In this episode, we touch on : • What Sara Duterte seeks to achieve? • 2 objectives: 1) Rile up Duterte base 2) distract people from corruption issues she’s facing in Congress • This spectacle is about political dynasties but nothing like this has happened before • Bakit ang mga iniimbestigahan, laging nagkakasakit? • An insult to the oversight process of Congress • Classic gaslighting by Sara and her camp • This is a battle between two giant political clans • Both clans have the WORST record in terms of corruption and abuses • Marcoses are thieves • The Dutertes are blood-thirsty • Connivance between the Dutertes and the Marcos • It began with burial of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos in Libingan ng mga Bayani • “An Anarchy of Familes,” an important book on political dynasties in the Philippines • The history of Philippine politics is a history of violence • “Utak Ampatuan “ si Sara • But was it just a character issue concerning Sara Duterte? • Nababaliw lang ba talaga? • The Duterte’s performative politics • Intel and confi funds are Sara’s vulnerability that Marcoses are exploiting • Sara claims political persecution, with some basis, and that is her ammunition • 2028 presidential election promises to be bloody