PINAPASOK SA BITAG SI SARA

ALAM ng mga kalaban ni Sara ang kanyang kahinaan. Alam na may katakawan siya sa salapi ng bayan. Pinainan siya at buong katangahan na kumagat sa patibong. Hindi niya alam na ang confidential fund na abot sa P612-M ang magbabagsak sa kanya sa poder.

Ang masakit: Hindi niya ganap na nauunawaan ang buong larawan na malalim na laro sa kanya. Hindi niya alam kung sino ang mga karakter na naglaro sa kanya. Nakangiti sa kanya sa harap pero tinarakan siya ng punyal sa likod. Hindi niya alam kung sino ang kaibigan at kaaway niya sa pulitika. Wala siyang magawa kundi magtatalak sa wala.

May suspetsa siya kung sino ang may pakana ng lahat. Ngunit ano ang batayan upang gumanti sa kanila? Wala. Hindi nga niya kilala kung sinu-sino sila. Wala kakaibang galing upang makita at maunawaan ang lahat sa laro na malalim para maarok ng limitadong kaalaman. Pinaglaruan siya ng hindi makita at makilalang mga kaibigan, iyan ang totoo at masakit.

Biktima siya ng sariling kapalaluan at kayabangan sa mundong ibabaw.

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POWER DYNAMICS IN PHL POLITICS

PRO-BBM politicians knew their politics. They were prescient to know and understand that Misfit Sara could be vicious and uncontrollable. They have to rein her if they want to keep her in the ruling coalition. But she is not an asset. She is an underachiever. The best and only political option is to get rid of her.

They know her weakness. They know how to handle her. Actually, she is not difficult to isolate in the coalition. The funny thing is that she does not know the scheming that went without her slightest knowledge. Pinapasok siya sa bitag.

She has a fondness for big confidential fund. All through her six years as mayor of Davao City, she enjoyed the biggest amount of confidential fund at her disposal. Davao City had the following confidential fund: P144 million in 2016; P260 million in 2017; P420 million in 2018; and P460 million each in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.

Surprises of all surprises, Davao City had the biggest confidential fund nationwide during her incumbency as its mayor. At the time of her incumbency, father Rodrigo was the country’s president. She got what she wanted. She never had it so good.

She brought her greed to the national level. Misfit Sara enjoyed a total of P612 million in confidential fund as the incumbent vice president. Of the amount, P500 million went to the OVP and P112 million, Deped, of which she was the secretary for almost two years.

It would have been fine if she has remained part of the ruling coalition. Had she remained in the ruling coalition, nobody would have noticed the misuse of the confidential fund given her. But the political wind has changed and upon scrutiny, the probing lawmakers discovered what is now emerging to be a grand design to maraud public funds.

It is yet to establish the fate of her confidential fund, but the damning pieces of evidence emerging in the congressional investigation is the deplorable possibility that she could have plundered the confidential amount. If the trajectory of the congressional probe goes to its rightful conclusion, she faces an impeachment complaint. Where or when is something Congress will decide later.

On a closer look, political elements opposed to Misfit Sara knew her weakness. She has a special fondness for confidential funds. They knew what she did to the massive confidential fund given to Davao City during her six years of incumbency.

They gave her the confidential fund for the OVP and Deped without much hassle. They let her dig her own grave, so to speak. She wrongfully believed that what was given as a confidential fund was hers alone to decide. She could either spend it or keep it in any way that pleases her..

Misfit Sara never knows fully what has hit her. She has her suspicions but she could not exactly determine the totality of the political tsunami that is now bringing her down. She does not know the scheming hyenas in her midst. The funny thing is that she may or may not have her downfall without knowing her tormentors or nemesis.

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TAMA ng payo ng isang netizen na wala tayong pakialam kung mapalaya o dumating sa bansa si Mary Jane Veloso, ang turistang Pinay na nahuli ng drug trafficking sa Indonesia. Hinatulan siya ng kamatayan dahil nahuli siya na ipinapasok sa Indonesia ang bawal na droga. Namagitan si PNoy (siya noon ang pangulo), at bilang pakikisama ng Indonesia, hindi siya binitay.

Ang nakakagulat ay tumalak ang ina ni Mary Jane. Pinagbintangan ang DFA sa “kapabayaan” sa kapakanan ng anak. Tinulungan ang anak upang hindi mabitay at kasalanan pa ito ni PNoy. Ito ang nangyari. Akala tuloy ay jaywalking lang ang kaso ng anak at hindi drug trafficking. Tama ang netizen na si Loreto Pua. Huwag na lang natin pansinin sila.

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MGA PILING SALITA: “Hanggang simpatiya lang siya… Hindi nakakain iyon… Habang nilalapa ang mga tao niya, wala siyang sinasabi kundi nakikisimpatiya siya… Dapat sumama siya… Siya ang tumayo doon… Pero takot siya. Kasi ibinulsa niya ang pera ng bayan. Dinambong niya.” – PL, netizen