Monday, May 25, 2020

"That Is So Diabolical It Must Be True!"

It's the Day's Day of Days! Because Janey needs a shooter.

So, now the Left are traitors for trying to stop the spread of disease, which has to be a foreign plot, because...

You know what, this entire strip is a pretty good illustration of everything particularly pathetic about Muir--the cowardice imagining it's courage, the insecurity imagining it's confidence, the gullibility imagining it's wisdom, the naked treachery imagining it's loyal patriotism. We've seen it all before, but the one-two punch of the Trump presidency and the Covid-19 pandemic have left it all more exposed, and also, more neurotic than ever.

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  1. I'm more convinced than ever that Muir has suffered from a progressive deterioration of his faculties over the years. Like for real---how can someone go from what he was writing in 2003 to this, without being assisted by mental illness? Not being glib.

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    1. Oh, I quite agree. Early DbD is frequently unpleasant, but at its heart is weakly written workplace comedy (that sometimes clearly wants to be a domestic comedy, but Muir can't commit to the premise). It went nutty coo-coo in the Obama years and has gone further in the Trump years.

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