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Clemson’s Political Correctness Is Getting Out Of Hand

TACO NIGHT IS RACIST? There’s a story on political correctness running amok on the campus of Clemson University … and this time it has absolutely nothing to do with the school’s tortured relationship with its segregationist past.  Or that whole #Cripmas scandal. The story – published by Campus Reform – focuses on…

TACO NIGHT IS RACIST?

There’s a story on political correctness running amok on the campus of Clemson University … and this time it has absolutely nothing to do with the school’s tortured relationship with its segregationist past.  Or that whole #Cripmas scandal.

The story – published by Campus Reform – focuses on the school’s “Maximum Mexican” food night, which is about the least controversial thing we could possibly imagine.

Until now …

According to Campus Reform‘s Peter Hasson, this glorified, government-funded “Taco Night” has long been a favorite of students … well, until this year, when two students took to Twitter to protest the event as being “culturally insensitive.”

Really?

Was anyone else offended?  No.  In fact the one student who bothered to responded to the Taco Night haters tweeted “I’m offended that you’re offended.”

offended

Exactly …

Unfortunately, Clemson caved to the nonexistent outrage.  In a big way.

“It is the mission of University Housing (and) Dining to create supportive and challenging environments that enrich and nourish lives,” Clemson’s senior associate vice president of student affairs Doug Hallenbeck wrote on the school’s website. “We failed to live out our mission yesterday, and we sincerely apologize.”

“We will continue to work closely with our food service provider to create dining programs that align with Clemson University’s core values,” Hallenbeck added.

Wait … huh?

Seriously … what in the ever living hell is this guy talking about?

We knew government-funded college campuses were the front lines of politically correct insanity … but come on.  Taco Night is racist?

Hallenbeck’s apology – addressed to the “Clemson family” – added that the school’s Maximum Mexican event “displayed a flattened cultural view of Mexican culture,” and that the school would welcome “the opportunity to work with Hispanic and Latino campus groups as well as community members, staff and faculty to better celebrate the food and culture of this region and better educate the Clemson community.”

Good God, man.

Make. It. Stop!

So … does this mean Soul Food night is off, too?  And come Monday, what will Clemson serve for National Genocide of Indigenous Peoples Day?

Hmmmm …

Or, perhaps, should we stop preparing food altogether and rely on manna from heaven?  Or would that be “culturally insensitive” to Jews?

All of this is, obviously, insane.  Yet another case study in how far government-subsidized “higher education” has strayed from reality into some alternate universe where everything is offensive.

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79 comments

YouWontPostThis October 9, 2015 at 5:00 pm

Caving to “Taco Night” is still better than caving to the Wildcats (and damn near caving to NC).

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Bible Thumper October 9, 2015 at 5:34 pm

Kentucky fried chicken.

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Squishy123 October 9, 2015 at 5:45 pm

Well they do have Chicken Finger Wednesday.

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shifty henry October 9, 2015 at 6:00 pm

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
A: To prove to the possum that it could be done!

Q: Why did the chicken go to KFC?
A: He wanted to see a chicken strip.

Q: Why does a chicken coop have two doors?
A: If it had four doors it would be a chicken sedan.

Q: What do you get when you cross a chicken with a bookie?
A: A hen that lays odds.

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idcydm October 9, 2015 at 8:01 pm

If it only had one door it would be a chicken isetta, which kinda looks like an egg.

Tazmaniac October 9, 2015 at 8:55 pm

Q. Why did Paul Walker cross the road?
A. He wasn’t wearing a seat belt.

I know. Too soon?

shifty henry October 9, 2015 at 5:46 pm

Road Kill Recipes —-
one of my favorites is ))))))
Skunk On A Stick Cooked A Long Way From The House

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shifty henry October 9, 2015 at 5:47 pm

I stopped eating at KFC when I found out they now breed their own chickens — six legs and no heads…..

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Bible Thumper October 9, 2015 at 5:49 pm

If they could get six wings, they could make a fortune.

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Tazmaniac October 9, 2015 at 5:57 pm

I don’t see how KFC stays in business, they have the nastiest fried chicken and the filtiest dining rooms, yuck.

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shifty henry October 9, 2015 at 6:02 pm

Anybody remember when the Colonel said that their new mashed potatoes looked and tasted like grade school paste?

Wrong Tacos October 9, 2015 at 5:01 pm

How about an all-you-can-eat taco night at the local sororities? It’s lesbian-friendly.

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WombBroom October 10, 2015 at 11:10 am

BURP!

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Tazmaniac October 9, 2015 at 5:07 pm

I think the Administrators are sitting on tacos. No wonder people lose their mind when they are denied Jalapeno-bacon Mac and Cheese, they have never been told no and have the shit smacked out of them when they belabor the point.

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Mustafa October 9, 2015 at 5:10 pm

That’s all you got? A school that outruns USC academically ( top 25 status) And in football ranking and you find a politically correct mini-administrator?
Man, why don’t you walk through Osborne and look at the little ‘mini-mes’ there or walk into the Dean’s office of your pathetic school of Engineering with a left-over dean still sitting there – somebody forgot to take the trash out!
I was at USC and am happy to be at Clemson now -it’s a different planet, an inhabited one.

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shifty henry October 9, 2015 at 5:11 pm

Now I know that the Clemson Tiger is really a “pussy-cat” —- respect for Clemson ….. -69%

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ebony October 9, 2015 at 5:11 pm

Clemson is only reflecting the psychopathic behavior of the American public.

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vicupstate October 9, 2015 at 5:19 pm

Tacos aren’t racist but they are gaseous. Therefore they are still offensive.

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stumpknocker October 9, 2015 at 5:21 pm

i agree this seems pretty stupid, but getting all weirded out over it, is even more stupid, some times it is just best to role your eyes and move on.

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Bible Thumper October 9, 2015 at 5:26 pm

If you really want to be politically incorrect at Clemson, have “tater” night.

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shifty henry October 9, 2015 at 5:39 pm

10+

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Jerry Huang October 12, 2015 at 8:18 am

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Lone Ranger October 9, 2015 at 6:01 pm

And you STILL can’t get over that 25-17 butt-burn from 2014
Can’t wait for that barbeque this year and you DO know what we mean !!!

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You Dumbass October 9, 2015 at 5:27 pm

Sorry….you SWORE that taking down the flag would end this…

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willblogformoney October 10, 2015 at 11:32 am

It only makes these liberal scumbags more emboldened.

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Told you what Democrats do October 9, 2015 at 5:30 pm

Who told you Obama would have even the Rednecks under His Gestapo Police Speech codes…

What’s that I told you about your country being taken over by those who HATE us…???

PS: Remember Dabo disavowed Christians because a Pro-Life agency ask him to speak..

You some coward MoFos…

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stumpknocker October 9, 2015 at 5:33 pm

no we love you tbillys, we just hate your sins

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You Bunch Of Pussies October 9, 2015 at 5:56 pm

Why don’t you cunts do some volunteer work for the people of SC instead of debating a goddamn taco?

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stumpknocker October 9, 2015 at 6:11 pm

i did some this morning thank you very much, i have donated my time and money, do does that make me a dick now instead of a pussy?

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You Bunch Of Pussies October 9, 2015 at 7:28 pm

No, you’re good. Thanks for helping!

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stumpknocker October 9, 2015 at 7:38 pm

actually i’m an asshole, read some of my posts, God gives me more than i need, i believe i have a responsibility to God to pass his blessing on.

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#256 October 9, 2015 at 7:51 pm

It is SYNTwist.Just another fraud avatar.

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Fish Taco night October 9, 2015 at 10:44 pm

Mmmmm….pussy.

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SenseLikeChaps October 9, 2015 at 6:50 pm

Eh, I can see how some might be annoyed by it, though “offensive” may be too strong a word. Not because tacos == racist, but if college kids are doing something “cultural” it should be a little deeper than a repeat of their 10th birthday at El Poblano.

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TontoBubbaGoldstein October 9, 2015 at 6:55 pm

“It is the mission of University Housing (and) Dining to create supportive and challenging environments that enrich and nourish lives,” Clemson’s senior associate vice president of student affairs Doug Hallenbeck wrote on the school’s website. “We failed to live out our mission yesterday, and we sincerely apologize.”

“We will continue to work closely with our food service provider to create dining programs that align with Clemson University’s core values,” Hallenbeck added.

*facepalm*

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jimlewisowb October 9, 2015 at 7:18 pm

To All Clemson Students

In order to meet our mandate that food service will create dining programs that align with Clemson University’s core values the menu tonight will be

Rice with No Backbone
Peas with No Eyes
Corn with No Ears
and for Dessert
Chicken Shit Salad with No Chicken or Salad

sincerely
Hiram Dipshit, Food Service Director

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shifty henry October 9, 2015 at 10:31 pm

FATBACK
————-

Fatback makes my griddle greasy
Makes my hen eggs go down easy
I’ll eat it ‘til I’m old and wheezy
Lord, I love good fatback

I love to sit and watch my wife
As she cuts with her butcher knife
There ain’t nothing in this life
Better’n good ol’ fatback

Grease poppin’ high in the mornin’ air
Gittin’ on the walls and everywhere
There ain’t nothin’ can quite compare
With good ol’ greasy fatback

I like it salty, never lean
Cut real thick and cooked with beans
I may not fit into my jeans
But lord, I love good fatback

(Uncle Handsome’s Redneck Poetry from
“The Road Less Graveled”)

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Latino PC Principle October 9, 2015 at 8:15 pm

Check your privilege esé! Check. Your.. Privilege!

Only Latino’s are allowed to have taco night and it not be racist.

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shifty henry October 9, 2015 at 10:38 pm

The best secrets of church socials that Southerners have spent generations hiding in an effort to stall the migration of Yankees and carpetbaggers! The roll call of the best cooking—–

Baptists….. fried chicken

Methodists….. string beans

Church of Christ….. cornbread

Presbyterians……rolls

Episcopalians……hams and roasts

Catholics……anything spicy, smells of garlic, but tastes great –for days

Free-Will Baptists……chocolate layer cakes, lemon pies, and banana pudding

———-

The common denominator regarding denominational cooking is in the iced tea, sweetened with real sugar. If you like your iced tea unsweetened, you better get right with the Lord because based on the evidence in question you’re in a bunch of trouble.

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The Buzzman October 10, 2015 at 9:40 am

Beans are banned at Primitive Baptist church socials, because they are “the musical fruit.”

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Bible Thumper October 10, 2015 at 11:18 am

Before hybrids there use to be string beans. Now beans are stringless unless you can get an heirloom variety. I’ve sat on the porch stringing my share.

I use to mock my grandmother’s claim to having a recipe for macaroni and cheese that went back generations. I would mockingly ask if we had Italian ancestors since macaroni is an Italian word. But Grandma was right. Macaroni and Cheese has been an English dish since the 1400’s. The dish appeared in America’s earliest cook books. Thomas Jefferson is probably the most responsible for its popularity in America.

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shifty henry October 10, 2015 at 11:30 am

My mother was a country farm girl from north Alabama — how many times have I sat on our front porch snapping beans, desilking corn, etc. To me it was just part of life — and it was the same for her sisters and my Dad’s sisters (from Mississippi) – right now I’m thinking it helped make me the man that I am now — except I can’t cook worth a damn, but I’m getting ready too starting next week. My mother’s oldest sister ran a boarding house for men in Chattanooga and all food was fresh from the farm. I believe that is part of the reason I’m in a healthy life at my age. My German wife only cooked two times a year and it was always lasagna. Her mother lived with us for over 20 years and she was a hell of a cook.

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shifty henry October 10, 2015 at 11:47 am

One of things my Dad (26 years Army) taught me before I joined the Navy was to become an expert scrounger. Navy food was good! I went from 100 lbs to 145 lbs when I got out. Rule #1 – be a scrounger FOR guys in the mess hall — ya’ never go hungry (and I learned where to stash the extra goodies for later enjoyment)
Then (true story) I gained 1 lb every 4 days until I reached about 180 — my wife’s cooking and no exercise because I was in school.

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shifty henry October 10, 2015 at 11:54 am

One of things my Mom enjoyed telling all of her relatives —
“How come a 14 year old boy can unwrap a candy bar while holding a sweater, a basketball, and two books, yet he can’t put a garbage can cover on straight with two hands?”

Rocky Verdad October 10, 2015 at 2:13 pm

I started dating my wife and her Mom was visiting her – and inside of 6 weeks I gained 8 pounds. I was told by associates they were getting me off the market.

shifty henry October 10, 2015 at 4:51 pm

Rocky, this one is just for you —-

********************************

A mother had great difficulty with her son’s eating habits. The child refused to take so
much as a bite of food. At the
supermarket another woman told her she had the answer to that problem.

“Your son is five years old, right? He doesn’t eat because food has no fun for him. Tell him a story during meals. He’ll eat.”

At dinner the mother sat her son down at the table and
started to tell him a story. “Once upon a time … drink your juice.”

The boy drank his juice.

“Once upon a time there was a boy named Jack … take a
spoonful of your green beans.”

The boy at his green beans.

“Now Jack lived with his mother … eat your mashed potatoes.”

The boy ate his mashed potatoes.

“Jack was a good boy … butter on the bread.”

The boy is now seven years old. He’s never heard the end of the story, but he weighs two hundred and twenty pounds!

The Buzzman October 11, 2015 at 10:37 pm

Good info. Thanks.

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Clemson Grad October 10, 2015 at 12:37 am

Wait what about changing the name of Tillman Hall. If only we could change that name the all would be right with the world.

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shifty henry October 10, 2015 at 9:35 am

(chuckle)

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Rocky Verdad October 10, 2015 at 8:00 am

Wait, isn’t every night taco night in college?

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WombBroom October 10, 2015 at 11:06 am

I thought so, too. Was when I was there…

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shifty henry October 10, 2015 at 11:22 am

nothing’ could be finer than to be in your vagina in the morning’
nothing’ could be sweeter than to have you suck my peter in in the morning’
when the morning glory twines around the door (and so forth) ….

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Rocky Verdad October 10, 2015 at 2:11 pm

Actually I was thinking economical and easy to make – but love the song.

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The Buzzman October 10, 2015 at 9:34 am

Tacos belong to “Mexican culture” these days as much as pizza is the exclusive province of Italians. This crap is beyond stupid.

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shifty henry October 10, 2015 at 9:42 am

just like most international foods are now homogenized for the public taste…

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The Buzzman October 10, 2015 at 9:35 am

God forbid they should have “Cracker Night.” The majority of the student body would have to protest itself.

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shifty henry October 10, 2015 at 9:38 am

“Moooooommy! Buzz is hitting the booze again!”

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Mike at the Beach October 11, 2015 at 12:02 am

Um, wouldn’t that be “cracka?” As in, “Buzz is one cracka-ass muthafucka?”

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The Buzzman October 11, 2015 at 10:29 pm

That’s right, Honkey, and don’t you forget it!
;)

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The Buzzman October 10, 2015 at 9:52 am

When Mexico’s own version of Hannibal Lector was an exchange student at Clemson, he was very non-PC about food.

With Chinese, and all others, he swallowed them whole.

He escewed Mexican, completely …

With refried beans and a nice Sangria.

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When Democrats Rule October 10, 2015 at 10:52 am

Any so-called GOP voter who cast a ballot for Obama, should feel like a total Fucking idiot. And even if you don’t feel that way, YOU ARE.

And any Democrat – or Liberal-Tarian – Vote you cast will make the NAZI-like Control just get WORSE…

Remember: BLAME YOURSELF..if you don’t bash the Fuck out of any liberal spreading their hate and Leftwing Bullshit out loud.

You’re losing a war, that you are oblivious of, that they are fighting against Americans.

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TamOShanter October 11, 2015 at 7:39 am

Take a lap, you hostile prick.

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The Buzzman October 11, 2015 at 10:30 pm

Or a lap-dance. That would do him a world of good.

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shifty henry October 10, 2015 at 11:38 am

Colleges and insane asylums are both mental institutions in a way. But one has to show some improvement to graduate from an asylum.

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When Democrats Rule October 10, 2015 at 12:14 pm

The college campus is the epitome of Liberal America.

Democrats are doing to speech, what the Obama thugs are doing to our white police officers.

Liberalism is a religion, based in hate and violence toward the morality its congregants hate.

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shifty henry October 10, 2015 at 1:10 pm

you are on the correct train ….

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The Buzzman October 11, 2015 at 10:34 pm

Maybe, but it’s on the wrong track, if that’s who I think it is, and always in danger of going entirely off the rails.

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ilkeschicken October 10, 2015 at 1:09 pm

do this mean dat de fried chicken and chittlins nite besse off’n two?

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The Buzzman October 11, 2015 at 10:33 pm

WORST attempt at black dialect I’ve ever read.

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9" October 10, 2015 at 5:38 pm

I’ve been so worried about this.Do they have wet tacos?

Wet Taco
A wet pussy. Preferabley a black chick, so there is some cold beef inside.

‘Dude that chicks wet taco was so nice.’

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nitrat October 10, 2015 at 7:28 pm

FITSNEWS certainly knows how to stir up the feeble-minded.
But, jeez, why don’t they just call it International Night?

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jimlewisowb October 10, 2015 at 7:44 pm

That is not the American Way

A Task Force will be convened
A Task Force Coordinator will have to be hired
Consultants will be hired to assist in hiring of TFC
Task Force Coordinator will have to hire staff
Consultants will be hired to assist the TFC in hiring staff
A building will have to be built to house the Task Force Staff
A Task Force Conference will be held to announce results of Task Force Study
At that point and with $12 million less bucks in the budget, the TFC will make the announcement –

Taco Night will now be called International Night

Now, that is how they roll down in the Shire

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TARevolution October 11, 2015 at 12:59 pm

Ashamed of who, and what, you are…no doubt.

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Jerry Huang October 12, 2015 at 8:18 am

my collaborator’s stride mother makes $97/hr on the web…….…..Last weekend I Bought A Brand new McLaren F1 after earning $18,512,this was my last month’s paycheck ,and-a little over, $17k last-month .No-doubt about it, this really is the most comfortable work I have ever had . I began this 8-months ago and pretty much immediately was bringing home at least $97, p/h….Learn More right Here.
zw…………
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???? http://www.googlefeedbuzzmoneybestusamonyop0295.blogspot.com/ ??????????????????????????????????????????????????

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GOB October 12, 2015 at 8:22 am

Donald Trump needs to bitch slap the CU administration!

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idiotwind October 12, 2015 at 10:06 am

so….maybe its not the tacos shithead. it’s calling it ‘maximum mexican’. the tacos they serve are as mexican as pat boone is black. as offenses go, its not a capital case, but neither is smacking your wife. go try that.

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SP October 12, 2015 at 10:19 am

Just don’t ask Dabo anything about clemsoning. Especially after he just blew through an 8 ball with the kicker

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Low rider December 24, 2022 at 8:52 pm

This is officially the best commentary to ever go down on fits news. People having fun despite their differences, at the expense of modern day foolishness.

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