THAT club of megalomaniacs called 1Sambayan was the town's laughingstock last week. They used our country's sacred Independence Day to pontificate on the kind of president and vice president they would like, based on their fictional world.

They named six nominees for the presidency. Four rushed in an hour's time to decline the nomination; Mary Grace Poe - who placed third in the 2016 elections - just minutes after that pathetic group made their announcement. Nominee Vice President Maria Leonor "Leni" Robredo didn't say whether she accepted the nomination or not but in her usual way, blah-blahed inanities about the need for us to unite.

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