Apparently, he didn’t get that close before he was caught in the bushes at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf course. Shots were fired, but it might have just been shots between Secret Service and him. The shooter was caught after a camera picked up his license plate after somebody took a picture of his car as he was fleeing.
As an Amerikkkan, it’s confusing and anger-inducing.
For sure. And becomes all the more obnoxious to deal with when being guilt-tripped or condescended to by people about it, whether it’s strangers online or people I know in RL.
I remember one person, saying words to me to the effect of, “Once we stop Trump, then we can worry about other stuff.” And this was coming from a person who afaik tends to be very busy with work and isn’t engaged with politics much beyond believing in the democrats still. So it’s like… uh, “What are you gonna do and when?” Biden has been in office for 4 years, what have the democrats done to meaningfully oppose the Trumpian faction during that period. What have they done to convince anyone they’re better.
I also remember encountering someone on twitter semi-recently who spoke of how they’re very involved in trying to help people who are in need. And that when the dems are in power, they notice they get less help from others with this. So it’s very much this thing of like, the liberals declare victory and then go to brunch. They more tend to go to sleep on systemic issues when their party is in power (or even go so far as to actively deny and downplay that their party has anything to do with these issues) and then guilt trip and blame game when the people who have been fighting on those issues the whole time don’t want to keep voting for their party. In other words, some of these liberals have condescension for people who are doing way more than them, politically, simply because those people don’t want to vote for the liberals’ party. It’s like this weird sense of entitlement.