Category Archives: Politics

Four Philippine Opposition Senators Say Their Goodbyes

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The last four remaining Philippine Opposition Senators have said their goodbyes, notwithstanding the fact that their terms of office have not yet expired.

Kiko Pangilinan, Franklin Drilon, Risa Hontiveros and the incarcerated Leila De Lima publicly bowed out of their positions today.

Speaking on behalf of the foursome, Risa Hontiveros said, “It pains us to have to vacate our Sentorial posts in the  17th Congress. We have no choice.”

”But we’ll be back in the 18th Congress.” Hontiveros quickly added.

 

 

Leni Robredo Comes To The Defense Of Smartmatic: ‘They’re My Hero’

MANILA. Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Days after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to ditch Smartmarmatic, VP Leni Robredo came to the defense of the automated election system (AES)  vendor and service provider.

During the recent midterm elections, Smartmatic  has come under fire for glitches and gaffes which led some to question the integrity of results.  It is the same Smartmatic that caused an uproar and election protest in the 2016 elections which resulted in the loss to Robredo by VP candidate Bongbong Marcos by a narrow margin.

Robredo said that Comelec should not rush to ditch Smartmatic. “They’re my hero and the wind beneath my wings,’  she told The Adobo Chronicles. “If not for them, I wouldn’t be sitting in Vice President’s chair right now.”

”We have always been taught not to bite the hand that feeds us. In a sense, that hand for me is Smartmatic so I’m throwing my 100% support behind them. I will oppose any and all efforts to ditch them.”

 

 

 

Philippine President Named Supreme Leader of Gay Conversion Therapy World Council

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (The Adobo Chronicles, San Francisco Bureau) – Members of the World Council of Gay Conversion Therapy (WCGCT) meeting here this weekend unanimously named Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte their Supreme Leader.

The designation — made in absentia — came after the gay conversion therapists learned of Duterte’s latest public pronouncement. He has claimed he was once gay but “cured” himself of homosexuality in controversial remarks made during a trip to Japan.

The popular President mocked his political opponent Senator Antonio Trillanes IV by saying the latter’s movements show he is homosexual. Duterte also reportedly “confessed” that he was gay before he met his ex-wife Elizabeth Zimmerman.

“Good thing Trillanes and I are similar. But I cured myself,” Duterte said during his speech. “When I began a relationship with Zimmerman, I said, this is it. I became a man again.”

Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of trying to change an individual’s sexual orientation from homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual using psychological or spiritual interventions.

Duterte’s designation is expected to boost the conversion therapy movement which is fast declining in the U.S. with more and more states making the practice illegal.