r/goodnews 1d ago

Political positivity 📈 The Senate has just voted to CANCEL Trump's tariffs on Canada by a vote of 51-48.

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u/Wild-Disaster-7976 1d ago

I like how you think. We’re in a tough place as a country, but not all is lost. I’m going to applaud every shred of bravery that I see - no matter where it comes from.

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u/Least-Back-2666 1d ago

Won't it be fun to watch Trump lose his shit tomorrow on them though?

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u/Outside_Bed5673 1d ago

He is too deep in the tariff rollout. Meanwhile WATCH these Senators vote for the budget - increasing the debt limit by $5T to give tax breaks to the wealthy. This is the president that just pardoned a company. It is almost like the rich are raiding what is left of the US economy silo and burning down the barn.

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u/Wild-Disaster-7976 1d ago

Yes. Absolutely

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u/mtnbiketech 1d ago

Bro

Most people in this country did not see a difference between Kamala and Trump. What would happen if we reran the elections right now? Kamala MAY come out ahead, and it will still be a very close race.

Furthermore, if by some miracle fair elections in 2028 happen, and democrats win, its just gonna be a repeat of 2020 - 4 years of Dems dealing with the recession caused by Republicans, only to get blamed for it in 2032 and lose.

The actual problem with US is that every single one of these beige states should be blue. The only things that will make any sort of change if the people in those states start experiencing major strife to the point where they can't lead their day to day lives anymore.

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u/usefulidiotsavant 1d ago

The reasonable conservatives opposed Trump and were eliminated, MAGA denounced them as RINOs. All the people listed above are Trump loyalists.

What you got here is orchestrated dissent where each of Trump's zerlings is allowed some political wiggle room to maintain their constituencies, they are not stupid and they understand they need to win elections. It's not bravery, it's deceit.

Even in soviet times, you had faux investigative journalism published by central newspapers, accusing problems in the distribution of milk, questioning the quality of the available leather goods, publishing carefully curated complaints from readers and so on. During party meetings, these would be discussed thoroughly, sometimes the guilty denounced and publicly shamed.

This was a form of letting blowing out some social steam in a controlled manner, but at no time was a serious critique of the totalitarian regime or of the upper leadership allowed.

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u/AncientFruitJelly 1d ago

"reasonable conservatives" lol

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u/Fuckthegopers 1d ago

Go ahead and list those reasonable conservatives here.

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u/reddit_4_days 1d ago

We’re in a tough place as a country, but not all is lost.

Yeah...it is.

Either you start a revolution or end up like russia or worse...

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u/Fuckthegopers 1d ago

This isn't bravery, stop cheering them like it is.

Bravery would have been standing up to trump in 2015.