MEDIUM RARE
Jullie Y. Daza
Oldtimers do believe that the elections this time around are the most “toxic” yet – to use Yorme’s vocabulary – and it may largely be due to the influence of social media. Seen in this light, anti-social would be more appropriate.
If the air is no longer fresh and we’re teaching first-time and young voters how they should not behave as voters and candidates of the future, there’s a lot to be unlearned. Beginning with threats of destabilization aired by an avid group should their candidate not win, and what about the Commission on Elections’ veiled warning against those voicing out opinions that do not help in inspiring confidence in Comelec and Smartmatic? Let’s calm down, pause, take a deep breath.
Can we, seeing how the gun ban has not been all that effective? Dare we hope that the 40,000 men in uniform deployed to keep Monday’s all-important polling exercise orderly and peaceful will also be around to thwart cheating, dishonesty, corruption? (My astrologer friend sees heavy clouds of deception darkening the sky on election day.)
Remember how “guns, goons, and gold” were said to rule Philippine elections? It’s been a while since the alliteration, but speaking of the three G’s, there’s a quartet of “G” senatorial candidates – Gordon, Gringo, Gibo, General (as in Eleazar, Guillermo) – who need a mnemonic push to be in your “codigo”: Truth to tell, we need their talents in the Senate.
Dick Gordon is identified with the Red Cross, without which one cannot imagine how emergencies on both a personal and national scale would or could be managed more efficiently, effectively, professionally, urgently. Gringo Honasan is the retired “maverick colonel” who was forced to learn the skills of the digital age when he became DICT secretary — can he accelerate the snail’s-paced legislative process through AI?
Gen. Eleazar is on Iglesia ni Cristo’s list, just as he is with Ping Lacson’s ticket, which says a lot of good things about his record as Quezon City police chief and PNP chief. Gibo Teodoro, former Defense secretary, earns President Duterte’s accolade as “the best” senatorial candidate. Likely because Gibo is a “brilliant” lawyer who passed the bar exams here and in the US, and as Atty. Duterte exhorted voters, vote for new senators.
Jullie Y. Daza
Oldtimers do believe that the elections this time around are the most “toxic” yet – to use Yorme’s vocabulary – and it may largely be due to the influence of social media. Seen in this light, anti-social would be more appropriate.
If the air is no longer fresh and we’re teaching first-time and young voters how they should not behave as voters and candidates of the future, there’s a lot to be unlearned. Beginning with threats of destabilization aired by an avid group should their candidate not win, and what about the Commission on Elections’ veiled warning against those voicing out opinions that do not help in inspiring confidence in Comelec and Smartmatic? Let’s calm down, pause, take a deep breath.
Can we, seeing how the gun ban has not been all that effective? Dare we hope that the 40,000 men in uniform deployed to keep Monday’s all-important polling exercise orderly and peaceful will also be around to thwart cheating, dishonesty, corruption? (My astrologer friend sees heavy clouds of deception darkening the sky on election day.)
Remember how “guns, goons, and gold” were said to rule Philippine elections? It’s been a while since the alliteration, but speaking of the three G’s, there’s a quartet of “G” senatorial candidates – Gordon, Gringo, Gibo, General (as in Eleazar, Guillermo) – who need a mnemonic push to be in your “codigo”: Truth to tell, we need their talents in the Senate.
Dick Gordon is identified with the Red Cross, without which one cannot imagine how emergencies on both a personal and national scale would or could be managed more efficiently, effectively, professionally, urgently. Gringo Honasan is the retired “maverick colonel” who was forced to learn the skills of the digital age when he became DICT secretary — can he accelerate the snail’s-paced legislative process through AI?
Gen. Eleazar is on Iglesia ni Cristo’s list, just as he is with Ping Lacson’s ticket, which says a lot of good things about his record as Quezon City police chief and PNP chief. Gibo Teodoro, former Defense secretary, earns President Duterte’s accolade as “the best” senatorial candidate. Likely because Gibo is a “brilliant” lawyer who passed the bar exams here and in the US, and as Atty. Duterte exhorted voters, vote for new senators.