Still want to visit the Philippines?

[Nirish guy]

Spot on there FH re the rich families and the craziest thing is my BF points out to me how it's just that it's "obviously"some of these families who are out to get Duterte and that nothing is on the media in the PHs is how it looks and that "I just don't understand PH politics" ( he's right about that part) - but when I point out how one bad guy is no better or no different from the other and that all are just getting rich on the back of the PH people and in them voting for their strongmen types all they are doing is condemning themselves to more of the same - and now a guy who believes its ok to randomly kill their own citizens all I get is an " ah but he's great as HE is doing it for the people".

I have pointed out to him that today its drugs types his President is killing but tomorrow it could just as easily be his political enemies or basically just whoever he doesn't like, but no, but again there's NO sense to be had with that idea apparently nor is there any chance of that possibility getting through either to my BF (or his wide family) as Dutertes loyalty to his people is it seems beyond question. ( yeah cause politicians are SO well known for that being all about the people and not themselves historically eh ! )

[fountainhall]

I have a sneaking suspicion that the Thai people felt exactly the same way about Thaksin and his war on drugs. That murdered about 2,800 people without any judicial process. The investigative committee set up after he was ousted from power found that more than half had absolutely nothing to do with drugs and the drug trade. And of course of those who were in the trade, it was the middle men and street-level peddlers who were shot whilst the major drug lords to a man escaped. And Thaksin had the gall to stand on his soapbox after the three-month killing spree and announce that the war on drugs had been won! If anything, after a lull it just got worse.

[fountainhall]

I see that idiot/popular President Duterte has pulled another stunt. The body of the dictator, murderer, monster thief and general thug Ferdinand Marcos which has been lying embalmed in his home state for decades, he has decided and had approved, will now be escorted to the Heroes Cemetery in Manila. How many of the families of those Marcos had tortured and killed will demonstrate? No idea! No doubt Duterte has men with guns to ward them off.

[Nirish guy]

Well if so they'll definitely not be newly bought American guns that's for sure !

Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte 'cancels' order of US rifles
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37901045

[Nirish guy]

But hey it's ok, don't worry as my PH BF assures me that his president has a plan, which I as a non flipino couldn't POSSIBLY understand.

The general gist of this cunning plan seems to involve kissing up to the Chinese and Russians, whilst pissing off and insulting the USA just as much as is humanly possible ( to gain maximum traction and benefits from said Chinese and Russians) and then when he's got as much as he can get there to go back and allow the Americans to kiss his ass abs lick up to HIM and then extract a large amount of concessions from the newly elected let's make America great again Mr Trump too !!

So, yeah, good luck with that cunning plan, I think he's going to need all the luck he can muster for a guy of his political calibre to play THAT particular game of getting sucked by peter whilst also fucking Paul !!

[GWMinUS]

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I love my Pinoy guys but I am looking at options to change my flight there in February.
HEY, I might end up in Pattaya!!!
Leaw pob gun mai!!

[FarangRuMak]

El Duce is a thug but more than that he's proud of it.
He has boasted that he carried out killings himself to set an example for the police.
How could any foreign leader feel comfortable shaking this guy's hand?
He went through an USA-bashing period with insults and bluster UNTIL millions of the populace who get dollar submissions un-impeded from their relatives in the States told him to
Shut The Fcuk Up!
Which he quickly did.😄