I am apolitical, an outsider looking in. I am a Filipino from America who just like the newly registered voters this year are barely educating ourselves with six or so candidates who are applying to be the next President of the Philippines.
Bongbong Marcos's absenteeism has already been the butt of jokes when he was a no show in a hearing with the Comelec regarding his disqualification case. I have read in Manila and I am reprinting it in toto ...
Liberation from Guanzon vs liberation from Covid. This put some creative minds to work. One of the jokes was on Marcos Jr.'s campaign slogan. "Babangon Muli ang slogan pero hindi makabangon para mag-Zoom (The slogan is 'Will Rise Again' but [he] can't get up for Zoom meeting."
Others jested about a new Covid-19 variant that can be transmitted through visual tools and it's called "Bongbongicron," a play on Omicron, the currently dominant Covid-19 variant that has been infecting thousands of people with mild symptoms every day.
Yet another said the new variant may be termed "ZOOMicron," to refer to Marcos Jr.'s unavailability to join the proceedings via the videoconferencing application.
Some posted captioned photos showing the late president Elpidio Quirino on one side, saying that he delivered his second State of the Nation Address from his hospital bed in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1950, and Marcos Jr. on the other, saying he cannot be on Zoom because "he might cause the spread of the virus."
And with his non-participation in Jessica Soho's interview and his snubbing the Panata Sa Bayan forum of KBP similar jokes are mushrooming:
-Mabuti pa ang lugaw ... may itlog.
-Eh paano niya matulungan ang Pinas niyan ... interview pa lang nagtago na?
Your thoughts?
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