IT IS THE MAN WHOSE FACE IS MARRED WITH BLOOD AND SWEAT AND DUST THAT COUNTS

If someone’s success or personality is too shiny, it’s easy to throw dirt at it but often you ignore that it’s your our own very shoes that are causing the dirt.

The presidency of PRRD is doing everything to solve the problems of the country that are causing hunger, poverty, violence, social breakdown and war. But the criticizing and laughing around him by the enemies continued without let up.

To these critics, especially the Catholic Bishops, who do you think you are? Look at you, big for your britches. You don’t need to show how amazing you are at the expense of another. Somebody asked Stephen Hawkins what his IQ was, and he said, I have no idea. He said people who brag about their IQs are losers.

The Catholic bishops live in pretension they’re like God likened to the bird riding on the carabao’s back and it thought it is also a carabao. From the very beginning, they were not at all moved by good faith and an honest motive. Those actions have already gone to unfathomable extremes. They scoffed and then make a negative comment about everything PRRD is doing even the most trivial of issues without any exception. So, it is arbitrary on the Bishops doing it against him.

As I was ruminating, I thought of Theodore Roosevelt’s speech in the early nineteen hundred’s where it says: “it’s not the critic that counts, it’s not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done it better. The credit belongs to the person who’s actually in the arena whose face is marred with blood and sweat and dust, who at the best, in the end, knows the triumph of high achievement and who at worst if he fails, he fails daring greatly.”

The foregoing quote was everything about these enemies of PRRD, especially the Bishops who keep on criticizing instead of helping.

More than 95% of the good things PRRD has done in 2 years have been accomplished with stuff that the enemies haven’t got a clue what they are. The brightness contains more than what you see in darkness. So, you are more ignorant than you are knowledgeable. Our cutting-edge still has a long way to go with PDU30 as president. So, please stop being a villain.

I mean, if you, the Bishops, have constructive information, feedback to give, the Filipinos would be glad to listen. But if you’re in the cheap seats, not putting yourself on the line, and just talking about how you think you could do it better, the Filipinos are in no way interested in your feedback.

Focusing on what’s right with our lives rather than what’s wrong with our lives is the best way to fix what’s wrong with our lives. Moreover, focusing on what’s right with the world is the best way to fix what’s wrong with the world.

KILL THE BISHOPS THEY ARE USELESS

The government represented by PDU30, on the one hand, and its citizens, including the priests, on the other hand, will receive its proper share of obligation and responsibility. The government rests the obligation and responsibility for that part which chiefly for the interests of the society and its citizen.

Correspondingly, everyone in the society who is the recipient of the safety and welfare from the government owes a return for that benefit, and the fact of living in society renders it indispensable that each should be bound to observe a certain line of conduct towards the hierarchy of the government. This conduct consists in not injuring the interests of the government from injury and molestation.

These conditions the government is justified in enforcing at all costs to those individuals who endeavor to withhold fulfillment. The acts of an individual may be hurtful to the government, violating any of the constituted rights of the President. The offender may then be justly punished by opinion, or by law.

The Presidency is the cradle of respect and pride of a country. The Catholic Bishops and the priests keep on mistreating and disrespecting PRRD. Due to their title as ‘Father’, the representative of God, the citizens worship them and do what they do. Henceforth, when the Bishops and priests went so far as to disrespect and mistreat the President with their exaggerated criticism and dissents with impunity, they have gone out of bounce in their professional conduct towards the President.

Consequently, PRRD’s comment that “It's Better to Kill the Bishops… they are useless” was a way to communicate verbally his boundaries has been crossed. It was a gesture of rebuke to remind all the Bishops and priests that the office of the presidency carries with it respect. Even if you don't like who occupies the office, you should show respect to the occupant nonetheless because...well, because he occupies the office.

Yes, there are pieces of evidence that the ethics and morals of the Catholic priests have decline; but it has certainly metastasized since the Benigno ‘Pnoy’ era. 

I AM TASKED TO LEAD AND SWORN TO SERVE

Being a president is like the giant atlas that carries the world on his shoulders. It is in his hands that the destiny of your country and its citizens depend even if the journey may be like, boon or bane.

For the 80% ethical open-minded Filipinos, Pres. Duterte is most respected and admired and appreciated for his forthrightness, honesty, simplicity and above all, his political ideology. The Filipinos are assured that with PDU30, everything wrong done by the previous presidency of Benigno ‘Pnoy’ Aquino is going to be righted and he has the Filipinos’ best interest in his mind. Thus, our country doesn’t appear as declining but looks different now for the better, inspiring a whole palette of human emotions and joy.

But the media inundates the Filipinos with negative information opposite to what is remarkably happening and always telling the people what’s wrong about our country. A lot of this networks and individual pundits are taking unfair shots at PDU30. But again you got to take those barks and then win it with facts not just trying to push it down into the gutter even further.

You must only remember that these enemies of PDU30 are just playing politics. You see, in politics, all dissent merits a response even if it was a joke. Whatever it takes to beat PDU30, is worth doing.

Actual perfection was unheard of for the enemies. Understandably, the enemies always found fault- that’s what they’re there for.

The journey of life is all based on stories that each of us believes. The story that PDU30 is telling everyone is the best illustration that miracles happen and dreams come true. PDU30 illustrated every moment of the day his hard work and persistence to set you free from the shackles of poverty. Therefore, it is the faith of his leadership that will take all of us, you and me, to the very top. Never lose faith in what PDU30 can do as a human being. 

THE PRRD MARIJUANA JOKE

We should not make a mountain out of PDU30’s ‘marijuana joke’, which is just a molehill. What we see is not always what it seems. Rather than using our emotions and intellect to do what’s best, the anti-Duterte focus on destroying PDU30. These TV Channels, by allowing themselves to be the mouthpiece of the Duterte haters, the people will entertain the thought the lure of the wonders sure to be found on the other side is too strong for them to resist—an Adam and Eve apple-to-apple comparison. That’s why they love to hate him.

Those who know who are these enemies will just ignore them because you understand how they experience intense emotions and are often ruled by them with the urge to revenge. Shakespeare clearly thought revenge was as normal and predictable as the sun rising by one against another who kills his golden goose that lays the golden eggs.

The people who considered PDU30 as their enemy act revengeful with him even when they knew no good can come of their actions. Those actions can go to unfathomable extremes. They act that way because their vested interest has been prejudiced by the way PDU30 is running the government to their prejudice. They seem to believe without any doubt that by inflicting insults, pain, make PDU30 suffer, and seeing him as the enemy, they will feel better.

PDU30 will generally and wisely pass unnoticed any mere hasty and unguarded expression of passion, or at least pass it with simply a reproof. It is in human nature that there should be other than a bitter feeling, which often reaches to PDU30 as the cause of their misery. But PDU30 knows he will suffer none by passing it in silence. On the second thought, it will generally make these people who hated him ashamed of their own outbreak, and their dignity and reputation as a media are going out of bounce.

YOU ARE BORNE OUT LONG TIME AGO

These enemies of PDU30 will always resent, resist, oppose, and criticize every action he makes. They will not hesitate to deliberately employ misrepresentation or deception by designing a palpably put-up scenario just to simulate a case.

Look what these people particularly this senatorial candidate GARY ALEJANO who has been saying that PDU30 is selling our sovereignty to China under the guise of seeking loans. Of course, this is ridiculous, this is just purely speculation, surmises, and conjectures on his part. No one, not even the president, can cede any part of our territory because it is against the Constitution.

Correspondingly, ALEJANO is just prattling and bumbling even what he says is revolting to conscience and alienates the esteem of every just man, and commands neither respect nor acceptance.

It is indeed true that ‘a thief believes everybody steals’. That’s why Senatorial candidate ALEJANO and his kind always become deterministic about the implication of the partnership between the Philippines and China as what their thoughts have always been fixated. They are willing to dugout and tailored-cut anything to suit their illegal purpose.

ALEJANO, you know what? People believe in PDU30. They don’t care what others say against him. It is because the Filipinos believe that what PDU30 is doing is authentic. The optimism and open-mindedness of the Filipinos enable them to see that. For us, with PDU30, this is just the beginning of our road trip to progress with no one left behind. He’s doing what we like and we like the results from it, and we are enjoying the ride.

THEY GOT NOWHERE TO GO

In 2016, PDU30 with his team of leaders made a big promise. A promise that over the next 6 years of his term, the lives of millions of Filipinos are going to get better with no one left behind.

We’re now 2 years into the journey, the clock is ticking. If we off-track now, it’s going to get harder and harder to hit those goals. Based on the current direction of travel, there surely is a big amount of progress even in the midst of tremendous challenges that it faces. 

I couldn’t figure out for the life of me why there are people who sow seeds of destruction in their own country not with a bang but with a whimper. They do it by inciting an explosion of war and violence, by utterly destroying any attempt to create genuine development their society’s huge potential for growth, condemning their citizens to a lifetime of poverty.

They’re there for the benefit of elites who gain much from the extraction — whether in the form of valuable minerals, forced labor, protected monopolies, drugs, corruption — at the expense of society. Of course, such elites benefit from rigged political institutions too, wielding their power to tilt the system for their benefit.

These are the pariahs, the outcasts, more terrible, and more destructive. They have a devilish reputation, who live through fake news or old wives’ tale. They have nowhere to go and so they will bring down the country together with them into hell.

HONESTY IS GOING TO GO A LONG WAY

When PDU30 did something the people like, did you see any progressive publications? Did you see any dispatches from any of the progressive organizations praising with one word of praise for that? The mainstream media where people get their information is not gonna say anything good about PDU30. This is related to a critical attitude by the media towards him.

But whether or not the media will give attention to the good things PDU30 has done, they will get to live forever. While PDU30 look different from the perspective of the media, it doesn’t appear his dedication to serving the Filipinos is declining, nor are things as bad as the critics make it look.

The anti-Duterte campaign may be throwing down the vicious hammer upon him, but Filipinos in thousands are waiting with bated breath coiled themselves into their blocks just to see him everywhere he went.

In Duterte’s era, more than ever, the focus of honesty in his administration is going to go a long way. And that being said through honesty and transparency we can turn the obstacles into big opportunity.