Former senior USAID official Sarah Charles tells the Associated Press that the infrastructure to render the help to the regions of Myanmar and Thailand devastated by Friday’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake that convicted felon President Trump claimed is on the way is in as much “shambles” as the skyscrapers in Mandalay, all thanks to him and fucking Elon Musk. “We’re going to be helping. We’ve already alerted the people. Yeah, it’s terrible what happened,” Trump claimed.
Although the contracts for civilian urban search and rescue teams are intact, Charles said the ones for the special transport needed to get the search teams, dogs and heavy equipment to a disaster area are believed to have been cut, so it’s anyone’s guess how the hell they’re supposed to the stricken regions there since Cybertrucks can’t fly or drive on water.
At least 144 people were killed in the quake, a toll that is surely to rise. Even though a 7.7 magnitude is no cupcake, the shallow 10 kilometer depth puts the damage closer to what you’d see from a much stronger quake, potentially in the 8.0 to 8.5 range, because the energy was released so close to the surface, which also spread the shaking out and noticeable from from India to Malaysia.