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Going Back To School

December 2, 2021Clifton BeefBasketball, Midwest, North, Politicsbeef, Beefy, campus involvement, Clifton Beef, Clifton Beefy, Clifton Grefe, college, Going Back To School, Madison Area Technical College, Madison College, MATC, technical school, UW, UW-Madison, you should be a, you should start a

Getting hit with the backhanded “go back to school” rhetoric right out of college was hard to hear. I had fought my entire life to build up my skillset and...

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The Lake Street Scam Explained

November 29, 2020 November 5, 2021Clifton BeefArts, Culture, Education, Entertainment, Environment, Exclusives, Movies, North, Technology, Travel, TV500 Lake St., 515 N. Lake St., American Slavery, Bitching, Canada, Chapter 1, Cheesehead, Coastie, complaining, Dean of Students, drake, Drew Simmons, Jew, manchild, moaning, Nazeem Joles, Nazi, Neo Slavery, Quincy Harrison, Quincy Kwalae, Quincy Scott, Scam, Spencer Joles, switched up, The Sun & Moon, Tim Fram, Tom Beste, Torture, Travel Light, UW-Madison, Zooniversity Music

The Lake Street Scam occurred at 515 N. Lake St. (Police Report says 500) in Madison, WI. It is not on campus but it is right across the street from...

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UW-Madison First Wave Program Is Cultural Appropriation

October 3, 2020 October 8, 2020Clifton BeefArts, Culture, Entertainment, Exclusives, Midwest, Music, NorthFirst Wave, local culture, UW-Madison

They’re always writing bullshit like this – painting a picture that they’re somehow inclusive of the local culture. These people slandered me whenever they possibly got the chance. Almost every...

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Secret Tunnels Under Capitol, Low-Income Housing Hospitals

October 1, 2020 October 1, 2020Clifton BeefArts, Culture, Entertainment, Midwest, North1954 East Washington Ave, BadgerCare, Bloodsport, Bucharest, Capitol Credit Union, CGI, Cliff Grefe, Clifton Grefe, Contagious Hospital, Dead Switches, Emerson East, first tractors, hidden tunnels, James Graaskamp, madison, Madison Development Corporation, Mole People, Moscow, Nanite Grid, Nanites, New York, Pest House, Poland, Radiowaves, Romania, russia, Summit Credit Union, The Avenue, UW-Madison, War Garden, Warsaw, wisconsin, Wisconsin Capitol, Wisconsin Neurological Foundation

There are underground tunnels running all under the Madison, Wisconsin Capitol and the UW-Madison campus. I was chopping it up with someone about the hidden tunnels under my old apartment...

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Mid-September, Still Waiting on May-July State Unemployment, Federal Pandemic Compensation

September 14, 2020 September 25, 2020Clifton BeefArts, Entertainment, Midwest, North11 weeks, advice, constant pains, Disability, double major, empty apologies, excuses, Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, fix my car before the winter, front desk, I am not dead yet, IT, low pay, madison, Madison Census, mover, no benefits, physically and mentally draining, SSI, Two Men and a Truck, UW-Madison, varied hours, wisconsin, Wisconsin State Government

UPDATE (9/25/20): Apparently, I was referred to the Department of Health Services and Department of Workforce Development on 9/18. I was also contacted by the Energy and Rental Assistance people....

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Beef – “Conservative Justifies Systematic Oppression” [PREMIERE]

June 28, 2020 June 28, 2020Clifton BeefCulture, Midwest, Politicsabolishionist, abrah, abraham lincoln statue, american bureaucracy, bascom hill, basement made, beef, Beefy, beneficiary, bucky badger, Cliff Grefe, Clifton Beef, Clifton Grefe, colonialism, conservative politics, dark comedy, double entendre, doublespeak, downtown madison, employment gap, hidden messages, imperialism, impressionism, income distribution, lyric video, Mad City, madison, Madtown, satire, secret agendas, slavery, sociology comedy, Spoken Word, Teach Me How To Bucky, triple entendre, UW-Madison, white man, whiteboy, wisconsin

Statues are falling across the land and it’s all the rage. Peep the newest lyric video satire to learn about the ways in which separatists and the like deliver their...

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Why Wisconsin Voted For Donald Trump: The Coastie Privilege

January 20, 2017 November 5, 2021Clifton BeefArts, Basketball, Culture, Education, Entertainment, Environment, Exclusives, Football, Humor, Movies, Music, Politics, Religion, TV2016 presidential election, 414, 6O8, Abraham Lincoln, Academia, activist, Adolf Hitler, Affirmative Action, All-American, Alternative Facts, Alternative News, American Exceptionalism, Amish, Anarchy, Anglo, Antebellum, Appalacian, Appalacian Mountains, Army, association, Back to Work, Badger, Badger State, Barack Obama, Barry Goldwater, basketball, Battle, beef, Bernie Sanders, big banking, big business, big government, Black Church, black culture, Black Male, Black on Black Crime, Black on Black Violence, Brainwashing, Brew City, Brewery, Buddhist, Bureaucracy, Carl Schurz, Catholic, Chapter 1, chapter 2, Cheesehead, chicago, Chicago Tribune, Child Labor Law, Childrens Rights, Chippewa, Chris Farley, Civil Rights, Civil War, class conflict, Cliff Grefe, Clifton Beef, Clifton Grefe, Co-op, Coastie, Coastie Song, Collective, communism, community, Cooperative, Corny, Crack, Cream City, Creative Class, D.C., Da Nort, Dairy State, Dane County, Deindustrialization, Dejope, democrat, Democrats, depression, Disabled, disease, distraction, DJ, DNC, Donald Trump, drama, east coast, ELEVATOR, English, entertainment industry, Environmentalism, epidemic, Ethnic Cleansing, ethnicity, Factory, Fake News, Family Farming, Farmer, Farmer-Labor, Fed, Festy, Festy Season, Fighting Bob, Film, film industry, Folks, foodie, football, forward, Freemason, Freemasonry, freethinker, Gang Violence, gay bashing, Gay rights, gender, Genocide, Germanic, goofy, gop, government, Great Lakes, Great Plains, green bay, Grime Tape, heroine, hillary Clinton, hip hop, HipHopDX, Hmong, Ho-Chunk, Hockey, homeless, honesty, Ignorant, Illinois, Immigrant, Immigration, Indian New Deal, Indiana, Indiana Klan, Industrialization, Integrity, Irish, Irony, Italian, Jew, Jewish, Joe McCarthy, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph Stalin, karl marx, KKK, Korea, Krout, LA Times, Labor, Labor Rights, Liberal, Libertarian, local culture, Lying, madison, Madison Area Music Association, Madtown, Mainline, Mainstream, Malicious, Marijuana, Marketing, Martin Luther, Mason Dixon Line, mass media, Meatpacking, Meth, Mexican, Michael Jackson, michigan, Mick, Middle America, Middle Class, Middle West, Midwest, Midwest Charm, Midwest Culture, Midwest Work Ethic, Migration, military, Military-Industrial Complex, Millenial, milwaukee, Minneapolis, Minnesota, misogyny, Mississippi River, Mississippi Valley, missouri, Missouri Synod, Morals, movie industry, Multicultural, Multiethnic, music industry, Native, Nativism, Nazi, nba, Negligent, New Deal, New York Times, NFL, NIMBY, non-issue, NonPartisan League, Nordic, Norse, Norski, North Central Region, Northern Culture, Norwegian Synod, Not feeling this, Not In My Back Yard, occupation, Ohio, Ojibwa, On Wisconsin, Passive Aggressive, Paul Ryan, Pays d'en Haut, People, Petty, Polack, Populism, Populist, Populist Party, Prince, Production, Programming, progress, progressive, Progressive Party, Promoting, Protestant, Quaker, race, Race Lines, Race War, Racial Inequality, racism, radio, Real Estate Industry, Recession, Reconstruction, Reform, Religion, republican, Republicans, Repurposing, Resistance, respect, Resting Bitch Face, Reverse Racism, Richard Nixon, Robert M. La Follette Sr., rock, Rock Prairie, Russian, Sawmill, science, scott Walker, segregation, Service Class, Shipyard, SJW, Skinhead, Slacktivist, slavery, Slavic, Snowflake, Social Justice Warrior, social welfare, socialism, Socialist, solidarity, Southwest, St. Paul, Status quo, Steve Harvey, syndicated radio, Synod, Tastemaker, tea party, Television, Terrorist, The North, The Seasons, Think Piece, Thought Piece, Tone Madison, unity, Up Nort, Up North, UW-Madison, values, Veteran, Vietnam, Wage Slavery, Wall Street, war, War on Drugs, War on Poverty, Washington, Washington Post, Weed, weirdo, west coast, white culture, White Ethnic, white male, white man, White Privilege, Whitesplain, Wisco Beef, Wisco Cold, wisconsin, Wisconsin Republican, Wisconsin Synod, woman hating, womens rights, Working Class, working class white, World War, xenophobia, Yankee, Yogi, Zooniversity Music

I’m proud to announce my first book on this monumental day in our history (January 20, 2017). As we move forward, there is a lot to be done. Everyone I’ve...

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Cliff the Rapper-Journalist

May 24, 2016 May 28, 2017Clifton BeefArts, Culture, Entertainment, Exclusives, North, ThoughtsCheesehead, Cliff Grefe, Clifton Beef, Clifton Grefe, Coastie, Culture Vulture, entertainment industry, Fake Shore Drive, funny, goofy, hip hop, HipHopDX, journalism, madison, passive aggression, pop culture, rapper-journalist, roleplayer, sheep, social media, The Badger Herald, The Black Sheep Online, UW-Madison, vocabulary, weirdo, white rapper, wisconsin, Wisconsin Union Theater

Thank you, thank you, hold the applause. All of this attention, I think the weirdo rapper-journalist should tell a story… Here’s sumn light. I taught myself to read and write....

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