Netnet Camomot
WAKING up to a cool Saturday morning was bad for my to-do list. All I wanted was to go back to sleep. Zzzzz.
But awake I should be as this was the morning Philippine National Police Chief Bato dela Rosa was going to give a villain’s welcome to road rage suspect Vhon Tanto and teach him some boxing lessons.
So, there I was, waiting for its live coverage on Facebook. And dela Rosa didn’t disappoint as usual. But the actual boxing might have to wait, as his advice for Tanto was, Deep breath. To stop the rage from escalating to a shooting spree.
I told you, I’m now getting everything from FB—news, chika, movies. Yes, movies. I was able to watch “Me Before You” through an FB post.
But too much FB can be tiring. You start to notice more or less the same posts but packaged in some other way. It can get boring. Ho-hum. So, you switch to reading Yes!, like what you did on Friday night. Yeah, TGIF—Thank God, it’s Friday! You can read Yes! Har har.
With the newspapers already read and recycled, magazines are now piled on the chair beside the bed: two Yes! mags, several issues of Real Living, and a magazine with Bradley Cooper on the cover. The same Bradley whose presence at the US’s Democratic National Convention had some Republican netizens asking, Why is Chris Kyle there? Ah, haler, this was not “American Sniper.”
His Republican fans must have thought he and Kyle have the same political views. O my gas. Talk of the thin line between showbiz and politics.
The US will elect a new president in November. The Democrats have Hillary Clinton, and the Republicans have Donald Trump.
There are Pinoys who say better get a US visa now before Trump wins. He’s not friendly to immigrants. He promised to build a 1,000-mile fence along the US-Mexico border, to be paid by Mexico.
LA-based artist Plastic Jesus then built a tiny wall around Trump’s star at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, complete with razor wire and teeny weeny US flags on top, probably to help Americans imagine the exclusiveness of a Trump presidency?
Clinton, however, should be the more popular choice. She will be the US’s first lady president, and the first former First Lady to become president. If ever Chelsea will also become president someday, they will be the first family whose members have occupied the White House as presidents! Wow. That will be the day. As of now, though, there was Bill way back when, and there’s Hillary in November.
We also have a history in the making here in Pinas, care of Senate President Koko Pimentel whose father is former Senate President Nene Pimentel.
And there’s former President GMA and her father former President Diosdado Macapagal, and Immediate Past President PNoy and his mom former President Tita Cory. But this connection in their similar histories has not been enough for GMA and PNoy to be friendly with each other. At the meet-and-greet and photo ops before the National Security Council meeting where all the past living presidents were invited by President Rody Duterte to attend, PNoy didn’t even shake her hand. Awkward! Which proves there are friendships whose chances of revival are zero, nil, zilch.
There was a tropical depression hovering above some areas in Pinas last Saturday. Thus, the cool morning. And warnings of flash floods and landslides. If only Pag-asa could also predict the country’s other “weathers,” you know, such as, Chances of bigger fish getting caught amidst the flash flood of shabu raids.
Dela Rosa has been talking about supply and demand. With the supply now dwindling, thanks to the government’s aggressive campaign against drugs, the price of shabu could go up, and addicted Pinoys would hopefully stop buying, in case the war on drugs hasn’t convinced them yet to stop buying. Still, an addict will always find a way.
Being addicted to shabu and indulging in the shabu business in Pinas are now considered as suicide. Like wearing a red shirt in front of a raging bull. Or being the lone plankton in a sea of whales. Or the road rage suspect in a battalion of Dela Rosa’s clones. You’d rather not be the center of that much attention.
You have to wonder if the relentless campaign against drugs has a day off. Say, no cardboard justice on Sundays. To give the big fish a chance to go out of the cave and breathe. But relentless means non-stop, with everyone—the big fish, small fry, authorities—fully awake, no time to go Zzzzz.
