[Newspoint] Senate hosts Duterte docilely

Duterte was all over the place and made scarce sense, something not really surprising, knowing his aberration — antisocial narcissistic personality disorder

set the indulgent tone of the Senate investigation into former president Rodrigo Duterte ’s war on drugs . But first, he indulged himself; he claimed to bring to the proceedings a singular expertise — an expertise in “the underworld” acquired during his three years’ imprisonment for illegal arms possession. , thus restoring to him his civil and political rights and allowing him to run for the Senate as an ex-convict and be elected on nothing other than popularity with moviegoers.

Actually, Duterte’s portrayal of the extent of the drug problem is too convenient to be credible. For one thing, the international count, presumably the more objective one, was only 1.8 million, and, for another, a Social Weather Stations survey showed that Filipinos felt safer — and, I guess, the streets also were quieter, and that’s without anyone dying — during the presidency of Benigno Aquino III, Duterte’s predecessor, than at any other time.

Precisely the wrong reasons to cite for Duterte. Respect is earned; it is given in admiration for one’s abilities or achievements. Surely, nothing about a trigger-happy president is worthy of admiration, and nothing about his brutal and indiscriminate national campaign of summary killings inspires humanitarianism. Still, De la Rosa prevailed: Duterte should speak first. , something not really surprising, knowing his aberration — antisocial narcissistic personality disorder.

But De la Rosa, though smiling along, could not have found him funny at all. In fact, not seldom did he scramble to grab the floor and, although turning out to be not very sensible himself, tried to ensure, for both their sakes, that Duterte was taken in a safe context. That was particularly noticeable after Duterte had

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