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Buck32
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 Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 3:16 am Post subject: Worst electorate ever? |
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36 years after being toppled another Marcos is again in power.
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The Philippine electorate has a very short memory. Seems that they want to be robbed a second time, unbelievable.
Watch John Oliver's hilarious but sad take on the crazy Philippine elections.
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FernieBee
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Too bad for the people of the Philippines, but they deserve what they were stupid enough to vote for . . . 
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| Mind boggling. That family plunder that country's wealth for 4 decades and continued to hold massive wealth/companies even after ousted. |
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Manny Pacquiao to the rescue.
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| jodeke wrote: | | Manny Pacquiao to the rescue. |
According this article he was on the ballot and finished a distant 3rd place.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/boxing-great-pacquiao-gets-knock-073842896.html
| Quote: | Allison JACKSON
Tue, May 10, 2022, 12:38 AM
Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao quit the sport that lifted him out of poverty to rumble for the Philippines presidency, but his tough talk on drugs and crime failed to hit the mark with voters.
His bid for the top job started in typical bold style: a livestream broadcast of himself riding in a coach emblazoned with "Man of Destiny" through Manila's morning traffic to file his candidacy.
But his vow to jail corrupt politicians and arrest drug users -- despite having admitted using crystal meth and marijuana when he was a younger -- failed to deliver a knockout punch and he lost Monday's election by a huge margin.
An initial tally showed Pacquiao picked up fewer than four million votes, or 6.8 percent of votes counted.
That left him a distant third behind winner Ferdinand Marcos Junior, who got more than half the votes, and runner-up Leni Robredo.
The loss came as no surprise -- pre-election surveys showed Pacquiao had almost no chance of winning. |
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Well folks, there's plenty of dumb to go around in this world. It's not just us Americans!  |
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We'll see in 2024.
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Maybe, maybe not. Louisiana will always have Edmond Edwards.
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