LBM’s initial cabinet appointments . . . todas ang Pilipinas!

Assuming the Supreme Court does NOT (a) step-up to its sworn obligation to uphold the law, (b) cancel the COC of LBM and (c) declare Leni the duly elected President of the Republic of the Philippines, which is unfortunately par for the course, . . .

LBM spokesman, Vic Rodriguez, who has been the primary purveyor of lies and disinformation, particularly during the recent presidential campaign, will be the next Executive Secretary.

Dutae’s “social media strategist” (i.e., another purveyor of lies and disinformation), Trixie Cruz-Angeles—suspended even by the whores of the Supreme Court for three (3) years, kicked-out by her partner at a law firm, a fraud—will be the next Press Secretary.

Sara Dutae, who proudly proclaims a disbarment case against her person (like a badge of honor) after punching a court sheriff who wanted to implement a demolition order in Davao City, will be the next Education Secretary.

Doubling-down on the historical revisionism of the Marcos family, a collaboration among Vic, Trixie and Sara would revamp the history textbooks of the entire public school system of the Philippine into a fictional narrative of "The Golden Years" of the Marcos Sr. and Dutae presidencies.

Dutae’s MMDA Chairman, Benhur Abalos Jr., of the phenomenally corrupt Abalos political dynasty of Mandaluyong (recall the botched NBN-ZTE deal brokered by Abalos Sr.—essentially a proxy for GMA—who were both acquitted by the whores of the Supreme Court), will be the next DILG Secretary. As Abalos Sr. was an ideal subservient lackey of GMA, so would Abalos Jr. be a perfect lapdog to LBM.

Former DPWH undersecretary during the Estrada and Arroyo administrations, Manny Bonoan will be the next DPWH Secretary. Private contractors of public works or government construction contracts would attest that the level of kickback required by government officials were at an all time high during the administrations of ERAP and GMA--only to be surpassed by the corruption during the current administration of Dutae and Villar as DPWH Secretary. Looks like business and kickbacks as usual with Manny Bonoan and only the magnitude of greed to be revealed in due course. 

In addition, the infrastructure and/or tollway group of San Miguel Corporation (SMC) will be the fair-haired proponent of the government during LBM's administration. Let's see if SMC will complete its mega-airport and aerocity in Bulacan by the end of LBM's term. Then, let's see if SMC will overcharge the consumer for this new airport. It's really quite simple. Nearly all international airports do not charge an airport fee, except for those in the most corrupt and undeveloped countries--NAIA being one of them. If SMC imposes any airport fee in Bulacan, then it's overcharging.

Representative of Cavite’s 7th District and former bagman of President ERAP (who was convicted of plunder), Boying Remulla will be the next Justice Secretary.

To appreciate the diabolical nature of Boying's appointment, noteworthy is the NOT so public memo from the Office of the President (ERAP) dated 25 August 1988, which (a) required presidential approval for all government contracts in excess of 50 million pesos and (b) was a reinstatement of the presidential approval process first introduced under the presidency of Marcos Sr. for the purpose of funneling and extorting bribes. It is NOT surprising, therefore, that the subject memo from the Office of the President (ERAP), which was issued between Memorandum Circular No. 8 dated 21 August 1988 and Memorandum Circular No. 9 dated 27 August 1988, is no where to be found in the Philippine government's website of the Official Gazette--see illustration below.

In the book entitled "State and Society in the Philippines," the authors observe:

". . . in less than half a term in office, Estrada transformed the presidency from a respected symbol of the nation into a rogue's court of family members, "mistresses, bastard children, denizens of show-business, gambling partners, business partners both established and obscure," and late-night drinking buddies who made major decisions regarding affairs of the state. Access to the president was everything following an executive order requiring presidential approval for all contracts in excess of 50 million pesos." (underscore mine)

Within the recesses of the Presidential Management Staff (PMS) was the inaanak of ERAP, withholding the presidential approval from these funneled contracts to extort bribes--much like a slimy leech forcibly sucking blood from its unwilling host. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a preview of our future Justice Secretary under LBM.

Regardless of the government position he is appointed to, Marcoleta is sure to do damage to the government in any capacity.

LBM has been a mediocre individual all his life. You cannot expect him to deliver anything but a mediocre administration. Even before assuming office, he is already (a) backpedaling on his campaign promise to lower the price of rice to P20 per kilogram, (b) broadcasting an increase in VAT, among other taxes (at the same that that the recovery of ill-gotten wealth and the payment of estate taxes of the Marcos family are being muted) and (c) planning to reactivate the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. As if on cue from LBM, the PNP (true to its DNA) has reverted to its heavy handedness and injured many individuals (using water canons and truncheons to beat peaceful protesters) in the recent protests to the illegitimacy of the LBM/Dutae proclamation. 

The height of LBM's perversion is to ask for the prayers of the people. Wish him well; that is, after you and your family have (a) raped and pillaged the country and, utilizing your unlimited plundered funds, (b) cheated your way to an illegitimate presidency. I don't think so.

Based on the quality (actually the lack thereof) of his initial cabinet appointments, we are being set-up for both a mediocre and uber-corrupt administration that will leave the country far worse in every respect by the end of LBM's term. Two to three generations of Filipinos, including my own generation, have already been expended uselessly due to the first Marcos dictatorship and its long-term damage to the country. How many more generations of Filipinos will be wasted with another Marcos presidency, followed by another Dutae presidency and so on?

Postscript

As expected, LBM is not wasting any time and is on the offensive by attacking the only individual in the COMELEC who dared to the right thing.

THE BIG CHEAT

Like THE BIG LIE propaganda of Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi Party that led to the holocaust (i.e., the mass murder of more than 6 million Jewish people—among other persecuted groups—under the German Nazi regime during the period of 1941-45), THE BIG CHEAT is the culmination of decades of disinformation, historical revisionism, and the prostitution of our democratic institutions (foremost, the COMELEC and the Supreme Court) by the Marcos family. It has been the ultimate political long-game, financed by unlimited plundered funds that, among other things, bought the votes of the Filipino masses and (for good measure) doctored the results of the recent May 2022 elections, resulting in the “victory” of LBM and the intensification of our own holocaust post-Dutae.

How else can one characterize the transmission of results from voting precincts that consistently maintained a 68% and 32% vote for LBM and Leni, respectively, other than an exercise of wholesale and massive electronic fraud? This is a statistical impossibility, just as LBM securing more votes for the presidency than the senator with the most votes is a statistical impossibility. In coordination with the ridiculous pre-election surveys to precondition the minds of the general population, THE BIG CHEAT was planned and executed well before election day, rendering the actual votes entered into the Vote Counting Machines or VCMs virtually irrelevant—at least with respect to the elected positions of the president, vice president and the senators. It is no coincidence that the bogus results of the senatorial race have reinforced the political dynasties of ERAP, Cayetano and Villar. This is merely another component of THE BIG CHEAT to bolster the propaganda that the anti-political dynasty provision in the Philippine Constitution should continue to be ignored or should be scrapped altogether. Bottom line, the fraudulent election results of these national positions were preprogrammed for transmission to “transparency servers” even before the first vote was cast.

Sadly, the last line of defense (if you can call it that) is the nullification of the Certificate of Candidacy (COC) of LBM that is currently pending at the Supreme Court (SC). LBM’s COC should have been nullified by the COMELEC and the SC well before the May 2022 elections (fat chance with the whores in these institutions), which would have resulted in a Leni Robredo presidency. However, because the SC decision on this pending case will be decided after elections (albeit massively and utterly fraudulent), Dutae would argue that Sara (as the duly-elected vice president) should assume the presidency, particularly if the SC disqualifies LBM (which is different from nullifying the COC of LBM).

Ever wonder why Dutae did NOT endorse the candidacy of LBM or, for that matter, has NOT congratulated LBM, in spite of LBM’s “landslide” victory? Dutae has one more trump card (need I remind you that all but two—Leonen and Caguioa--of the SC justices are appointees of Dutae), which he will leverage to the hilt. In essence, the principals (i.e., LBM, Dutae and the SC justices) in this high stakes political machination will negotiate a stupendous financial package involving a fantastic payout of the Marcos family to Dutae and the SC justices, consummating THE BIG CHEAT of the Filipino people and the installation of LBM as the next president of the Philippines.

Predictably, what follows shall be LBM’s brand of holocaust of a particular segment of the Filipino people—the disenfranchisement, suppression and eventual extermination of the Filipino middle class/intelligentsia until what is left is a small clique of superlatively wealthy cronies/oligarchs lording over an overwhelming mass of poor sycophants.

Dutae has already started the ball rolling on the decline of the sovereign credit rating of the Philippines by doubling the sovereign debt from P6 trillion to P12 trillion during his single term of six years. When PNoy left office in June 2016, the country’s national debt amounted to P6 trillion. As of January 2022, the national government debt has breached P12 trillion. Thus, in a single administration of six (6) years, Dutae has more than doubled the national debt relative to national debt accumulated by ALL of the past administrations over a period of sixty (60) years. LBM, like his old man and Dutae, will continue this borrowing spree (build-kickback, build-kickback, build-kickback) until he runs the economy into the ground.

A declining economy means less local and foreign direct investments, which translate to less jobs and less economic opportunities for our population (i.e., growing at a rate of 1.5 million people a year or about 122 million by the time LBM is done with his term in office in 2028, as compared to 110 million in 2020). This means a higher incidence of poverty throughout the country, which in turn, becomes fertile ground for the resurgence of the communist pestilence, criminality and the corresponding deterioration of the country’s peace and order. Not only will the police force revert to its original role of wang-wang escorts and bodyguards for LBM and his cronies, they (alongside the soldiers of our military) will resume their oppressive role in a police state—just like old times.

In the meantime, the Marcos family and their cronies will corner the most essential sectors of the economy, thereby cementing their positions as economic oligarchs, albeit in a declining and increasingly uncompetitive economy that will gouge Filipino consumers for overpriced and inferior products and services. All this while LBM pushes for federalism, adding another layer of government, resulting in more inefficiencies, more corruption and more burdensome taxes imposed on the common working Filipino (not the Marcos family and their cronies/oligarchs who will naturally get special treatment from the BIR).

Needless to say, the best and the brightest (even the above average and the average) of the Philippines have already resumed with ever greater intensity to take flight and seek greener pastures in other parts of the world by any means necessary—essentially the destruction (indeed the holocaust) of the Filipino middle class/intelligentsia.

Perhaps even God cannot save us from this imminent tragedy. I can only surmise that we are being punished anew for allowing THE BIG CHEAT.

"When a crime goes unpunished, the world is unbalanced. When a wrong is unavenged, the heavens look down on us in shame.” Oishi, 47 Ronin