“My Brother the President Is a Junkie”: A Marcos Family Reunion Special

Rated R for Rally, Rivalry, and Really No Evidence.

By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 18, 2025

PART 1: THE OPENING GAMBIT – A HOUSE OF CARDS ON FIRE

Mga ka-kweba, welcome to the greatest show on earth: Philippine politics, where a sister stands before hundreds of thousands and publicly accuses her own brother – the sitting President of the Republic – of being a lifelong drug addict. Not in a courtroom. Not in a sworn affidavit. Not even in a leaked text message. No. Senator Imee Marcos chose a stage, a microphone, and the Iglesia Ni Cristo rally as her confessional booth.

This isn’t just a scandal.
This is Shakespearean tragedy performed in the gutter, complete with betrayal, madness, and the stench of desperation.
A family tearing itself apart on live television while the nation watches in horrified fascination.
And the best part? She brought no proof. Zero. Nada. Just words.
Welcome to the new normal: accuse first, substantiate never.

**Tonight’s episode: “I Begged Duterte to Spare Him, Now I Want Him in Rehab”.**

PART 2: THE ANATOMY OF AN ACCUSATION – EVIDENCE OR EMBERS?

Let’s dissect this corpse of an allegation with a scalpel.

Imee says her brother has been using illegal drugs since childhood, that it worsened after marrying Liza, that even the kids are now involved. She wants him to resign, go to rehab, save the country. Noble, right?

Now show us the evidence, Senator.

No drug test results
No chain-of-custody documents
No sworn witnesses
No medical records
No nothing

Just “family knowledge.”
Ah yes, the same “family knowledge” that kept quiet for decades while thousands of poor Filipinos were slaughtered in the drug war. The same “family knowledge” that begged Duterte in 2016 not to put Bongbong on the narcolist. Suddenly, now that corruption probes are circling her allies, that family knowledge has found a microphone.

And the Palace? Their defense is almost as pathetic: “He tested negative in 2021 at St. Luke’s!”
Congratulations. A four-year-old test. From a private hospital. With no public chain of custody.
That’s like saying “I wasn’t drunk last New Year’s Eve” when someone accuses you of being drunk today.

Both sides are fighting with smoke and mirrors.
One side has no evidence.
The other side has ancient, irrelevant evidence.
And the Filipino people? We’re left choking on the fumes.

PART 3: THE MOTIVE MAZE – WHY NOW, IMEE?

Let’s play detective. Why would a sister do this?

Theory #1: Political Survival

Corruption probes are closing in on Senate allies. Flood control funds. Ghost projects. Budget insertions. The House is sniffing blood. What better way to change the channel than to drop the ultimate bombshell on the President himself? Classic misdirection. The Palace says it outright: this is desperation.

Theory #2: Dynastic Civil War

This isn’t new. The Marcos siblings have been estranged for years. Imee bolted from the administration slate. She’s aligned herself with the Dutertes. She’s running ads attacking Bongbong’s economy. This isn’t a whistleblower moment. This is the final battle for who gets to wear the Marcos crown. Imee is declaring: “I am the true heir. He is the degenerate.”

Theory #3: Blackmail with a megaphone

The most cynical – and most Filipino – explanation: this is a bargaining chip. Threaten to burn the house down unless certain concessions are made. Drop the probes. Restore the funds. Give me my share. Public destruction as private leverage. We’ve seen this movie before.

Theory #4: Principled Crusade

Please. Pwede ba?
If she truly believed the President was a drug-addled danger to the nation, she had options: the Ombudsman, the NBI, the PDEA, a privileged speech in the Senate under parliamentary immunity.
Instead, she chose a rally.
That’s not courage. That’s theater.

PART 4: THE GUTTER POLITICS PLAYBOOK – BOTH OF YOU DISGUST ME

Let’s be clear: both sides are beneath contempt.

Imee Marcos has weaponized the drug issue – the same issue used to justify killing tens of thousands of poor Filipinos – for personal and political gain. She stood on a stage built on the blood of the drug war’s victims and used their pain as a prop to settle a family score. That is not just hypocritical. That is sacrilegious.

And Bongbong?
Your administration is now defined by your sister calling you a drug addict on national television. Your response? Send a spokesperson to cry “desperation” and wave a 2021 drug test like it’s the Shroud of Turin.
You are the President. Act like it.
One simple move ends this tomorrow – we’ll get to that.

This isn’t governance.
This is a family feud with nuclear weapons.

PART 5: THE WAY OUT – STOP THE CIRCUS, FACE THE TRUTH

Enough.

Here’s what must happen. Now.

To Senator Imee Marcos:

Put up or shut up.
You have 72 hours to file a formal complaint with the Ombudsman or the NBI, complete with evidence – real evidence. Drug tests. Witnesses. Documents. Chain of custody.
If you do not, you are nothing but a liar who tried to destroy her own brother for political points.
And you will be remembered as such. Forever.

To President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.:

Tomorrow morning, announce that you will submit to a full, independent, internationally accredited forensic drug test – hair follicle, blood, urine – conducted by a neutral third-party laboratory, with live oversight, unbroken chain of custody, and full public disclosure of results.
Refuse, and your silence will be louder than any accusation.

To the PDEA, the Senate, the courts:

Do your damn jobs. Independently. Transparently. Without fear or favor.

PART 6: THE STAKES – A NATION HELD HOSTAGE

This is no longer about one family.

This is about a country watching its highest officials engage in mutual assured destruction while inflation rages, poverty deepens, and the real drug lords – the ones with private jets and political protectors – laugh all the way to the bank.

This is about a democracy being suffocated by dynasty, where truth doesn’t matter, only power does.

The Marcos brand – once buried, then miraculously resurrected – is now being torn apart from the inside by its own children.

And the Filipino people?
We’re just collateral damage in your war.

History will not be kind to either of you.

But it will be kinder to whoever tells the truth first.

The stage is yours.

Choose wisely.

– Barok