THE QUEEN and CHECKMATE

By Rob Rances



THE BOARD IS SET

The September 21 protests revealed the truth: the black king—BBM—sits surrounded not by loyalists, but by pawns who don’t even believe he’s innocent.

The Pinks know the rot. They feel the stench of corruption. Yet they still guard him. Why? Because they fear the white queen—Sara Duterte—more than the king they pretend to oppose.

THE GAME THEY’RE PLAYING

So what happens? The Pinks become pawns, forced to hold the line, shielding the very king they despise.

The bishops—their leaders—twist their principles into survival moves. The pawns march, the bishops preach, but all of it is to buy time for their black king.

But here’s the flaw:
In chess, pawns are disposable. Bishops can only block for so long. And the white queen always finds her opening.

THE INEVITABLE ENDGAME

Checkmate is not about if—it’s about when.

The black king will fall. The only question is whether he topples because the pawns crumble, or because the queen forces her way through.

And when it happens, history will remember not the slogans, not the noise, but the compromise: that those who claimed moral purity once chose to defend the king of what many consider as the most corrupt rule in recent memory—just to keep the queen at bay.

But the board doesn’t lie. Pawns can stall, bishops can spin—but the queen is moving, and checkmate is only a matter of time.

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