Caution and character

Butch Bagabuyo

“The great hope of society is individual character.” -Channing

DAVAO Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte displayed utmost caution and exemplary character when he filed his certificate of candidacy only as substitute candidate of the PDP-Laban for the presidency knowing full well that the teeming millions of Mindanaoans persistently clamored for him because he and all knew that he did not have enough money to engage a presidential run. Precisely because Mayor Digong showed unmatched character, immediately thereafter, “Super Digong” Duterte took the country by storm causing panic among the trapos and all the other presidential candidates.

“Du30” did it first. No one else before him has done it before. Du30 pa more!

Because independent online news Yahoo and Rappler as well as social media, mainly Facebook and Twitter, have taken over information technology, the twin dummies of big business and the trapos in the Philippines, SWS and Pulse Asia, were forced to come out with caution. Recently, both mercenaries dished out a “statistical tie” kuno between Grace Poe Llamanzares, a Filipino foundling but not a natural-born Filipino, and our man Duterte only for survival. Otherwise, they’ll go out of the lucrative business of trending, maliciously making it appear that there is an ensuing close fight between the four presidential bets when the truth is otherwise.

Because the netizens which used to be the exclusive domain of only the youth (teenagers and above but not over 30 years old) are now tremendously bolstered by the repentant seniors (60 years old and older, and those who could have made a difference during our time if only greed and insensibility did not hinder us from sharing and loving our neighbors), truths are now made available for free 24/7 in social media.

The reason is simple.

While the youth are burning their night candles up to the wee hours, as a matter of saying, the repentant seniors take over the Internet without out let-up from sunrise to sunset providing the world with insights on the historical past and its implications.

Consequently, here are the undeniable facts:

• Because debilitating greed blocks the truth, trending is the name of their nefarious business. Take the so-called statistical tie between the Filipino foundling but not a natural-born Filipino pursuant to the 1987 Constitution and Duterte, the super rockstar phenomenon in the country today. Without any basis at all but avarice, False Asia, rather Pulse Asia, says the Filipino foundling named Grace, has earned 26 percent of voter preference while Duterte, the man of the hour, is given only 25 percent.

But why? Everybody knows that Mayor Duterte has no money of his own to finance a national campaign yet everywhere he goes, he is mobbed by adoring women of all walks and ages, just like many other super rockstars.

Despite the billions of pesos spent on advertisements only, the Filipino foundling named Grace, who looks like the unlamented late dictator named Ferdinand E. Marcos, could hardly gather a sizeable “hakot” crowd.

• Let us go father and investigate the so-called findings by the dummy social survey taker kuno–they shamelessly gave Grace 15 percent of the possible votes in Mindanao but gave Duterte only 46 percent when Youtube showed chanting and cheering crowds estimated to be no less than 60 percent wherever Duterte holds rallies.

How can Poe-Llamanzares be second placer in Mindanao when Mindanaoans know that she was nowhere to be found when her famous adoptive father, FPJ, campaigned for the presidency? Wa mo kyapi!

• How stupid can Pulse Asia (read: False Asia) depict Mayor Duterte as the last placer in the Visayas when Cebu-speaking Visayans love and adore Duterte not only because of his bravery in changing the “killing fields” image of Davao into the 4th safest city in the world. Because Mayor Duterte was born in Maasin, Leyte, while his father comes from voteich Cebu, how can anybody believe that a foundling found (intentionally, they say) in the old Jaro Church in Iloilo but has not live in that place ever since nor could speak Cebuano, secure more votes than a native with a good name and awesome charisma like Super Digong? Is that not the height of insanity?

This is not even to mention the undeniable fact that in the recent presidential debate, Duterte showed class and elegance, a sui generis, while Grace, the foundling Filipino, was given “a nevermind score” even against the perceived plunderer VP Binay and the incompetent like no other, Mar Roxas of natuwad nga dalan. Wala sila kyapi?

• So much of the nonsense by the dummies of big business and the trapos. Let us narrate a recent glaring fact published worldwide by social media, Youtube especially. Because God is good, despite lack of funds, Duterte, the next and unstoppable president of our country, is swarmed by adoring people from all walks of life as well as all ages, be it in centers of population or even in the forgotten and remote areas in the likes of the tiny sweet lanzones island of Camiguin. Thanks to the stupidity of some politicians there, now we all know that in Camiguin, the illegal harassments employed by the dirty and ugly politicians, as opposed to the good Romualdo, backfired on them.

In fact, because the Romualdos were not contented with the non-issuance of a rally permit and the cutting off of electricity in the proposed rally area, they even went as far as threatening physical harm as well as the delisting of the beneficiaries of the 4s – the people’s financial support to the poorest of the poor – all those found attending the “standing-cheering-chanting-onlyally” of Duterte right in front of the Romualdo mansion.

• The Camiguingnons were so excited and fired up that when the chopper of Mayor Duterte arrived, Camiguingnons rushed up to the chopper like nobody else’s business and joyfully took “selfies” with the good mayor from Davao who gamely accommodated them all. And now that the dust brought about by the landing of the eagle has settled in, a loud and lingering clamor for radical change, never ever made in that small island of sweet lanzones and beautiful people but chained for decades by the Romualdo dynasty, who were themselves poor before they forcibly rid the government coffers of Camiguin, as sworn by Camiguingnons. There is now good reason to believe that the good Romualdo-Jaudian Team will sweep the May 9, 2016 elections despite lacking in funds because the Duterte visit was worth more than any amount of money the ugly Romualdos can buy.

Further, the Camiguingnons are now busy perfecting the art known as “kopras” – receiving the money intended to buy votes but voting according to their conscience. In fact, because of the uncommon heroics of Duterte, no one shall ever believe that the Team Duterte-Cayetano as well as the good Romualdo-Jaudian Team shall not win by a landslide in Camiguin come May 9, 2016. Sayang, si Bono! (to be continued)