Philippines president claims he dropped kidnapper from helicopter | Fox News

What until he starts bragging about doing this to his political opponents and those fighting for human rights. I dare this pos to ally with China. All the easier to squeeze him out of power when Trump goes hard against China and other nations who have abused trade with America.

Get over yourself. Trump loves power mad assholes like this.

You're such a charmer.

Not everyone gets to live in Canada. Duterte grew up in a part of the Phillipines that hasn't known peace in all of recorded history. His worldview is going to be somewhat different from yours and his behavior, while shocking to you, is the result of a lifetime of experience which you haven't had.

I've had different experiences than you have. I've seen things in the world that make me see someone like Duterte and I can understand how he got there and I can understand that he just wants the shit to end. Sometimes the way to convince the assholes to knock it off is to drop a few of them out of a helicopter and to let the others know you did it and that you'll do it to them, too.

Sometimes you shoot them yourself to maintain order...like Saddam Hussein did.

I'm not saying I approve or support what these people do but I can understand the of it.

If I were facing a bunch of people who were responsible for murdering numerous members of my family I'd have no qualms about doing what Duterte is doing.

Over the years you have impressed me as being made of sterner stuff than most Canadians and I imagine given terribly difficult circumstances you have it in you to make Duterte look like a schoolboy. Maybe that's the heart of your criticism here is that deep down you know you're not far off from this guy.

Not everyone gets to live in Canada. Duterte grew up in a part of the Phillipines that hasn't known peace in all of recorded history. His worldview is going to be somewhat different from yours and his behavior, while shocking to you, is the result of a lifetime of experience which you haven't had.

I've had different experiences than you have. I've seen things in the world that make me see someone like Duterte and I can understand how he got there and I can understand that he just wants the shit to end. Sometimes the way to convince the assholes to knock it off is to drop a few of them out of a helicopter and to let the others know you did it and that you'll do it to them, too.

Sometimes you shoot them yourself to maintain order...like Saddam Hussein did.

I'm not saying I approve or support what these people do but I can understand the of it.

If I were facing a bunch of people who were responsible for murdering numerous members of my family I'd have no qualms about doing what Duterte is doing.

Over the years you have impressed me as being made of sterner stuff than most Canadians and I imagine given terribly difficult circumstances you have it in you to make Duterte look like a schoolboy. Maybe that's the heart of your criticism here is that deep down you know you're not far off from this guy.
I can understand what you are trying to say here but the move from dregs to just different to political opponents can come fast and furious. Moving from Killing those who do harm to society and killing people your religion or political leanings tell you are "dangerous" can come overnight. Beware!

Don't think I'm not paying attention to that kind of thing.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=tr ... +dangerous

The left in the USA seems bent on outraging themselves to the point that they'll commit murder because of what they believe *might* happen.

Idiots, left and right are just that, idiots. Keeping the political discourse civil is a hallmark of successful democracies. Keep it civil, ignore the idiots and keep on voting.

That was before reality-TV hosts got elected President. Expect the wheels to completely come off the basic concept of civility as we go forward. For a group so obsessive about how terrific the past was they sure were fucking quick to abandon every single bit of politeness, manners, and intrinsic decency their grandparents generation had as a hallmark.

Don't forget that Trump has been preceded by a 'community organizer' who has a demonstrably murky history.

Yet Obama got elected because of the beliefs that people projected onto him and not because of anything he'd actually done.

At least Trump has a track record and for good or bad it's there for the world to see.

And no one had to sue to see Trump's birth certificate.

Not everyone gets to live in Canada. Duterte grew up in a part of the Phillipines that hasn't known peace in all of recorded history. His worldview is going to be somewhat different from yours and his behavior, while shocking to you, is the result of a lifetime of experience which you haven't had.

I've had different experiences than you have. I've seen things in the world that make me see someone like Duterte and I can understand how he got there and I can understand that he just wants the shit to end. Sometimes the way to convince the assholes to knock it off is to drop a few of them out of a helicopter and to let the others know you did it and that you'll do it to them, too.

Sometimes you shoot them yourself to maintain order...like Saddam Hussein did.

I'm not saying I approve or support what these people do but I can understand the of it.

If I were facing a bunch of people who were responsible for murdering numerous members of my family I'd have no qualms about doing what Duterte is doing.

Over the years you have impressed me as being made of sterner stuff than most Canadians and I imagine given terribly difficult circumstances you have it in you to make Duterte look like a schoolboy. Maybe that's the heart of your criticism here is that deep down you know you're not far off from this guy.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
-- William Pitt

It's no small irony that Pitt's words were mirrored right back at Great Britain not so many years after he said this.



If a tyrant thinks necessity justifies tyranny then it becomes necessary to depose the tyrant.

And then I suppose the choice here is to discern if Duterte is a tyrant or if the people who have waged war in the Philippines for well over five hundred years are the tyrants.

Don't forget that Trump has been preceded by a 'community organizer' who has a demonstrably murky history.

Yet Obama got elected because of the beliefs that people projected onto him and not because of anything he'd actually done.

At least Trump has a track record and for good or bad it's there for the world to see.

And no one had to sue to see Trump's birth certificate.



When you play that game all it does is throw what you're saying onto the heap of other silliness that should be paid no attention to by any adults. Have fun with Trump, when you all find out the hard way that the promises he keeps ends up doing infinitely more damage to the US, and the rest of the world, than any of the fever-dream things you guys kept saying Obama was trying to do. Oh no, sacred bust of Winston Churchill, what will we ever do?

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