Quoting Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au):
Anyone who knows anything at all about Australian politics knows that electing a PM from Parliament doesn't allow someone to do what Trump does. If we could elect a GG then maybe they could be like Trump, but we can't - and apart from Carr there hasn't seemed to be any need to elect a GG.
Certainly the powers of a PM are entirely different from those of the head of the USA Executive Branch, completely setting aside the check on PMs posed by the Governors-General. One thing many overseas observers may not realise is that the Toddler-in-Chief has been historically inept and _ineffective_ at using the powers of his office. He will go down in history as almost certainly, by far, the least effective President ever. Early on, he fooled even many of us domestic observers, because the habit of taking Presidents seriously dies hard. I found myself doing stunned double-takes on his early 'signing ceremonies', where I suddenly realised what he was signing was a statement constructed in a way where it had literally no effect, where he was doing the text equivalent of merely madly waving his arms and doing nothing in the real world. We-lot gradually realised over the first few months of Trump's reign of error that it's a Potemkin presidency, and that that is actually the good news. The evil he does while incompetent is bad enough; a replacement who knew what he was doing would be a great deal worse.
Libertarians oppose any age of consent laws. Let's consider why a man who lives in Thailand might support Libertarian politics...
In fairness, Terry having forwarded that blog post doesn't mean he agrees with it, nor 'support Libertarian [or libertarian] polices'. FWIW, he's anti-Trump.