thero67

Critical thinker, likes to watch One-Punch Man

[Barry Gutierrez @barrygutierrez3]

Daming kwento tungkol sa future Senator na nag name-drop sa isang rally nung estudyante pa siya para huwag ma-aresto. Here's the original article in the Philippine Collegian about it. Sorry kung mahirap basahin, zoom in na lang. 🙂

[Leila de Lima @manayleila]

I refuse to support a law that effectively institutionalizes political dynasties!

I vote NO to House Bill No. 8389 or the “Anti-Political Dynasty Act.”

HB 8389 is not a true or genuine anti-dynasty law, but rather a dynasty legitimization act.

First: The bill has no succession ban. A governor can be succeeded by a spouse, who can be succeeded by a child, who can be succeeded by a sibling – indefinitely, legally, under this bill. 

Second: The bill permits a governor, a mayor, and a Representative from the same family governing the same province simultaneously, as it only prohibits relatives from holding office within the same level of government, not within the same territory. 

Third: The bill permits multiple congressional districts controlled by one family within the same province. Three adjacent districts, three relatives, all voting for the same party line: legal. Exactly as it operates today. Nothing changes.

Fourth: The bill neither covers party-list representatives as protected positions nor references incumbents. Therefore, a senator's son or daughter can be nominated and serve as a party-list representative – perfectly legal under this bill

Fifth: The bill limits the prohibition to relatives within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, covering spouses, parents, children, and siblings. However, this second-degree prohibition excludes broader kinship networks, such as grandparents, first cousins, uncles, aunts, nieces, and nephews, through which dynastic power is often exercised. Limiting the prohibition to only the second degree narrows the reach of the law and allows extended family networks, which remain close-knit in Philippine culture, to continue operating within the same political sphere.

Sixth: The bill does not address, hence, permits substitution, caretaker designation, and every indirect route to office. The prohibition under this bill covers only direct candidacy, not the back doors.

The Filipino people have been waiting for this law since 1987. Tatlumpu't siyam na taon. 

We can do better than this. We can pass a law worthy of the wait. A law the framers of the 1987 Constitution would recognize as the fulfillment of their mandate, not a betrayal of it.

I vote NO to HB 8389, not because I oppose anti-dynasty legislation. I vote NO precisely because I support it. I refuse to support a law that effectively institutionalizes political dynasties.

The Filipino people deserve better. The Constitution demands better. We can do better.

[Jesus Falcis 🇵🇭 @jesusfalcis]

Alan Peter Cayetano Resign!

Make it trend.
Make it real.
Make it happen.

🙏

#AlanPeterCayetanoResign

[Karen Davila @iamkarendavila]

Absolute disrespect for the Filipino people. What entitlement.

Mag-boycott tayo.
Huwag mag trabaho.
Hayaan natin ang mga nakabinbing panukala.

Mga senador, binabayaran kayo ng taumbayan. Pambabastos ito sa Pilipino.

[Heidi Mendoza @HeidiMendoza45]

Sorry,

Hindi ko kayang pasalamatan ka kung personal mong desisyon na huwag kang kumuha ng sweldo.

Ano ka, hilo?

Sobrang entitled lang na parang utang na loob pa ng bayan na “nagsakripisyo” ka dahil hindi ka raw susweldo.

Hindi kaya na-advance mo na, kasama na ang retirement, at may sobra pa?

Hiniya mo naman lahat ng auditor ng PDAF at imbestigador ng Ombudsman sa sinasabi mong prinsipyo na handa mong panindigan.

Nakikiusap lang ako: matagal ka nang wala sa pinilakang tabing. Hindi bagay ang acting!

[Karen Davila @iamkarendavila]

Senators were seen crying yesterday as a colleague was being arrested for plunder.

This is in no way an indictment of the accused senator but I would like to remind our lawmakers…

Iyakan n’yo ang ninanakawang Pilipino.
Iyakan n’yo ang binabaha dahil sa nakawan sa flood control.
Iyakan n’yo ang gutom nating mga kababayan.

Get out of your bubble. Please.

[Edwin Lacierda @dawende]

SEN. MARCOLETA AND THE PROBLEM WITH RULES, NUMBERS, AND STRATEGY

Fresh from being corrected by Senator Tito Sotto on the Senate rules, Senator Marcoleta offered another remarkable lesson and this time, not on parliamentary procedure but on the difference between knowing a rule and understanding how it actually works.

He claimed that senators who walked out could have been arrested and compelled to return because the Senate rules allow it.

He presents the majority's decision not to trigger the arrest as an act of restraint, even magnanimity.

That is an interesting claim.

But before taking credit for not arresting the senators, there is a more basic question:

Who exactly was going to order the arrest?

The Senate can only conduct business if it has a quorum. Without a quorum, the body cannot validly proceed with its business.

And here lies the problem.

If senators walked out in sufficient numbers to deprive the chamber of a quorum, then the majority no longer had the numbers to proceed. No quorum means no meaningful business. No quorum means no votes. No votes means no practical mechanism to exercise the powers he invoked.

Which brings us to the second and more revealing problem: strategy.

The issue before the Senate was electronic voting.

The objective was to persuade enough senators to support it.

So how exactly does threatening to arrest the very senators whose votes you need advance that objective?

Politics is ultimately a numbers game. If you need votes, your task is to build a majority. You persuade, negotiate and build consensus.

You do not threaten to jail the people whose support you seek to obtain. That is not strategy. The arrest would have been a Pyrrhic victory.

Even assuming the power existed, exercising it would only harden the opposition and deepen the division. Pray tell, how then does that make achieving the vote more attainable?

What Senator Marcoleta’s statement reveals is not strength. It reveals two fundamental misunderstandings.

First, a misunderstanding of parliamentary reality. Rules do not operate independently of quorum and votes.

Second, a misunderstanding of political strategy. The purpose was to pass electronic voting, not to demonstrate that the majority can arrest senators.

Arresting the senators would not have brought the majority closer to passing electronic voting. It would have moved them farther away.

And that is why this episode reflects not merely a misunderstanding of the rules but a misunderstanding of strategy itself.

Ironically, in presenting oneself to be strong, Senator Marcoleta unwittingly revealed the impotence of the majority’s position. For all the power he claimed they possessed, he could not explain how threatening to arrest senators would secure the votes needed to pass electronic voting.

In the end, power was never the problem. The problem was persuasion.

(Photo courtesy of Ang Balita Ngayon)

[Sonny Trillanes IV @TrillanesSonny]

Please watch this 1ON1 interview with Ms. @iamkarendavila, as we discussed recent issues regarding ICC arrest warrant against Bato dela Rosa, impeachment of Sara Duterte, and many more👇

https://t.co/OGb0La8exx

[JR Santiago @oslecjunior]

Calling all young people and everyone who’d like to help. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

[POGANDA 🌸📸 @poganda_daily]

another resibo. maraming salamat sa mga bayaning journalists natin talaga!!

eto na ba yung "together with sen. padilla"?

video from: Bam Alegre 🫡

[Richard Heydarian @RichHeydarian]

EX-CONVICT ROBINHOOD aiding an ICC FUGITIVE…

[Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3]

When an episode is timely again. #TheExplainer

[Christian Esguerra @IanEsguerra]

Let's be honest. Alan Peter Cayetano should be held accountable for Bato's escape. He should be included in the investigation.

[Barry Gutierrez @barrygutierrez3]

If no TRO was issued, then he can be arrested. This whole "protective custody" shiz of the new Senate majority has no basis in either the Constitution or law. Ano, porke't senador kayo di na kayo kailangan sumunod sa batas? Kalokohan.

[Just @justinmaniluh]

ROBIN PADILLA'S SECURITY FIRED THE GUN SHOTS!

[Philstar.com @PhilstarNews]

CAYETANO CLAIM ON NO SENATOR ARRESTED INSIDE SENATE IS FALSE

New Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano claimed that no senator has ever been arrested inside the Senate premises, but records show otherwise.

Former senators Leila de Lima and Antonio Trillanes IV were both served warrants and taken into custody inside the Senate building.

#PhilstarFactCheck rates claim as false based on documented incidents.

Read: https://t.co/fmLwHeve9E

[Audburn🩷💛#NoToPoliticalDynasty @56audrey57]

CALLING FOR PEOPLES INTERVENTION‼️

[Bilyonaryo News Channel @bncdotph]

WATCH: NBI Director Melvin Matibag denied Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa’s claim that he was wrestled by operatives during an attempt to serve an ICC arrest warrant at the Senate on Monday.

“Hindi totoo ‘yung sinabi niya do’n sa floor na tinackle siya, nag-wrestling sila. Walang gano’n… nadapa siya eh. Kitang-kita nadapa doon sa staircase,” Matibag said, adding that the senator’s injuries were not inflicted by agents.

Matibag also said operatives would not have chased dela Rosa had he not allegedly tried to evade arrest, while maintaining that most individuals seen on CCTV footage were members of the senator’s staff.

He added that he did not expect such a reaction from a senator with a law enforcement background. | via @andrea_svs, https://t.co/9R0Mcay5im

[thero67 @thero67]

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