[pull_my_finger]

You can find so many parallels to Trump's presidency and the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines. I wish there were some in depth political analysis of the similarities because just as a layman, there are many.

- Both used Cambridge Analytica heavily in their elections and terms.

- Both appealed to very macho/misogynistic bases.

- Both made wildly inappropriate jokes and threats, leaving their Press Secretaries to explain it away. "Locker room" talk for Trump, and "Bisaya humor" for Duterte.

- Both did basically anything they wanted, basically with impunity (although Duterte is captured by ICC now iirc)

- Both accused of being a foreign asset. Trump->Russia, Duterte->China.

- Both want to rewrite/dispose of their constitutions.

- Both wanted to end elections or remove term limits.

- Duterte declared martial law, Trump wants to.

- Duterte did door to door searches (under guise of War on Drugs), Trump doing it under guise of Immigration enforcement.

There's probably more, but those are off the top of my head. If I had a tinfoil hat to wear, I would almost believe this is all still Cambridge or other big data backed planned behavior. I admitted don't know much about Project 2025, but just knowing a) they worked with big data in Cambridge, and b) there is actually goals planned that accommodate expected responses from congress etc make things highly suspicious.

I wish a political scientist/independent researcher would do the leg work and investigate the two presidencies, because all of it is just really scary and prophetic.