Pia Cayetano fumes after Risa Hontiveros called for probe over 2019 SEA Games Facilities

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"Sen. Pia Cayetano fumes after Sen. Risa Hontiveros called for full-scale probe into the P9.5 billion funding used to construct sports facilities for the 2019 Southeast Asian Games"

Pia's brother Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano served then as the chairman of the PH Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee. 

Pia blasts Risa for her allegations: "I am embarrassed that we choose to make a political issue out of a world-class facility...So paano, puro bulok na lang tayo?"

Pia: "Paano magiging "white elephant"? Do you even know what are the conditions of our sports facilities para sabihin mong 'yong world-class na 'yon magiging white elephant?"

Pia really popped a vein about this investigation.

Like Pia girl....do you have something to hide that mere suggestion of investigating the SEA Games facilities in New Clark City really got you mad?

But basically, Pia's statements do not address the issues Risa raised.

May tinatago ka 'teh? Takot kang mabulatlat yan sa kapatid mo kasi may cut ka din?

Guilty agad 'teh ang pakiramdam namin sa rant mo. Ibabalik ko madalas sabihin ng mga DDS, kung walang ginagawang masama, wag matakot.

No Pia, we respect and honor the National Athletes, the infrastructure is not the athlete. We love them... But not the Overpriced Cauldron by another Cayetano, your brother Alan Peter..

Pia should not be angry! Simply present to the public an audited report and let the documents speak for itself!

Sige let’s change the headline. Let’s make it about you fuming mad and being defensive about the cauldron and other white elephant built in New Clark City. Investigation ang hinihingi, at hindi pa kayo sinasabihang guilty. Takot na takot na ba kayo? Lol.

If Pia Cayetano really gave a damn about Pinoy athletes, the more she should push for the investigation for any anomalies in the SEA Games hosting to ensure that all money went to the improvement of facilities, purchase of equipment, ++, and not a single dime sa own pocket ng iba.

Pia's impassioned 'patriotic' rage over Risa's call for investigation into the P9 billion sports arena deal? Too much. Way overboard reaction. They're hiding dirt, is my impression. And desperately so. Facts are facts and they want them hidden.

Wow. The true colors of Pia Cayetano, which she has carefully concealed for decades, are now on full display. From being exposed as a fake feminist to being your run of the mill trapo.

My disappointment for Pia continues to grow. A “feminist” but has enabled the fascist misogynist actions of Duterte. A supposed bike advocate but has no meaningful legislation on active mobility. “Anti-corruption” but fumes at a probe bc her brother is involved.

Remember that time that Hidilyn Diaz (women's weightlifting silver medalist in the Rio Olympics) literally went to her IG account to ask for private sponsorship.

I would like to know kung nasaan si Pia Cayetano nung mga panahon na yun.

What a joke.

Wtf happened to her? She was like the future of Philippines' politics back in the day. His dad was one of the most respected Senators too.

Money, honestly. Politics is the family business and siding with the administration, whoever they are, possibly gets them profits.

Corruption must be huge enough for Alan Cayetano to spend years behind bars under a just regime and law-abiding Supreme Court.

Probably the same (albeit feigned) enraged reaction I make to my wife when she points to me as the culprit to an offense to their olfactory. 

Histrionics.

Sorry Pia, you continue to swim the abyss. You became shameless with your "gigil" reaction to the impending probe. If it's built out of public funds, we're interested to have it probed especially that COA flagged it. Why not welcome it to clear your bro's name?! Takot?! 

Pia Cayetano is cancelled!

Vice Ganda: Sinong mas straight?

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Vice Ganda got disowned by his own community. 

Practice lang.

It's clear that Vice Ganda did not know about the series. He and the it entire show didn't get the advocacy and the message of GSP. So, never again!  

The question 'Sino ang mas straight?' Not funny!

You can see how Ian and Paolo got awkward with the question. 

Asking that assumes na meron laging guy/girl sa relationship. Putting LGBT in heteronormative (straight relationship) expectations.

For queer relations, there may be two gays or two lesbians or any combo, would not matter. And besides, personal matters are best left personal.

1. Stop  who's the guy/girl in queer relations and stop making gameshows out of very personal matters.

2. Being LGBT+ does not auto-remold one's backward attitudes on SOGIE.

3. Educate, take up space and fight.

Vice Ganda should know better, but she seems busy being a tool for heteronormative media.

It saddens me that actors from a BL series were treated as sexual objects and pressed with heteronormative standards in the show. Vice Ganda, you could have done better. listen to the LGBT community. You should all not be regressing.

It isn't the first time that Vice Ganda has this tone-deaf remarks. For someone that has been in the entertainment industry for more than a decade w/ such privilege, it's disappointing that he still chooses to be ignorant on crucial matters such as LGBT discourses. Nakakapagod.

You know what needs straightening? 

The twisted backward notion that homosexual relations need to fit heteronormative expectations. The failure to understand the complexity of LGBT beyond sexual stuff.

Goes to show that both our media and culture are intensely backward, and it will take a lot more than BL shows and a Twitter echo chamber to change the conditions that make them in the first place. Educate, educate, struggle, struggle.

Eh divided nga ang LGBT. Mas marami, wapakels. Yung iba sila pa mismo una manlait. Look at Vice. Patawa lang sya dahil dun pera niya. Yun lang nakita nyang role niya.

It is simply the unwillingless to see the world in terms other than the received heteronormative orthodoxies. I would be embarrassed to be involved with something this outdated.

No more educating. I should be allowed to hate the likes of Vice Ganda who possesses both social and economic capital, who has had all the time to learn about this community should they actually wanted to, yet never did.

If you're still wondering why so many Filipinos admire Vice Ganda but deny the LGBT+ basic human rights, it's because Vice reduces her gender identity to only a form of entertainment or whatever that sells, instead of utilizing her platform to amplify the plight of the community.

Unless he actually learns about sensitivity and makes use of his influence for good, Vice Ganda will never be a respectable gay icon.

He is an icon, alright. But in so many wrong ways.

Ang foundation ng career niya ay base sa insensitivity.

He doesn't have the respect of a huge chunk of the community. No sensible queer person respects him.

Walang ambag sa sariling community kasi. He is a gay person so full of himself. He will never be effective to represent the LGBT community.

Vice Ganda is not an LGBT ally. The only thing the comedian knows is horribly making fun of people, including those who are part of the LGBTQ+ community. Tasteless, cheap comedy.

Of course Vice Ganda's still problematic. Let's not forget that they enabled Duterte's rise to power. Only gets serious and political when it affects them, and continues to perpetuate tropes against members of the LGBTQ+ community with "sino ang mas straight/tigasin/kulot?

Even when the ABS-CBN shutdown happened, AFAIK they didn't even bat an eyelash

They just setup shop sa YouTube.

Literally just one tweet about praying and that was it. Back to business, because it didn't affect their livelihood. The privilege.

Make it make sense? Also the subtle innuendos with the other terms listed? Just shows all y'all do is sexualize and use the LGBTQIA+ community for entertainment. 

Vice Ganda pulling off a stunt like that for the straights? I'm not surprised because majority of the bitch's demographic are straight ppl so he will perform what is appealing to the straights which is "funny" gay stereotypical jokes. Gross. 

Also LGBTs don't recognize Vice Ganda as part of the community.

How does it feel to be a queer and a tool of hetero-patriarchy? I dunno, ask Vice Ganda

Hetero-patriarchy - In feminist/queer theory, it's a socio-political system where (primarily) cisgender heterosexual males exert authority/dominance over cisgender/non-conforming females or other sexual orientations and gender identities.

It seeks to reinforce heteronormative values as the only identity acceptable meanwhile oppressing other genders, gender identities, and other sexual orientations through domination of the media space, pushing anti-LGBTQIA+ policies, reinforcing hetero social norms etc.

Vice Ganda is the problematic gay y'all need to call out. They don't acknowledge nor do they apologize for any problematic thing they do.

How can Filipino families be acceptive of the gays when they are seeing vice ganda as an “example.” 

Instead of apologizing and learning they dismiss it by saying "toxic kayo dapat good vibes lang" then proceeds to justify what they did.

It's proof that Vice Ganda is tone deaf and having a queer person on your team does not mean you have a queer-friendly show.

Isn’t there anyone on it's Showtime Na’s team that is part of the LGBT+ community that could’ve flagged this and explained why it’s wrong? 2020 na guys, nandiyan pa din kayo. 

This is exactly the “stereotyping” that they talked about in #GSP. The irony of it happening to the actors in real life is very telling of how much work there is to be done SMH.

This is exactly the micro-aggression talked about in #GSP what a shame.

How ironic given how the series teaches us the exact opposite.

Nakakahiya! Kesehodang hindi tungkol sa sexuality ang buong tanong mali pa rin sya! Just for the sake of viewership ganito ang gagawin Ng It's Showtime Na sa mga guests nila?!

Vice Ganda’s always been a problematic gay, the way this sis never learns.

Really the range of his humor is making other people feel bad or uncomfortable from his bad jokes. He literally only has like one or two movies that were actually tolerable to watch.

Paolo’s awkward smile and Jan’s shift in body language after that awful question left Vice Ganda’s mouth. 

I understand the frustration, it was an unfair situation that happened on It's Showtime Na and it deserves the criticism that it's getting. 

Vice Ganda and Ellen DeGeneres are in the same category of "could've been the icons we needed but..."

But we shouldn’t put all the blame to Vice Ganda only because the one who was really at fault and should also be blamed here is the segment producer/writer.

Though that doesn’t mean Vice Ganda is excused, because she’s still accountable for this as a host of this segment.

It's OK to be angry, but it must be directed towards the root of the problem. Be angry at Vice Ganda if you must. She's been at that business for so long. She has the resources to be educated.

Only in the Philippines: Congratulations to Debold Sinas, new PNP Chief

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"Duterte appoints Maj. Gen. Debold Sinas as new Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief.

Sinas is rising to power as the new chief of the PNP despite figuring in the bruising "mañanita" controversy.

Goodbye forever, police integrity!

Why is it that almost every time my country is trending I immediately know it's not good? 

Only in the Philippines where you can break every law and still be a house speaker, a senator, a president, and a police chief.

In other countries, its leaders will go much further to resignation just because they violated their health protocols for the pandemic. Only in the Philippines where one gets promoted instead. 

Leaders should be an example, not an exemption.

@itsrenzdzlrc

A violator of health and safety protocols will have a promotion. 

The "Only in the Philippines" has always been about negative news lately but never became positive. Let's try to change just like what happened to America with their new President Joe Biden, and farewell are in order for Donal Trump.

In the Philippines, we should be saying goodbye to our President, and let the Vice President lead instead because this has been the worst part of our lives so far with the current administration.

The mananita quarantine violation should not have gone unpunished. They should have strictly implemented a punishment especially that the violator is a government official. Lead by example...otherwise resign.

Another great clown has been appointed to a higher position so I think the President's job nowadays is to give his detractors everything to hate him more from.his circus government.

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