Did you guys know that Justine Bateman was and is awful? I had no idea. Justine is Jason Bateman’s older sister, and Justine was once the more famous Bateman sibling, back in the 1980s and 1990s. She worked pretty consistently in TV through 2000-2013, then it’s like she dropped off a cliff professionally. Zero credits for eight years, up until 2021, when she premiered a film called Violet, which she wrote, directed and produced. Violet was supposed to come out one year earlier, but everything was on pause because of the pandemic. I bring this up because the pandemic seemingly broke her brain and turned her into one of the biggest Karens I’ve ever seen. Justine threw a hissy fit on Twitter after the election, I’m not embedding it, but here’s the text:
Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years.
I have found the last four years to be an almost intolerable period. A very un-American period in that any questioning, any opinions, any likes or dislikes were held up to a very limited list of “permitted positions” in order to assess acceptability.
I’ve never in my life known that to be an American environment. It’s an environment I have encountered in smaller groupings (a church, a private club,a clique), but never before as a national blanket. It has been suffocating. Common sense was discarded, intellectual discussion was demonized. Only “permitted position” behavior and speech was “allowed.”
Complete intolerance became almost a religion and one’s professional and social life was threatened almost constantly. Those that spoke otherwise were ruined as a warning to others. Their destruction was displayed in the “town square” of social media for all to see. This was the #MeMeMeMeToo moment, where every effort was made to divert attention to oneself, instead of recognizing how one contributes to the whole.This was the era of trying to exercise control over those who did not want to follow the crowd and has their own ideas about what they needed to do. This dampened our culture and innovation, bringing people to even think that generative #AI, a regurgitation of the past, was actually our cultural future.
When you starve a society of those called to be independent thinkers and cultural and intellectual innovators, you rob that society of any forward movement. Those that tried to impose that control maintained a kind of “hall monitor” position by threatening others with damning labels like “Sexist,” “racist,” “homophobic,” etc, when the free-thinking and questioning was nothing of the sort. However, the mob mentality that followed caused these social convictions when there was often no evidence to support them. (See Charles McKay’s 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds).
I am neither one extreme or the other, but am one of the millions of people who believe in common sense, and that everyone should be free to live their lives however they want, unless that freedom interferes with someone else’s freedom to live their own life.
That’s it.
[From Justine Bateman’s Twitter]
Sure, I have some time to get into this. This is all part of a larger movement among MAGA cultists and Trump supporters to position themselves as the only true advocates for “free speech” and “independent thought.” Those are coded terms for “I want to be racist/bigoted/hateful/nasty in public but people will call me out!” They think they’re being “censored” when people respond to the awful sh-t they say or write online. They think it’s a First Amendment issue and an issue of “intolerance” that their words and actions have consequences. You know how I said that the pandemic seemingly broke her brain? Check out the receipt, below. Ten bucks says that Justine Bateman is an anti-vaxxer who thought the pandemic was a “hoax.”
Behold this unhinged tantrum from the former star of Family Ties, Justine Bateman.
For perspective, Bateman was super-duper upset that people preferring not to die of COVID got in the way of… a festival she had already picked out outfits for. https://t.co/lgjkzkUzrq pic.twitter.com/C8j317wSXo
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) November 8, 2024
Photos courtesy of Cover Images.
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- , New York, NY – 20180423 Celebrities arrive at the Tribeca Film Festival Artists Dinner hosted by Chanel at Balthazar. -PICTURED: Justine Bateman -PHOTO by: Kristin Callahan/ACE Pictures/INSTARimages.com -042318_ChanelArtist_K122 This is an editorial, rights-managed image. Please contact Instar Images LLC for licensing fee and rights information at sales@instarimages.com or call +1 212 414 0207 This image may not be published in any way that is, or might be deemed to be, defamatory, libelous, pornographic, or obscene. Please consult our sales department for any clarification needed prior to publication and use. Instar Images LLC reserves the right to pursue unauthorized users of this material. If you are in violation of our intellectual property rights or copyright you may be liable for damages, loss of income, any profits you derive from the unauthorized use of this material and, where appropriate, the cost of collection and/or any statutory damages awarded Featuring: Justine Bateman Where: New York, New York, United States When: 23 Apr 2018 Credit: Kristin Callahan/ACE Pictures/INSTARimages.com
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Apparently said she disagreed with her brother on politics so I just wanna get in real quick and say leave Jason out of this discussion. He’s by no means perfect either, mind.
Thank you. I was worried about him.
She thinks that this is her philosophy: “everyone should be free to live their lives however they want, unless that freedom interferes with someone else’s freedom to live their own life.”
I’m surprised her brain can remind her to breath.
So sorry that the death of one million people interfered with that outfit you had picked out. You deserve the freedom to wear your outfit, Justine, and that is so much more important than people staying alive. Poor, poor Justine. Thank goodness she can now display her arrogance, ignorance, and selfishness y’all!
Yes, her spirit and wardrobe choices were trampled on by a worldwide pandemic. Poor, poor Justine. How awful that people dying interfered with her social life.
Tbf that is therapyspeak. It is healthy and reasonable to set boundaries for myself but when others set boundaries for me in my own space, this is an act of aggression
Sounds like her therapist may need to make her aware of the realities of living in society, in community. You will be bound — does Justine not abide by traffic laws? Is she ticked that her 10-year old can’t work in the mines? I guess she wants completely unregulated companies so she can wheeze in pollution instead of air? Therapy should include the ability to reason and be part of a human existence.
Apparently Justine supports the facist regime that has decided that their freedom to dictate their religious (unscientific) opinion trumps a woman’s freedom to stay alive and receive medical care. Women are DEAD and Justine is complaining about not getting to wear an outfit. Maybe she can be educated and join the fight to keep actual freedom alive for women, but I doubt it.
“Therapyspeak”? Really? What sort of therapists speak like this?
I’m asking as someone who’s been speaking quite intensively with therapists from multiple theoretical backgrounds — mostly psychologists, but quite a few social workers, counselors, and psychiatrists — for decades, without ever hearing that other people’s boundaries are acts of “aggression “ or that “reason” and “being part of a human existence “ are somehow “not included “ in the process of therapy or as therapeutic goals.
Justine has some really deplorable beliefs. What’s bridging the leap here from one particular white woman’s dramatically self-focused tears — to sweeping generalizations about therapy and therapists? I’m genuinely curious.
@lisa pretty sure that is her quoting John Rawls’ libertarianism but other cbers who know more political philosophy can correct me…
She is certainly free to say what she wants..but others are free to call her out for being a d-bag and treat her accordingly. Yet another toddler that doesn’t want to hear that there are consequences to actions.
So Mallory is now the bigger asshole from the Keaton family.
Yup, and when she’s asks AITA, I hope everyone says yes.
lol What a bunch of Karens on this site. Big babies screeching like mean teens. #MAGA
This might be some of the worst writing I’ve encountered in quite awhile. She hasn’t clue one what she’s talking about, and frankly, neither do I! Ok, I do, but only because I’m reading BETWEEN her lines. Her actual lines are just awful. This is what happens when people think and speak in slogans and sound bites, assuming it makes them sound intelligent. It doesn’t; it makes them sound like morons.
Cos she said 4 years she is a drumpfer
It’s what happens when people try to obscure a truth they want to admit but don’t want to deal with the fallout from. So here Ms. Bateman wants to brag about being a POS maga, but doesn’t want people to hate her for being a POS maga.
How you doing Karen? lol #MAGA
Exactly. Her argument — if we can call it that — is clear as mud. Just spit it out, Justine. Do you think the 2020 election was stolen? That we should build a wall? That Ohioans COULD be eating cats? She won’t just take ownership of her beliefs, so there’s this weird word salad instead.
Let’s see how this so-called “free thinker” does under Mangolini’s fascist regime. He’s famously very tolerant! Maybe Justine can become the official Presidential Chief Propagandist.
I’m so sorry but “Mangolini” is hilarious and I’m wheezing 🥲
The dramatics from a rich white woman in California here, holy cow. Intolerable? Literally go outside. Touch grass.
Nobody is arresting anybody for having terrible opinions. A lot of people are ignorant and naive about what a lack of freedom *actually* looks like, it’s so freaking embarrassing.
Oh Justine, you can return to wherever you were. We didn’t miss you.
+ 1 – she can stay long gone too.
Oh I’ll bet we’ll see a wave of failed or forgotten hasbeens from the entertainment world poking their heads up hoping to be noticed by Trump cultists. She can join Scott Baio, Ted Nugent, Paula Deen, Kid Rock. The MAGA version of Hollywood still looks like the bar in Star Wars, frankly.
Let’s not forget that has been loser, Kevin Sorbo (Hercules), who posted the other day about his daughter keeping “her legs closed.” They are all vile.
Oh hun, you’re confused. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean people are forced to like what you say. You put it out in the public for approval – if you only want approval and no push back, put it on Truth Social. You’re choosing your eggshells and whining about it.
So, apparently, being racist, sexist, homophobic, and anti-science just makes her an independent thinker who believes in free speech. The MAGA’s won. You would think they would know enough to shut up now instead of documenting their belief in their own victimhood all over Leon’s platform. Yes, they are definitely the victims here, not the millions of innocent people they victimize and demonize every day for just existing.
It’s amazing how upset America is that the rest of the country (and the world) knows exactly who they are and refuses to pretend they’re the kind independent thinkers that MAGA folk want us to think they are. White America, by & large, voted FOR white supremacy and it wasn’t just the overt racists/homophobes/transphobes/sexists/Christian nationalists who voted for it, it was the average white American and I include those who didn’t vote because both sides “are the same.” They decided that if we insisted on acknowledging their privilege they were going to maximize it and embrace it as their Gd-given place in this country.
Voting stats:
Black women: 91% Harris
Jewish women: 88% Harris
Black men: 77% Harris
Jewish men: 71% Harris
White women: 53% Trump
White men: 60% Trump
Latina women: 60% Harris
Latino men: 55% Trump
white vote by religion:
Protestant/other Christian denomination: 63% Trump
Catholic: 59% Trump
Jewish: 80% Harris
Other religious affiliation: 52% Harris
no religious affiliation: 71% Harris
Be prepared for the surprise that the age demographic of most enthusiastic for Trump was GenX.
62% of White GenX voted for Trump
55% of White Boomers & Millenials voted for Trump
49% of White Zoomers voted for Trump
Right now I’m seeing a lot of frustration from white Christian Trump voters who weren’t necessarily open MAGA because they know people are seeing through the facade of “nice” they present by not being overtly racist/homophobic/transphobic/sexist/Christian nationalist
Trump voting white Jews are easy to spot (they are pretty outspoken) but there is a plethora of other Trump voting white people who may not be so obvious to spot, especially among white women who “aren’t political” Pay as much attention to what they don’t say as to what they do say because when push comes to shove, they still voted FOR the halcyon days of Jim Crow when women & minorities knew their place and not to complain about abuse heaped on them by those dominant in society.
Too many professional cyber security people have come out saying that the tabulation machines were hacked by writing in code in the software BEFORE it was downloaded to the machines. There have been too many voting irregularities that occurred to just ignore. Investigations will happen (probably already are). Mike Johnson, Trump, Musk and Putin will only be smiling for so long. What will be the problem are all of the supporters who are going to be enraged. We may have violence, but at least Biden is in office so it will be dealt with. Hang on to your hats, people.
Interesting stats.
I’d like to see how Asian Men &. Women and Arab / MENA men and women voted.
This election season has been freeing in that folks seem to finally understand that if you are voting for a republicant that backs dump or dump himself, you are irredeemable. For too long folks were holding on to the notion that those who voted for dumpians/dump may still be somehow be ok. But people are done buying that fallacy. The only “understanding” folks need about trumpians is that they are not patriots, not Christians, not decent, not moral, not community-minded, not allies, not friends, not caring. History will lump them in with the nazi-sympathizers.
@Saucy&Sassy thank you for your comment. Something seems off about the election results— including how quickly things were decided. Mike Johnson’s smile, Trump’s relative complacency, and Musk’s smug involvement have had me feeling suspicious, even as I’ve been repeatedly assured that since voting machines aren’t connected to the internet, tampering is unlikely. (That never entirely reassured me since I imagine that all kinds of tampering and shenanigans are possible without involving the internet. I’ve also no idea what StarLink actually is — or is capable of doing.)
Saucy&Sassy, I am curious as to where you received this information, as main-stream media is not reporting it.
Sounds like a few white women and some WOC too. Women are conditioned under the patriarchy and don’t want to admit it. That’s why we had a bunch of democrats and independents voting for that old man and a bunch who sat it out.
“#MeMeMeMeToo moment, where every effort was made to divert attention to oneself, instead of recognizing how one contributes to the whole.”
You mean the whole that is a society that has always held you, a woman, as less than. Less smart, less capable, less worthy of bodily autonomy. But, fully positioned to be available to meet the needs and desires of men even if you don’t want that? Okay. I understand. Honestly, please let everyone show their true hand. Because it is only after fully understanding the problem that we can construct tuly effective solutions. And I’m not leaving this crap for the daughters of America to inherit.
That line — “#MeMeMeMeToo moment, where every effort was made to divert attention to oneself, instead of recognizing how one contributes to the whole.” — didn’t even make sense.
WHO are you talking about, Justine? and WHAT? Can you be specific? All of us who voted for Harris DO recognize how we contribute to the whole. We voted for equality and health and opportunity for the maximum number of citizens — not more money for rich people.
I mean, WTF is she even saying? She can’t write.
It really is despicable that she would equate the “#MeMeMeMeToo moment…” to mere self-aggrandization. Women were standing up en masse for themselves against the tidal wave of misogyny, rape culture, racism and disenfranchisement of women’s human rights, that they have to trade sex to get ahead because lord knows none of has a brain to do it on our own merits. Women are the glue trying desperately to hold this falling-apart world together against all the damage the ultra-conservative Christian right is forcing down everyone’s throats. I quote Mike Davis speaking to Letitia James, and who may very well be Trump’s next AG…“Listen here, sweetheart,” Davis continued, addressing James. “We’re not messing around this time, and we will put your fat ass in prison for conspiracy against rights. I promise you that.”
Is this really the world you want to live in Justine?
She makes no sense this reminds me of a narcissist relative who can’t get beyond themselves to have perspective or empathy; that combined with their need to be right- in their minds- and win all arguments, they’ll say things that have nothing to do with what’s being discussed, just so they’ll get the last word. They’ll act like they just had a mic drop moment after saying something that makes no sense. Bringing that up they act like it’s because their point was so great, not that it’s irrational
It reads like she’s striving to come across as super intellectual, which she is clearly not. A lot of this is a word salad. But yeah, she sucks.
I have never found her interesting or particularly talented. All her talk about artists, LOL.
She played second banana on a tv show decades ago.
Michael J. Fox was the talent.
She found the last 4 years tough huh?
Poor little rich, white lady.
As ever, what does she want to say that she thinks she can’t? Bc she can most certainly say anything. If it’s racist or homophobic or transphobic then people are allowed to not like what she says. So what is it she feels she can’t say? Obv she can say whatever she wants.
Exactly! She’s allowed to say whatever, but other people are also allowed to say they disagree.
She would still be working regularly if she hadn’t either alienated people or has a history of substance abuse or mental illness that makes her uninsurable. Baby brother is highly regarded despite a history of substance abuse and lort knows nepotism and connections matter Hollywood. This self indulgent Karen psycho babble seems substance induced. The economy actually runs bottom up and loads of people are going to find themselves destitute when mango and the South African billionaires crash the economy. These people screaming about freedom have f#cked around and will find out.
There is a 2020 Daily Mail article with pictures of her signing the petition to recall Gov Gavin Newsom. Her husband is also a real estate executive with Deutsche Bank, if that matters at all.
I saw this when she tweeted it, and I realized that I find her completely intolerable. What a privileged POS she is.
And yet there’s a photo of her on strike with a union – doesn’t she know those are bad too?
She was on the SAG board a decade or two ago. Has she done the thing where one goes so far left they find themselves on the right?
Sounds like she only supports things that conveniently benefit her directly.
@NJGR, that jumped out at me, too. She’s really quite clueless.
Ever notice how a lot of wellness influencers, anti pharma/corp advocates all went for Trump? A common denominator is narcissism. Not saying that all these types of people are delusional MAGAts. But the ones that I’ve seen go for Trump all have a great deal of self-importance
Justine made a comeback of sorts last year when she positioned herself as the AI expert during the strikes, and then went on a tirade because SAG had other experts they were consulting with.
She struck me then as someone who needed to be the center of attention.
She was being better for movie stardom way back when. She starred in a film and Julia Roberts was in the supporting cast
I look forward to hearing all the vitally important things she’s been bursting to say.
😂😂
Justine Bateman – soon to be appearing in the next Daily Wire production, written by Ben Shapiro and directed by Jeremy Boreing, also starring: Zachary Levi, Gina Carano, Rob Schneider, and random DW personalities.
Is that the “outfit” in the top picture? Sorry, Justine, not worth the deaths of a million people.
After 2 bad bouts of covid, I’m grateful to still be here. My immune system isn’t the greatest. So disappointed with her and most of the country right now (Maga and non voters alike). The selfishness and cruelty is unbelievable. They literally don’t care about ppl dying from a pandemic, it’s all me, me, me… If our country survives a 2nd term of the orange demon, this period will be another very low point in American history. These people are so selfish that they can watch the country burn to the ground and their only thought is, “what about me?”
She must be getting ready to promote something, or staging a “comeback.” Every time I go to Twitter her stuff is suddenly first on my feed, out of nowhere. From her own words!! she sounds like a horrible, selfish, ignorant person who is relieved Kamala lost.
She hasn’t aged well.
Come January 2025 she’ll experience what suppression of free speech really is. Look in the distance sweetie, those are face eating leopards coming for you.
Yes, I knew what a disgusting person Justine is – that’s why I was SHOCKED when you wrote a piece on her less than two years ago about how lovely she was… I’m surprised you didn’t hear my eyes roll, LOL
Mallory really was an idiot.
“Sure, I have some time to get into this.” 🤣
Ah, yes, because everyone knows the far right is the epitome of accepting, altruistic, and open minded.
I will always be perplexed by those who are more upset about being called racist/misogynistic/transphobic/homophobic, instead of actually *being* racist/misogynistic/transphobic/homophobic. The label should not be more abhorrent than the behavior.
I preferred her on eggshells. What a giant bummer she is.
I’m calling it now: TERF