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8 Tweets that Defined Why #SalamatDOTr was Trending (for all the Wrong Reasons)

8 Tweets that Defined Why #SalamatDOTr was Trending (for all the Wrong Reasons)

Sep 17, 2019   •   Tim Henares

As everyone’s daily commute has gotten progressively worse over time, and as dumber and dumber  solutions to the problem are proposed by people who should know better, it would appear that the Department of Transportation (DOTr) is completely unperturbed by these issues.

Not pictured: someone who thinks there’s a lot more work to do.

 

And because angry netizens are the best kind of netizens, they decided to make the hashtag #SalamatDOTr trend almost instantaneously, because people are worried the Department of Transportation might actually break its arm by trying to pat itself on the back wayyyyy too hard.

Here now are the tweets that pretty much made that glorious weekend when the hashtag was trending ohhhh so worth it…

It starts with one tweet, I don’t know why…

… it doesn’t even matter how hard you try. Well, if you wanted to know who exactly to blame for this hashtag trending, it’s this guy right here. He’s to blame.

 

A glass half-full kind of person

Assuming this isn’t sarcasm (though it 99.99% probably is), here’s someone who knows how to spend their travel time well, though those data charges are probably going through the roof.

 

But you can’t catch Pokemon while drivi… ohhhh

It took Ash 22 years to become a Pokemon master. With how bad the traffic situation is, 22 years spent on the road in your lifetime doesn’t seem so far-fetched anymore. The problem is, while you can be the very best like no one ever was, and while to catch them all is your real test, and to train them is your cause, you won’t get to travel across the land searching far and wide with this traffic situation anytime soon.

 

Because there’s more to this than just the roads

Yes, we recognize the MMDA shares some of the blame in this mess. But hey, it’s not the MMDA’s call who to allow to ply their trade here now that Uber is gone, and so many TNVS cars suddenly got taken off the road. The only monopoly we really enjoyed was the board game, and that was only when we were winning the game. Remember when Wunder was a thing? Us, neither.

 

Pretty sure this is sarcasm

Preeeeetty sure…

 

Let’s go meta

Someone is being piss poor at doing their job, and people are asking the right questions here.

 

Pointing out the obvious

You see, while it’s easy to pass the buck and say none of this is Secretary Tugade’s fault, we remember clearly who to blame. Nearly four years ago, we were braying for Abaya’s blood. Before that, we wanted Mar Roxas’s head on a platter. You know what they both share in common with Secretary Tugade? That’s right: they were both heads of DOTr at the time.

 

Out of excuses

When things started getting too hot to  handle, DOTr tried to quell the revolting masses with this feeble attempt at an explanation, which decided to go full Princess Bride and use a word that doesn’t mean what it thinks it does. Because when you have a Department of TRANSPORTATION complain about how mean people are to them over their problems with TRANSPORTATION because “it’s not their mandate,” you end up wondering where they were when the Commission on Human Rights was getting exactly the same flak over people who assumed anything to do with Human Rights at all was their purview. Guess what goes around really does come around.

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What are your thoughts on DOTr’s efforts in finding solutions to our horrible commute? Share them with us below!

 


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