AGOT Isidro, TV actress and singer, cited three points in a Twitter post addressed to President Duterte last Friday, which created a storm by Sunday:
-- No one’s “trying to fight you... you are the one who’s picking a fight.”
-- The country that elected him (by 16 million votes out of 100 million people) is “Third World” and he talks as if the Philippines were a superpower. “Excuse me, we don’t want to go hungry. If you want, do it yourself.”
-- She has a psychiatrist friend, “patingin ka, hindi ka bipolar, you are a psychopath.” Agot, 50 last July, whose birth name is Maria Margarita Amada Fteha Isidron, is a U.P. Diliman interior design graduate and studied fashion design & merchandising in New York, and also said to have finished a master’s degree in communication at Ateneo de Manila.
But she’s not a doctor and was not qualified to call Duterte “not a bipolar but a psychopath.” And the psychiatrist she recommended for the president still hadn’t examined him.
In diagnosing Duterte as a psychopath, Agot may be displaying the behavior she doesn’t like to see in world leaders who call others “stupid” or “ulol” or “son-of-a-whore.”
The French newspaper, Liberation, that tagged Duterte a “serial killer” still has to explain how he could be compared to chiefs of state like Idi Amin. The “butcher of Uganda” allegedly ordered the killing of 300,000 people during his presidency. The illegal executions in the Philippines still have to reach 4,000.
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Bill’s women
Four women were presented at yesterday’s (Sunday night in U.S.) pre-debate press-con and talked about the philandering past of Bill Clinton. But Hillary is the one running for president.
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Losing just ‘crumbs’?
The aid that the country has been getting from the U.S. is described by Duterte as “crumbs.” “Mamili kayo -- the crumbs of the favor of other nations, we just depend on their assistance or we make a stand that this country must survive...”
Earlier, he also admitted that if we would sever our close ties with the U.S., we would suffer “a bit.”
Maybe, the government and the private sector should tell the public what and how much precisely the country would lose if it would no longer be an ally of the U.S. Let the people decide if it’s just “crumbs” we’d lose and a “bit” that we’d suffer.
The U.S. that Duterte wants to go to hell reportedly contributed as Yolanda aid by 2014 nearly $143 million (or P6.4 billion) and more was still coming. The European Union that the president wants to send to purgatory benefit our country US$13 billion through the preferential status to 6,800 PH products.
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