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Not a fan of him, but some Americans trying to learn who is the Marcos Jr. running the house right now.
(lemmy.world)
The orange bastard thinks Junior is one and the same, except Junior is more of a Marcos family nerd of sorts, while his sister Imee is now also his archenemy and allied to Duterte, and happens to inherit much more of her father's egomania.
Nonetheless, they are both successful beneficiaries of mass disinformation and hatred. The thing is, however, in terms of political stability the Philippines now seems a lot milder compared to the mounting ongoing oppression in the US.
source: https://bsky.app/profile/nycsouthpaw.bsky.social/post/3luob4ojgr22n
I don't see that anywhere in the link you posted. It's a link about drug prices which doesn't seem to reference The Phillipines at all.
He's saying that from the Filipino perspective it will be open market, and they won't institute a tariff on American goods, then continues on saying that Filipino goods will have a 19% tariff on them.
It's not the clearest thing in the world, but still easy enough to understand if you try in the least bit.
It's in black and white in his post. America, I assume, will pay 0% for filipino goods. That would hurt the Philippines.
Most of their import come from China and other asian countries^1^. Most american products is too expensive the Philippines. Increasing tensions and a current American population that is 100% anti-american involvement in war is bad for the Philippines. He will not come to their aid. Hell the Philippines lost extreme import usaid bc of this bitch^2^.
Also the drug price qoute shows he is a fucking idiot with math and it is in the second paragraph.
1 https://www.worldstopexports.com/philippines-top-10-imports/
2 https://businessmirror.com.ph/2025/01/29/us-aid-to-phl-worth-184-million-part-of-trump-administration-review/
No shit he doesn't care a lick about The Phillipines or drug proces or literally anything but his own self-interest, but that's not what you said. You said he contradicted himself by saying zero and then nineteen. But he said The Phillipines would approach American products with an open market, and the American market would put a 19% tariff on goods for the Phillipines. Misconstruing that very simple statement is either a bone head interpretation or an intentional misrepresentation of what he said.
Which is, frankly, mystifying cause what he's actually saying is still deeply harmful and self-involved. The only reason I can fathom for making that kind of vapid interpretation is to continue a trend of isolating and fanaticizing the two sides even more, which only benefits those who don't want an beneficial resolution to this garbage train of a decade.