippines in an idolatrous stupor that would go on to span more than three decades. The assassination of former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. in 1983 set the stage for the ouster of then President Ferdinand E. Marcos and usher in the Philippines’ Yellowtard era. This was an era of limp-dicked nationalism characterised by martyrs-as-hero idols (chief of whom was the now-late former Senator), the release of communist rebels many Filipino soldiers worked hard to track and capture, the accelerated decline of the Philippine military’s fighting capability, and the erosion of Filipinos’ English language proficiency.
Interestingly, there seemed to be no real will to walk the “fight” in the Yellowtard talk. For that, the Yellowtards relied on their chums in the New People’s Army (NPA) — the terrorist arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines — to walk their talk. Not that the NPA were any more effective. The NPA had evidently seen the back of their glory days and, in recent years, languished as a sad nuisance side show in the Philippines. To cite a recent example of the lameness of the Yellowtard “fight”, the campaign of former Vice President Leni Robredo who put in a competing bid for the presidency in the lead up to the 2022 elections flew a pink banner and used misguided gender ideology as pillars to their efforts to woo what remains an essentially conservative society. Not surprisingly, that whole approach failed catastrophically.
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So now Filipinos now find Father America on a similar boat. But this time it is the “bad guys” who are deftly engineering a public perception that is making the liberals shit their pants. Even more ironic, they now call for unity as Reuters reports…
U.S. President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign quickly upended its strategy after an assassination attempt on Republican rival Donald Trump in western Pennsylvania, calling off verbal attacks on the former president to focus instead on a message of unity.
Within hours of Saturday’s shooting, Biden’s campaign was pulling down television ads and suspending other political communications, including those that had highlighted Trump’s May felony conviction in New York state court relating to hush money paid to a porn star to avert a sex scandal before the 2016 U.S. election.
“We must unite as one nation,” Biden said in White House remarks on Sunday, adding he would have an Oval Office address in the evening. Biden condemned political violence again, as he did on Saturday night, and asked Americans to “let the FBI do their job.”
The US has turned into Bizzarro Philippines — the Republicans shouting Laban! and the Democrats calling for “unity”.
benign0 is the Webmaster of GetRealPhilippines.com.
It’s amazing that Trump almost was killed, went to a hospital to get treated, flew to New Jersey, then to Milwaukee for the RNC Convention. Unlike your politicians, Trump has shown the world that he is a true Alpha-Male. Can’t say that about pinoy politicians. Colonial master? What the fuck is your issue about the United States? It’s your government that created the mess, not the United States. Now, US troops are stationed at NINE pinoy bases. Why? Because of your government. YOU are the problem, not the United States.
I suppose making an assertion based only on assumption isn’t critical thinking!
The Philippines, technically, is not even included in the list of Countries with the most number of US bases nor in the list of Countries with the most number of US troops.
https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/INTERACTIVE-US-military-presence-around-the-world.png?w=770&resize=770%2C770&quality=80
yellowtards, NPA, DDShits, BBMers or whatever your political parties are, the Philippine constitution made the country weak. The late Miriam Defensor-Santiago was right that the country has no ideology. If she was president she will dissolve all parties and only 2 parties will be formed: conservative and progressive.
America divided and conquered. What’s the next move by the ruled?
Again with the apples and oranges comparison, what we need is to avoid conflict at all costs, and how can we do that when chinese communists as well as ccp shills like the author spread shit like this and blame anything but themselves lol.
you and your “recall” posts on X don’t seem to get the traction you wanted? Wumao
Superb comparison and I love the mannerism in which the dead was resurrected.
More proof of this site’s trash views and benign0’s failures.
The Donald did nothing wrong and all of these comparisons of America with the Philippines is proof of benign0’s colonial mentality.
How much better we would be if we had the Donald as our President, not the cocaine addict in chief and his demon wife. Better if Senator Armstrong.