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Typhoon Noru Hits the Philippines Part 2 - Could this be Bong Bong's Katrina Moment? [1]

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Date: 2022-09-25

This is not puppy click bait, but rather a metaphor for how lame our response to climate change has been so far. Humanity must rise up and fight the forces that prevent climate action more strongly than Sweetie used to play fight Mrs. Fleek Dogg's foot.

Link to Part 1 is here, and here’s the latest Typhoon Noru update from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA):

Winds are down to 140 km/h, making Noru a strong Category 1 storm, but gusts are still dangerously high at 230 km/h.

The storm is still moving westward at 20km/h, and it is now in the mountains west of Tarlac City.

This is unofficial, but a Filipino friend with business connections back in Manila tells me that the Marikina River in Metro Manila is flooding. This meshes with heavy rainfall warnings across both the metr

Now that Typhoon Noru is moving away from Mrs. Fleek Dogg’s family farm in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, I am starting a new diary to dig into the aftermath of this storm based on what I’ve been seeing on Twitter. I’ll start with a juicy one as I ask “could tweets like these blow up and become President Bong Bong’s Katrina moment?”

x How tone deaf and insensitive can you be to post a vlog about your New York trip while Filipinos brace for the impact of super typhoon #KardingPH? https://t.co/t1Q4UldDuU — Nick Villavecer (@nickvillavecer) September 25, 2022

The president of the Philippines real name is Ferdinand Marcos Jr, but let’s fleekin’ humor him and call him “Bong Bong” because that’s what he likes to call himself. Names are powerful, and “bong” squared is the perfect mind trick for disassociating himself with his father’s abusive dictatorship.

The parallels between Bong Bong’s and Bush Jr are eerily fascinating. Both Bush Jr. and Bong Bong are sons of former presidents, and both had to deal with major hurricanes/typhoons within a year of winning a majority at the polls. Bush Jr’s handling of Katrina in 2005 exposed a lot of rot behind the façade that convinced a majority to vote him into power.

Bong Bong’s social media propaganda also has eerie parallels to the fleekin’ garbage put out there by our own All-American orange menace!

Before you think any more deeply about what this implies for Bong Bong, I must share a caveat. That is, communications technology was not the same back when Katrina exposed our own Junior president. Many Filipinos get their news from toxic feeds on Facebook and TikTok. The façade that Marcos Jr. put up to get his majority was tailor-made for information silos spewing disinfo. Made-for-social-media propaganda is what Bong Bong used to whitewash his family history and convince 31 million Filipinos to bring back the Marcos “golden age.”

After explicitly telling the world not to judge him by his father, Bong Bong seemed to have been lying low and avoid drama to the point that I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Super Typhoon Noru is now bringing out the contrast of his vanity, which seems to run in the Marcos family, and his political rival who took 2nd place in the May presidential election:

x 'NEW YORK, NEW YORK' VS. 'HANDA TAYONG TUMULONG KUNG SAAN KAILANGAN'



LOOK: As #KardingPH makes it landfall, here are the latest tweets of Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. and his closest rival last presidential elections, former Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday night. pic.twitter.com/UEsSX61Dt1 — iMPACT Leadership (@iMPACTPH2019) September 25, 2022

Leni Robredo’s tweet, by the way, translates to “we will help wherever needed.”

I haven’t seen any positive tweeting about his handling of a Category 3 Hurricane hitting the most densely populated region of his country, and it It looks like he is not even in his country. Now I understand that heads of state travel overseas all the time, but when I checked Bong Bong’s twitter feed it shows that he is just making announcements related to the storm without offering any uplifting or sympathetic words to the millions that he tricked into voting for him. Other than that, his most recent tweets focus on him tooting his horn about what he got done in New York City. He did tweet about his meeting with President Biden on Friday, so hopefully Bong Bong at least convinced Joe that he won’t be like his mom and dad and pocket any disaster aid money that the USA may send.

So I’ve shared the Bong Bong tweets for now, and I’ll be updating this diary with some environmental themed tweets, share some background about why this storm was so personally triggering for me, and continue to track Typhoon Noru’s path to Vietnam.

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