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10 Reasons The Philipines Has The Craziest President On Earth

MARK OLIVER OCTOBER 9, 2016

Rodrigo Duterte is full of quotable lines that delight the pages of newspapers around the world. But Duterte is more than a few quips—he’s a historical atrocity in the making. Behind every joke that makes a headline, there’s a dark reality in the Philippines, and it’s much more terrifying than you might imagine.

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9 He Promised To Pay For His Mistresses Himself



“If you want me to become your president, you should know everything about me,” Duterte told his supporters. “They are telling me that they heard I am a womanizer. That is very true.”

Duterte had more than one wife, he told the crowd. There was another woman he’d gotten pregnant on a trip to the United States, and he had two other girlfriends on the side. “I do not support them with the money from the government,” he promised, “but from my own money and allowances.”

His mistresses, he said, weren’t expensive. “When I was young, I could do overnight [stays at a hotel], which is more expensive.” Today, though, he “could do a short time only . . . After one erection, that’s it. No more.”

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7 He Compared Himself To Hitler And Idi Amin



When people started to protest against Duterte’s plans to massacre thousands of Filipino people, he didn’t shy from the legacy he knew he’d leave. “Hitler massacred three million Jews,” Duterte told his supporters. “Now, there are three million drug addicts . . . I’d be happy to slaughter them.”

It wasn’t even the only time he gleefully compared himself to a tyrant. Later, he said, “I will retire with the reputation of Idi Amin. I am not afraid of human rights. I will not allow my country to go to the dogs.”

Hitler, of course, killed more than six million Jews—but Duterte’s still committed to keeping up. He’s so determined, in fact, the he has set up a public scoreboard so that everyone can keep track of just how many people his police force have killed.

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5 He Threatened To Quit The UN And Start His Own Group With China



When the UN criticized Duterte’s take on crime, he got hostile. With his trademark eloquence, Duterte declared, “You do not just go out and give a sh—tting statement against a country.”

He went on to call the UN expert who wanted to investigate him “a very stupid expert” and gave them his list of 10 bad things he can say about the group. He started with calling them inutile. “F—k you UN, you can’t even solve the Middle East carnage,” Duterte said. “Shut up all of you.”

By the end, Duterte decided he’d go his own way. “Maybe we’ll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations,” he said, before proposing starting his own union and inviting China to join.

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3 He Encouraged Civilians To Murder Drug Addicts


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“If you know of any addicts, go ahead and kill them yourself,” Duterte told his people. “Getting their parents to do it would be too painful.

”People on his list get anonymous threats from strangers. One showed a reporter a text message from an unknown number, reading nothing more than, “Bro, just wait. You’ll be next.”

On the streets, dead bodies are piling up, not all of them killed by police. The corpses are often found with the faces bound up in duct tape. Lying on their chests are cardboard signs that read, “I’m a drug pusher. Don’t be like me.”

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1 He Promised To Pardon Himself For Murder



Duterte knows he’s going to have a hard time when he gets out of office—but he’s ready. He has explained to the public that, as president, he has the power to pardon any criminal he wants. He has already promised to “issue 1,000 pardons a day” to police charged with brutality and human rights abuses.

Duterte might need to pardon himself as well. Duterte has publicly boasted that he shot a classmate in college for hitting him in the nose. He was expelled for the shooting but never faced prison.

In the Philippines, the President does have the power to pardon himself. “Pardon given to Rodrigo Duterte for the crime of multiple murder,” he joked in front of a crowd. “Signed, Rodrigo Duterte.”


Mark Oliver is a regular contributor to Listverse. His writing also appears on a number of other sites, including The Onion's StarWipe and Cracked.com. His website is regularly updated with everything he writes.

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