Mutual annihilation

If the Dutertes want to become the new opposition, they would have to stop flailing away at their enemies and learn precision assault.

There’s a lot of dirt (and not the one covering the dictator’s remains in the heroes’ cemetery) that they can dig up on the current administration.

They need the sharp focus and firm hand of the sniper who gunned down mayor Antonio Halili of Tanauan, Batangas in 2018 from a distance of over 250 feet. Then president Rodrigo Duterte had described Halili as a narco politician.

Former sweepstakes general manager Royina Garma said the gunman, who remains at large, was a police sniper, with a certain Major Albotra from Central Visayas part of the team that carried out the hit.

The chichiria network (move over, Marites) is now speculating that the sniper could be the one that Vice President Sara Duterte says she has contracted (and who has agreed) to assassinate President Marcos, First Lady Liza and Speaker Martin Romualdez, to avenge her in case she is murdered.

It must be strange being part of a family for whom murder is a way of life, where the thought of killing or being killed is the reality rather than just the stuff of movies.

In a pre-dawn expletive-laden rant after her beloved chief of staff Zuleika Lopez narrowly avoided ending up in the Correctional Institution for Women (CIW), VP Sara showed that she is Rodrigo Duterte’s daughter after all.

Unlike in her two-hour “drag me to hell” press conference, during which she kept her cool and showed impressive control – and even a surprising sense of humor – the VP lost it in her weekend rant, coming off like a person in dire need of anger management.

She has since been trying to walk back her “kill” threat.

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If any person other than a Duterte had disclosed contracting a hit on BBM, his wife and his favorite cousin, everyone would have dismissed it as a silly joke or plain wishful thinking.

But because of the track record of the Dutertes in the neutralization of those who incur their ire, the whole world believed VP Sara when she said that her statement was “no joke, no joke.”

BBM considered the threat serious enough to issue his strongest statement yet on his estranged