So I was trying to ignore the Rowena Guanzon bruhaha sa Rockwell, and then I happened on a former general’s vlog on YouTube with the title, “Atty Guanzon, Sinupalpal nang Todo si Ronald Llamas Kapwa niya Kakampink?”
Clickbait. Hindi ko na-resist kasi hindi Kakampink kundi DDS na ang datíng sa akin ni Guanzon — di ba kinampihan niya si Kiko Barzaga recently? — sabay, wow, she dared supalpal Llamas the Kakampink? About what? … E di da Rockwell iskandalo pala mismo, that Llamas couldn’t resist remarking on, being the very public heckler he is these days.
So. Apparently Guanzon, unmasked, coughed loudly in a very public place, just once, she says, more than once, others say, and, as she recounts on Twitter, a certain Chiong couple nearby dared call her out.
GUANZON: ” Dont u have money to buy a mask?” Chiong said to me condescendingly. Matapobre. Ikaw, dont u have money to buy a Rolex ? Hindi galing sa nakaw ang Rolex at Gucci ko. https://x.com/rowena
Next day, tila di nakapagpigil ang heckler. https://www.facebook.com/
LLAMAS: Bumaba na naman self-esteem ko. Wala akong Rolex saka Gucci eh.
Kinabukasan, binalingan siya ni attorney sa Twitter at sa DZRH News TV. https://www.youtube.com/
GUANZON: Okey lang yan, pogi ka naman. Naging kayo nga ni ano, di ba? …
https://www.facebook.com/photo/ … Marami ka namang baril, di ba u were arrested for illegal possession?” https://x.com/BalitaNgayonAng ayoko dito, they are taking advantage kasi nile-label nila akong DDS kaya binabanatan nila ako kasi. Takot sila na mag-senador ako. Llamas, mas bagay naman akong mag-senator kaysa sa iyo. Maawa ka naman sa Pilipinas kung ikaw ang mag-senador.
Doon ka sa line-up ni Risa Hontiveros, pareho kayong mga komunista diyan. Kasalanan ko ba kung pinanganak ako na hindi ako mahirap, kaya hindi ako nag-komunista? Ang problema sa inyo, gusto niyo komunista. Hindi ako bagay diyan—sosyalista ako.
To be fair to Llamas, he wasn’t arrested naman for illegal possession of firearms back when he was PNoy’s political adviser. And he has always admitted he’s a leftist but not a communist. Just the same, giving Guanzon an opening for this kind of bardagulan doesn’t do his cause any good, not when he’s so high-profile a propagandist for a moderate Akbayan that hopes to propel Risa to the presidency sa 2028. https://www.philstar.com/
Guanzon didn’t even have to name Hontiveros. Many already knew it was she that Guanzon was referring to, and word spread quickly, even if Risa denied it back in 2013. Friends lang, sabi niya. Chismax lang, sabi ni Llamas. Pero ano nga ba yung chismax? Ang nakarating sa akin, that it was true for a while, but it didn’t last, and neither cares to tell why, so better to deny. At least that’s the sense I get. And then again, I could be wrong, baka naman hearsay lahat.
It shouldn’t really matter, not in an ideal world anyway. Except that it does matter in the real world, where in the next breath kumbaga, Guanzon piled on the two, charging them of being komunista, which is the more troubling because the the DDS are lapping it up and regurgitating it as anti-Risa akbayad propaganda.
It was a mistake giving Guanzon that opening. Llamas shouldn’t have joked about his low self-esteem if he cared more about Akbayan and the people he purports to speak for. Hindi naman niya kinailangang sumawsaw sa drama ni Guanzon who was already doing herself in without his help. E ayun, binuhay pa niya uli, nadamay tuloy si Risa.
Hindi bale sana kung kakayanin ni Llamas na ipaliwanag sa madlang pipol, from his many media platforms, kung ano nga ba ang ipinagkaiba niya sa isang komunista, gayon din sa sosyalista-daw na si Guanzon. Masalimuot na usapín, di ba, na iniiwasan siyempre kasi medyo mahirap ipaliwanag nang hindi ma-o-offend ang mga komunista, na hiráp ding ipaliwanag kung ano nga ba ang ipinagkaiba ng Luneta sa EDSA, at kung bakit hindi sila maipagkaisa.
Good of Guanzon to push the discourse to this point, LOL. The ball’s in Llamas’s court. Though of course he could just keep laughing it off as he did today. Whatever works for his self-esteem, na napakataas pala, contrary to the self-deprecation.