Being very questionable at you job (Ft. Spokesperson Harry Roque)

Gab Madriaga
2 min readMay 22, 2021

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Our resident walnut has been very questionable for the past days, (not mentioning him being controversial for his whole career) especially on the topic of China’s territorial claims.

Not only being called a straight up liar in false statements about the possession of the country’s territorial claims in the South China Sea but also, having the nerve to have a keen debate of mismatched knowledge and against retired Supreme Court justice Antonio Carpio.

Having quite the move, the stand-in Spokesperson still is equally tight-lipped in whatever he says, because no one ever takes him seriously. Our resident meme that is standing as a spokesperson is really something.

Another thing to point out is that Mr. Roque is there in his position as a catcher-and-releaser when it comes to issues handled by the president that they feel is a bit too much for Mr. Duterte to handle.

Another claim to show his colossal idiocy is his spin on the president’s statement about trashing the West Philippine Sea (WPS) arbitral award and throws it to the wastebasket (inevitably the President was being articulate on what China would do with the award). Another thing to mention is Roque’s attempt to mortify Carpio’s excellence by just calling him an “ordinary lawyer”.

Having the supposed debate between the spokesperson and the Retired supreme court justice does not make it equally pleasing for Roque’s part because his statements are usually filled with superimposing ideas of misinterpreted, malicious and sometimes vague (to also point out, brittle like his “pikon” side).

When Carpio administered that MR. Duterte would be backing down in order to save his entirety from embarrassment and deciding to pick someone to sub for him in an intellectual engagement, Roque might have been at the wrong place.

We get it, Spokesperson Harry Roque has been a great candidate and quite possible good at his job, but from all the questionable turn of events that he has been making a fuss about whenever he opens his mouth can be a bit absurd. The job of a spokesperson is to deliver messages in order to build an image or a brand for the masses to have uplifted opinions and for order and unity. So what the hell is Harry Roque doing?

In other strong opinions from other people, they would refer to as Harry Roque if not a walking meme, a giant clown. Where did the liberal factual lawyer who fought for factual rights and opinions go? Was this the ensemble that we see when we say the statement “save face”?

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Gab Madriaga
Gab Madriaga

Written by Gab Madriaga

(Uni Profile) A Communication Student that's in it for what comes next

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