Justine Bateman, the increasingly based actress best known for the hit 1980s show Family Ties, recently appeared on the Megyn Kelly podcast and celebrated the end of the last four years which she correctly slams over leftist ‘mob mentality’ and cancel culture.
Bateman made similar comments on the Jesse Watters show shortly after the election, but with Megyn she had more time to expand on her thoughts.
She refers to the last four years as the ‘revenge of the hall monitors’ and decries the fact that people were punished or had their lives ruined for asking even the most basic questions.
She is right about all of this.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
JUSTINE BATEMAN: I don’t remember a time in my career where there was an absence of criticism of me — or of anybody, for that matter. There’s nothing unique about me in that sense…
All I’m saying now is I’m glad that mob mentality momentum is over, because the last eight years, and most acutely the last four, were unbearable.
I never want to go through anything like that again in my life. It was the most un-American situation I’ve ever been in. I’m 58, and it was absolutely awful. To say that people can’t ask questions, can’t say what they think, or can’t request research on something—it was just like the revenge of the hall monitors.
It was the Debbie Downers, the party poopers. One of the things about the social media video critiques I’ve done — you know, I’m not doing that many anymore because people aren’t getting as crazy about things. But I’ll still do them for subscribers as Christmas presents, if they want a gift for their mom or sister. It’s a good present, right?
There’s something about satire, Megyn — comedy and satire were among the first things to take a dive when they got squashed. If you have satire and comedy in a society, you have balance.
It’s like an insect in nature that keeps certain things at bay. Eliminate that insect, and here comes a vine choking the trees. Satire and comedy are like that. They hem in a society and maintain balance. Those were two elements they got rid of to enable this squashing down, this hall-monitor-style purification of comedy.
Watch the segment below:
“The last eight years and, most acutely, last four years, were fucking unbearable…”@JustineBateman gives director’s notes for unhinged leftists melting down after Trump’s victory.
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— The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) December 18, 2024
Bateman is a member of Generation X. People in this age group voted overwhelmingly for Trump in November, for many of the reasons Bateman describes in that video.
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