October 09, 2024
BENECO Election Postponement
City High Years
National Geographic
MCO Regrets
Why Titanic Mania Lives
Willy’s Jeep
Titan
Titan Minisub
Hope Never Surrenders
One Question, One Member, One Vote
Slowly and Steadily
“Alice in Wonderland”
Magalong and MSL
Writing in the Dark
BENECO District Elections 2023
Vindication
The Rise and Fall of ECMCO United
“MSL is my GM”
General Membership
No Substitute for Elections
Evidentiary “MCO SELFIE”
Empowering the BENECO MCO
NEA’s Conceptual Hook
The BENECO Surrender 2
Legal Post Classifications
BENECO Controversy Topics
The BENECO Surrender
A photograph speaks a million words
Conversion and Privatization
Explore Baguio with a Bike
Failure of AI
Preserving CJH
Skating Rink
NEA’s Hiring Process
BgCur
Camp John Hay Nostalgia
Camp John Hay Mile High Memories
NEA’s Mandate
Camp John Hay TV
NEA and BENECO Should Come Clean
John Hay’s Top Soil
Big Screens at John Hay
The Browning of Camp John Hay
Putin
The Beginning of the Age of Brainwashing
Baguio shouldn’t build skyscrapers
The MURDER of pine trees goes unabated
We were “toy soldiers” in 1979
S1E70
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Baguio City, Philippines

S1L8 – “Trapos” panicked by the rise of MCO Power

Now, it’s giving shifty politicos a migraine—this belated awareness that the BENECO member-consumer-owners (MCO’s) just might be an even bigger bailiwick than the INK and the Catholics combined.

Politico A: “Naku, patay tayo ngayon, padli. Ang laki palang boto ng BENECO members!”

Politico B: “Oo nga eh. Ngayon ko rin lang na-realize! Papano tayo ngayon nito e pareho tayong anti-BENECO?”

Politico C: “Hindi pa naman siguro huli ang lahat. Mag-repent na lang tayo! Araw-arawin natin dumalaw sa South Drive lalo na kapag may misa!”

Politico D: “Pagawa din tayo ng T-shirt na may nakalagay ‘kandidato ak laeng’ para we sound like them!”

Politico A: “Tama! At saka praktisin natin kantahin yung ‘If we hold on together!”

Politico B: “Oo nga pala. Saan ba puwedeng i-download ang lyrics nun?! Habang wala pa i-lipsynch na lang muna natin.”

Politico C: “Ay, at saka praktisin din natin sumayaw ng kanyaw. Meron ka bang CD ng Salidummay dyan?”

Politico D: “Huwag din natin kalimutan gumawa ng Facebook account, saka dapat yata mag-friend request din tayo dun sa babaeng yun na sinasabi nila, yung Mia Maria Clara…!”

Politico A: “Mia Magalona, tongek!”

Politico B: “Pareho kayong tongek, Mia Magdalena…”

Politico C: “Kausapin natin si Olo, baka pwedeng magpatawag siya ng special session para i-Take Two natin yung botohan dun sa persona non grata resolution…”

Politico D: “Hindi yata pwede yun. Mag-file na lang tayo ng bagong resolution declaring ‘persona ingrata’ o kaya ‘persona Desiderata’ o ‘persona garapata’ — maski ano nang persona basta nagra-rhyme sa ‘non grata!”

Politico A: “Ako magfa-file ako ng ibang resolution, denouncing the red-tagging of BENECO MCO’s para gwapo ako sa mga MCO’s hehehe…”

Politico B: “E di ba ikaw yung isa dun sa mga nag-redtagging sa kanila nung nag-speech ka sa Irisan?!”

Politico A: “Oo nga eh. Matatandaan pa kaya nila yun?”

Politico B: “Bili na rin tayo ng bagong rubber shoes, yung komportable sa paa kasi baka malayo-layo ang lalakarin natin kung magiis-strolling tayo…”

Politico C: “ Hindi strolling… TROLLING! Alisin mo yung ‘S’

Politico D: “Ay, okey. Edi relak lang tayo, mahirap mag-ten baka tayo mag-collap!”


The author is a writer and lawyer based in Baguio City, Philippines. Former editor of the Gold Ore and Baguio City Digest, professor of journalism, political science and law at Baguio Colleges Foundation (BCF). He is a photographer and video documentarist. He has a YouTube channel called “Parables and Reason”


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