Lots more at the link!
Posted on 12/20/2025 10:49:03 AM PST by Rummyfan
Okay, John Hinderaker went and did it last week! He has abused his stewardship of TWiP and went full Die Hard Christmas Movie Denialist! As the Dude says in The Big Lebowski, this aggression will not stand, man! To restore proper balance in the universe, I am staging a coup d’tat, and am taking over this week’s TWiP. To mix movie references further, John has done a Denethor-level job as Steward of TWiP; time for the Return of the (TWiP) King! Actually, like the Gaza and (prospective) Ukraine ceasefires, we’re going to share power, and alternate TWiP each week. And so as the great John McClain would say on basic cable Christmas season reruns, “Yippie-ki-yay, melon-farmer!”
P.S. Good to see John back covering beauty pageants as straight news (which fits as Melania Trump’s cause as First Lady should be “Make America Straight Again!”), as it was this old practice that partly inspired TWiP in the first place way back in—eeek—2013.
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Lots more at the link!
Just a reminder, folks.
Die Hard is not a Christmas movie.
Neither is A Wonderful Life.
I suspect you could have made a cogent point in about seven words.
But that's like my own opinion man.
You got that right!
It’s a Wonderful Life is filled with drunkenness, depression, attempted murder, dysfunctional and abusive family relationships, financial failures, theft and embezzlement, suicidal tendencies and more.
Just because it’s tied up at the end with a soapy dopey “Every time a bell rings....” only made it worse.
Exactly. OTOH, IAWL is the first movie that Jimmie Stewart starred in after he came back from Europe WW2 - and that scene at the bridge where he was crying was actually happening. He broke down over the memories of the war. Best scene in the whole movie. Now off to watch A Christmas Carol starring Alastair Sim. Best Christmas movie!
It just demonstrated what happens to many combatants after the fog of war has lifted.
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