Happy Birthday Duterte

[Dave_]

80 years old, born March 28th 1945.

A very popular President who did great things for the Philippines and is well loved by his countrymen.
Kidnapped with official sanction from the opposition and flown to face trial by an unaccountable foreign court in the Hague.

Seems like a bad state of affairs.

All day long my newsfeed has has shown the Philippine people in Davao, Cebu, Worldwide, holding parties for him, awesome birthday cakes, lechon etc...

How did this happen?

[grahamw48]

80 years old, born March 28th 1945.

A very popular President who did great things for the Philippines and is well loved by his countrymen.
Kidnapped with official sanction from the opposition and flown to face trial by an unaccountable foreign court in the Hague.

Seems like a bad state of affairs.

All day long my newsfeed has has shown the Philippine people in Davao, Cebu, Worldwide, holding parties for him, awesome birthday cakes, lechon etc...

How did this happen?

In Davao perhaps. All the Filipinos I speak to (on a daily basis) have nothing good to say about him and the rest of his 'interesting' family.
His boorish behaviour also did the Phils no favours with foreign allies and benefactors.

Personally threatening to kill people ? Really ?

[fred]

In Davao perhaps. All the Filipinos I speak to (on a daily basis) have nothing good to say about him and the rest of his 'interesting' family.
His boorish behaviour also did the Phils no favours with foreign allies and benefactors.

Personally threatening to kill people ? Really ?

All I know Graham is before this guy was President , I attended 2 funerals of local foreigners that were murdered for the money they had just got out of the ATM from local drug addicts. Followed and shot in head whilst driving their motor bikes.
A Filipino friend that had to drag his 20 years old son from an elementary school pedestrian crossing whom had just received a fatal head shot in front of Children crossing minutes from my house. News Stories of Police dying in shootouts during local drug busts and many more.. All this stopped after that guy become President.
Quite a few of our construction workers were Shabu addicts..They ALL abstained after the election. None that I know of take that evil ..... anymore.
Our local city public hospital that was not fit for purpose,(disgusting dump)was turned into a much larger hospital, fully equipped with some amazing equipment only usually found in St Lukes.. I have many many other positive improvements to share that we observed here.. Credit where credit is due IMHO.
These days, not so much unfortunately.