The sole political context: Chiz Escudero wants to be the next Senate president of the 20th Senate. But his ambition does not cost a free lunch. He must win his way by means of projects not only to his fellow senator allies, but for himself as well. In addition, nothing can stop him as well from using these insertions to buy their acquittal votes for Sara Duterte. Get the equation?

How will the remaining three years be positively different for a majority of Filipinos struggling to cope not only with relentlessly rising prices but also with incompetent leadership at various levels of public service?

What might in fact be truly controversial is the fact that we have a vice president drawing far-fetched connections in the way her father did to justify his slapshod leadership, and a presidential sister and senator demanding that government violate the Tantocos’ right to privacy to feed the monster that is Duterte propaganda.