the thing that is crazy of course is that none of this real. then again, the phillipines did not have the kind of drug problem that duterte said it did

But they sure had a body count once Duterte took power. Just ask Maria Ressa.

remembering a Filipino guy I met in Portugal this year who told me Duterte was cleaning up the country in between bumps of coke

He belongs in prison, but what happens when we put him there?

More people have been killed by reckless drivers within a 3 mile radius of me this year than all the citizens murdered by undocumented immigrants since 2020.

He's a blight on every town he visits. I suppose Aurora is having to deal with far-right threats too now.

We'll be having cops rioting in the streets.

The thing that is truly crazy is that our “Fourth Estate” has abdicated all responsibility.

And even if it did have the kind of problem he said, you can’t kill your way to peace. But a fascist can definitely kill his way to power. More than once, perhaps.

Real is what trusted "journalists" can convey as truth. Trump and Elon are very busy degrading any sense of truth, and journalists who think they write about the truth are terrified of calling either one fascists.

Terrifying