A few days ago, controversial Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte made a fairly ‘unsavory’ quip in a speech to soldiers about his decision to declare martial law following a prolonged battle with drug lords and ISIS threats in this country. In what was meant as “sarcasm,” at least according to Duterte, he told soldiers that the ramifications of martial law would fall upon the presidency alone and that he would take the blame if soldiers “rape three women.” Per the Daily Mail:
“For this martial law and the consequences of martial law and the ramifications of martial law, I and I alone would be responsible.”
“Just do your work. I will handle the rest. I will be imprisoned for you. If you rape three (women), I will say that I did it.”
Of course, as Sean Spicer recently found out when he idiotically compared Assad to Hitler, there are a couple of topics that should just be off limits in political speeches…and rape is one of them.
Not surprisingly, the comment immediately drew international criticism including the following tweet from Chelsea Clinton…you know, because we’re apparently supposed to care what she has to say still.
Not funny. Ever. https://t.co/XUIo85noBQ
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) May 26, 2017
But, as we’ve learned before after he called Obama a “son of a whore,” Duterte is not the type to back down from the pressure of public opinion and/or the twitter rants of former first daughters. Therefore, it’s not terribly surprising that he lashed out at Chelsea with the following:
“These whores, they hear “rape”. Like, like Chelsea, she slammed me. I was not joking, I was being sarcastic. Listen to the speech. I do not laugh at my own jokes.”
“I will tell her, when your father, the president of the United States, was f***ing Lewinsky and the girls in the White House, how did you feel? Did you slam your father?”
And, just in case there was any confusion, Duterte has subsequently asked Chelsea again: “I repeat, when President Clinton was fucking Lewinsky, what was your statement or your reaction?”
‘It is a crime actually committed by soldiers, mostly Americans in Okinawa,’ he said, referring to several rape cases involving U.S. servicemen stationed in Japan, most recently last year.
“But, we never heard of a Filipino. But I am just warning them that anything they do, I have to answer for it. I take full responsibility for your foolishness. I speak sarcastically.”
‘You Americans, like Chelsea, be careful because you live in a glass house,’ he said.
‘I repeat, when President Clinton was fucking Lewinsky, what was your statement or your reaction?’
Somehow we suspect Chelsea’s going to pass on offering up her thoughts on the topic of her father’s infidelities despite Duterte’s repeated requests for additional information.
via http://ift.tt/2rcSruw Tyler Durden