8List.ph
  • Lockdown Diaries
    • Updates
    • Good News
    • Life Under Quarantine
    • Humor
    • Health Tips
  • News
    • Opinion
    • People
  • Pop
    • Movies
    • Music
    • TV
    • Books
    • Theater
    • Showbiz
    • Geek
    • Sports
    • Retro
    • Weird
  • Life
    • Health
    • Nest
    • Life-Hacks
    • Food & Drink
    • Travel
    • Style
      • Beauty
      • Inspiration
      • Shop
      • OOTD
  • Videos
    • Filgood
    • Isabuhay Ang Panata
    • #8MinutesWith
    • Pagsubeks
    • 8list Plays
    • 8List Asks
    • 8List Explores
    • 8List Presents
    • 8secs
    • 88 Seconds
    • YOUth DECIDE
    • Str8 Up with Delamar
    • Toughest Job 2016
  • Comics
    • H8 Mondays
  • Breathe
  • #YOUthDECIDE
  • About
  • Sitemap
  • Advertise
  • Privacy
  • Archive
  • Bitesized.ph
  • Windowseat.ph

 

 

 

8List.ph is published by ID8, Inc.

Subscribe
8List.ph
8List.ph
  • Lockdown Diaries
    • Updates
    • Good News
    • Life Under Quarantine
    • Humor
    • Health Tips
  • News
    • Opinion
    • People
  • Pop
    • Movies
    • Music
    • TV
    • Books
    • Theater
    • Showbiz
    • Geek
    • Sports
    • Retro
    • Weird
  • Life
    • Health
    • Nest
    • Life-Hacks
    • Food & Drink
    • Travel
    • Style
      • Beauty
      • Inspiration
      • Shop
      • OOTD
  • Videos
    • Filgood
    • Isabuhay Ang Panata
    • #8MinutesWith
    • Pagsubeks
    • 8list Plays
    • 8List Asks
    • 8List Explores
    • 8List Presents
    • 8secs
    • 88 Seconds
    • YOUth DECIDE
    • Str8 Up with Delamar
    • Toughest Job 2016
  • Comics
    • H8 Mondays
  • Breathe
  • #YOUthDECIDE
  • Opinion

8 Common Adages Rodrigo Duterte Apparently Lives By

  • Posted on Dec 3, 2015
  • 1 minute read
  • Tim Henares
Total
0
Shares
0
0
0

8 Common Adages Rodrigo Duterte Apparently Lives By

DUTERTEADAGE_HEADER

You might love him, you might hate him. But “meh?” That doesn’t seem to be an opinion anyone has about Davao’s own, Rodrigo Duterte. This is a man who is driven by simple adages and simple beliefs, it seems, and these adages definitely shape him into the kind of man he is.

We’re just spitballing here, but we’re going to take a stab at what 8 of those common adages may very likely be.

 

8. Always keep them guessing; always keep them wanting more.

DUTERTEADAGE_H8

DUTERTEADAGE_P8

Via sunstar.com.ph

Normally advice given to women by old-fashioned people, this adage was perfectly embodied by the way Digong had people wondering whether or not he would run.

Now that his main reason for running, Grace Poe, is disqualified, are we left to wonder if he still intends to run, then?

 

7. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.

DUTERTEADAGE_H7

DUTERTEADAGE_P7

Via rduterte.com

A very common saying, especially in the fight game, but one he definitely takes to heart. He’s probably also the only guy who still has a plan even after taking a punch to the face.

 

6. Might makes right.

DUTERTEADAGE_H6

DUTERTEADAGE_P6

Via mb.com.ph

Need this be explained at all?

 

5. If you don’t stand for anything, you will fall for everything.

DUTERTEADAGE_H5

DUTERTEADAGE_P5

Via balita.com

Digong has a very clear platform and sneers at anyone who doesn’t. Say what you want about him, but he has concrete policies in mind–not motherhood statements.

 

4. Those who mind, matter, and those who matter don’t mind.

DUTERTEADAGE_H4

DUTERTEADAGE_P4

Via annoyingnews.blogspot.com

He chooses his battles carefully, which allows him to be the loose cannon that he is. He doesn’t care about his detractors, because he clearly knows his target audience, and they are lapping up everything he has to say.

 

3. Good things come to those who wait

DUTERTEADAGE_H3

DUTERTEADAGE_P3

Via kapamilya.com

He waited a loooong time to run for President in 2015 alone. He’s reaping the rewards with an all-time high in surveys.

 

2. Honesty is the best policy

DUTERTEADAGE_H2

DUTERTEADAGE_P2

Via inquirer.net

Is it so much honesty as impunity? You can debate that, but he wants everyone to get to know his bad side because he feels confident enough that if everyone started doing so, he would end up looking like the cleanest candidate by default.

 

1. Always be yourself – unless you can be Batman. Then always be Batman.

DUTERTEADAGE_H1

DUTERTEADAGE_P1

Via odditycentral.com

Mayor Duterte has always been himself–until he decides to become fear personified, because criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot.

He doesn’t care about the critics because he can take it. He’s the hero we need, not the one we deserve. He is the dark knight.

… except he has no qualms to owning up to killing people, so maybe he’s more like the Punisher?

 

What are your thoughts about Mayor Duterte and the adages he seems to live by? Sound off in the comments below!


Total
0
Shares
0
0
0
Tim Henares


Previous Article
  • Pop

8 Japanese Commercials That Prove They are the Masters of the WTF

  • Posted on Dec 3, 2015Feb 11, 2021
  • Kel Fabie
View Post
Next Article
  • Nest

Insanely Easy Ways to Decorate Your (Albeit Filthy) Apartment this Christmas

  • Posted on Dec 3, 2015Feb 11, 2021
  • Maria Nicola Vicente
View Post
You May Also Like
View Post
  • Opinion

Here’s Why Some Netizens Think BGC is the ‘Worst District in Metro Manila’

  • Posted on Jun 24, 2022Jun 24, 2022
  • Kyzia Maramara
View Post
  • Opinion

8 Perfectly Acceptable Excuses to Skip Out on an Election Debate

  • Posted on Mar 19, 2022Mar 21, 2022
  • Kel Fabie
View Post
  • Opinion

8 Jobs That End Up Requiring 18-Hour Workdays

  • Posted on Feb 14, 2022Feb 14, 2022
  • Kel Fabie
View Post
  • Opinion

8 Reasons Why Asking Hard Questions Isn’t Being ‘Biased’

  • Posted on Jan 27, 2022Jan 27, 2022
  • Tim Henares
View Post
  • Opinion

After Flexing His Workers’ $5/Hour Pay, Foreign Businessman Sparks Debate Over ‘Exploitative’ Wages

  • Posted on Jan 13, 2022Jan 13, 2022
  • Alex Alvarez
View Post
  • Opinion

8 Reasons Why Poblacion Girl Is Just a Symptom of a Bigger Problem

  • Posted on Jan 5, 2022Jan 5, 2022
  • Tim Henares
View Post
  • Opinion

Here’s Why This Chain Mail-Type Trend Circulating on Instagram Stories Is Problematic

  • Posted on Dec 15, 2021Dec 15, 2021
  • Alex Alvarez
View Post
  • Opinion

How We Wish All Celebrities Being Pushed to Run for Office Thought Like Willie Revillame

  • Posted on Oct 8, 2021
  • Alex Alvarez

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Get the l8est delivered right to your inbox.

8List.ph
  • About
  • Sitemap
  • Advertise
  • Privacy
  • Archive
  • Bitesized.ph
  • Windowseat.ph
Your daily dose of entertaining, useful and informative lists.

Input your search keywords and press Enter.