Suzanne Harrington: Orange alert — is the US about to privatise the weather?

"Worse than privatising the weather is politicising the weather. Weather doesn’t recognise political borders; if a storm is making its way across an ocean, meteorologists from elsewhere tend to phone ahead and share information."

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Events in the US currently embody a kind of insanity buffet sponsored by The Muppet Show high on bad mushrooms. A smorgasbord of mental. 

From the elderly white guy getting crucial names mixed up, to the elderly orange guy appearing at a political convention with a pantyliner stuck to his ear, to the centre-staging of a former hillbilly who previously called the orange guy “America’s Hitler” but now wants to be his right-hand man while in the same breath referring to the UK as an “Islamist state”, suggesting Israel should “finish the job” in Palestine, and stating that Ukraine “doesn’t matter” - it’s enough to make your prefrontal cortex melt and dribble out your ear.