The orange bastard thinks Junior is one and the same, except Junior is more of a Marcos family nerd of sorts, while his sister Imee is now also his archenemy and allied to Duterte, and happens to inherit much more of her father’s egomania.

Nonetheless, they are both successful beneficiaries of mass disinformation and hatred. The thing is, however, in terms of political stability the Philippines now seems a lot milder compared to the mounting ongoing oppression in the US.

source: https://bsky.app/profile/nycsouthpaw.bsky.social/post/3luob4ojgr22n

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      Seems less like not understanding and more like intentionally misconstruing because you dont like him.

      There’s more than enough insane takes he makes that we dont have to make things up to call him on.

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        During the president’s roughly hour-long address at the Tuesday night event, he predicted the policies of his administration could lead to as much as a 1,000% decrease in drug prices for Americans, if his plan comes to fruition.

        Bc this guy understands english? He said they will not pay tariffs in the philippines then, they will pay 19%. Bro’s brain is paste.

        https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-says-he-may-use-trade-force-countries-pharma-companies-buy-his-most-favored-nation-provision

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          I don’t see that anywhere in the link you posted. It’s a link about drug prices which doesn’t seem to reference The Phillipines at all.

          He’s saying that from the Filipino perspective it will be open market, and they won’t institute a tariff on American goods, then continues on saying that Filipino goods will have a 19% tariff on them.

          It’s not the clearest thing in the world, but still easy enough to understand if you try in the least bit.

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            12 days ago

            The Phillipines will pay a 19% tariff.

            It’s in black and white in his post. America, I assume, will pay 0% for filipino goods. That would hurt the Philippines.

            Most of their import come from China and other asian countries1. Most american products is too expensive the Philippines. Increasing tensions and a current American population that is 100% anti-american involvement in war is bad for the Philippines. He will not come to their aid. Hell the Philippines lost extreme import usaid bc of this bitch2.

            Also the drug price qoute shows he is a fucking idiot with math and it is in the second paragraph.

            1 https://www.worldstopexports.com/philippines-top-10-imports/

            2 https://businessmirror.com.ph/2025/01/29/us-aid-to-phl-worth-184-million-part-of-trump-administration-review/

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              12 days ago

              No shit he doesn’t care a lick about The Phillipines or drug proces or literally anything but his own self-interest, but that’s not what you said. You said he contradicted himself by saying zero and then nineteen. But he said The Phillipines would approach American products with an open market, and the American market would put a 19% tariff on goods for the Phillipines. Misconstruing that very simple statement is either a bone head interpretation or an intentional misrepresentation of what he said.

              Which is, frankly, mystifying cause what he’s actually saying is still deeply harmful and self-involved. The only reason I can fathom for making that kind of vapid interpretation is to continue a trend of isolating and fanaticizing the two sides even more, which only benefits those who don’t want an beneficial resolution to this garbage train of a decade.

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        13 days ago

        Steel man him a little harder?

        OPEN MARKET 0 TARRIF —-> the Philippines will pay 19% tariff . You really don’t see how that’s a little unclear?

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          12 days ago

          A little unclear, yes, but not so unclear that someone couldn’t discern what he means with a little basic thought put into it.

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            22 days ago

            This is just nonsense, no matter who said it. The fact that somebody who usually misrepresents and lies about basically everything doesn’t help.