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Escurumbele

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8. His parents were corrupt, I hope Jr is not, I hope he does well for his people, or Dutarte will be
Mon May 9, 2022, 02:00 PM
May 2022

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People don't seem to understand that dictatorships triumph, in part, because Democracies become corrupt or useless, many times both, people become tired of being hungry, not being able to dream, not able to get out of poverty, otherwise people would not try to find other ways of government, why dictators can manipulate people with rhetoric of nationalism because of course "immigrants are the cause of all their problems", and for some countries, "the United States is the enemy that keeps you poor"...The last one is a great tool for South American dictators, the USA gets blamed for all the country's ills.

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Is he legalizing weed? speak easy May 2022 #1
So this will be the last legit election edhopper May 2022 #2
Probably. It was literally a race between between doofus v. dinkus. . .lesser of two evils AZLD4Candidate May 2022 #15
Wow. The hits just keep on coming. Apparently, parents taught their children nothing at all. keopeli May 2022 #3
Philippinos are in general, very conservative Catholic. LiberalLovinLug May 2022 #13
Guess he'll be slightly better than Duterte? Initech May 2022 #4
The Marcos family was really good at theft. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree. mpcamb May 2022 #19
Don't know much about him & either does google from what I have seen but he was a Senator yaesu May 2022 #5
He's talked a real good fight Warpy May 2022 #6
"anti Duterte"? His VP running mate is Duterte's daughter muriel_volestrangler May 2022 #14
Familiar? Of course, it's familiar, another rich brat who thinks work is beneath him Warpy May 2022 #16
Well I hope the apple fell FAR from the tree! KS Toronado May 2022 #7
His parents were corrupt, I hope Jr is not, I hope he does well for his people, or Dutarte will be Escurumbele May 2022 #8
I hope he's not like the Bush family. C Moon May 2022 #9
Well, he lies about his family's past depredations not fooled May 2022 #10
well catsudon May 2022 #11
Arroyo, Dutarte, Marcos. . .Filipinos seem to really love their authoritarians AZLD4Candidate May 2022 #12
Marcos only needs to keep $5 Billion of Turbineguy May 2022 #17
His parents were terrible people. olddad65 May 2022 #18
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