8mo ago

Philippine president says he'll fight vice president's plot to have him killed

abcnews.go.com

Whatever's going on in your country, it's probably not as bad as this.

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Huh.
She didn't simply threaten to have him killed - she said that she had arranged to have him killed if he had her killed.
So it's only really a "threat" if he intends to have her killed.
So essentially, Bongbong is admitting that he intends to have her killed.
- I am not from the Philippines and am not taking sides here, but if someone taked about killing me (even hypothetically) iI would find it a bit threatening too.
  Especially if that someone was very specific about it. Like, not shouting angrily "I'll kill you!" but describing a plan to send a hitman after me.
  
  Again though it wasn't just a threat - it was a very specific if/then statement - "I've arranged it so that if he has me killed, he will be killed."
  Granted that it's a bit unsettling, my immediate response, and IMO the likely immediate response of virtually anyone and everyone, would be "But I don't intend to have you killed."
  
  ...if you tried to murder them. I feel like you're omitting the most important part.
Idk, come January, I'd be pretty okay with the president and vice president trying to kill each other.
- That's what season 4 of the boys is about. Who's third for power grab?
  
  Speaker of the House, currently Johnson, but they’re required to go through the election process when the new House sits in January, and we’ve seen how drawn out they can get.
- Yeah but the vice president is daughter of Rodrigo Duterte, a man who is best known for extrajudicial killings in a “war on drugs” and he didn’t even like that his daughter was running.
  Oh and the president is the son of Ferdinand Marcos. His family hated by so many.
Whatever's going on in your country, it's probably not as bad as this.
Nervous laughter as a vulnerable minority in the US
- Such privilege to think your life in America is anywhere near as hard as those living in the global south lol
  
  Two things can be true. Three, if we include you being unnecessarily rude.
Called it 2 weeks ago when Philippines says it will cooperate if ICC seeks Duterte’s custody over drug killings:
While this is good it is politically motivated as the new prime minister, who is just as authoritarian as duterte, is trying to get rid of his political rival. Also not a good sign for stability as dutertes threatened and his daughter is currently vice president, so an assassination/coup attempt may be coming.
Let's see if I can get another, Netanyahu will be arrested by the ICC
- I'm crossing everything except the streams that you're right about Netanyahu! 🤞🤞🤞🤞
  
  Let me try: the US will send special forces into whichever country arrests Netanyahu to break him out
  genuinely hope I'm wrong but as a US ally he's covered under the Hague Invasion Act of 2002
It reminds me of Jim Bell.
what's going on in my country, is we either handed over the reigns to a fascist completely unable and incapable of keeping us or our allies safe, or our elections were thouroughly hacked by russia installing their puppet to allow them eastern european hegemony at the end of tanks and nukes, so, yeah, what's going on in my country is not only ordinates worse than this, it affects every living being on the planet in such disasterous negativity, 12 months from now entire soverign nations will cease to exist
- I suppose that is a possibility.
- Regardless, things do not look good internationally, countries will be swept away and their history wiped so they fit in the ruling communist empire, be it Ukraine, Eastern Europe, or Taiwan and South Korea...
  As a sidenote, isn't it interesting that China is relocating its productive industry from the coastal areas to far into central China? What oh what could be a hidden reason behind such an expensive move...

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