Candy crush ng bayan

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PNP Chief Bato dela Rosa cried. Marcos cried. Had Kerwin Espinosa cried, too, it would have been the most depressing Wednesday ever.

Wait, Marcos who? Nope, Marcos the Dictator didn’t resurrect on the third day after his burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Nor was it Imelda who did cry at her husband’s burial as a bayani.

Supt. Marvin Marcos cried at last Wednesday’s Senate hearing as he defended himself against Espinosa’s allegations.

If tears would flow again during Thursday’s congressional hearing, starring Ronnie Dayan, that simply proves Pinoys’ love for teleseryes.

When Dayan was presented to the media on Tuesday, one comment on its Facebook Live coverage was on his killer smile. Juice colored. He said his relationship with then Justice Secretary Leila de Lima lasted for seven years–thanks to the killer smile? If the Thursday hearing would produce a new crush ng bayan, good luck na lang!

Sandra Cam has threatened to show three sex videos with de Lima as the star, which could make the drug trade as one teleserye that no Pinoy scriptwriter has even dreamed of.

Watching these hearings could inspire one to play Candy Crush Soda–the only thing you need to analyze while playing the game is how to move forward to the next level. These hearings, on the other hand, keep you stuck with all the lies that they ram down your throat. An in-depth analysis stops you from moving forward, until you’re also crying along with Gen. Bato and Supt. Marcos.

Reading all those Facebook posts on the Pinoy drug trade may also have the same effect on you—can’t work, can’t eat, can’t take a shower. Yup, you’re now morphing into a drug addict, and that’s without taking a single sniff of shabu. Or it’s much like going through the five stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Since you’re now on the stage of depression, acceptance must be around the corner.

Last Wednesday happened to be the seventh anniversary of the Maguindanao Massacre, a case that continues to hover between solved and unsolved due to the large number of accused and victims, and this “feeling” that justice grinds ever so slowly in Pinas. Seven years have passed, and the Massacre case keeps going and going but not like the Energizer Bunny. At least that Bunny’s battery helps it play a bass drum.

President Rody Duterte’s presidential term will end in 2022. This means his administration now has less than six years to banish drugs to anywhere but here. With the Massacre case still ongoing for seven years, how to ensure this won’t happen to drugelated cases? That’s the P50-million question.

Espinosa said his annual gross sales could reach P50 million, and that’s for a distributor like him—he said he’s merely a distributor and not a drug lord.

This is not exactly easy money—the drug trade requires surviving through huge risks. Look at what the younger Espinosa had to go through before reaching the august halls of the Senate. He had to hide in other countries, his father was killed, and now that he has revealed the secrets to his business’s success, there could be more people not happy with his revelations.

He added that P20 million of that goes to SOP—standard operating procedure aka commissions, er, payola, er, payoffs to help people morph into the three wise monkeys that see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

Hey, any wise Pinoy would see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil when it comes to drugs, even without receiving a percentage of the SOP.

There was a time when an SOP was simply a procedure detailed in a corporate manual, to guide its employees and auditors on how things should be done. And if the SOP wasn’t effective anymore, the auditor could always recommend a better way.

In the drug industry, no need to write details in order to have no audit trail—that’s why Espinosa said he has no blue or pink book where he supposedly wrote details of his drug deals. Always pay in cash. And hide the cash in a vault as big as a house. An image of Scrooge McDuck diving into gold coins that are stored in his Money Bin comes to mind.

There are other illegal businesses aside from drugs and they follow the same rules. Drugs are the worst, though, due to the damage they could inflict to their users’ brains.

President Duterte had a press conference upon his arrival from abroad last Wednesday night. It was almost midnight and he still had the energy to justify Marcos’—the dictator, not the superintendent—burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. He asked two questions: Was he a president? Was he a soldier? And if the answer to both is yes, then, there you go. Oh, well.

A reporter told him that Gen. Bato cried in the Senate hearing, and this triggered his discussion on the narco-politics in Pinas.

I had to stop watching his arrival’s live coverage when the clock struck 12. Yup, a la Cinderella. But with no glass slipper to fit into later for the prince charming.

Now, is a prince charming the same as the crush ng bayan? O my gas.

Expect more hearings, more reveals, more morning-the-night press cons. This is not your usual Pinoy administration as it catches the bad guys, and then allows the bad guy of all bad guys to be buried as a bayani. Yup, confusing. Better watch Uncle Scrooge swim in gold coins, and wish your legal business can help you earn that much, too.