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The Ateneo supports the 25% shading standard just because Leni Robredo is appealing for it

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It is common knowledge that the Ateneo, its faculty, and its student body collectively support the position that a 25% shading threshold be applied as criteria for the vote recount overseen by the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET). The PET recount is being done to settle a dispute lodged by vice presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos against the claim to the vice presidency of fellow candidate Leni Robredo.

The Ateneo has been on Robredo's side since the campaign. As such, its taking such a position, which is, not surprisingly, exactly the same position Robredo's camp takes on the issue, is necessarily biased and not based on any other argument. For the Ateneo, the argument is idiotically straightforward: Leni Robredo wants the 25% shading criterion applied to the recount, so "we Ateneans" are behind it.

Dumb, right? And to think parents of students of the Ateneo pay astronomical fees to "educate" their kids there. The evidence shows that Ateneans do n…
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Federalism is Duterte's "end game" just as saving Hacienda Luisita was BS Aquino's "end game"

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The way certain "analysts" of Philippine politics make it sound like "charter change" and the shift to federalism supposedly being this administration's "end game", it is as if machinations like theae are unique to the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.

One need look too far back and take stock what the government of Duterte's predecessor, former President Benigno Simeon 'BS' Aquino III was really all about -- none other than the securing of the family jewels -- Hacienda Luisita -- from the clutches of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).

The point is, all administrations have agendas and "end games". The only way to have one's agendas win over another is to play democracy better than the enemy. More often than not, that just simply involves winning more elections than the other.

The trouble with the Yellowtards is that they were so busy quibbling over spelling errors, jetskis, Malacanang debuts…
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COMELEC spokesman @jabjimenez himself DRILLED Filipino voters to FULLY SHADE the ballot circles back in 2016!

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No less than the COMELEC spokesman James Jimenez himself found that he could not emphasise enough that the ballot circles be fully shaded. He ran what was tantamount to a full information campaign to drill this into Filipino voters back in 2016 as is evident in this tweet...


It seems that then candidate for the vice presidency Leni Robredo did not get that memo.

Even more specific was an instruction also issued by Mr Jimenez not to undershade in this tweet going way back to 2013...


It is in this context that it is easy to see just how idiotic a case Robredo and her camp is pushing to the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET). Clearly, there is something not right about considering a 25% shaded ballot circle a valid vote...


What else could it be? There's just no getting around the idea that the camp of Leni Robredo want something that support possible fraudulent activity that results in a seemingly rushed manner with which ballots of interest to them were filled.
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Roman Catholic Church tells Filipinos that God is on Leni Robredo's side

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Trust the Roman Catholic Church to get involved in all the wrong ways. What exactly does "praying over" the lawyers of "vice president" Leni Robredo in the lead up to the vote recount today to determine who really won the vice presidency back in 2016? It shows that the Church is endorsing one side of the dispute and is not really interested nor curious to learn the truth.


In the modern world, the truth can only be revealed after a systematic effort through a process that applies a consistent set of rules that all parties involved adhere to.

The Church would like Filipinos to believe that there are powers that are above the rules prescribed by the State and that these powers are on the side of Leni Robredo.

This is the sort of thinking that is ingrained in Philippine society thanks to the examples exhibited by the Church in the manner with which it participates in democratic processes.

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