Here in the Philippines, we will tackle the hottest issues in the Philippines: Political Dynasty, Graft and Corruption, Senator Grace Poe’s candidacy and the Rise of Mayor Duterte
Gun gets yelled at, Tech goes conspiracy theory ma
The rage culture is ruining the internet. Gun gets raged at on a forum. The Internet seems to be where polite discourse goes to die. The brothers discuss Rubio bowing out of the race and the possibility of Cruz and Rubio joining up like a Trump destroying Voltron.
Tech comes up with his own conspiracy theory about Trump intentionally throwing the election.
Here is the video that Gun mentioned:
Why Outrage Culture is ruining the Internet
This week’s game giveaway is Shadorun Returns, the last part of the code is on the podcast
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First come, first served, whoever enters the code first gets the game.
How you get viruses and spam, Obama goes to SXSW, Clinton vs Clinton
Spammers blur the line between human and machine.Gun interacts with a spammer, Tech explains how the conversation works, and how most people get viruses. They move from there into politics. Neither of them appreciate how America is spending military funds and resources, but they don’t agree on the what and how the military should be run.
Gun reminds us that we can verbally abuse spammers without being culturally insensitive. Obama skips out on attending Nancy Reagan’s funeral to hang out with the cool kids at South by Southwest. One brother is cool with that, the other is conflicted.
We’ve got something special planned for our 100th episode, and as a special thank you for the listeners we have two Steam codes for Pinball FX 2 – one for the base game and the Civil War table and the other for The Walking Dead table. Listen to the episode for the code, first come-first served on the code. If you were the one to download it, tweet us at @thepodcaste on Twitter.
Mentioned in this episode:
Eliza – first attempt at natural language interaction with a computer
UBlock Origin for Chrome block viruses before they even can get to your computer
#BLACKLIVESMATTER Protesters Occupy Wall St. in support of Trump
Tech was a bit subdued because he’d been battling a new computer virus all day so Gun rolled with the news. Carson was out, Gun’s vote wasn’t enough to keep him in the race. They break down Trump’s goofy stance on his KKK nomination.
Juan dela Cruz and Uncle Sam: The Love-Hate Relationship between the United States-Philippines
Philippines – United States relations (Filipino: Ugnayang Pilipinas at Estados Unidos) are bilateral relations between the United States of America and its former colony the Republic of the Philippines. Relations between the United States and the Philippines are strong, historically close and extremely friendly and has also been described as a Special Relationship. The United States is undeniably the Philippines’ closest ally in the world, Philippines being one of United States’ oldest Asian partners and a close strategic major non-NATO ally. Throughout history, there were moments of cooperation and disagreement between Uncle Sam (America) and Juan Dela Cruz (Philippines) and in this article, we will find out the history of this relationship and its importance.
Bases era (1947–91)
Pursuant to the 1947 Military Bases Agreement, the United States maintained and operated major facilities at Clark Air Base until November 1991, and at Subic Bay Naval Complex and several small subsidiary installations in the Philippines until November 1992. In July 1991, negotiators from the two countries reached agreement on a draft treaty providing for the clean-up and turn over of Clark to the Philippine government in 1992, and for the lease of Subic Bay Naval Base by the U.S. for ten years.[9] By 1991, operations at Clark had already been scaled back because of the end of the Cold War, with the last combat aircraft leaving in 1990, before the base was heavily damaged by the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo.
On September 16, 1991, the Philippine Senate rejected the bases treaty by a slim margin, and despite further efforts to salvage the situation, the two sides could not reach an agreement. As a result, the Philippine Government informed the U.S. on December 6, 1991, that it would have one year to complete withdrawal. That withdrawal went smoothly and was completed ahead of schedule, with the last U.S. forces departing on November 24, 1992. On departure, the U.S. Government turned over assets worth more than $1.3 billion to the Philippines, including an airport and ship-repair facility. Agencies formed by the Philippine Government have converted the former military bases for civilian commercial use, with Subic Bay serving as a flagship for that effort. The Philippine government on July 16, 2015 announced that it will revive a US-built deep-water naval base in Subic Bay.
Purple State Mini-Podcast: Vote for or against?
Gun talks out primary voting in a battle ground state with author Brian Sanchez (The AAAR, Ushumenti) and whether to vote for a candidate you like or vote against a candidate you don’t. It’s a great conversation! Brian is a fount of wisdom on the subject and a fresh perspective.
PiliPinas 2016 (Choose Philippines 2016)
The Philippine presidential and vice presidential election of 2016 is the next presidential election in the Philippines, scheduled on Monday, May 9, 2016. Incumbent President Benigno Aquino III is barred from seeking re-election, pursuant to the 1987 Philippine Constitution. Therefore, this election will determine the 16th President of the Philippines. The position of president and vice president are elected separately, and the winning candidates may come from different political parties.
This will be the 16th presidential election in the Philippines since 1935, and the sixth sextennial presidential election since 1986. This will be a part of the 2016 general election where elections to the Senate, House of Representatives and local government above the barangay level, including the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao shall be held. There are five candidates running for president, namely:
| Candidate | Party | Current Position | ||
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Jejomar Binay | United Nationalist Alliance | Vice President | |
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Miriam Defensor Santiago | People’s Reform Party | Senator | |
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Rodrigo Duterte | Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (Philippine Democratic Party–People’s Power) | Mayor, Davao City | |
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Grace Poe | Independent | Senator | |
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Manuel “Mar” Roxas | Liberal Party | ||
After 24 years, The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) held the presidential debates, which the first was held last February 21, 2016 on Capitol University, Cagayan de Oro City, in Mindanao, Philippines.
Episode 78: Apple vs FBI, Gun defends Hilary from Tech, and Kanye for Prez in 2020
This episode has it all. Gun Sully is back from his world tour, rested and ready to roll, but in the middle of a deluge. Tech Sully is fired up. He is enraged about Trump and Obama pushing for Apple to weaken the security on their devices.
Later Gun defends Hillary from Tech’s rant, and the brothers round out the episode talking about how Kanye’s lyrics are at least as defensible as anything from the grunge era. Tech raves about the track “Famous” from the new album, and pledges to be Kanye’s 2020 campaign manager.
That said I don’t think either brother believes that Taylor Swift is famous because of Kanye at all.
Social Justice means: bow to the Clintons
Social Justice warriors have let the world know that it’s not fair that the rich are treated differently than the poor in court. Yet, some of the same people who were raging against “afluenza” and “white privilege” are now yelling “WE DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT HER EMAILS!” Essentially saying, I want her, the richest, whitest candidate for the Democrats to get a pass, because otherwise we might get one of those unpopular Republicans. Right?
Well, first, lets just put it out there that Democrats don’t need Hillary Clinton, they don’t. Not only do they have a grass roots movement growing for Bernie Sanders but they have two perfectly qualified candidates, both not under federal investigation, waiting in the wings: Elizabeth Warren and Joseph Biden. If Hillary, a criminally negligent, influence peddler (and that’s the nicest assessment) is out of the race, them Democrat party comes out FINE! So, Bernie not giving a damn about those emails is a big problem, not just for Bernie, not just for the Democrats, but for the United States.
Why is it bad for the country? Well, the only candidates talking about holding the multi-millionaire Clinton who has been caught red handed in corrupt dealings is the Republicans. Guess what? People like seeing the rich get their due justice and the Social Justice crowd isn’t for that in this case. The most pro-Bernie activist still talks about Hillary like an aunt they love but don’t want to spend time with at the moment, that’s sweet but childish and ignoring the fact the other people, poorer people are in federal prison for the rest of their lives for doing less then what Hillary did.
What did Hillary do?
A lot of people do not understand this because Hillary has done a good job of confusing people about this. Some think that “She brought her own laptop to work, every does it,” a devout Hillary supporter told me. I had to explain to her that it was not at all the case, Hillary had an entire, very illegal, infrastructure contracted for the sole purpose of keeping her communications with foreign governments and the private sector hidden from the both the Federal Government and the United State public, who she was supposed to be working for.
I broke it down for the young woman like this, “You know when a girl is cheating on her man, she gets a different cell phone so the man doesn’t find out?” She was tracking, I continued, “That’s what Hillary had with the server, but the man is the Federal Government and us, the public and she was cheating on us with big business and foreign governments.”
Hillary didn’t just break some boring email rule- no. That would be like looking a plate-less gang car and thinking, “Boy, the owner of this vehicle sure better get the tags up to date on that car!” and completely ignoring that such a car is likely used for crime. Hillary had the plate-less gang car of bureaucracy. She had a secret way of extorting foreign big money with oil and mineral deals and working over American big business and lobbyist friends. Even very Clinton friendly outlets have had to admit to noticing some of her corruption, not because they want to take her down, but because there is literally so much evidence of her being unethical, they would seem delusional to not acknowledge.
Even devout, born again Clintians at MSNBC have had to report on it, they just pass off all the criticism and suspicion of her on the Republicans…
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/report-state-dept-watchdog-subpoenaed-clinton-foundation-docs
…Sorry MSNBC, it’s not just the Republicans, you cult following suck-ups.
Here’s the Clinton News Network having to drop some reality.
In Conclusion:
Please, people. Wake up. Be critical, seek the social justice the country needs, stick it to the rich white privileged liar that’s been lying to you and wasting your time for years! Press for that justice now, Democrats, press for it now or say hello to the next Republican president.
-gun
Vine Asia
I blew up our Vine Channel while out and about in Asia. Enjoy some of these scenery shots and 6 second skits.
Canton, China – on Chinese New Year
The Philippines
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