Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has described a public threat by the vice president to have him killed by an assassin as a criminal plot and vowed to fight it, in a looming showdown between the country’s top two leaders

Whatever’s going on in your country, it’s probably not as bad as this.

  • Tiefling IRL
    12•6 hours ago

    Whatever’s going on in your country, it’s probably not as bad as this.

    Nervous laughter as a vulnerable minority in the US

  • @Rottcodd
    26•9 hours ago

    Huh.

    She didn’t simply threaten to have him killed - she said that she had arranged to have him killed if he had her killed.

    So it’s only really a “threat” if he intends to have her killed.

    So essentially, Bongbong is admitting that he intends to have her killed.

    • @andallthat
      5•6 hours ago

      I am not from the Philippines and am not taking sides here, but if someone taked about killing me (even hypothetically) iI would find it a bit threatening too.

      Especially if that someone was very specific about it. Like, not shouting angrily “I’ll kill you!” but describing a plan to send a hitman after me.

      • @Rottcodd
        3•4 hours ago

        Again though it wasn’t just a threat - it was a very specific if/then statement - “I’ve arranged it so that if he has me killed, he will be killed.”

        Granted that it’s a bit unsettling, my immediate response, and IMO the likely immediate response of virtually anyone and everyone, would be “But I don’t intend to have you killed.”

      • @[email protected]English
        2•3 hours ago

        …if you tried to murder them. I feel like you’re omitting the most important part.

  • @[email protected]
    3•5 hours ago

    Called it 2 weeks ago when Philippines says it will cooperate if ICC seeks Duterte’s custody over drug killings:

    While this is good it is politically motivated as the new prime minister, who is just as authoritarian as duterte, is trying to get rid of his political rival. Also not a good sign for stability as dutertes threatened and his daughter is currently vice president, so an assassination/coup attempt may be coming.

    Let’s see if I can get another, Netanyahu will be arrested by the ICC

    • @Viking_Hippie
      2•5 hours ago

      I’m crossing everything except the streams that you’re right about Netanyahu! 🤞🤞🤞🤞

      • @Glytch
        2•5 hours ago

        Let me try: the US will send special forces into whichever country arrests Netanyahu to break him out

        genuinely hope I’m wrong but as a US ally he’s covered under the Hague Invasion Act of 2002

  • @ZapBeebz_
    21•10 hours ago

    Idk, come January, I’d be pretty okay with the president and vice president trying to kill each other.

    • @Kaput
      4•9 hours ago

      That’s what season 4 of the boys is about. Who’s third for power grab?

      • @mercano
        3•7 hours ago

        Speaker of the House, currently Johnson, but they’re required to go through the election process when the new House sits in January, and we’ve seen how drawn out they can get.

        • @Kaput
          1•4 hours ago

          I want a rematch between space laser Blondie and theatre sex fiend. No reason for the train wreck not to be entertaining. It would also insure the presidency remain in crazy hands no matter what happen.

          I seem to have lost the plot of this post. Phillipines are again giving USA a run for their money on the crazy scale.

  • shoulderoforion
    1•9 hours ago

    what’s going on in my country, is we either handed over the reigns to a fascist completely unable and incapable of keeping us or our allies safe, or our elections were thouroughly hacked by russia installing their puppet to allow them eastern european hegemony at the end of tanks and nukes, so, yeah, what’s going on in my country is not only ordinates worse than this, it affects every living being on the planet in such disasterous negativity, 12 months from now entire soverign nations will cease to exist