"When changing the tune doesn't stop the irritating music"
After making strong remarks about President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in late January, former President Rodrigo Duterte moderated his hostile tone during a "prayer rally" at South Road Properties in Cebu City on Sunday, February 25.
From using terms like "drug addict" to that of opposing Marcos's plan for charter change, the former president, known for making contradictory statements and sarcasm, end calling Marcos as a "dignified man" and saying he had nothing against the Marcos administration’s charter change efforts, provided they didn’t serve to advantage the current President.
However, these changing tunes doesn't soften the stances of his supporters towards the current regime if not trying to salvage that goddamned "unity" betwen the Marcos and Duterte factions- especially knowing how the current regime indicate increasing support for the drug war investigation despite undecided on cooperating with the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Ironically, that "prayer rally" Duterte led ain't even a prayer rally but an effort to rally support towards him in a time he's in danger of getting arrested. Prayers? For sure people remember how that former president called God "Stupid" and lambasted the Pope for the traffic, what more of seeing Willie Revillame's dancers on stage dancing during that "prayer rally". Besides, why instead of prayers would be that of rants?
Perhaps this note doesn't find any basis to see both factions in need of "unity", Imee Marcos and others within the administration may've tried best to maintain that "unity" despite the obvious dissolution due to major differences. Not surprising if these two factions through its online influencers willing to hurl mud at each other just to defend their idols and its controversial policies; Otherwise, both Marcos and Duterte sworn to upheld the status quo that's already tainted, what more soiled by entrenched interests- and in the face of growing opposition due to the corruption, injustice, and oppression that's condoned and tolerated by these two.
To cut the thought short, Duterte's change of tune doesn't stop the irritating music people wanted to stop. Those who once snared by Duterte's tirades are nothing but empty rhetorics as they saw the obvious soiled facts justified with terms such as peace and order. He may find Mindanao separatism, charter change, or Marcos's alleged drug abuse as empty words to babble with, but these cannot save an already crumbling structure called "unity". It also makes no sense in changing the tune as the concerned find his view shallow and pretentious from the start, by claiming himself to be patriotic as that of the patriots yet the same Duterte who kowtows with the Chinese; what more cries separatism after getting troubled by the refusal of the Marcos regime to block the ICC from proceeding with its case against him and his cohorts for crimes against humanity.
But for the concerned this pretentious bullshitry needs to stop as they want to take back the future from the unjust and the corrupt. As patriots the need to expose and oppose the crackpots and gangsters in the bureaucracy becomes imminent with words like "Bombard the Headquarters" starting to churn in everyone's minds.