On Friday, 23 March 2018 1:11:55 AM AEDT Rick Moen via luv-talk wrote:
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
It's not an issue of the powers being different. It's the process for election and removal. Australian history hasn't included a single PM being a tenth as incompetant, nasty, or stupid as Trump before being removed. Latham's mental health problems became apparent immediately after losing the election, we can only imagine how long he would have lasted if Labor had won (not very long IMHO). Abbot is widely regarded as brain damaged from boxing and is a religious extremist and asshole apart from that. He won multiple awards for misogyny, but did nothing to compare with Trump's pussy grabbing comments. He was removed by his own party for general incompetance (apparently largely due to being mentally incompetant to perform his job without his favourite advisor who other MPs hated).
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.
We can only hope.
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.
True, which is why we don't want Pence.
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.
He reads Libertarian sites and forwards their postings on multiple occasions. That seems like support. I'm still wondering why he chose to live in Thailand... -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/