DUTERTE'S 5-D CHESS TRUMPS CHELSEA'S DECONTEXTUALIZED MORAL SIGNALLING

by Daniel Barge

Despite her mother f**king up so badly in last year's election, it's obvious that Chelsea Clinton is now being groomed for some future presidential run. There are lots of puff pieces everywhere, and she's been ticking the marriage, children, and church boxes necessary to seem like a "normal human being" to normal human beings. A senate seat will be made available at some point, and then all the stops will be pulled out to get her into the White House.

At least that's the rather obvious plan.

AMERICA AS A GEOPOLITICAL IDIOT

In recent years the "American Empire" has been losing ground badly. Not only has Putin outmanoeuvred it in the Middle East, but now the Chinese have gained a major geopolitical victory by persuading the Philippines to break ranks, effectively opening a door in the archipelago of islands in Asia that served as a "sea wall" containing China's rising power. In our latest YouTube video, Colin Liddell, Chief Editor of Alternative Right, addresses this issue and comes to the conclusion that realpolitik and mutual economic benefit is a better foundation for geopolitical power than social justice posturing and pandering to the interests of an ethnic donor class.

Downloadable and edited audio version on Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/new-alternative-right/youtube-audio-america-as-a-geopolitical-idiot

THE POC AS A RIGHT-WINGER

Duterte Harry?

by Siryako Akda

As a "Flip," it is a bit amusing, and also a bit flattering, to see so much attention focused on Duterte in the Western media (both of the mainstream and of the dank maymay variety). What's particularly entertaining are some of the reactions I've seen from Western liberals when they discovered Duterte's 91% trust rating, and the succeeding virtue signalling of trying to compare him with Trump.

How could they support such a monster? The world needs to unite against all forms of tyranny, especially Trump. He’s just like Trump. Ha Ha. Did I mention how that Filipino guy resembles Trump?

Now, I regard the Duterte-Trump comparison to be a bit of an exaggeration, born either out of ignorance or disingenuous malice, usually on the part of the Western media to guilt-by-comparison Trump with the leader of a foreign country.

ELECTING THE STRONG HORSE

by Siryako Akda

The Philippine Elections recently concluded here in "Flipland," and the new President-Elect is a guy named Rodrigo “The Punisher” Duterte, a political outsider who skyrocketed to fame partly due to widespread public dissatisfaction with establishment politics (which in the Philippines’ context is synonymous with oligarchical politics) and partly due to his assertive, no-nonsense, alpha-as-fuck charisma.

Duterte originally never wanted to run for president. He only entered the election after he was forced to do so by his many supporters. Thus, his rise to national fame is the result of push factors (he was pushed into office) instead of the usual pull factors (i.e. trying to attract as much political capital from as many different directions as possible). Like Trump, Duterte represents something relatively new to Philippine politics, because he invalidated the assumptions of the ruling political class and exposed the weakness of the political establishment.