Posted something days ago but it’s in the moderation queue. Still waiting for it to show up. Probably because I used a word that began with b and ended with d.
Basically Duterte is a terrible person and leader who got the position by using the illegal drug trade like Hitler did Jews. Scapegoat strawmen for what’s wrong with the country, with a lot of innocent blood spilled, including kids. His own son was implicated in a drug deal and he did nothing.
Then he’s a suck-up to the dictator Marcos and his family who probably funded his presidential campaign. Buried him as a hero after all the corruption and deaths, and after he faked being a WW2 hero which was debunked. Marcos Jr. is gunning for the vice presidency through electoral protest with his approval/cooperation because our semi-feudal favor/patronage system is hell.
He changed nothing, just killed more people and made it worse for the living. The economy is falling by the day and the poor are the first to suffer. The people his cops kill are the poor, not the rich fat cat drug lords you see in movies.
Then there’s his cozying up with China, which has been muscling in on our territory in defiance of the UN, contrary to his campaign promises that he’d defy them personally, and with poor fishermen being deprived of their catch by Chinese ships.
Then there’s his machinery of fake news/propaganda/social media cheerleaders. When he was mayor of Davao City, he was notorious for abetting vigilante executioners called the “Davao Death Squad” or DDS. His people have transformed DDS into “Duterte Defender Squad” or something that trivializes murder. And contrary to propaganda, Davao was never crime-free or drug-free under him. Now his daughter runs the place. Political dynasties are a big problem in the system.
Christ himself called Satan the father of lies who was a murderer from the beginning. Know people by their works.