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.

Watch and subscribe: https://t.co/Y12z2uKGMb pic.twitter.com/9dvH5vdahf

— 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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During a recent episode of his podcast, Joe Rogan spoke to former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, about the way Democrats, the media, and the deep state, used the judicial system against Trump, noting that had it worked, would have set a dangerous precedent for the country.

You could easily make a case that it set a dangerous precedent even though it didn’t work, but Rogan’s point is well made.

He correctly points out that Democrats and the left in general, were willing to burn down everything that makes America what it is, just because they didn’t want Trump to win again.

For his part, Blagojevich, who is a Democrat and spent some time in prison on corruption charges, claims that he was like an early test case.

Partial transcript via Kanekoa the Great on Twitter/X:

“If the weaponizing of the justice system worked, that is such an insanely dangerous precedent.”

“The most disgusting one was pretending someone was a victim because he overvalued Mar a Lago even though he paid those loans back and the banks profited. There was no victim at all, and yet they fined him this insane amount of money and tried to say Mar a Lago was worth $18 million.”

“No pushback from the media at all. They went along with it as if these 34 felonies for a bookkeeping error that is essentially a misdemeanor past the statute of limitations, and now you’re marking it up as a felony. You can’t even identify the felony.”

“Do you want us to be a banana republic because you don’t like Trump? It shows how many people were willing to sacrifice their ethics, what the Bill of Rights stands for, and what the Constitution stands for because they don’t want this guy to win.”

“It’s mind-boggling how short-sighted people are in the name of wanting their side to win.”

Watch the video below:

NEW: Joe Rogan GOES OFF on Democrats, the legacy media, FBI, and DOJ for using the judicial system as a weapon against Trump!

Rod Blagojevich says “dirty cops” need to be held accountable for framing an innocent man:

• Jack Smith
• Alvin Bragg
• Letitia James
• Fani Willis… pic.twitter.com/y4KQh72qLM

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 18, 2024

Hopefully, in the coming years we will see some of the people responsible for all of this brought to justice.

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Party City, the New Jersey based retailer that sells balloons and other festive supplies, is closing its doors for good.

This is apparently Joe Biden’s parting gift to American retailers, which have closed at an alarming pace over the last four years. We recently told you about a shopping mall in San Francisco that has been turned into a ghost town. This is more of the same.

It’s sad to see so many iconic brands fold like this.

The FOX Business Network reports:

Party City going out of business after 40 years

CEO Barry Litwin said it was “necessary to commence a wind down process immediately” for the party supplies retailer, CNN reported Friday, citing comments from a Party City conference call with its corporate workers.

While speaking Friday with Party City staff, Litwin reportedly said Party City’s “very best efforts have not been enough to overcome” the issues it has been facing and that the company has “done everything possible that we could to try to avoid this outcome.”

Party City corporate employees will lose their jobs after Friday, according to the outlet. The company is reportedly eyeing widespread store closures at the beginning of February.

Party City’s retail footprint in North America included over 700 company-owned and franchised stores as of late October, according to a press release published that month.

Difficulties from inflation, debt and other factors reportedly hurt the company. FOX Business reached out to Party City for comment on its reported plans to permanently close.

Some people are suggesting that the company went too woke.

After nearly 40 years in business, Party City is abruptly closing ALL stores today and staff will not receive any severance.

Also relevant to know: Party City made a huge DEI and LGBTQ push in recent years. Their business crumbled as they forced this agenda.

Go woke, go broke. pic.twitter.com/vfhWjHrwGL

— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) December 20, 2024

Here’s a video report from NBC News in New York:

Which will be the next domino to fall?

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First the sky over multiple New Jersey towns was a winky-blinky nightmare with mystery drones burrowing into the fears of residents.

And now, multiple towns in central New Jersey are dealing with stinky water.

Social media has connected the dots.

“A mysterious drone sighted over Round Valley Reservoir and the Hunterdon County 911 in Flemington Country! Also flying near the large reservoir in Clinton and surrounding buildings! But now the resident of New Jersey have question about ‘DO WE USE WATER?’” one social media post read.

“What are the drones spraying I saw it near my house in nj now wide 3 counties do not use water alert!!! Is it radiation in water!! Odd smells somerset county, Middlesex, union county!!County!!! What is going on these drones gotta stop now!!!!” another panicked poster wrote.

While acknowledging that residents facing two mysteries at the same time might oftentimes connect them, the U.K. Daily Mail noted that the more prosaic cause of a water main break could be to blame, while also noting that social media posts were not buying an accidental explanation.

“Drones flying over reservoirs spraying stuff. Go figure. My country is run by idiots,” The Mail quoted one social media poster as writing.

“[S]een this coming and warned everyone a couple days ago but everyone laughed at me. Guess that’s what happens when Drones are seen spraying everywhere including water reservoirs,” another poster cited by the Mail wrote.

New Jersey American Water posted an “urgent alert” as it investigated what the problems were in the Raritan System.

Residents have said the water had a metallic taste and smelled like paint thinner.

“We immediately began to investigate, taking samples from the source water, at different points in the treatment system of the two water treatment plants that serve this region, and at sites throughout the distribution system,” American Water said in a statement, according to NorthJersey.com.

“While preliminary sampling results show water meets primary standards, we are continuing to sample throughout our system to monitor water quality,” the statement added.

On Thursday, New Jersey American Water said there is nothing wrong.

“We are working with the NJ Department of Environmental Protection to determine if any other course of action or precautionary measures are necessary. We will continue to perform targeted flushing and sampling throughout the system tonight,” it said in a statement, according to CBS.

As for the drone mystery, the Federal Aviation Administration has banned drones from the airspace in multiple communities, but there has been no official explanation for the drone sightings that began last month in New Jersey.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Charlie Kirk is the next big thing in conservative talk radio and he’s now hosting

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