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Ayan na, ayan na. Kamusta kayo dyan mga kameta? Mukhang eto na, eto na, eto na, eto na.

Eto na ba? Eto na ba yung official, more or less official, legit, irreversible end ng so-called UNITEAM?

Wala pang midterm elections ng 2025 at mukhang ang dami pa nangyari.

Or actually, not much probably will happen anytime soon dahil hindi na yata tutuloy etong...

So, this is it.

This is what we have been talking about for quite some time.

In fact, 2021 pa lang sa isang article ko sa Nikkei Asia, I mentioned this possibility na talagang hindi na tutuloy etong UNITEAM forever.

Of course, back then, in 2021, wala pang UNITEAM technically speaking, but something like UNITEAM was already being worked out.

But now, eto na.

This is it.

This is it.

Pansit.

Mukhang...

Sinking ship ang tawagin natin dyan.

Eto, eto, eto.

So, nagsalita na ang ating Speaker of the House against those who malign, right?

Those who malign the reputation of the House of Representatives.

Of course, alam naman natin, pagdating sa House of Representatives natin, eto ay isa sa pinaka-pinaka next level institution sa ating bansa.

So, you know, how dare anyone question the integrity...

But, when this comes from someone who should know a little bit more about integrity, talpak, saan na yung mga big fish, China love you China, yung mga gano'n.

Yan, yan, yan.

Kamusta na yung farmali?

Yan, yan, yan.

Mignan, napasalita na po ang ating House leadership.

Napasalita na po ang de facto dominant faction of the ruling coalition.

At the OGs within the unit team.

At, of course, the Speaker of the House himself did not name etong mga tao na na-question na integrity ng Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives.

But, the Deputy Speaker of the House and someone who was a member of the PDP Laban has openly come out and said,

na, this is the former President Rodrigo Duterte.

So, kung ayaw maniwala, let's check the video very shortly.

But, before we go into the analysis ng etong more or less official end dito sa unit team, alliance of convenience, whatever you want to call it.

Let me just give some...

very, very short tribute dito sa isa sa mga leading writers sa kasaysaan ng Pilipinas.

Of course, we have Jose Rizal there, without a question.

Sionel Josef was there.

Nick Joaquin.

But, as you may know, nag-pass away na po si Conrad De Quiros, who has been one of the leading writers of at least our era.

And, for me, pagdating kay...

Sir Conrad De Quiros.

You know, he has had a special place in my life.

I never had the opportunity to actually meet him in person.

Because, by the time that I already joined the Philippine Daily Inquirer, I don't think the circumstances were right.

Of course, I think some of you don't know what I'm talking about here.

And then, of course, I was told, I have to double check this.

Yung space ko dyan.

Yung almost exact space na ginagamit natin dyan sa column natin every week sa Philippine Daily Inquirer used to be, of course, were the constellation of his brilliant words and courageous works.

That was the space that used to be occupied by him.

So, I always felt this burden of responsibility.

In a way, I think all of us, as columnists in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, anyone who takes his job seriously, as far as political columnist job is concerned,

has always been in the shadow of very brave columnists like him.

And, well, I have to double check if technically that's the same space.

But, you know, I heard also some people, including a very prominent senator, who said that she reads a lot of columns, of course, every day.

But, her favorites have been Conrada de Quiroz and, of course, in more recent years, yours truly.

So, those comparison, I mean, I don't dare to compare myself.

I don't dare to compare myself to people like him because, you know, he was a playwright, he was a brilliant writer.

Incomparable.

I mean, these people are institutions and their legacies are definitely peerless.

So, I always felt that burden of responsibility.

But, as much as I felt that burden of responsibility, I was also always inspired by Conrada de Quiroz' courage and pioneering contributions to Philippine journalism.

Now, one of those, of course...

Conrada de Quiroz served as a literal inspiration for my own intervention at some point.

Ito yung blank column ni Conrada de Quiroz.

If I'm not mistaken, he had two of them, right?

In protests.

So, one was this one.

So, especially during the Arroyo administration, the very unpopular administration.

And, I mean, all of the scandals and corruption issues and instability.

This was one of his literary and political contributions.

He said, so the title is,

A list of the things this country may look forward to over the next six years from 2014 to 2010 under the administration of President Fernando Poe Jr. and Vice President Noli de Castro.

And then, it's blank, right?

Maybe this is the context where, you know, perhaps FPJ was seen as the potential winner.

But, he has also another one, kind of a job at the one who will be the, so you can see, a bit spicy.

The one who will be, who will end up actually as the president after 2014, Hello, Garcia.

He also had something like that, no?

And, so when President Duterte in 2019, someone we'll talk about a little bit more later on.

He said some really, really, you know, terrible, questionable things.

And, what really, you know, for me was just really beyond the pale.

I mean, already the war on drugs that was claiming a lot of lives based on questionable.

Data and conduct, et cetera, was already too much.

And, that's why, you know, I had to keep, you know, one kilometer away from anyone that had to do with that administration unless really necessary.

But, what really pissed me off, big time, and this was really risky to do.

I mean, risky because, you know, haters, nothing, were accused of, oh, plagiarism.

And, in fact, those haters came from both sides of the political spectrum.

That was one of the first times, or at least this was the era when I saw the viciousness of him on the law and also not only the other side.

But, anyway, but it was a call of duty for me.

And, it was also taking inspiration from what Conrado de Quiroz said in mind.

So, when, so, you know, I was already very critical of how Duterte was responding to the situation.

But, when he downplayed, when Duterte downplayed, no, yung sinking ng Jemver, yung vessel natin, by the suspected Chinese militia vessel,

and muntik na matay more than dozen Filipino fishermen.

I just said, maybe this is the time.

If you're going to do something like Conrado de Quiroz in terms of a blank protest column, right, maybe this is the time.

Maybe this is the time.

And, of course, again, you know, sorry to the haters, but West Philippines is an issue that I kind of know about.

I've written a number of books on it, hundreds if not thousands of articles on the issue already.

So, this was not about pakute or attention grabbing.

This was a political protest.

Really.

In your face political protest.

And, accordingly, inspired by Conrado de Quiroz, at least in the case of Philips.

Of course, this has been done abroad.

But, in the Philippines and in Philippine Daily Inquirer, you know, he was really the one.

I had this blank column, right?

So, this was a protest.

This was not a pakute, diba?

This was not a pakute kind of article.

This was protest.

This was a serious protest.

And, I'll tell you how serious it was.

Not long after that, I did not only face tremendous amount of online harassment.

Death threats and attacks.

There was even this dumb, stupid legal harassment that was being pulled off by some people.

Some of you already know the context of that.

Someone tried to twist the picture whereby, you know, Picasso is here and they tried to make it look like reckless driving.

Whoever the dumb person behind that, I'll never forget what the person did.

I'm quiet about that, but I went to the relevant government office and I said,

Where is the assistant secretary? I want to talk to this person.

Who is behind this?

I kind of know who is behind it, but I kind of moved on from that.

But that was a lot of stress.

And that was a lot of harassment.

So, you had to bring a legal team.

You had to write something in response to that.

And, you know, things were so horrible during those months after writing that blank column.

Oh, by the way, thank you very much to my editors at the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Immediately when they saw the blank column and the title, they knew what it was exactly all about.

Salamat kay Conrado de Quiroz, of course.

He set the precedence also.

But speaking about this.

So, it was just so bad.

I was effectively in exile towards the end of 2019.

So, I would come into country here and there, but I was actually more or less based in Taiwan during that time as a visiting scholar at National Chengchi University.

I mean, I'm someone who really thinks very carefully if he wants to go into kind of semi-exile or exile.

I always thought about that.

Things were really vicious back then.

So, it was really bad.

But it was this courage of conviction shown by Conrado de Quiroz.

That really, really helped me to hold myself together and to keep going.

And to keep going and going and going until here.

Ayan, naging vlogger na tayo.

So, that's why he has had a big place in my life.

And for idiots and haters who never understood the context or never wanted to understand the context and wanted to dismiss the situation.

Here you are.

These are the basic facts.

I was inspired by Conrado de Quiroz.

I even pointed out there.

And this was not about myself.

This is about a political protest.

This was about a political protest against what I found was unfathomably unpatriotic.

So, don't give me this nonsense about, oh, independent, independent.

If you're truly independent, you're not going to be kowtowing and being so subservient, almost pathetically, slavishly subservient to bullying action against our own Manginistan people.

That was completely unacceptable to me.

Now, thank God.

Here we are.

And 2023, a lot is happening.

A lot, a lot is happening.

So, again, maraming salamat kay Conrado de Quiroz for the inspiration.

And I hope one day, you know, I'm far from perfect.

You know, sometimes I get a little bit emotional.

Sometimes we get a little bit picon.

Sometimes I get more than picon.

I get a little bit more, more, how should I put it?

Medyo yung kanchawan natin gets out of control sometimes.

I know.

I know I tend to bully back a bit.

I know that.

There's, you know, I'm far from perfect and it's something I'm working on.

But sometimes talaga, sa tingin mo, kailangan talaga eh.

Kasi you cannot be intimidated.

You have to push back.

You have to show strength and courage of conviction.

It's very, very important.

But nevertheless, I hope one day yung mga iba dyan, they'll learn from my mistakes but also learn from some of the good things that I've done based on the inspiration I got from great people.

Among them, Conrado de Quiroz.

Now, let's go back to this.

I can see already the Protatay people are getting agitated there.

Don't worry.

You're going to get ten times more agitated in an hour when we're going to talk to Ronald Diamas.

Don't worry about it.

We're going to have an R&R later on.

So wait for that.

There's going to be more attack coming from our friends here.

But let's talk about this because for more than a year, discussions about the future of UNITEAM has dominated political discourse and has been a huge part of our vlogs and discussions.

And I and Ronald Diamas among others have been among people who have been consistently talking about this.

How fragile, how vulnerable this UNITEAM alliance of convenience is.

So as you know, let's go back to this video.

Very interesting.

It looks like things are getting official na.

So I think tensions have been building up for quite some time.

They entered this kind of a beginning of the final chapter perhaps.

It was when Digong went as special envoy to China, self-appointed special envoy to China.

I think that annoyed a lot of pro-Marcos people.

That annoyed also people who care about conducting not barangay-level geopolitics but world-class high-stakes geopolitics because we're dealing with a very sensitive issue.

And then obviously, I think the last straw was perhaps, well, confidential.

The last straw was the confidentiality.

The last straw was the confidential fund situation and then you have this intervention by the autumn of the last patriarch type of person we have right now.

We can talk about that later on.

And here we are.

Here we are.

We have a situation whereby wala na eh.

Wala na eh.

I mean for some people, lines have been crossed.

I think the Tamba Los Los statement already was for people like Ronald Diamas was already crossing the line.

But.

But.

Um.

I think when the attacks became more and more personal from the father, right?

And against people in the Congress including allies and all, that's really when things got out of control.

So we saw this intervention by one of the top leaders in the Philippine House of Representatives.

A very shrewd politician, I would say.

Someone who's very careful about what he talks about.

And yeah, I mean.

Look at this.

To say this, Mr. Chairman.

But when I heard the word rotten, of course, I felt bad regarding Mr. Chairman.

I also would feel bad hearing that accusation that the house is rotten.

But may we know who uttered that statement?

Ito na!

Ito na!

Ito na!

Was it a comic?

Ito na!

Or a leader?

Or previous leader?

Or previous leader?

Ito na!

Nagbabline item pa naman si Sir Lagman.

Grabe naman.

I will answer the question of Congressman of Albay, Congressman H. Lagman.

But before I will answer your question, Mr. President of the PDP Party, are you here?

Ayun!

Mr. President, Congressman Alvarez, the one who uttered that word is our chairman from PDP Laban.

Before I will answer, I will resign now.

Ayun!

As member and officer of PDP Laban.

Mag-resign na.

The former president, former president, Rodrigo Roa Duterte.

Ayun!

Nagpangalan na.

Wala na blind item.

Ito kasi si Edson Lagman nagba-blind item pa eh.

Ito na!

Ito na!

Okay.

So ito.

Nakita niyo na.

So it's not from me.

Sila-sila na.

Yung PDP Laban, isa sa mga top leaders ng PDP Laban sa kasalukuyan ng Kongreso.

At wala na yung blind item.

Ako nga nag-hanggang blind item lang ako eh.

Yung mga Teddy Boy, Abunda.

Hindi naman si Tito Boy.

Huwag kang magalit si Tito Boy sa atin.

Hindi. Alam nyo na yung mga binab-blind item natin nung last...

In fairness naman, nag-sorry yung nag-b-blind item.

Ito na! Ito na!

Official na ito eh.

Ito na talaga.

Mga ka-Mets!

Mga ka-Uni Team!

Mga ka-Uni Team! Kamusta na kayo diyan?

Masaya na ba kayo?

Ito na!

This is it!

Pansit!

Alright. Okay.

So, ito na!

Ito na!

Nagnasaan na ito. Hindi ko mahanap.

Ayan. Senior Deputy Speaker.

Hindi lang Deputy Speaker.

Senior Deputy Speaker.

Ayan na yung mga trolls natin, no?

Yung mga losers diyan. Okay.

Si Senior Deputy Speaker, Rep. Aurelio...

Si Atom. Si Atom Aurelio, di ba?

Hindi. I'm just joking.

Marcus Aurelius. Hindi.

Rep. Aurelio Don Gonzalez.

Ayan. Pinangalanan niya ang dating presidente.

When he talked about how he was hurt dito by the statement

that challenged the integrity.

The integrity ng House of the Representatives.

Sabi niya. So, nakikita niya kanina.

The one who uttered the word is our chairman from PTP Laban.

But before I answer, yan talagang may drama eh.

I will resign now as a member and officer of PTP Laban.

He was former President Rodrigo Riva Duterte.

Ayan. That's it.

Puya ka siya.

Ayan. So, this development came after Gonzalez

sponsored on the Plenary Floor House Resolution 1414

which calls on the House to, quote,

uphold the integrity and honor of the House of Representatives

and express appreciation, solidarity, and support

for House Speaker Martin Romualdez.

Ayan. Of course, the context was itong SMNI.

Diyan pa rin yung SMNI. Ito natanggal na sa YouTube.

Ayan. Yun ang baka nawala sa audience dyan.

Ayan. Nagwala siya. Ayan.

Si tatay dun sa isang SMNI interview.

Nagwala-wala siya.

Alright. Ayan. Ayan.

Nagwala-wala siya dyan.

Ayan. But this is where things get very interesting, no?

So, mukhang may seal of the princeling na rin.

Representative Sandro Marcos, Ilocos Norte, 1st District.

Oh, yung mga kapsa dyan, Ilocos!

Mag-awidak, ha?

Nag-discussion tayo dyan. Okay.

Ito, sabi niya,

I can't give the exact date, but I believe it was done in a TV network

and some words were said to malign the reputation of our institution.

Alright? So, this is from the princeling, right?

So, now you have really, really high-level people.

Senior Deputy Speaker of the House.

Another Deputy Speaker of the House that happens to be the princeling.

And now, even the Speaker of the House himself has made it very clear

that they will make sure that they will not tolerate

any kind of direct insult dito sa integrity ng House of Representatives.

Which, by the way, includes people who were member

or who were member until just the other hour ng PDP laban.

Ayan na. Ayan na. Ayan na, mga kameta.

Panorin natin ulit. Parang gusto ko yung mga blind item na hindi na blind item bigla, eh.

Ito na. Ito na talagang politika natin, ha?

Ulitin natin, ha?

Makasaysayan tayo.

Kasi this might...

I'll say this, Mr. Chairman.

This might more or less be the official beginning of it, diba?

Ulitin natin, ha? Wala akong sinasabi.

You can say it yourself, mga kameta. You can hear it yourself.

Ulitin natin, ha?

When I heard the word rotten, of course, I felt bad regarding Mr. Chairman.

I also would feel bad hearing that accusation that the House is rotten.

But may we know who uttered that statement?

Was it a comic or a leader or a previous leader of this country?

I will answer the question of Congressman of Albay, Congressman H.L. Lagman.

But before I will answer your question, Mr. President of the PDP Party,

are you here?

That's it.

Mr. President, Congressman Alvarez.

That's it.

The one who uttered that word is our chairman from PDP Laban.

Before I will answer, I will resign now as member and officer of PDP Laban.

Dito sa YouTube natin, dami mga helpful review, mga review. Nagagalit na yung mga pro-tatay people.

The former president, Rodrigo Roa Duterte.

The one who said that Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

So, ito na.

So, don't worry guys. Pag-usapan natin more this shortly. Give us an hour or so.

Pag-usapan namin ni...

Gusto ko kasi mas makulit pang pag-usapan to eh.

Alam niyo, I'm very polite, I'm very nice, I'm very politically correct.

So, hintayin natin si Ronald Llamas to spill the beans, alright?

But, alam niyo naman, noon pa lang, noon pa lang parating natin sinasabi na...

Again, everything I say is based on...

Evidence, facts, sources. I even posted there. We'll post the link.

Alright?

O, ito sa'yo.

Sabi ko noon, 2021 pa lang, I've been looking at this dynamics na how this thing...

Whether this thing is sustainable should the two major houses come together.

Ayan, yung mga ka-Solid DDS.

Kamusta naman kayo diyan? Yan.

So, ito ah.

Ito mga ka-DDS. Mga ka-Uniteam.

O, yung sinasabi ko, si 2021 pa lang sinasabi ko.

So, yung mga ibang nagpapapoliticalhenyo.

Ay nako, late kayo sa laron yan.

Nauna na tayo diyan.

Ayan o, 2021 pa lang pinag-usapan ko na yung House of Marcos and House of Luterte getting into competition.

Of course, back in 2021, it was slightly different context.

But, more or less, the dynamic is not too far from what we were looking at back then.

Okay? So, just to be clear.

You know, when we say things, it's based on evidence and what we have written.

And diyan, may resibo po.

Alright?

Pakicheck on your own.

And then, of course, I wrote later on how it turned in the opposite direction.

And then, of course, makikita niyo rin sa mga vlogs natin with si Byron Ronald Llamas.

Si Ronald, actually, mas optimistic pa sa akin.

Ako, I said, siguro the confluence of interest will kind of hold this coalition of convenience longer than perhaps many critics presume.

But, it looks like the pace of disintegration has completed.

Disintegration has completely accelerated.

Nag-Lamborghini level na.

Formally.

Nag-level ng ganun.

Diba?

So, Lamborghini, nag-next level na yung speed.

So, let's see.

I mean, later ang pag-usapan natin, is this it?

Has another line been crossed or this is it?

This is the final line.

But, as I said, this is the closest we can come to an official announcement of the end of the de facto unity.

Maybe, Sarah has still some room for maneuver on her own part if she decides to really distance herself from Tatay.

But, again, that will be a very complicated dynamic.

I don't want to get into family, the intra-family dynamics.

But, as far as positioning, as far as messaging from the top leadership of the House, which, in this case, if you look at the Speaker of the House, the facto right man of the current President,

I think, more or less, you can read the writing on the wall.

No?

Again, having said that, stay tuned.

Stay tuned.

Pag-usapan ba natin more of this in an hour or so with Paring Ronald Llamas.

We'll have a more entertaining, more back and forth version of that and I'll let him do the spill the beans part.

But, at least, the big picture na provide po natin dito and ipopost ko na yung mga links, etc.

So, you can read on these things on your own.

Alright?

Because, lahat naman kayo, expert na kayo.

Nag-ano lang naman tayo dito.

Nag-chichica-chicamaritas lang tayo.

But, this is not just my retest.

I mean, this is serious stuff.

Right?

So, alayon na on this point.

Yung mga ano dyan, excited na ba kayo na maging kasama nyo na si Tatay sa oposisyon?

Alright?

Magmalapit na talaga mong yung officially oposisyon.

Eto si Tatay, ano, diba?

Excited na ba kayo maging oposisyon?

So, anong feeling ng mga nagka-oposisyon?

Excited na kayo sa kasama nyong bago or lilingpat na kayo?

Nasaan na tayo?

Let's go!

Nakakomment na.

Let's go!

Eto na.

Let the games begin!

Para ang gulo na ito.

Sino na ang oposisyon ngayon kung mag-oposisyon tong mga to?

E malamang, yung mga makabahayang block.

Anti-Duterto yan, diba?

Grabe yung nangyari.

Away-away ngayon.

So, ano naman mangyari sa mga pink?

Mga kakamping dyan?

Excited na ba kayo may dadagdag sa inyo sa oposisyon

or lilingpat na kayo?

Saan pa kayo pupunta?

Eto yung tanong ngayon.

So, pag-usapan natin.

Itong mga realignment, circularity, crossover, Lebron James, Lakers

Lahat yan pag-usapan natin very shortly

On that note, thank you

Thank you very much

Magsenador na daw yung si Tatay

Yeah, I won't be surprised if one or two members of the family run for the Senate

Actually even potentially two, right?

So next level na ito

Let's see what's gonna happen in 2025

But as you can see, let the games begin

2028 is now officially open, right?

Wala ng unit team

So this is it

Welcome to Philippine Politics

Parating may plot twist

Okay, thank you very much guys

And talk to you soon

Alam ko pupunta na kayo sa kabila

Yung iba pupunta na sa kabila

Kasi alam ko na may show yung isang kaibigan natin dyan

So pupunta na kayo dyan

Sorry, medyo late ako na start

Kasi I had to write yung tribute natin kay Conrado De Quiroz

So let me say again one more time

My

My deepest condolences to

The family loved ones of Sir Conrado De Quiroz

And salamat sir for your great contribution

Not only to political discourse

And not only to the art of writing

But also to the life of many young columnists

Including yours truly

Who have been inspired by the courage of conviction

And the brilliance of columns that you pass down to the next generation

And we hope that in our own small ways

We can also continue this great legacy

From Rizal all the way down

And hopefully way into the future

But I am salamat

God bless

And talk to you soon

Very soon

In an hour or so

God willing