Traditional silly season gives way to Trump horror show

that matter, Muslim Americans with green cards. Children were being handcuffed in American airports, then deported back to war zones. Court orders in favour of those being banned were ignored by border patrol officers, barely stifling the tumescence on their saluting arm, relishing their chance to follow orders.

Normally you exaggerate to make a point, but now everyone seems to be exaggerating, when all they’re doing is literally describing the insanity before them. Notice how often you see the word “literally” these days. Literal 5-year-olds, literally in handcuffs.

It hasn’t been two weeks. We all have outrage vertigo. And the end result will be that we’re bludgeoned into submission: such is life. This is how it is for the little people. This is our lot.

The outrages don’t let up, like combinations to the head. We haven’t unpacked one container of obvious evil before the next one rains down. We’re below a crane, holding them by the dozen. And in the harbour, there’s container ships full of them. I’m still reeling from the fact that Trump even got nominated. Without financial disclosure. Is there a more morally bankrupt group than the Republican Party? They’re waterboys for dictatorship. Are they all being paid off by Putin? How much did each of them cost?

And what happens next? Supposing the sanctions against Putin are lifted and supposing Putin rewards his puppets — what happens if all those financial transactions find the light of day, and Trump goes to Guantanamo?

Does his Supreme Court justice get to keep his job? Does Ivanka just go back to a quiet life selling pirated $1000 shoes? Do Eric and Donald jnr go back to hunting endangered species?

The protests are some source of encouragement. Somehow Trump won via Twitter, but it’s hard to imagine he will be defeated by hashtags. It will take concerted leaking of information, at least from inside the US tax department.

And where do we fit in all this? At the very least, it’s our duty to speak up. On the bright side, we’re too far from Russia to be invaded by Putin.