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The Philippine vice president publicly threatens to have the president assassinated (apnews.com)

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Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke.

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago

I don’t mean to make this about the US, but it’s nice to know that the world is full of idiots voting against their best interests.

[president Marcos] is the second child and only son of 10th president, kleptocrat and dictator Ferdinand Marcos and former first lady Imelda Marcos