With the speed things are happening in the Senate at the moment, Alan Peter Cayetano’s Pokémon-Senate analogies feel like a whole month ago, when in reality, it just happened last weekend.
Was anyone amused at the analogies? If anyone was, I haven’t seen it.
I scanned X, and I saw mostly a Snorlax’s worth of detritus slung at the senator, whose infamy has seemingly grown with every Facebook Live session of his. “Pokemon ng ina mo, Cayetano!” one post went, while many others deplored his dragging the good name of Pokémon into the mess. “Don’t drag Pokemon into this,” one said.
By one X user’s assessment, the analogy was shallow because Cayetano is a known fan of the franchise and a recognizable figure specifically in its card-collecting circles, regularly seen at shops and conventions.
With the Senate’s integrity itself now under scrutiny, reducing the whole mess to Pokémon cards — and not even in a particularly clever way — felt needlessly exhausting for the Facebook crowd. (Fine, he said it was an explanation for the kids, but honestly, I don’t think kids would have bought it either; the kids would have said, “Open the packs!”)