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JoeAm @joeam.com · 2d

The reading room is getting smaller as booksellers know. And people are getting dumber as looking around will show.

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JoeAm @joeam.com · 2d

Speaking of accountability . . .

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Poor Filipinos should admit they’ve voted badly

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America The Philippines will remain corrupt, incompetent at caring for citizens, and poor as long as poor Filipinos don’t take it upon themselves to elect honest l…

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JoeAm @joeam.com · 2d

I hope Vico Sotto does not follow the Leni model of humility over national leadership. He could get votes no one else can get. How can the Philippines get to good governance if its best people refuse to aggressively lead the nation to it?

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JoeAm @joeam.com · 2d

The movement has been toward videos. Language is functional, not literary for the most part. There are so many messages flying about that people can't spend time reading a book.

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JoeAm @joeam.com · 4d

You can't be against corruption and for Sara Duterte. It just does not compute right. Yours for honesty and logic, Joe.

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JoeAm @joeam.com · 6d

I wonder what Trump toadie Republicans think of a Democrat with integrity and courage.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7d

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

JoeAm @joeam.com · 6d

"I hope the youth are tired of the nonsense. I hope social media become a howling mob seeking justice. And I hope it’s an uprising that endures as long as the winds do."

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A Filipino uprising

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America I have a great weather app, Windy.com. It allows me to see and project storms with very high accuracy. It’s well worth the $20 annual fee for premium that …

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JoeAm @joeam.com · 9d

Yeah.

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How Filipinos botch competency

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America As the father of a teenage son, I have to find ways to explain the fundamentals of life to him in ways that are short and memorable. Lately I’ve been expla…

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JoeAm @joeam.com · 11d

The Philippines has a whole of government approach to corruption. Not fighting it. Doing it.

JoeAm @joeam.com · 12d

Well, personally. I think Senator A. Cayetano is more clown than anything. Defending a mass murderer is simply not a good look. Compassion should be directed to the families of the dead, not the conductor of the killings.

JoeAm @joeam.com · 12d

Wow. Pope Leo questions whether being anti-abortion and anti-immigrant means you are pro-life. He thinks not, as I read his remarks. Conservative Catholics are going nuts. They believe their hypocrisy is discernment.

JoeAm @joeam.com · 13d

No need to argue.

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Messaging: “Rise Philippines!”

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America The challenge for good governance is this: the bad guys are organized behind DDS while the good guys are divided by people arguing for their favorite personaliti…

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JoeAm @joeam.com · 14d

An earthquake is a short moment during which we consign our fate to God because there is nothing else to do. Condolences to those who lost loved ones, homes, and businesses. It was a rough ride. And corruption kills. Let's be clear on that point.

JoeAm @joeam.com · 16d

If you were to ask me what the three biggest threats to Filipino well-being are, I'd say:

1. DDS
2. Corruption
3. Typhoons and storms

DDS is 1 because they promote the election of corrupt leaders. China is 4.

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JoeAm @joeam.com · 16d

If what I read is true then . . .

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“DDS are paid liars and abusers of the Philippines”

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America It seems to me that Filipinos need to grasp why the Philippines struggles to provide jobs and wealth or else the 2028 presidential election will be one more step…

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JoeAm @joeam.com · 20d

We need to sort this out.

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What’s your social media IQ?

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America Social media is the arena into which you walk and you are suddenly accosted by peddlers, hawkers, snake-oil salesmen, politicians, influencers, advertisers, spie…

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JoeAm @joeam.com · 23d

My weather app projects that a forming storm is going to dump a ton of rain on Manila in a few days. The corruption scandal won't end soon.

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JoeAm @joeam.com · 23d

Article by Irineo B. R. Salazar.

"Literally and figuratively, the Philippines seems to be up to its neck in water nowadays."

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Rising Waters in the Philippines

Literally and figuratively, the Philippines seems to be up to its neck in water nowadays. Somehow things have come to a point where even the most apolitical seem to have noticed that it can no long…

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JoeAm @joeam.com · 27d

"We mistakenly hold that there is only one kind of patriotism in the Philippines, the one expressed in the Constitution. But in its actual operation, in the deep state forces that drive government’s acts and the acts of people under that government, there are three."

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The honorable, the corrupt, and the blind

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America We mistakenly hold that there is only one kind of patriotism in the Philippines, the one expressed in the Constitution. But in its actual operation, in the deep …

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JoeAm @joeam.com · 28d

My bookie is taking bets on who goes the distance.

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De Lima vs Duterte, Round 8

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America Leila De Lima has always been for justice and human rights. Rodrigo Duterte has always been for himself, brutally. The two are like Batman and The Joker, a class…

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JoeAm @joeam.com · 28d

Trump uses the army to invade American cities. Marcos tells AFP their loyalty is to the Constitution and the people.

Do you see the difference?

JoeAm @joeam.com · 28d

The House Speaker exits. The President forms a Commission to deal with infrastructure corruption. Newly appointed DPWH Head Dizon takes an ax to flood projects. Senator Sotto comes back in a superhero cape. The people are of a mood to protest. De Lima is working again. Am I still in the Philippines?

JoeAm @joeam.com · Sep 15

Are you liberal?

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Liberal is not a political ideology

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America The Philippines is in such political turmoil that it’s hard to write into it. I had to scrap a blog that would make no sense if Senator Sotto is not able t…

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JoeAm @joeam.com · Sep 13

Thought police at work in America.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Sep 12

“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said.

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JoeAm @joeam.com · Sep 11

Time for a little uplift. I explain the idiom in the article.

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The Philippines is no longer chopped liver

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America The Philippines is alive and well, front and center, gaining traction, and lookin’ good. The Philippines is no longer chopped liver. “Um, hey Gemini,…

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