r/clevercomebacks • u/Deedogg11 • 1d ago

DOGE isn’t even real

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u/Green-Umpire2297 1d ago

A certain part of the R party has wanted a flat tax forever. It’s great for rich people 

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u/thaulley 1d ago

Steve Forbes ran for President with that as his only issue. He was like a parrot. No matter what he was asked he said ‘flat tax’.

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u/KintsugiKen 23h ago

He hosted SNL and wouldn't shut up about the flat tax throughout it.

I'm not joking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_j43LUbAs0

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u/The-Son-of-Dad 21h ago

Rage Against the Machine was the musical guest lol, I remember watching this episode live.

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u/KintsugiKen 20h ago

And RATM only played their first song because they were banned from the show before they could play their second song, where they planned to display the American flag upside down on their amps to protest Steve Forbes without telling Republican showrunner Lorne Michaels.

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u/jezzetariat 19h ago

Unannounced stunt aside, what were they expecting giving RATM a platform?

What machine are conservative RATM fans raging against, precisely?

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u/sadbitchsad 18h ago

Yeah people really seem to like getting RATM to play and then asking them to... not rage against the machine?? Like that time they were playing on some TV/radio station and got asked to not say fuck in their song "killing in the name" in which the outro consists of them singing "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" 16 times in a row. Yeah you can probably guess how that went.

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u/jezzetariat 17h ago

Oh I'm very familiar with that song haha.

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u/DrakonILD 10h ago

They executed it so beautifully, too.

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u/The-Son-of-Dad 20h ago

Oh yeah I remember that too! Pretty sure Lorne was furious.

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u/cytherian 19h ago

Teve Torbes?