Hey America! Just checking in with another update on how a recent presidential election is going to doom us all! I'm not talking about the election that's happening in this country right now. I will at some point, but it's an election that happened thousands of miles away which deserves the bulk of our attention today. I'm speaking, of course, about the this year's presidential election in the Philippines, where a legitimately crazy person named Rodrigo Duterte took control of the highest office of in a country of more than 100 million people. He's said and done a lot of insane things since then, but if you're only keeping track of the highlights, you probably have no idea just how insane things might get. We talk about it on this week's Unpopular Opinion podcast ...

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... where I'm joined by comic Connor McSpadden and Cracked art bro Randall Maynard. It's also what I'm talking about right damn now.

Let's start with what you probably already know. Rodrigo Duterte campaigned for president of the Philippines on a platform of zero tolerance toward crime, promising to dump the bodies of 100,000 criminals in Manila Bay within his first six months in office.

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While the numbers he's put up in that regard so far aren't quite that dramatic, they're still terrifying. Almost immediately after his inauguration, Duterte declared open season on drug dealers and drug users alike, encouraging both police and citizens to kill them on sight. In the month following his declaration, more than four hundred supposed drug criminals were killed, and an additional 100,000 people had surrendered out of fear of being killed. Both numbers have been growing at an alarming rate ever since.