Duterte says he was just testing the limits of making controversial remarks - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/06/29/1828994/duterte-i-have-faith-god ‘I was just testing the limits’ MANILA, Philippines — In remarks replete with verses from the Old Testament, President Duterte yesterday declared that he believes in God as he reiterated his denial that he had called the Creator stupid. Speaking before a gathering of vice mayors in Bohol, Duterte explained he was “just testing the limits” of people’s patience in making controversial remarks – even about matters of faith and religion. He also stressed his Creator is a “forgiving God” and that he would not apologize to critics although he vowed to refrain from talking about his tiff with the Catholic Church. “We have different views. We won’t understand each other. But I have this deep and abiding faith in God,” the President said. Duterte had earlier claimed to believe in a Universal Being but not religion. Paraphrasing verses from the book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament, which he claimed to read almost everyday, Duterte said, “There’s a time to be calm, there’s a time to be silent, to be poignant, a time to be subdued and a time to be vicious. Ganoon talaga ang buhay (That’s how life is).” “And for now, I will just keep my silence for I want to see how the nation reacts. It’s like I’m shaking the tree. If you would notice me every now and then, either national or local, I’m really shaking the tree,” Duterte said. Making rape jokes ☑ Telling off the Pope to fuck off for causing traffic ☑ Calling another president a son of a whore ☑ Calling opposing politicians sons of whores ☑ Proudly declaring he killed a person himself ☑ Killing druggies ☑ Killing innocents in the crossfire ☑ Killing kids in the crossfire ☑ Telling people to go ahead and shoot druggies ☑ Telling people God is stupid ☐

jokes on them i was pretending to be retarded

tbh I'm eager to see to what extend this man is capable of going. Sorry that you fellas will have to tolerate him tho

It's a social experiment!!!

Duterte needs to test the limits of how much a man needs to step out of his position

just a prank bro

https://youtu.be/ubU-dB8B-94

His excuse is gonna work and it's gonna work perfectly.

Merely pretending

No wonder Trump supporters also seem to love Duterte so much. These guys are like two peas in a pod one-upping each other every month with something ridiculous.

I still wonder how he's still the president at this point.

Duterte is gonna put his people in his cringe compilation

our government is just a big social experiment bro

"Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked — if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D. And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you... [I]n my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose." -- -- Milton Mayer, "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45" He is testing the increments of hate.