ON TWITTER, ANC news reader Karen Davila asks: “What broke Noynoy Aquino’s heart?”
Quite simple really. It was excessive smoking, uncontrolled diabetes and hypertension resulting into ESRD or End Stage Renal Disease. This obviously “broke his heart”, according to medical reports. Nothing heroic or even remotely political about it.
So if they’re now playing the victim card, yes, indeed he was a victim of his excessive smoking vice and very unhealthy lifestyle.
So, have they canonized the nincompoop yet? Dying of ESRD from uncontrolled diabetes and hypertension caused by excessive smoking won’t count as they need to scourge him at the pillars then crucify him. That might qualify him for canonization. Unfortunately for them, he’s already dead, cremated and buried.
The so-called “West Philippine Sea” issue failed. 1Sambayan is a joke serious politicians avoid like the virus. They revived the International Criminal Court (ICC) case and once again, as expected, it failed to elicit the response they wanted except from Antonio Trillanes IV and Leila de Lima.
The presidential elections are just around the corner and the Duterte effect is still going strong, so their last resort is that somebody has to die, preferably an Aquino. And as if on cue Noynoy died, so like his parents before him they’re now politicizing his death.
He’s useless alive, in fact a burden. But dead, the possibilities and potentials to mount a presidential campaign based on emotions and sympathy are endless, and it has worked twice already. All they need to do is to convince another Aquino, preferably one of his siblings, to run for president.
The thing is Noynoy Aquino died literally alone. He has no wife nor offspring that we know of, so they need a “grieving widow” as that is what the “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon” playbook requires for it to work. The almost next best thing is for one of his siblings to act as the “grieving sister” and hope that the natives of these islands won’t notice.
Unfortunately for them, the natives have already seen through this B-movie plot and would rather not be fooled twice. Perhaps for the “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon” and the rest of the three percent, they’ll be willing to overlook this slight deviation from the original playbook.
Leni Robredo has already used her “grieving widow” card and has no relations carnal or otherwise with Noynoy Aquino that would qualify her as his “grieving widow”. Now if it were Quezon City congressman Bolet Banal that died, she would very much qualify. But that’s not the case as he’s very much alive and if it were, that’s another story.
And by the way, Bam Aquino does not qualify as the “grieving widow” as that would be too weird even for Jose Marie Viceral’s standards and “grieving cousin” is not in the playbook. At best, Bam can just do a cosplay looking like Noynoy Aquino. Take note, he got away with his Ninoy cosplay.
What is it with this yellow ribbon nonsense? Filipinos pledged their loyalty to the flag of the Republic of the Philippines; meanwhile the usual suspects, wokes, social climbers and, of course, the “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon” pledged their loyalty to a yellow ribbon.
Do these fools have any idea where that “yellow ribbon” symbol of their loyalty originated? It’s the title of a ‘70s pop song by Tony Orlando and the Dawn, a mediocre “one hit wonder” quite popular among the artistically challenged white Americans, you know, those with poor taste in music.
I’m almost certain that the American handlers of the late Ninoy and Cory Aquino chose that theme song as the soundtrack of their so-called revolution or coup d’état of the Philippine government as a cruel joke…or they just have poor taste in music.
Is there anything more baduy than pledging loyalty to a yellow ribbon and that awful song?
The usual politicians are all salivating to use the death of Noynoy Aquino to as what some say change the political landscape of the 2022 elections. Of course it won’t; the only change that will probably happen is that those who are still smoking will think twice before lighting and smoking that cigarette.
Imagine if Noynoy has been smoking marijuana instead of Marlboro Reds. He would still be around kissing the sky listening to Jimi Hendrix. (brotherlouie16@gmail.com)/PN
