• What Sara Duterte seeks to achieve?

• 2 objectives: 1) Rile up Duterte base 2) distract people from corruption issues she’s facing in Congress

• This spectacle is about political dynasties but nothing like this has happened before

• Bakit ang mga iniimbestigahan, laging nagkakasakit?

• An insult to the oversight process of Congress

• Classic gaslighting by Sara and her camp

• This is a battle between two giant political clans

• Both clans have the WORST record in terms of corruption and abuses

• Marcoses are thieves

• The Dutertes are blood-thirsty

• Connivance between the Dutertes and the Marcos

• It began with burial of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos in Libingan ng mga Bayani

• “An Anarchy of Familes,” an important book on political dynasties in the Philippines

• The history of Philippine politics is a history of violence

• “Utak Ampatuan “ si Sara

• But was it just a character issue concerning Sara Duterte?

• Nababaliw lang ba talaga?

• The Duterte’s performative politics

• Intel and confi funds are Sara’s vulnerability that Marcoses are exploiting

• Sara claims political persecution, with some basis, and that is her ammunition

• 2028 presidential election promises to be bloody