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(Vice President Inday Sara Duterte)
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The duo's all-out attack that started with Duterte's ally (and purported financier), religious leader Apollo Quiboloy, in September, involved mainly the disgraceful weaponization of the House of Representatives.
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Four committees (the so-called quadcomm) were dramatically combined and weaponized to undertake what mostly have turned out to be theatrical acts to portray Rodrigo as guilty of extrajudicial killings in his war vs illegal drug, and Sara as skimming off her confidential funds.
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The second Marcos regime has simply failed. One inarguable indication of this is the fact that not a single senator - all of whom, whether they are crooks or not, whether you like them or not, represent the majority of Filipinos - have joined the Marcos cabal's plot. Even Sen. Risa Hontiveros, a vehement Duterte-basher has been quiet the past many days, after Duterte tore apart her offensive at the Senate hearing on extrajudicial killings last Oct. 30, and after no other senator backed her attack. Why, even former senator Juan Ponce Enrile desisted from criticizing the Dutertes, and merely said, in his Facebook post, "Let us cool it down for the sake of the country."
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Marcos proved to be vapid in political debate when he took too seriously Sara's remark that she had hired "somebody" (the word she used, and "not assassin") to kill him and Romualdez if they kill her. Marcos even uttered the complete non sequitur that if the vice president could make that threat, she could make the same threat against any Filipino.
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Marcos, his face puffy and looking as if about to break into tears, sent the message to Filipinos that he seemed so afraid of the "threat." A wittier leader would have responded to Sara's "threat": "Is she sure her assassin will complete his task if she is six feet underground?"
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There is no other political group - not the Left fronts Akbayan, ACT and Gabriela - that have expressed support for Marcos. The congressmen who persecuted Duterte in the hearings - such as Laguna Rep. Dan Fernandez, Abang Lingkod's Joseph Paduano (a former member of the urban terrorist group Alex Boncayao Brigade), 1-Riders (as in the "marginalized" motorcycle riders) Ramon Gutierrez and Bienvenido Amante, who claimed a 50,000 membership of his religious group - could not even get their so-called constituents to stage counterdemonstrations to those of pro-Duterte groups. 
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Instead, Marcos got his colorless executive secretary, Lucas Bersamin, to issue uninspired statements on the feud. What was a major stupidity in the recent events is Speaker Martin Romualdez calling the entire House to listen to his speech declaring his forever support for his cousin, denying he wants to succeed Marcos when he steps down in 2028, and that Sara merely wants to escape accountability over the use of her confidential funds.
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Romualdez's speech was so uninspired and full of empty motherhood statements that the House didn't bother to issue a transcript - and it was largely ignored by the media. Romualdez, angry at the many empty seats during his speech, asked those who didn't attend to submit a written explanation why. I haven't heard a more artificial and unconvincing speech bordered on the absurd, especially as delivered by an obese man with a slight convergent squint.
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Dutertes have beaten Marcos-Romualdez duo