That's it, we've officially gone through the looking glass and tumbled down the rabbit hole, into an alternate reality that has taken on the attributes of an acid-induced nightmare.
Consider the evidence, if you would be so kind.
A Minister, indeed a Super Minister, is found - caught - in ownership of a company in Panama, on one side of the world, shrouded into a trust on the other side of the world, in New Zealand. The reaction of his boss, Premier Joseph Muscat, is first to shrug and mumble something about there being nothing wrong with this, he's known about it for some time.
The next reaction is to let the world know that, along with the shrug and mumble, it's all fine, because there's going to be an audit conducted by a world-renowned, but un-named, audit firm. Oh, and a tax audit, too, the Super Minister tells us smugly, saying that no-one in the known universe has ever consented to a tax audit being done on him.
The reaction after those two reactions, though at this point I'm starting to lose track of all the different reactions, is for all concerned to say that since there's nothing in the company anyway, it's all right, again.
And then, after the world and its sister find out that this isn't some silly rumour started by the Nasty Nats, the Super Minister is punished by being turned into a Super Duper Minister, in charge of special projects within the Office of the Premier Muscat (OPM) without even the inconvenience of having pesky civil servants breathing down his neck.
Oh, yes, and he resigns from the Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party, because, don't you know, he's not fit to be Deputy Leader. Super Duper Minister, yes, Deputy Leader, no.
Just as you thought things couldn't get more surreal, you then get Premier Muscat's minions, oafs and trolls jumping up and down and spluttering madly that Simon Busuttil should take action and fire every one within spitting distance of him, because they're financial services operators and, apparently, some of their clients had companies in Panama and other "financially efficient" jurisdictions.
Down Premier Muscat's rabbit hole, being an owner of a corporate super-complex structure set up, by the Super Duper Minister's own admission, to receive brokerage fees, is not a problem at all, but for people to operate in the financial services sector, a sector that has allowed Premier Muscat's economy to continue to flourish, is a mega-problem, and people should be fired.
Down Premier Muscat's rabbit hole, being an owner of a corporate super-complex structure set up, by the Super Duper Minister's own admission, to receive brokerage fees, is not a problem at all, but for people to operate in the financial services sector, a sector that has allowed Premier Muscat's economy to continue to flourish, is a mega-problem, and people should be fired.
In Premier Muscat's looking glass, it's fine to endanger the very existence of the financial services sector, because the trials and tribulations that have rained down on his furry pate are more than sufficient justification for his minions, oafs and trolls to rant and rave and lie and lie again about how people should be pilloried for being service providers.
But being an owner of a dodgy company, as the solid vote in Parliament in favour of Super Duper Konrad Mizzi shows, is not a problem at all.
Down Premier Muscat's rabbit hole, it's fine and dandy for Leo Brincat to be nominated to the Court of Auditors, but should it even be hinted at that his vote in favour of Panamanian obfuscation and camouflage might be the subject of awkward questions, then the sky falls in and the interests of the country are compromised.
What Premier Muscat's minions, trolls and oafs don't seem to understand is that the national interest is actually compromised by people like Konrad Mizzi, Keith Schembri, Brian Tonna and "the owner of Egrant", to mention but a few, playing fast and loose with the rules of propriety.
Do these people, and the minions, trolls and oafs, not quite grasp the fact that a simple Google search will turn these things up, that the people who will be frying Leo Brincat sunny side up don't need to be told what he's done?
In Premier Muscat's looking glass, when Joe Grima, his representative on the World Tourism Organisation, makes reprehensible remarks on his Facebook page, and is reported to have done so in the media, steps are not taken to remove the man from any position in which he can be perceived as representing the country.
Oh no, nothing of the sort, in fact, Grima trots off to Court and files libel writs.
I wonder what the Tourism Minister thinks about this, incidentally, because he said that Grima's words were unacceptable: is he going to be sued for libel too?
As the old saying goes, I don't know what pills these people are poppin', but hey man, I want some.