Duterte’s Year One: Chaos Under the Surface
With his first year in office completed, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte doesn’t know the difference between policy and bragging to drinking partners. He has simply not grown up. He remains a hambugerong bugoy, a teenage braggart.
Thus the constant boasting about his sexual prowess, the dirty talk, the tilting against convention. He has an exaggerat…
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