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Hollywood Pivots to Programming for Trump’s America

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In a recent episode of the new ABC sitcom “Shifting Gears,” Tim Allen bemoans his grandson’s school dropping its Minutemen mascot because the vice principal says it isn’t “inclusive.”

“What’s more inclusive than a dude wearing a wig, stockings, little high heels, holding on to a rifle. That could bring this country together, checks every damn box,” Allen says to his daughter, who lives in fear of every potentially politically incorrect utterance her father makes.

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