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By Adam Lowinger March 24, 2017 Last week\u2019s meeting of The Plantain, The University of East Florida\u2019s satirical newspaper descended into chaos following a pitch form one of its members. Contributor Nina Belleisa suggested the article \u201cShould Mexican food be taxed to pay for the wall?\u201d From that one suggestion, Other members began suggesting other topical headlines that poked fun at the President\u2019s immigration policy. To make matters worse, the topic changed from immigration to other issues like same-sex marriage, the role of religion in government, and the proper level of taxation. When these factors added up, the meeting became a virtual symposium of political discussion. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Head editor Steven Tallen said he never expected a satirical publication of this nature to foster political discussion.\u00a0 Tallen claimed that \u201cIt should be all about making people laugh by talking about things that are relevant to everyday life. I don\u2019t understand how politics could ever come up in such an environment.\u201d Other members were also confounded as to how discussions of this nature could arise from poking fun at world leaders. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At present time, the publication is taking measures to prevent further discourse from arising in future meetings. Measures include making sure that all suggested articles in no way lead to political controversy in any way. Anything that can be considered \u201cpunching up\u201d is to be limited, less they be \u201csmacked down\u201d in retaliation. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Plantain\u2019s officers expressed hope that the measures will work. Now they hope that no upcoming events in the early-April issue can cause their meeting to get \u201creligious\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2666,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}