Interview interruptus

FACEBOOK used to take up much of my time but some posts there cause stress, so, I’m now on some kind of an FB detox: “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil,” as the Japanese proverb says.

The perks of spring cleaning, it also leads to decluttering the daily sked, giving me more of what truly matters.

And as if this truly matters, I slept at 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday night—or Thursday morning—after watching The Jessica Soho Presidential Interviews on YouTube.

Whenever people ask me who I’m voting for, I always say, Yorme Isko. Because I want to see a handsome face each time the president delivers his annual State of the Nation Address or the Sona although I’d rather call it as the SANA: State As if Nation ang ina-Address.

With the incumbent president rambling on and on in all his speeches, midnight pressers, and, yes, in his Sonas, it will be refreshing to watch a younger president who has no F and V in his alpabet, er, alphabet. Was that penis or finish? The pronunciation and grammar police will be busy. Instead of counting the number of times that ptng in* is uttered, they will keep track of the Fs and Vs that morphed into Ps and Bs. But with that handsome pace, er, face, even the most rabid pronunciation mafia won’t notice.

Besides, we did have a grammatically perfect president who was the greatest public speaker in this corner of the world, but look what he and his wife allegedly did to the national treasury, and now their son didn’t join Soho’s presidential interviews, giving the supposed bias against them as the reason for his absence. But he did agree to participate in the other interviews such as The 2022 Presidential One-on-One Interviews with Boy Abunda, and there will be more that he may or may not join, depending on how he defines bias.

VP Leni Robredo’s fans had a problem with how Abunda asked follow-up questions during the first part of the interview which gave the interviewee five minutes to reply. But he did the same for the other presidentiables—did their fans complain, too? Anyway, they should be thankful that Kris Aquino wasn’t his co-host otherwise the interview would have been all about Kris. In their ABS-CBN showbiz talk shows years ago, no matter who their guests were, we would always learn more about Kris as she rambled on and on about herself. Interview interruptus.

Since pink is now the new yellow… Oops! No. They insist pink is pink. And pink doesn’t fit the color of VP Leni’s skin tone. When she wears pink, I don’t see her—all I see is pink. The ballot should have “pink” there as one of the presidential candidates.

Sen. Manny Pacquiao is probably the most sincere among the presidentiables since all he wants to do is help people—give them free everything. As to where to get the money for that, let’s ask his economic advisers. He’s so sweet in the interviews, I could almost smell the aroma of his cologne, Polo Blue. And how do I know it’s Polo Blue? Because that was the only question I asked him during a meet-and-greet years ago.

The presidential interviews have been asking the same questions, I’ve already memorized some of the answers. VP Leni: “Para sa akin…” Yorme Isko: “At the end op the day…”

The future presidential debates will be interesting.

If the election were to be held today, we already know who will win, based on the recent surveys. For martial law survivors and the families of martial law victims, it’s an alarming result, a proof that the Pinoy hasn’t learned his lessons well.

Former Sen. Bongbong Marcos was a crush ng bayan in the ‘70s and ‘80s. The media was controlled then, and the newspapers’ front pages would always have his father’s and/or the first family’s photos, so, it was difficult to ignore their cuteness. His friends then were the kids of the powers that be, since that’s how the elite behaves—they socialize within their tight circle of connections, thus, constantly narrowing the network.

If he wins, will their friends make a comeback, too? Will the media be controlled again? And will his sons become the new crushes ng bayan?