From hereditary buffoons to patronage pissoir and party hack retirement home, not much better off methinks.

The hereditary buffoons were more independent-minded, and sometimes progressive, than the appointees.

Not a fan of the old system but this is not an improvement.

It's a lace-curtain thing to actually spell things properly, actual upstairs people don't give a toss thereabout.

I fail to see the problem, people voted for this, did they not?

I thought the forever wars and quarrels with people we know nothing of were over?

It was used to refer to human output to begin with, in certain corners of the internet.

Wolf Warrior diplomacy on-shored, or perhaps American Sniper diplomacy?

There's just no logic to it because it fundamentally misunderstands nationalism. Not a single Euro politician can be seen to be an American puppet.

Diplomats need to be adorable pandas not wolves.

Sounds like a good slogan/motto for the AIpocalypse resistance to use.

You missed the chance to use an em dash in your username!

They sure are humble for people who say they are building God.

Code is free but some code is freer than others.

Mayhaps he had a Damascene conversion? Not that I ever understood the need to change from C++ in the first place though.