After reading the news…
Twin I: Wait, whut? We’re bankrupt?
Me: In the loosest term, yes.
We have a debt overhang, in trillions, while the incoming president of this fucked up country doesn’t want to pay his taxes in billions of pesos.
We don’t have any money anymore for the next six months.
We’re so fucked up that the outgoing finance chief says we’re in dire straits that we need more tax measures because we can no longer borrow.
Then this monster did this:
My journo chat group is on fire. Other news orgs are no longer welcome, only crony media and bloggers/vloggers paid by Marcos himself like unTh*king P*noy, who says FDI is capped at 40%. (The idiot doesn’t know the difference between foreign direct investments and foreign ownership which are completely different š).
So now we are all banned from government briefings. So we all had put our heads together and we now have an action plan that I can’t even write about here in case some stranger ends up here.
I can’t even… And my boss was messaging me, asking me about Philippine trends now and I need to chase gov’t investment plans, infra projects, and new regulations. š¤¬
One of the journos in the chat group said maybe GMA was included to give legitimacy to crony media like SMNI and Net25. I said no, GMA is claimed by Imee Marcos. She filed her claims before the SEC in 2007, I was there. She said the shares owned by the Duavits are shares held on behalf of the Marcoses while they were in exile. That’s why she filed for an invalidation of GMA’s IPO.
My bff L, who is not even a reporter, messaged me, “The news are exhausting, right?” And I said, “I can’t even turn off news because I’m a reporter š”
And this idiot doesn’t know what a Solicitor General is! OMG!
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=5302927769766274&id=100001473114871
Hell.
I asked for a break from my manager. So I’m no longer going to Singapore next week because our other Manila reporter will be flying to Bohol for a break. Then the following week, I will be the one taking a break. Screw conferences.
So I was telling bff L that maybe we need to get away for a while and stare into nothing. Here, I found the perfect place:
