Senator Robin Padilla is without doubt the dumbest member of the Philippine Senate. He is even dumber than Bato who proves to the nation that he is above his pay grade every time he opens his mouth. But at least Robin has kept the one promise that was important to him as a Filipino. Try to guess what it is without reading ahead.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1696472/robin-padilla-insists-ph-try-legalizing-drug-use-and-just-amend-law-if-ineffective |
Senator Robin Padilla is still gung-ho about legalizing drug use in the country, even after hearing all the opposing arguments.
He said the law is always open to change if it doesn’t work.
The Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs heard about drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation centers, and Senator Ronald Dela Rosa wondered if the country could “afford an experiment” to determine if decriminalizing drug use would be beneficial or not.
Padilla responded: “We can always amend the law. English iyon ah. Kailangan lang natin sumubok. Kailangan natin pakinggan rin iyong medical point of view kasi nagawa na natin iyong law enforcement point of view. Wala naman masama. Kung hindi naging epektibo, eh ‘di next year, palitan natin. Tanggalin natin iyong batas.”
(We can always amend the law. Wow, that’s English. We need to try. We also need to hear the medical point of view because we’ve already acted from the law enforcement point of view. There’s nothing wrong with that. If it’s not effective, then let’s change it next year. Let’s remove that law.)
Did you catch it? Understandably the whole notion of trial and error law, (that's not how legislation works!), might obscure the promise he kept so here it is in black and white:
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1610647/senator-elect-robin-padilla-to-debate-in-filipino-im-not-facing-americans |
Neophyte Senator-elect Robin Padilla said Tuesday he is “100 percent” ready to join the Senate, but will opt to debate in Filipino, saying he would be facing Filipino legislators, “not Americans.”
Padilla, who topped the 2022 senatorial elections, attended a legislative briefing in the Senate ahead of the opening of the 19th Congress in July.
“One-hundred percent,” said Padilla when asked about his readiness to join the Senate.
Padilla said he is also ready to debate with his fellow legislators, but will do so using the vernacular, and not the English language.
“Tagalog… una, hindi naman Amerikano mga kaharap ko para mag-English ako. Siguro kung Amerikano, well I’m willing to debate. Pero mga Tagalog sila eh, eh ‘di Tagalog tayo,” Padilla said.
(Tagalog… for one, I will not be facing Americans for me to speak in English. If I am facing Americans, well I’m willing to debate. But they are Filipinos, so let’s use Tagalog.)
Robin Padilla promised he would not be speaking in English in the Senate. He started out in English but then caught himself and switched to Tagalog.
But who does this promise help? No one. It's posturing plain and simple and it makes him look like a complete idiot.
Robin Padilla's refusal to speak in English because he "will not be facing Americans" is full of hypocrisy and stupidity. What does he have against Americans when he claims to be more American than English speaking Americans because he has Native American blood? His two children and wife are American citizens!
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| https://entertainment.inquirer.net/346969/robin-padilla-defends-mariel-rodriguez-having-baby-in-us |
Robin Padilla justified his and Mariel Rodriguez’s decision to have the TV host give birth to their second child, Gabriela, in the United States.
Rodriguez gave an update about her pregnancy last Saturday, Sept. 28, days after she flew to the US to prepare for the delivery of their second child.
“Another update is her head is now down getting ready for delivery,” she said in her Instagram post on Saturday. “[Please] pray with me I really want to push for another vaginal birth.”“Enjoying the last stretch of my pregnancy,” Rodriguez added.
Many of her fans wished her well, but one Instagram user, a certain @georg_supreme, did not seem to be in favor of Rodriguez’s giving birth in the US.
The netizen, addressing US President Donald Trump’s Instagram account (@realdonaldtrump), pointed out that Rodriguez only goes to the US to give birth. He/she added that it made Rodriguez a “birther,” and that it was not allowed.
After being asked by another Instagram user about what was wrong in giving birth in the US, the netizen chose to “research” about the celebrity couple. He/she then asked why would Rodriguez leave the Philippines to give birth if Padilla prided himself on being nationalistic. The said comments have since been deleted.
In response, Padilla said, “Ang pagiging [Filipino-American] ay hindi pagtataksil sa Inangbayan (Being Filipino-American is not betraying the motherland).”
He then claimed that he and his wife are more American than those who speak English and live in the US, after pointing out that Rodriguez is an American citizen, and stating that he bears some Native American blood.
It's simply amazing that this man was elected to the Senate. It's amazing that Filipinos consistently vote for people who are incompetent and who brazenly show they do not care about this nation. Make no mistake, Robin Padilla does not care about the Philippines.
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