For whom is Bongbong?

IT did look auspicious from the start. Beginning from his six-year battle with Leni Robredo over the vice presidency, which in the end the Supreme Court decided in the lady's favor, Bongbong was cast in the mold of the underdog, taking all the beating humanly possible such that when at the finale he comes charging back, the multitude just can't help taking up his cry for sweet vengeance. In Bongbong's case, it came to the tune of 31 million votes in the 2022 presidential election, the biggest majority vote ever garnered in the history of Philippine elections. And all the way to his inaugural speech at the National Museum, President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Romualdez Marcos Jr. was the knight in shining armor proclaiming to the whole world the success of his lifetime magnificent obsession of "filling the shoes" of his departed father, the late President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos Sr.

To the resounding cheers of multitudes, Bongbong intoned: "Never forget, we are Filipinos. One nation. One republic. Indivisible. We resisted. And never failed to defeat foreign attempts to break up our country in my father's watch in his first chapter of our history."