Lovin’ Those Tyrants UPDATED!
Donald Trump has found a new hero. Rodrigo Duterte, who is “president” of the Philippines got a phone call from Trump last April that went like this …
“I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem. Many countries have the problem, we have a problem, but what a great job you are doing and I wanted to tell you that.”
That would be kinda nice except for the fact that Duterte believes in shoot drug dealers and addicts from the backs of motorcycles, and has made news around the world about it. He’s even claimed to have personally killed a few himself to show how it’s done.
“Hitler massacred three million Jews [sic], now, there’s three million drug addicts. I’d be happy to slaughter them,” he said in September. Last month, he told a group of jobless Filipinos that they should “kill all the drug addicts.” Police have killed over 7,000 people, devastated poor areas of Manila and other cities, and used the drug war as a pretext to murder government officials and community leaders.
You don’t like your boss at work – report him as a drug addict. Don’t like what reporters are writing about you – they’re all drug addicts.
Now that’s an idea Trump would love.
Thanks to Greg for the heads up.
UPDATED! Well, I just learned that he told Duterte military secrets in the same damn conversation.
U.S. President Donald Trump told his Philippine counterpart that Washington has sent two nuclear submarines to waters off the Korean peninsula, the New York Times said, comments likely to raise questions about his handling of sensitive information.
Trump told Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte Washington had “a lot of firepower over there”, according to the New York Times, which quoted a transcript of an April 29 call between the two.
“We have two submarines — the best in the world. We have two nuclear submarines, not that we want to use them at all,” the newspaper quoted Trump as telling Duterte, based on the transcript.
Don’t tell him anything, y’all. Just don’t.
“kill all the drug addicts”
Wow! What a novel conclusion. Maybe because addiction is so expensive to treat and has a high degree of recidivism? So just kill ’em!
Novel idea there dictator Duterte. I can tell you have as great a grasp on the big picture as Hair Drumpf.
1Micr, it’s another mega question. Duterte was once Mayor of Davao, another contradiction in American foreign policy. Of the many beautiful islands in the RPI, Davao was once one of the most beautiful, idyllic in many respects. Now it is near ground zero as a hotbed for radical activity.
What Duterte did for Davao he wants to extend to the entire RPI. While what Donnie did to his businesses, he wants to inflict on the entire USA. Duterte and Donnie, brothers in incompetence.
2Why am I not surprised that the Orange Twatwaffle is an admirer of murderous “heads of state”??
Watch out folks; he’s taking notes.
3Duterte is doing a great job on the drug problem, Putin is doing a great job on the journalists and opponents problems, Kim is doing a great job on the crazy threats problem….
And somebody needs to duct tape Donnie’s mouth before he plays one too many rounds of “I know something youuuu don’t know…!”
Good god, we need an adult in the White House.
4All hail the Baboon-in-Thief! He misplaced a naval ship, then steadies his course by outing two nuclear submarines to Duterte, serving up an Israeli operative to Putin, and leaving a wake of offended people behind him while on his “Embarrass America” tour. For the sake of country and the world, let’s send Donnie on permanent spring break to his summer sink hole.
5well, this could be a way to finally be rid of that limbaugh creep!
6More than 7000 peplum killed?! Duterte is even more beastial than I thought. So of course Orange Whore likes him.
And that big damn mouth! It’s childish bragging which endangers the nation, NATO, South Korea, the EU. C’mon! Section 25! Orange Whore is grotesquely incompetent!
7I’d suggest that Cheeto Benito engage brain before opening mouth, but I’m increasingly sure he has no brain beyond his overactive limbic system.
Apparently too many people thought the reality show that was our country was too boring with No-Drama Obama in charge. Boy have they shown us…
8Heard the number slaughtered was closer to 9000.
9Ok now that traitor trump has again opened his mouth to reveal military secrets will the GOP fascists remove him from the office he stole? He can’t keep his little piggy mouth shut when it come to very sensitive military information. Why? It makes him feel like a man. He isn’t a man. Has no manly characteristics, virtues. His is a tub of rancid congealed grease. The ancient Greeks would have walled up.
Donnie always admired the shoot from the hip and let God sort out the good from the bad type movies. If he wants to wear a heavily laden belt to damn much, give him a tool belt with actually workman’s tools. And let him wonder what the hell they are?
10